The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-24
Mrs. MaybrIilc;k to End Her I'M
priso 1. 1d1y J Y Next Year.
HISTORY OF HER He: CASE 'I:
Sentenced to Dealt, or Charge OF
Poisoning Her Husband and Sen
tence Was COMMITTED to Penal
Servitude for Life.
nv Associated press.)

(Dy Associated EIcooc
LONDON, March 23.-Mrs Florence
{ Ainybrick, the American woman, VINO
was convicted ut Liverpool In 1853. on the
& charge OF, poisoning her husband, james
Il Mnybricls, Mt Aigburts. BY arsenic, ana
whose sentence Of death was commutcd
4 to penal servitudo for life, Will be re-
leased In 1904. Tho announcement comes
Il from the Home Office. which now au-
I fhorizos her washington lawyers to use
!; tho fact OF her release next year as
| reason for securing the postponement OF
the trial OF the lawsuit bearing upon the
! prisoners interest In land III KENTUCKY,
and West Virginia, until she is noie 70
!, personally testify.
,4 Those who arc In position 70 Know,
say that Homo Secretary Alkers-Douglass
ms shown great courtesy in connection
( with the suits now pending IN America;
that the decision to release Mrs. May
brick was entirely due to efforts on TINS
! side OF the Atlantic, and that Ampassa-s
/ dor Herbert had never been called upon
to act in this matter.
Mrs. Nrayhrlck, who was Miss Florence
Elizabeth Chandler, and member or
we'll known and prosperous southern
1amlly was married July 81 1851, In St.
4 flames Church, Pccndlly, to James May
brick. Of Liverpool. She was then
eighteen years of age, vivacious and
beautiful. and a social ttWorite. Her nus
i band was over forty years old In the
spring Of 1889 Mr. Maybrlcl became III,
and n few days later he died. His
brothers Investigated his death, and
| charged Mrs. Maybrick with the murder
of her husband. a long trial followed,
I and number of physicians sWore Mr.
n Maybrick died Of arsenic poisoning. !he
defense held that for twenty years cir.
MAVERICK had been confirmed arsenic
eater. and that he daily took doses that
would have killed dozen Ordinary men;
MRS. Muybrick eventually was sentenced
TO death by the judge, Sir Fltzjames
stephen, who spoke for two days In
charging the jury, who said 1t was i'm
posslble for them to find her guilty IN
The face of the medical evidence. Flo
4 died some time later In a mad-house
583,sI From the time Of Mrs. Maybrick's con-
giction her mother, the baroness -.
Won Rouues, has been unremitting In her
attempts to obtain the prisoners release,
IN which she has been aided by lnfluen-
i4 tial friends on both sides Of the Atlantis.
In 1900 after the death of Lord Rus
4 soil of Eillowen, chief justice OF Eng
land a letter which no had written 70
Il Mrs MAVERICK In 1895 was discovered.
4 1t showed that the eminent lawyer was
f convinced that she ought never to have
been convicted, and it has been generally
understood that all tho recent American
Ambassadors to the Court Of st. James,
q have done everything possible to obtain
3 Mrs. Maybrlck's pardon. The failure OF
Mrs. Maybrick to testify In the suits
pending in the United States would cause
Z the loss to her and her mother of all title
and interest In large tracts OF land SIT,
uated in Kentucky, Virginia and West
Virginia.
WASHINGTON, March 23.-Mrs. May,
bricks attorneys In this city received
( q cablegram from the American En-
d bassy in London, confirming the news OF
her Forthcoming release. and adding she
would be liberated in July. 1904. va