The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-02
TO PLEAD FOR MRS. MATBRICK.
Medical and Legal Relief Society viii Ask
for Her Pardon and Release.

her faruon ana heIeate.
Mrs Florence Maybrick's friends arc renew
ing their efforts to secure her pardon and get her
out OF the English prison where she is confined
for poisoning her husband. They assert that
1t is the custom in England for the Home
Secretary to recommend the pardon Of
persons after they have served ten years
when the crime they have committed ia
only attempted murder. They assert that
Mrs. Maybrick's crime was only attempt
ed murder. and quote the decision OF
the Home Secretary when Mrs. Maybrick's
sentence was committed from hanging to life
Imprisonment. He said that there WAS a
sonable doubt OF the crime OF murder and
The evidence leads to the conclusion that
Mrs. Maybrick had aiministei ed and attempted
TO administer arsenic to her husband with in
tent to murder" Mrs Maybrick was put in
Jail in August 1889. and the ten years will he
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 Lau;cr-
Columbus o, johnson, John Halter and Amos
J. Cummings The society has addressed a
trnton to the fact that ten years ago, in COM
muting the sentence Of Mrs Maybrlck. it was
practically adludged that she had been proved
guilty only OF an attempted murder and the
English custom to grant partons In such cases
GitertPn years servitude. and requesting Sec
rotary Hay to request Ambassador ChOntc to
lay the case before Great BritRn's Home Sec
rotary, together with the Information that the
pardon OF Mrs. Maybrick would meet with uni
versal approval in America.
The MNdica and Legal Relief Society Will
also prosecute to an issue claim of Mrs; May
RoQueS, against David W Armstrong OF Louis
vile, Ky, and others. wherein the Baroness
Won Roques claims to have been defIauGed of
over hat n million dollars in cash. and alleges
that she is entitled to some 2.5o3,3O4 acres OF
valuable land in Virginia, West Virginia and
Kentucky. which are now held by various
parsons who have no good title thereto. and
whose titles coming through her She alleges.
were secured by fraud on the part of her former
attorney. These lands are now valued at up
ward of s U.OUO.OOO
An action for their recovery was begun in
the courts Of rg,nla and Kentucky AMI West
Virginia in 1888 in behalf OF the Baroness Won
R0lues by former judge Leonidas II. Yarrcll
81 Richmond, as her attorney. and bills in
chnncery were fled. Former Attorney Cen
eral A., II Garland. who was then rracticing
law in Washington. was associated in the prose
cution Of tine cases with Judge larreIl. and
moth these able attorneys advised that the
Baroness Won Roques's claim was good one
The cases. however, lapsed. and were never
brought t. Trial. The cause assigned for this
was The iunhll q NJ the Baroness 10 provide
funds to nay the expenses Of the prosecution
OF the cases together with the death Of former
Attorney General Garland and Of Miss Mary 4
Dodge tiail Hamilton. who was raising NOR ey
with which TO prosecute the claims. md who
did 50 much IN the interest Of the unfortunate
Mrs Maybrck