The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-02-11
CASE OF MRS. MAVERICK
Runor That the King VIII Pardon
Her Discredited.
The United states Embassy in Lon
don Places No Confidence in
the Report.

LONDON. Feb. 11-Nothing Is known
here concerning the report circulated in
NeE York and recalled here today. 10 the
efea1 that the King intends to pardon
Mrs. Florence Maybrick
In response TO enquiries II was stated
at the United States Embassy that the
report was not credited there.
Mrs 3Taybrick was convicted OF poi
soning her husband il August. 1883. and
was sentenced to death. This sentence
was committed to life Imprisonment. This
communication was partially due 10 the in
teTventi0n Of James G. Blaine, then Sec
rotary Of State.
In the next spring Secretary Blaine call
/ Cd the attention Of Lord Salisbury TO Mrs
/ NaybTick's case and suggested that the
( trial might be reviewed Lord Salisbury
/ replied that he could not intervene. Since
! then the efforts 10 secure the release OF
/ the famous prisoner have been continuous
and persistent. Secretary OF State Foster
! followed BIaine's lead in efforts TO secure
! her pardon but was unsuccessful
The WOmen's International Maybriek
/ Association was formed with the purpose
! Of securing her pardon. the Nedieo-Legal
/ Society of New York took I'D her case
and scores of memorials have been ad-
dressed TO the Home Secretary. but no en-
cCura gemCoJ has come until few months
ago. and II Seeme1 that Mrs Haybrick
was destined 10 spend al least twenty
years, and perhaps longer. IN Aylesbury
prison.
Several months ago the announcement
vas made that there was no hope for lie
American wcTnan's release so long as
/ Queen Victoria was on the throne. Her
/ weII-known ideas regarding these who
/ break marital VOWS were believed to be
responsible for her failure to intervene
I and Mrs MaybTiok's friends built hopes
/ on the belief that her successor would be
less straitlaced-
Mrs. MaybrIck was eighteen years old
/ when she married James MaybriCk, q cot
I ten broker. living in Liverpool but who
/ had formerly been a resident Of Norfolk,
/ Va he was forty-two years old and hed
| contracted malaria in Norfolk for which
/ he Was constantly taking medicine.
Il WAS shown that lie used arsenic Tor
( several years before his death. and iE was
/ also shown that he often doubled ;he
Quantities Of medicine that physicians or
dereI him 20 take # he believed that the
results we're not as rapid as they should
be-
Maybrfck died May II. 1889 and post
morten examination showed arsenic IN HIS
stomach though The doctors said that he
had died from Inflammation OF the stom-
ach and dyspepsia
~ the trial il was shown that Mrs May
brick bought large quantities OF q uy pa
per containing arsenic and that she had
soaked i in vessels in her room and new
er used il 10 kill flies She said that she
used the arsenic in making q face lotion.
Ii was also shown that The couple quar-
relied frequently and that MaybTick had
vhipped his wife because OF her apparent
fondness for a young man named Briefly
a few weeks before Maybrick's death
Mrs. Maybrick and Briefly spent two days
AT hotel in London registered as Mr..
and Mrs Naybrick. This fact vas brought
before the jury. Justice Stephens, in
charging the jury. was extremely bitter
against the prisoner. He seemed TO think
that she deserved death on account OF her
relations with Briefly and without regard
TO her guilt or innocence OF the charge of
poisoning her husband.
! The friends OF Mrs. Maybrick have
based their pleas for her on the ground
that she was convicted Of immortality in
stead of murder and they have pointed out
! the fact that Justice stephens went insane
soon after the trial They said that he
was crazy when he presided and when he
so bitterly attacked the prisoner in his
speech to the jury
Arsenic was found in several articles of
food prepared for Mr.. Maybrick by his
wife and letters that she had written be
fore his death were introduced 70 show
that she expected his death soon She ad-
misted her affection for Briefly, but denied
having administered poison TO her hUs-
band