River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-08-11

incumbent upon him to paint monster,
so charged with infidelity and murder
the poor creature VINO in all probability
was innocent of either crime.
The jury's verdict met with storm of
Kisses when delivered, but the victim
was hurried to Working and the clamor
broke itself against the locked gates
there. But we wonder if her life behind
prison bars-apart from the disgrace OF
twas as wretched as when she lived
with her husband, man that alternated
debauchery with the use of powerful
drugs Though it was proven beyond
doubt that Mr.. Maybrick was a confirmed
arsenic eater, and though the medical
experts testified that the small amount
of arsenic found in the body probably
was taken in merely medical doses ana
taken a considerable time before his
DEATH still Mrs Maybrick was adJudged
guilty of an attempt to poison" So, on
what one may perhaps speak of as "a
circumstantial verdict"-a most incon-
sistent unreasoning one-she escapes
hanging, but is condemned to penal SER
vitude for life.
On this side the Atlantic, decidedly
vigorous efforts have been made to tenn
per the British governments decree, but
the laws of Mede and Persian is nothing
to John Bulls II have said" Gail Hamil
ton in an open Letter to the Queen"
asked that her majesty listen to the voice
of the American people in their plea for
their country woman; and cited the case
in which, in response to appeal from
John Bright, President Lincoln granted
pardon to British subject convicted OF
melting to rebellion in California A
petition for the pardon of Mrs. Maybrick
was sent to the queen, the petition con-
tanning the statement that the impress
sion obtained there had been a miscarry-
ing of justice, and arraigning the scan
dalous defect" of the English judicial
system for failure to provide any court
of criminal appeal before which the ques-
ton raised in the Maybrick case could be
properly heard and decided; the petition
signed by the "vice president of the
United States and president of the SEN
ate; the speaker of the house of repre-
sentatives; all the members of the cab1-
net; many chiefs IF bureaus; the gen
eral commanding the army and several
brigadier generals; Cardinal Gibbons,
the highest authority of the Catholic
church in America; the minister of
France; the acting judge advocate gen.
eral, and Others"
In response to the request of such
honorable Americans as above men
toned, Lord Salisbury, mayhap dislik-
ing the citicism of English justice in the
petition, made this cold reply: Taking
the most lenient view which the facts
proved in evidence, and known to her
majesty's secretary of state, admit OF,
the case of this convict was that of an
adulteress attempting to poison her hus-
band under the most cruel circum-
stances, while she pretended to be nurs-
ing him on his sick-bed.
"The secretary of state regrets he has
been unable to find any ground for rec
ommending to the queen any further act
of clemency toward the prisoner"
How different is the picture presented
by the English courts from that which
holds with people at large. The former
view is that of marIryed dying husband
attended by a faithless, blood-thirsty
wife: the latter, a long-suffering good
woman, welded to a tyrannical roue, to