The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-02-05

together. The wife became the mother
of two children, and husband and wife
were said be very loving. But March
%, 1889, Mrs Christlana Samuelson heard
Mrs. Maybrick say:
IN give it to him hot and heavy for
speaking to me like that in public"
1t was spat about going to the Grand
National with Mr. Albert Briefly, who
had been stopping at the same hotel
with them.
1T was about the same time that Mrs.
Maybrick said that she mated her hus-
band.
But this all came out later. Nobody
suspected anything was out of the way.
Nobody knew there was an Albert
| Briefly
April %, 1899, Mr.. Maybrick began to
get sick. He had just come back from
the Wirall races. where he had got chilled.
He took some medicine prescribed by d
DR.. SuIer, of London, and dispensed by
a local chemist. He was great man 10
take medicine, anyhow. Mrs. Maybrc%
nursed him and rubbed his hands when
he complained of numbness, and called
him her silly OLD darling.
He got better and then worse. got out
TO business. and when she sent him some
beef tea in his office he took sick again.
Eleven days before he died he wrote
/ long. rambling letter TO his brother.
! Michael in London Ghe Stephen Adams
/ of Nancy Lee" fame). and told just
when the first symptoms of sickness at
tackled him. how he was attacked with
numbness and rigidity of the limbs He
said:
This time DR.. can't say I am
suffering from violent attack of indi-
gestion."
Michael was called down to see his
brother. He found James in bed, attend
ed by nurse.
Mrs Maybrick met him and his brother
Edward, and went with them to the bed
room
Michael said: Il think James is not
getting treated properly"
Mrs Maybrick started and said:
why, what do you mean?'
| Michael said he thought James ought
/ to have another nurse.
! She said she thought she had a right
+ to nurse her husband and she had done
/ SO.
/ Two doctors and a nurse were called
/ by Michael the next day.
The new nurse said a few things TO
Michael and he took away a bottle of
( brandy and a bottle of mcat extract
Then he went out into the garden. when
he came back he found Mrs. Maybrick
changing some whisky from one bottle
into another with a wide mouth and a
different label
How dare you do such a thing?" asked
Michael
She saw there was "a sediment in the
bottle
The nurses were changed again. but Mr.
Maybrick got no better.
May Il he died. just few hours be-
fore that event Mrs Naybrick save a
letter to Mrs. Alice yapp the nurse maid.
to post IT was addressed to a. Briefly
Esq, Huskisson street. Liverpool. The
baby with the nurse-maid dropped the
letter in the mud-or the nurse said so.
Thinking TO put it In a clean envelope
she tore OF the muddy covering and read
the pencilled letter Here it is;
LETTER THAT WAS DROPPED.
Dearest: Your letter. under cover to
- came 10 manu- JUST AFTER 4aN
written TO you on Monday. I did rot eN-
pect to hear from you so soon. ard had
delayed in giving him the necessary in
struCtions Since my return I have been
nursing day and night He is sick unto
death. the doctors held a consultation
yesterday. and now all depends upon
how long his strength will hold out
Both my brothers-in-iaw are here. and
We are terribly anxious Cannot answer
your letter fully today. darling but viii
relieve your mind Of ali fear Of discovery
now or in the future N. has been deiir-
ious since Sunday. and I know that he is
ignorant of everything. even Of the name
Of the street and THAI he has also rot
been making any inquiries whatever. The
tale he told me was a mere fabrication.
and only intended 10 fri-hten truth olt OF
me In fact. he believes NY statement. /
although he viii not admit it. You need
nos. therefore. so abroad on this ground.
dearest. bur in any case don't leave
England until have seen you once again
You must feel that those two letters Of
mine were written under circumstances
which must ever excuse their injustice IN
your ewes Dc you suppose I could act as
I am doing if I merely fe,t what ! in
fer-ed. Il you wish 10 write 10 me. do
So. as all the letters pass through MY
hands al present Excuse this scrawL my
darling. but l dare not leave the room
tor a moment. and ] 90 not know when
I shan Re able 20 write 10 YOU again. In
haste. Florrie.
The nurse-maid save this to Edward
Mayprick, and from that moment Flor