The times., 1899-07-03
TIE CASE OF MRS. MAVERICK.
laedicai and Legal Societies Now In
terested in Her Behalf.


New York, July Mrs. Florence May
bricks friends are renewing 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 it is the custom in England for the
Home Secretary to reeommnd the pardon
of persons after they have served ten
years when the crime they have commit
ted is only attempted murder. They as
sert that Mrs. Maybrick's crime was only
attempted murder, and quote the decision
of the Home Secretary when Mrs. May
bricks sentence was commuted from
hanging to life Imprisonment. He said
that there was u reasonable doubt of the
crime OF murder, and the evidence leads
to the conclusion that Mrs. Maybrick had
administered and attempted to administer
arsenic TO her husband with intent to
murder" Mrs. Maybrick was put in jail
in August, 1889, and the ten years will be
up next August.
The Medical and Legal Relief Society
is now interested in her case. Some OF
the men in that society are Theodore Su-
tro. who is President; Charles T. Yerkes
Edward Lauterbach, william Brookfeid,
Alderman Okie, Columbus o. johnson,
John Haller, and Amos ]. Cummings. The
society has addressed a letter to Secre-
taTy of State Hay calling his attention to
the fact that ten years ago, in committing
the sentence of Mrs. Maybrick, 1t was
practically adjudged that she had been
proved guilty only Of an attempted muir
der. and the English custom to gran.
pardons in such cases after ten years
servitude, and requesting Secretary Hay
to request Ambassador Choate to lay the
case before Great Britain's Home Secre-
tary. together with the information that
the pardon of Mrs. Maybrick would meet
with universal approval in America.
The Medical and Legal Relief Society
will also prosecute to an issue a claim OF
Mrs. Maybrick's mother, the Baroness
Caroline E. Won Roques against David ".
Armstrong, of Louisville KY. and others,
wherein the Baroness Won Roques aims
to have been defrauded of over half a mil
lion dollars in cash. and alleges that she is
entitled to some 2.552. .304 acres of valuable
land in Virginia, West Virginia, and Ken
lucky, which are now held by various per-
sons who have no good tit'e thereto, and
whose titles coming through her, she al
leges, were secured by fraud on the part
of her former attorney. These LANDS are
now valued at upward of $10,O0o,000
An action for their recovery was begun
in the courts of Virginia and Kentucky
and West Virginia in 1898, in behalf OF the
Baroness Won Roque5, by former Judge
Leonidas d. Yarrell. of Richmond, as her
attorney, and bills in chancery were filed.
Former Attorney General A. H. Garland,
who was then practicing law in Washing
ton, was associated in the prosecution OF
the cases with Judge Yarrell, and 10th
these able attorneys advised that the Bar
oness Won Roques' claim was good one.
The cases. however, lapsed. and were
never brought to trial. The cause s;igIed
for this was the inability Of the baroness
to provide funds to pay the expenses of
the prosecution of the cases. together with
the death of former Attorney General Gar
land and OF Miss Mary A. Dodge (Gail
Hamiltonl, who was raising money with
which to prosecute the claims, and who did
so much in the interest OF the unfortunate
Mrs. MAVERICK.