Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-06-10
FREEDOM FOR MRS. MAVERICK.
London Chronicle Declares that She
Is TO BE Liberated Very Soon.

LOnuOn DeClartS thu1 Dh'
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 ii. Choate, United States
ambassador, in favor of reopcning the
case.
There has been a vast deal of agita-
ton in the prisoners favor on both
tides of the Atlantic, and special socie-
ties have been formed to endcavor to
secure a reopening of her case by the
English home secretary. h Womans
International Maybrick association
was formed in London some years 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.
Hanaforrl. She has been in Working
prison eight years.
II has always been claimed by Mrs.
MAVERICKS 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 infidelity 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, Il we'll
known and respected banker and a
high Mason of Mobile, Ala, where she
was born in 1862.
In 1881, when a 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 %, 1889, Mr.. Maybrick, who
had been ailing for a 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 Ill. Sew
eral physicians were called rs he grew
worse. and all agreed that 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. MAVERICK fell into a speeches.
swoon, which lasted for nearly forty
eight hours. Mr.. Maybrick dying mean
time at $40 p. IN. Of that day. lmme
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 &c
poison fifty men," but all in his ant
none in her apartments or belongings
1t was aftcrward proved by Valentino
Blake. expert for manufacturing chem
lists. that about three months before
Mr.. Maybrick's death he had sold t.
Mr.. Maybrick $50 grains of white ant
two kinds Of black arsenic, OF whicl
MAVERICK, who was known TO be a o0n
frmed arsenic eater, said: 81 AXE l
when | can get it," On the 14th Mrs
MAVERICK. still unconscious and alone
without a friend in the house, was ar
rested in her bed for murder.
The jury found her guilty of murde
and sentenced her to death. The sen
tence was committed to life imprison
ment.
Editor Stead, of the English Reviey
of Reviews, has been a warm champion
of Mrs. Maybrick and two years ag'
published in that periodical letters re
ceived from one Neuberg, in south AT
RIGA, ~inclosing the confession of on,
Henry Wilson, that he and a woman
servant i'm the Maybrick house tan
pered with the medicine given to MI
MAVERICK and put arsenic in it. Thi
hey did for purposes of revenge Of
Mrs. Maybrick, against whom they hal
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