Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-02-01
NOT PARDONED.
Mrs. Maybrick Still a Prisoner
in England.
Simply Removed to Private institution
to Regain Her Health.
Officially Stated That She Has Not
Been Pardoned.

London. Jan. 3l.-1n spite of the mys-
terry with which officials shroud the
action in connection with the reported
release of Mrs. Florence Maybrick,
who is serving a life sentence for
poisoning her husband. it can be def
nitely said that she has been removed
from Ayiesbury prison.
| At the United States embassy il was
most emphatically declared that she
had not been pardoned and that she
was still prisoner. Where she has
been taken remains a mystery. but
reports from Aylesbury are to the
effect that she has been removed to
some institution at Cornwall. The
home officer and the governor of
Aylesbury prison refuse to make any
kind of d statement on the subject.
If the ordinary course had been fol-
lowed. Mrs. Maybrick would have been
| taken TO Holloway if her immediate
release were contemplated but she is
not there and has probably been re-
moved to some other prison of less rig
Crous discipline where she can recup-
er%te prior to her release. Or possibly
she has been conveyed to one of the
government homes of dtention or to an
asylum.
The details given in this mornings
Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper regarding
the visit of Mrs. Maybrick's mother.
Baroness De Roques, to Aylesbury
prison, Jan. %, appear to be correct.
iShc afterwards described Mrs May
brick as very busy with her work, in
much better spirits and looking for
ward to her release
The report sent out from London,
Saturday night, was as follows:
London. Jan. 31.-Lloyd's Weekly
Newspaper announces that Mrs. Flor
ence Maybrick, the American woman
serving a life sentence at Aylesbury
prison for the murder of her husband
III 1889 has been released.
1t is stated that she was released
from the Aylesbury female convict
prison at Gas. on the morning of Jan.
-. on special license.
Her mother. the paper says, had Wis
tied her, Saturday, Jan. %. and evil
IDENTIFY was the bearer of important
news. The governor of the prison. Sat
urday, conferred with the prison off,
Gals with Il view to arranging for the
departure of the prisoner, which was
carried out very quietly.
Mrs. Maybrick. accompanied by one
of the prison matrons. entered a closed
carriage and drove to Aylesbury sta
ton. where she boarded Il train for
London. She drove from Euston sta
ton and from there went to private
home not far from the metropolis. She
will remain at the home a short period
to recIlperate and to await the compile
tiCn of certain formalities which will
give her freedom of movement not al
lowed by persons on ordinary ticket-Of-
leave.
Mrs. Maybrick. the paper concludes.
during the last few months in prison.
was employed III the lightest work as
a reward for good conduct.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick was found
guilty in 1889 Of poisoning her hus-
band. James Maybrick. a cotton broker
in Liverpool. The evidence WAS so un-
reliable. however. that the home secre-
tary was forced to the conclusion that
there was reasonable doubt" wheth-
er in fact she did commit the crime.
which was based on the assumption
that she administered the arsenic to
her husband because a trace of arsenic
was found in the body.
There was no evidence that she had
ever had any arsenic, nor was there
any evidence of administration.
On page 81 of the Summing Up"
The judge said: You must begin the
whole subject of poison with this.
which is a remarkable fact in the case.
and which. it seems to me, tells favor
ably rather than otherwise for the
prisoner; you must take notice of it
and consider what inference you draw
| from it; in the whole case. from the
| first to last, there is no evidence at all
| Of Mrs. Maybrick having bought any
7oison. or definitely had anything to
| 10 with the procuring of any,
continual ON maze 9