The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-07-15

from you so soon. Since m. return l have been nursing day ant night He is sick unto death. Tn
 doctors held consultation yesterday : and now all depends upon how lont
 his strength will hold out. l canno
 answer your letter fully to-day m,
 darling, but relieve your mind Of al
 fear of discovery now and in the future
 He has been delirious since Satur
 day, and l know that he is perfectly
 ignorant even of the name of the
 street. In fact he believes my state
 ment, although he will not admit it
 You must feel that those two letters
 of mine were written under circum-
 stancs which must excuse their injus'
 tice in your eyes, At any rate
 don't leave England until I have seen
 you again. Yours ever, FLORRlE.
 From the moment of the discovery
 of this letter her fate was sealed. Dr.
 Carter, an eminent physician of Liver
 pool, had been called into consultation
 by Dr. Humphreys. The letter was
 submitted to the physicians by M-
 chael Maybrick, the well known musical
 composer. And the doctors, awakened
 arsenic poisoning. Mrs. Maybrick
 was removed from her position as
 nurse and mistress of the house,
 and in her place three nurses from the
 women's institution were put in
 charge.
 The wife was now the object of sus- picion and horror of the entire house.
 hold But it remained for the night
 that followed to furnish the most
 striking circumstance of all.
 Mrs Gore the night nurse watching
 the sick man. saw Mrs Maybrick come
 into the room On the Washstand by
 the side of the bed was bottle of Val entines meat juice, which had been
 part of the diet prepared by the phy-
 siclans. The bottle at that time had not been touched by any one save
 Nurse Gore. Mrs. Maybrick took the bottle from the stand, walked into an inner room with it, came back after few minutes. and. stealthily drawing the bottle from behind her dress, slipped it into it's place on the wash stand and left the room Mrs. Gore took possession of the bottle and gave it to Dr. Humphreys. In the subse
 quent analysis of the food a half grain of arsenic was found. But no human effort could now save the vic tim, and he slowly sank to his death.
 It Is scarcely necessary to go deeply into the details of the events that fol- lowed his death, As every one had supposed, the autopsy revealed the presence of arsenic in certain organs, notably the liver and the kidneys Only half grain in all was found, but on the hypothesis laid down by Pro lessor Fowler in the Tawell case, this very fact would indicate that a large quantity had been taken. Arsenic was found in various parts of the house-in 1 the cooking utensils, in the medicines and medicine bottles handled by Mrs, | Maybrick during the period of her charge, in a handkerchief from which her husband had sucked cracked ice ad minlstered by her; and, lastly, in the | pockets of her dressing gown. The trial | mainly resolved itself into a battle of experts and counsel. The individuality | of the prisoner was lost. She had be- | come the silent spectator of skilful game played out between counsel, with | her life as the stake Dr. Humphreys Dl. 1dl ttI dtlu IOItcSpl DttNtHSOH utr clared that the deceased had died from arsenical poisoning, and based their views on the main symptoms-princi- pally on the bright red or rosy blush of the inteStines. In direct contradiction came two of the first pathological au thorites of the world, in the persons of Professor H. F. Tidy and Professor Me- Namara, to declare that the four main of arsenic poisoning were absent namely, suffusion of the eyes, pains in the calves of the legs, irritabli- ty of eyelids and the intolerance of light. ~Sir James Poole, former mayor of Liverpool together with several wit nesses gathered from both sides of the Atlantic, were called to prove the con- stant use of arsenic by Maybrick.
 The balance of expert testimony was dearly in favor of Mrs. Maybrick, and he element of reasonable doubt had been raised. Yet in the way of the prisoner to freedom-grim, immovable, nsurmounta ble-stood the incident of he Valentines meat juice, baff1ing the kill even of the mighty Russell. It remained for Mrs. Maybrick herself against advice, against warning, to inaly turn the balance against herself " her attempt in a statement read to { he jury to explain away this damning q admit that I put the pow l er in the meat juice My husband Z egged me to do so, and in a weak mo- nent l yielded" This was the sub , tance of her reply Give jury the holce between a plain fact on the sur ace and an explanation under the sur C ace, and they will invariably choose the act in preference to the explanation. f 5 it surprising that this jury followed , 1e safe rue and after only two hours f delivered the verdict that n ondemned her? f Thus is the Maybrick case simply and a arly stated by one whose fortune it s as to play an unimportant part in the Q 'ial The home secretary chose to af- a ,rd Mrs Maybrick the benefit of the :, oubt arising from the conflict of ex- s art testimony, and in trying and con- ! h cting her of an offense for which she a ad never been indicted to arrogate to a mself the powers of a jury. On ba 2, s of simple law, the position of the a ritish government is indefensible.- q, ii Smith in Lesles Weekly :,
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