The Portland daily press., 1899-07-04
FOR MRS. MAVERICK.
Medical and Legal Relief Society VIII
Ask for Her Pardon,

Mrs. Florence Maybrick's friends are
renewing their efforts to secure her par.
don and get her out of the English prison
who re she is confined for poisoning her
husband. They assert that 1t is the GUS
tom In England for the Home Secretary
to recommend the pardon of persons after
they have served ten years when the
crime they have com mitted Ia only at
tempted murder. They assert that Mrs,
Maybrick's crime was only attempted
murder. and quote the decision of the
Home Secretary when Mrs. May s
sentence was muted from hanging to
life imprisonment. He said that there
was reasonable doubt of the crime of
murder, and 1.-The evidence leads to the
conclusion that Mrs. Msybrick had all
miSistered and attempted to administer
arsenic to her husband with intent to
murder" Mrs. Maybrirk was put in jnil
in August, 1889. and the ten years win be
up next August.
The Medical and Legal Relief Society is
now interested 10 her case. Some of the
men In that society are Theodore Sutro,
who IL president; Charles L. Yerkes,
Edward Lauterbach. William Brooktield,
Alderman Dixie, Columuhs o. johnson,
John Hallsr and Amos j. Cummings.
The society has addressed a letter TO Sec
| Rotary OF State Hay, calling his attention
to the fact that ten years ago. in COM
| muting the sentence of Mrs. May brick,
it was practically adjudged that she had
| h rrO ynilty " nf art Mo -.
murder. and the English custom to grant
pardons in such cases after ten years ser
vitude, and requesting Secretary lay to
request Ambassador Choate to lay the
case before Great Britain's Home Secre-
tary, together with the information that
the pa rdon of Mrs. Nav brick would meet
with universal approval in America.
The Med ical and Legal Relief Societv
Will also prosecute to an issue claim OF
Mrs Maybriek's mother. the BIroness
Caroline e. Won Roques, against David
w. Armstrong of Louisville, Ky, and
Others, wherein the Baroness Won Rooues
claims to have been defraUded of over
| half a million dollars in cash, and alleges
that she is entitled to so me 2,s52. 800
acres OF valuable land in Virginia, West
| held by various persons who have no good
title thereto, and whose titles coming
| through her, she alleges, were secnred by
fraud on the part Of her former attorney.
These lands are now valued at upward of
| $40, GOO, 900.
An action for their recovery was begun
in the courts of Virginia aud Kentucky
and West Virginia in 1923. in behalf OF
the Baroness Won Roques. by former
Judge Leonidas ID. Yarrell of Richmond,
as her attorney. and bills In chancery
were filed. Former Attorney General A.
II. Garland, who was then practicine
law in Washington, WAS associated in the
prosecution of the cases with Judge Var
rell, and both these able attorneys advised
that the Baroness Won Roques's claim was
a good one. The cases, however, Iapsed
and were never brought to trial The
cause assigned for this was the inability
of the Baroness to provide funds to nav
the EXPENSES of the prosecution Of tbs
cases, together with the death of former
Attorney General Garland and of Miss
Mary A. Dodge (Gail Hamilton), who
was raising money with which to prose.
cuts the Gains, and who did SO much in
the interest of the unfortunate Mrs. May
brick. 4No