Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-01-31
FOR MRS. NIAYBRICK.
AMERICAN FRIENDS WILL Make
ANOTHER EFFORT FOR HER.
(Ncw York IIerald.)

(New York Herald)
Another determined attempt is to be
made to obtain the release of Mrs.
Florence Maybrick, an American wo-
man. VINO has now been ten years in
an English prison. charged with MUIR
dering her husband by poison.
The fight to obtain the liberty of
this woman has been long and UMPIRE
cedented in the history OF international
communications in respect to persons
convicted of capital offences. Now. af-
Ter many failures. Miss Helen Dens-
more. one of the chief workers in be-
half OF the prisoner, has sent this let
ter to the Herald:
IL Is the custom of the English Home
once To revise long sentences in the
case OF female convicts at the end of
seven. ten, fifteen and twenty years.
Inc present year is the tenth since
Mrs. Maybrick's conviction, and the
reply of the Home Secretary to DR..
Clark, NJ. p. MIR. Davitt, NJ. T.. and TO
Alr. Dalziel NJ. =. at last summers
session of Parliament-viz. thar hn
(Sir Matthey White Ridley was aware
OF the strong opinion held in America
and III England as to Mrs Mavbricli's
sentence. also that she had been adc-
quately punished-has led to strong
hopes that the ten years revision ne
ROD VIII result in the release of Mrs.
Maybrick. which would cause much
satisfaction in England as we'll as in
this country.
LETTER CAUSED HER ARREST.
me daughter married James May
prlck when she was eighteen years old.
lie was forty. That was eighteen
years ago now. They were prominent
IN Liverpool society. The husband died
ABOUT ten years ago after an Illness.
ana Il letter which Mrs. MAVERICK had
told IL nurse To mail. and which the
nurse read, led to the wifc's arrest. /,
was addressed 10 "A. Briefly, ESQ.
fiuskisson street, Liverpool The man
was addressed rs Darling" The sig
nature was "Florrie." The letter CON
tanned these sentences, referring pre-
sumably to Maybrick:
L cannot answer your letter fully to-
day. darling, but relieve your mind OF
all fear of discovery now or in tho I'm
ture. He has been delirious since sun-
day. and l know he is ignorant Of
everything. You need not. therefore
so abroad on this ground, dearest. bur
IN any case don't leave England until
have seen you once again.
me nurse gave the letter to n bro
.nct o, Maybrick. The autopsy proved
that death was due to arsenical pois
oning. Although the evidence was gen
orally considered insufficient. Mrs
MayDrick was found guilty. MANY
prominent Americans have taken part
IN the movement for her release.
TO MAKE ANOTHER STRONG EFF
FORT.
THE friends of Mrs. MAVERICK" Mrs
Densmore said. ''are making another
strong effort with the British Homo
secretary for her release. and it is i'm
hn
should feel that American takes n grcat
interest in her unhappy fate"
~ was In May. 1889. that Mrs. May
brick was arrested for the murder Of
her husband. charged with having adj
nhlhis'efed arsenic 10 him while pre-
tending to give him medicine. She was
uIleu ana sentenced to be hanged There
w., Mns an outcry over that. and later in
'he year the death sentence was com
hiuted to imprisonment for life
Immediately Americans began To
nlake enorts 10 obtain the release of
MIS- MaYbrick or a lessen!nc OF SEN
fence, Thus far all attempts have
Either Mrs. Maybrick is an jniur.d
innocent or she cunninglv poisorn1 h "a
husband in cold blood. The British
courts nave held to the opinion tina, She
was guilty, and that she was lucky in
having had her life spared because OF
her sex "a
Mrs Maybrick's mother was Carrie
-. Hoinrook, of this city. and her IA
ther. William S. Chandler. son of a vol
known lawyer in Mobile. Ala. Chand-
Ter died soon after the war. and his
ueatn caused some gossip. His widow
married captain Du Barry. He SET on,
Tor Europe as an agent of the Conf.d-
,rdte soternment He. too. died sud
u ma MIS- pu Barry then married
Baron Won Rogue.
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