The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-06-10
FREEDOM FOR MRS. MAVERICK.
London Chronicle DECLARES that sh

1ADndO Declares that She
Is to BE Liberated Very Soon.
London, June 5.-The Daily Chroni-
Gle that Mrs. Florence May
brick is to be liberated shortly, as the
result of the pressure brought to bear
by Joseph Il. Choate, United States
ambassador, in favor of reopening the
case.
There has been Il vast deal OF agita-
ton in the prisoners favor on both
tides of the Atlantic, and special socie.
ties have been formed to ~endenvorsto
secure u r%eopening of her case by the
English home secretary. The Woman's
international Mnybrick association
was formed in London some year ago
for this purpose. On it's American
committee have served such women as
Mrs. Charles Henrotin, of Chicago;
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mrs.
Julia Ward Howe and Rev. Phoebe A.
Hanaford. She has been in Working
prison eight years.
1t has always been claimed by Mrs.
Maybrick's friends that the late JUS
tice Stephen was unfair to the accused
in his charge, and that Mrs. Maybrick
was convicted of murder because of
her alleged intidelity to her husband
and not upon any conclusive evidence
that she poisoned her husband.
Mrs. Maybrick is the daughter of
the late William G. Chandler, a we'll
known and respected banker and a
high Mason of Mobile, Ala, where she
was born in 1862.
In 1881, when n girl of II, she mar
ried James Maybrick, of Liverpool,
who was many years her senior and of
dissolute habits. Two children were
born to them.
On June 81. 1859, Mr.. Maybrick, who
had been ailing for n long time, in
spite of the advice of his physician to
the contrary, attended the Wirral
races on horseback. was caught in a
heavy rain and without changing his
wet clothing spent the evening dining
with friends returning home very late,
and on the next day was quite i'll. Sew
eral physicians We're called as he grew
worse, and all agreed hat his sickness
was caused by some grave indiscre-
ton of diet away from home"
Early on the morning of May IL,
thirteen days after he was taken sick,
Mrs. Maybrick fell into u speechless
swoon, which lasted for nearly forty
eight hours, Mr.. Maybrick dying mean.
time at $40 p. m. of that day. Imme-
diately after Mr.. Maybrick's death, up
on the suspicious of his two brothers
and of female servants, the police were
called in and searched the house, find
ing arsenic in quantities Sufficient to
poison fifty men," but all in his and
none in her apartments Or belongings.
1t was nfterward proved by Valentine
Blake. expert for manufacturing chem
lists. that about three months before
Mr.. Maybrick's death he had sold to
Mr.. Maybrick $50 grains of white and
two kinds of black arsenic, of which
Maybrick, who was known to be a oon-
frmed' arsenic eater, said: II take it
when I can get it." On the 14th Mrs.
Maybrick, still unconscious and alone,
without n friend in the house, was ar
rested in her bed for murder.
The jury found her guilty of murder
and sentenced her to death. The sem
tence was committed to life imprison-
ment.
Editor Stead, of the English Review
of Reviews. has been a warm champion
of Mrs. Maybrick and two years ago
published in that periodical letters re-
ceived from one Neuberg, in south At
RIGA, inclosing the confession of one
Henry Wilson, that he and a woman
servant in the Maybrick house tam
percd with the medicine given to Mr..
Maybrick and Eut arsenic in it. This
they did for purposes of revenge on
Mrs. Maybrick, against whom they had
n prudpe.