Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-08-10

py the uSageS OF society. He dranl
heavily, and at such times his mood:
were sullen, fierce and brutal. In so
briefly he was the kind OF creature
most despised of women-a hypochon
driac.
On a woman of the temperament O.
Florence Maybrick, born in our owl
south, bred, among the men OF the
south, with whom woman is an idol
loving the sunshine as butterflies love
il, all these conditions could produce
but one effect. The dull indifference
with which her narrowed life had be.
gun had given place to dull, steady
hatred. She turned helplessly for con
ISOLATION. IN the eighth year Of hel
marriage it was ready 10 her hand in
the person of Alfred Brierley, q
wealthy young cotton-spinner, and q
business associate Of her husband
It was on the morning of March 16
1889, that Mrs. Maybrick wrote in an
assumed name to Flatman's hotel
Henrietta street, Cavendish Square
London, engaging two rooms for her
The ostensible reason of her visit to
London lay in the sickness of q friend
a Mrs. Baillie. The fact that Mr.. May
bricks brother Thomas, with whom he
had held no communication in many
years, lived in Manchester covered the
second part of the deception. 1t was
afterward proved in Identification by
the proprietor and the waiter that for
four days she lived with Briefly at the
hotel. And on the morning of March
% she reappeared at her home in
Garston.
Strolling along the lawn in front OF
the grand stand on the Aaitree race
course were a man and woman at
whom the throng, representative OF
the fashion and grace of North Ian
cashire, gazed with the sheer, the
shrug, understood of society. The man
was Brierley; the woman VINO hung
upon his arm, looking up at him with
all her heart in her eyes, was Flor
ence Maybrick. And in the same mo-
ment there approached a second man
whom everybody in the reserved part
of the Enclosure recognized. 1t was
her husband, his face yellow with the
rage that consumed him. 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 Brierley as if for protec-
ton. 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, watch
ing her husband as he strobe away.
The design of poisoning her hus-
band would appear to have taken root
in her mind at the beginning of
March, when she had begun to make
references to certain white
powder which she declared her hus-
band was in the habit of taking, and
of which she had dread. She had
spoken of DR.. Hooper, the family
on this subject, and begged
him to demonstrate with her husband
But Mr. May brick, taxed by the doctor
made a vociferous denial.
All through the month of April
Maybrick suffered more or less from
slight chronic dyspepsia and indiges-
ton. DR.. Fuller, one of the half
dozen physicians whom he consulted
at different times, gave him a pre-
scription in which arsenic had no part.
In the afternoon of May "a Mrs
NToy 1:oJ- Id
by Thomas Nokes, in the Aigburth
road, Liverpool, and bought some fly
papers that contained arsenic Cor
mice" Alice Yepp, the childrens nurse,
and Bessie Brierley, a housmaid, no.
ticing some clothes carefully folded
over a soup-dish, lifted them and
found the fy-paper soaking in water
1t may be noted that Battlecrease
House had always been free of mice or
other vermin.
Three days later Mr.. Maybrick at
tended the races at Wirral. The day
was cold and stormy On his re-
turn home, late at night, he complain
ed of a chill, a numbness and an OPP
preston 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, until
the morning Of Wednesday,, May /,
when he recovered sufficiently to re-
turn to business. On that day, and
the two days that followed, he carried
his luncheon to his office Berry
Revalenta Food was prepared by the
wife, placed in the jar by her, and
tied up. 1t was not eaten by Mr.
Maybrick, who complained that the
mere taste of the food made him bill
Gus. Traces of arsenic were after
ward found in the jar. The luncheon
of the following day was prepared by
his WIFE This consisted of beef-es-
sence, which was to be heated over a
patent gas stove that Mr.. Maybrick
kept in his Office. Arsenic was after
ward found in the remains of the
beef-essence.
Following the drinking of the beef
tea Mr.. Maybrick suffered a relapse,
and returned to his home, complaining
of nausea and a general sensation OF
weakness. Only the exercise of his
iron will enabled him to struggle out
Of his room on the next day, Friday
May 8. This is the day on which,
according to the theory of the physi-
clans. he received the fatal dose.
ArrowroOt was prepared and sent to
his office. The jar containing the ar
rowroot was filled by Mrs. Maybrick
tied up by her, and by her delivered
into the hands of The mesSanoer And