The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-07-15

It was on the morning of March 1( , 1883, that Mrs. Maybfick wrote in an as
 stunned name to Flatmans hotel HenrI
 ctta street Cayendish square, London
 engaging two rooms for 'her sister, Mrs ] Maybrlck, of Manchester" The esten
 slble reason for her visit to London la
 in the sickness of a friend, a Mrs Bail
 lie. The fact that MT. Maybrick'
 brother Thomas, W.th whom he had hell
 no communication in many years, liVet
 ln Manchester covered the second par
 ot the deception. It was afterWarC
 proved in Identification by the proprie
 tor and the waiter that for four days
 she lived with Brierley at the hotel
 And on the morning of March 23 she re
 appeared at her home in Garston.
 Strolling along the lawn in front o1
 the grand stand on the Aintree race
 course were man and woman at whom
 the throng, representative of the fashioi 1 and grace of North Lancashire gazeC
 With the sheer, the shrug, understood of society. The man was Brierley; the
 woman who hung upon his arm, looking | up at him with all her heart in her eyes,
 was Florence Maybrick And in the | he'hiC iioillCIl lliGlE dpplOdCHtu q StC-
 and man whom everybody in the re-
 served part of the inclosure recognized.
 It was her husband, his face yellow with the rage that consumed him. l 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 Brlerley as if for protection. 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 watching her husband as he strode away.
 The design of poisoning her husband would appear to have taken root in her mind at the beginning of March, when
 she had begun to make mysterious ref erences to a certain white powder which
 she declared her husband was in the
 habit of taking, and of which she had dread She had spoken to Dr. Hopper, the family physician, on the subject, and begged him to remonstrate with her
 husband. But MT. Maybrick taxed by the doctor, made vociferous denial.
 All through the month of April May brick suffered more or less from slight chronic dyspepsia and indigestion. Dr. Fuller, one of the half-dozen physicians whom he consulted at different times gave him prescription in which arsen- ic had no part
 Tn the afternoon of May "A Mrs. May brick called at the drug store kept by Thomas Nokes. in the Aigburth road, Liverpool. and bought some fy-papers that contained arsenic flor mice." AL ice Yapp, the children's nurse, and Bes- sic Brierley, housenaid, noticing some cloths carefully folded over a soup-dsh, lifted them and found the fiy-papers soaking In water. It may be noted that Battlecrease house had always been free of mice or other vermin.
 Three days MT. Maybrick attended the races at Wirral The day was cold and stormy. On his return home, late at night, he complained of chill, numb ness and an oppression at the stomach This he ascribed to a bad dinner eaten at the race-track restaurant That night he took to his bed, and remained there, suffering from gastric trouble, un til the morning of Wednesday, May l, when he recovered sufficiently to return to business. On that day, and the two days that followed. he carried his lunch con to his office. Barry's Revalenta food was prepared by his wife, placed in the jar by her and tied up. It was not eaten by MT Maybrick, who com plained that the mere taste of the food made him bilious Traces of arsenic were afterward found in the jar. The luncheon of the following day was pre- pared by his wife. This consisted of 1 beef essence, which was to be heated over patent gas-stove that MT. May brick kept in his. office, Arsenic was af- l erward found in the remanis of the | beef essence.
 Following the drinking of the beef tea Mr. Maybrick suffered a relapse, and re- urned to his home, complaining of nau- ca and general sensation of weakness. )nly the exercise of his iron will enabled Jim to struggle out of his room on the ext day, Friday, May 3. This is he day on which, according to the heory of the physicians, he received he fatal dose.
 Arrowroot was prepared and sent to is office. The jar containing the ar oWroot was filled by Mrs. Maybrick jed up by her, and by her delivered | ito the hands of the messenger. And s before, MT. Maybrck warmed the pod in small enamel saucepan held yer the gas burner and turned it into pitcher. On the rim of that pitcher, nd again on the glaze of the sauce an, traces of arsenic were afterward Within two hours after le consumption of the food MT May rick became violently ill. displaying Il the symptoms of acute gastro-en- lritis induced by an irritant poison, nd was taken home to the bed from hich he never afterward arose It was not until the night of Sat- ay, May 4, that pr. John Humphreys as called in at Mrs. Maybrick's di- ction. By that time Mr. Maybrick's ness had reached an acute stage ,, he only reason that Mrs Maybrick z Id ever assigned for the delay in medical assistance was at her husband objected to physi- F ans. Through the four days and ', ghts that followed, the wife was at |, @ bedside of her husband All food :. Id all medicine that was adminie- r red to him passed through her hands = p to the night of Wednesday, May no suspicion that the gastro-enteritis d been produced by any other than -tural causes appears to have en- red the minds of the physicians The one little touch of the woman in