Arizona republican., 1899-07-11

Mrs Florence Maybrick's friends are renewing their efforts to secure her pardon and get her out Of the English pTison where she is confined for poi sOning her husband They assert that it is the custom in England for the home secretary to recommend the par don of persons after they have served
 ten years when the crime they have committed Is only attempted murder
 They assert that Mrs. Maybrick's crime
 was only attempted murder. and quote
 the decision of the h.3me secretary
 when Mrs. Maybrick's sentence was
 cOmmuted from hanging to Iifo imt1ris-
 onment. He said that there was a reaz
 sonable doubt of the crime of murder
 and the evidence leads to the concIu-
 siCn that Mrs. Maybrick had admins
 tered and attempted to administer
 arsenic to her husband with intent to
 murder" Mrs. Maybrick was put in jail in August, 1889. and the ten years
 will be up next August.
 The Medical and Legal Relief society
 is now interested in her case. Some of
 the men in that society are Theodore
 Sutro, who is president: Charles T.
 Yerkes, Edward Lautertach, William Brookfeld, Alderman Okie, Columbus o. Johnson, Jchn Haller and Amos J. Cummings. The society has addressed letter to Secretary Of State Hall call ing his attention to the fact that ten years ago, in committing the sentence
 of Mrs. Maybrick it was practically adjudged that she had been proved guilty only of an attempted muIder, and the English custom to grand par d3ns in such cases after ten years ser vitude, and requesting Secretary Hay to TcCeuSt Ambassador Choate to lay the case before Great Britain'S home secretary, together with the inform3- ton that the pardon of Mrs. Maybricl. would meet with universal approval in America.
 The Medical and Relief society will also prosecute to an issue a claim cf Mrs. Maybrick's mother, the Baroness Caroline E. von Roques, against David w. Armstrong; of Louisville, Ky, and others. wherein the Baroness vOn RcqUes claims tG have been defrauded of over half a million dollars in cash, and alleges that she is entitled to some :, ,552, BOA acres of valuable land in Vir- ginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. which are now held by various persons who have no good title thereto, and whose titles coming through her, she alleges. were secured by fraud on the part or 0ef IOFneF attorney u95t lands are now valued at upward of $10,O0O, ,000
 An action for their recovery was be gun in the courts Of Virginia and Ken lucky and West Virginia in 1893, in behalf of the Baroness vOn Roques, by former Judge LeOnidas D. YarreI. of Richmond, as her attorney, and bills in chancery were filed. Former Attorney General A H. GaT.and, whC' was then practicing law in Washington, was as sociate,d in the prosecution of the cases with Judge Yarrell, and both these able attorneys advised that the Baroness ven Roques' claem was good one The cases, however. lapsed, and were never brought to trial. The cause. assigned for this was the inabil- ity of the Baroness to provide funds to pay the expense Of the prosecution of the cages. together with the 6is.ath of former Attorney General Garland and cf Miss Mary A. Dodge Gail who was raising money with which to prosecute the claims. and who did So much in the interest of the unfortunate Mrs. Maybrick.