The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-08-30
FIRST SANG HOLY CITY.
Peculiar incident I'm the Life Of Mrs
Maybrick-Her Brottser-ia-fAw WAS
the Composer Of FAmoss song.
New York SUM
Jerusalem. Jerusalem.
Hear the angels sing.
Hosaana In the highest.
HoSarna to the King.

Hear the angels sing.
Hosaana In the highest.
HosaEna to the King.
II Is net difficult TO imagine Mrs.
Florence Maybrick. onc sentenced 90
death for the murder Of her husband
and now released. after spending many
years in an English prison. singing
he refrain OF Stephen Adams popular
sacred song. The Holy City" But it
is lot generally known hat hers was
the voice which first gave u~tterance
IN the strains which were destined
TO become as world famous as those
OF Sir Arthur Sullivan's The Lost
Chord or The Palms" by Faure.
The song was the work of the young
er brother Of the man Mrs. Maybrick
was convicted OF poisoning. Its COM
poser was her most relentless eneray
and was mainly instrumental in secur-
ing her conviction.
Few English composers have more
successful songs TO their credit thar
Stephen Adams. Few have made suca
a fortune out OF royalties as he. II
has been stated that Nancy Lee alone
Melted him a quarter OF a million dol
lars His Warrior Bold" '<Midsh;2-
mite" and Blue Alsatian Mountains
were scarcely less successful.
He is now extremely wealthy, a JUS
tice Of the peace and a member of IN.
Victoria Yacht Club. and he has serv-
az Wight, in which capacity he has
frequently entertained the King OF
England.
stephen Adams is merely the
name under which Michael Maybrick
publishes his songs. Mr.. Maybrick
began his musical career as a barry
o singer al local concerts around
Liverpool. He is the son of a well-to-
do shipping agent OF Liverpool.
He n his brother were widely dis
similar in tastes. character, and phys
ique. The elder was a weakling, fee.
HE Of min and body. a hypochondrI-
&C. addicted to the use of drugs ana
with a mind fixed upon commercial
enterprises.
The younger. Michael, was a mag
nificent specimen of humanity. tali,
broad. and athletic. OF artistic tenn.
permanent, he quit the counting room
and studied music in Milan and Leip-
hic. The elder remained at home, al
ways scheming TO secure more wealth.
The brothers had only one trait in
They were both enthusiast
tic yachtsmen.
Mrs Maybrick vas a good music>
1aD, DAD d great HIKING TOT music, an
excellent voice, and a love OF convivi-
ality. Thus she drew together 10
some extent the brothers who had
drifted apart.
Her husband owned a fine yacht, a
feature of which was a music saloon.
There many w~ell-known singers and
musicians were entertained. Michael
Maybrick, who had just leaped into
fame as the composer of Nancy Lee"
but as yet had not gathered in enough
of the profits to indulge his passion
for owning a yacht, was a frequent
guest
1t was one Of these musical even-
ings. while the yacht was anchored
in the Mersey, that Michael MaybrIck
produced from his pocket a manu-
script song which he said he had writ
ten that afternoon while dreaming the
time away in his cabin, and listening
tic the splash of the waters. He had
caught the Inspiration of Weatherly's
words, but the voice part only had beer
jotted down. The accompaniment Ia ]
still to be filled in.
Sitting at the piano. he vamped an
Introduction and asked his sister-in-
law. Mrs. Florence Maybrick. to sine
The Holy City from the voice part.
She was an excellent reader, n cad
i,v did this, he filling in an extemporie.
Ell accompaniment.
Thus it was her voice which, for the