Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-08-10

Dflcks nad Deen on an Atlantic liner
bound from New York to Liverpool.
They had been eight years married.
Those eight years told the story of
haggard WEAKNESS and qeeyish dscon-
tent, of a ceaseless dragging at the
chain that held them together. The
husband, with his heavy head and his
heavy jaw, held fast by the domestic
law, sacred in all English households,
that the wife is the obedient, blind,
unquestioning slave OF her husband,
and proceeded to put his theory into
practical effect. There is evidence
that he maintained at least one es-
adjustment of the kind not sanctioned
by the usages of society. He drank
heavily, and at such times his moods
were sullen, fierce and brutal. In So
briefly he was the kind of creature
most despised OF women-a hypoehon-
driac
On a woman of the temperament Of
Florence Maybrlek, born in our own
south bred among the men of the
south, with whom woman is an idol
loving the sunshine as butterflies love
it, all these conditions could produce
but one effect. The duh Indifference
with which her narrowed life had be-
gun had given place to dull, steady
hatred. She turned helplessly for con
ISOLATION. In the eighth year of her
marriage it was ready 70 her hand in
the person Of Alfred Brierley, a
wealthy young cotton-spinner, and a
business associate of her husband.
1t was on the morning of March &c.
1889, that Mrs. Maybrick wrote in an
assumed name to Flatman's hotel
Henrietta street, Cavendish Square,
London, engaging two rooms for her
sister, Mrs Maybrick, OF Manchester"
The ostensible reason of her visit to
London lay in the sickness of friend
a Mrs. Baillie The fact that Mr.. May
bricks brother Thomas, with whom he
had held no communication in many
years, lived in Manchester covered the
second part of the deception 1t was
afterward proved in Identification by
the proprietor and the waiter that for
four days she lived with Briefly at the
hotel. And on the morning of March
% she reappeared at her home in
GarStOn.
Strolling along the lawn in front of
the grand stand on the Aaitree race
course were a man and woman at
whom the throng, representative of
the fashion and grace of North Ian
cashire, gazed with the sneer, the
shrug. understood Of society The man
was Brierley; the woman VINO hung
upon his arm, looking UP at him with
all her heart in her eyes, was Flor
ence Maybrick. And in the same mo-
ment there approached a second man
whom everybody in the reserved part
Of the Enclosure recognized. 1t was
her husband, his face yellow with the
rage that consumed him Then, In the
presence of the men and women
around them, he told her what she
was, and struck her full in the face
with his fist She staggered back and
turned to Brierley as if for protec-
ton. He was gone. Those who
watched her then tell how she stood
there, calm and quiet and still, with
her lips parted in an evil smile, watch
ing her husband as he strobe away.
The design of poisoning her hus-
band would appear to have taken root
in her mind at the beginning Of
March, when she had begun to make
mysterious references to certain white
powder which she declared her hus-
band was in the habit of taking, and
of which she had dread. She had
spoken of DR., Hooper, the family
physician, on this subject, and begged
him to demonstrate with her husband
But Mr.. Maybrick taxed by the doctor
made a yociferous denial.
All through the month of April
Maybrick suffered more or less from
Slight chronic dyspepsia and indiges-
ton. DR.. Fuller, one of the half
dozen physicians whom he consulted
at different times, gave him a pre-
scription in which arsenic had no part
In the afternoon of May "A Mrs
Maybrick called at the drug store kept
by Thomas Nokes, in the Aigburth
road, Liverpool, and bought some fly
papers that contained arsenic for
mice Alice Yepp, the childrens nurse
and Bessie Brierley, housnaid, no
ticng some clothes carefully folded
over a soup-dish, lifted them and
found the fly-paqer soaking in water
1t may be noted that BaJtlecrease
House had always been free OF mice or
other yermia.
Three days later Mr.. Maybrick at
tended the races at Wirral The day
was cold and stormy On his re-
turn home, late at night, he complain
ed of a chill, a numbness and an OPP
preston at the stomach. This he
ascribed TO a bad dinner eaten al the
race track restaurant. That night
he took to his bed, and remained there,
suffering from gastric trouble, until
the morning of Wednesday, May J.,
when he recovered sutiicieutly to re-
turn to business. On that day, and
the two days that followed, ne carried
his luncheon to his office. Berry's
RevaleDta Food was prepared By the