The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-18

ss<G<GfSS ss< | there was not and could not be the | slightest chance of my escaping. The officer would not permit the door to be ! closed day or. night, and I was denied in my own house, even before the in- quest. the privacy accorded to con- victed prisoner The Prayer By the Conn. Mrs. Maybriek demands and is &C., corded the opportunity of seeing her dead husband:
 With tottering steps. supported by the nurse. l was led into the adjoining room. Upon the bed stood the coffin, covered with white flowers. It was al- ready closed. Turned to the policeman I and the nurse. Leave me alone with the dead They refused. I then knelt down at the bedside, and God in His mercy spared my reason by granting me. there and then. the first tears which many days of suffering had fail ed to bring. Death had wiped out the memory of many things. was thank l full to remember that l had stopped di- vorce proceedings. and that we had be- come reconciled for the children's sake Gained, I arose and returned to my room. I sat down near a window, still weeping. Suddenly the harsh voice of q nurse broke on my ears: If you wish to see the last of the husband you have poisoned. you had better stand up. The funeral has started stumbled to my feet and clutched at the windowsill, where stood rigid and fearless until the hearse had passed, and was out of sight, and then I faint ed ["
 Mrs. Maybrick, in a most direct and concise manner. without prejudice or exaggeration, tells of her trial and conviction.
 There was at first bitter feeling against this Southern woman in Liv- erpool, aroused by a sensational press. But as the trial proceeded there was complete revulsion of feeling, her acquittal was confidently expected.
 At the trial the facts were brought out that Mir. Maybrick was addicted to the use of arsenic and other drugs. that he had lately purchased large quantities of arsenic, that Mrs. May brick had never purchased any of the poison found among MT. Maybrick's possessions. Notwithstanding all this the jury. following the charge of the Judge Justice Fitz James Stephen, brought in a verdict of guilty
 As Is well known to all readers. this Justice Stephen, a year after this trial died insane. and The Liverpool Daily Post reviewing the Maybrick case eleven years after states of this trial under the Mad Judge:" Nothing more painful was ever seen in court than the proud old mans desperate struggle to control his failing facul- ties. It was shocking to think that human life depended upon the direc tion of what was once a great judge" Yet this knowledge of the madness of the Judge, the acknowledgment of all the world of the pitifuI miscarri- age of justice failed utterly In procur ing for this innocent woman a new trial or a release from Imprisonment. Of her release on ticket of leave" she writes:
 Her Release.
 "A life sentence usually mears | twenty years. and three months is ta ken off each year as reward for good l.conduct. Tn February, 1903 I was definitely informed that my case would follow the ordinary course. I have been accused of obtaining my release by 'trickery,' but these facts speak for | themselves.
 "on Monday, the 18th of January. | 1904, I was awakened early, and after laying aside, for the last time. the garments of shame and disgrace, I was | clothed once more in those that rep | resent civilization and responsibility. l descended to the court below. and. accompanied by the chief matron and my escort. passed silently through the great gates and out of the prison"
 On the 23rd of August of the present year Mrs. Maybrick landed at New York. After many years of suffering she was again in America. her native land, land of liberty. Of the loss of the best years of life. of the loss of children and friends she writes: | The Lost Years.
 | "A time will come when the world | will be forced to acknowledge the yer dict which was passed upon me Is un- tenable. But what then? Who shall | give back the years have spent with in prison walls: the friends by whom I am forgotten: the children to whom I am dead: the sunshine: the winds of | heaven; my woman's life. and all have lost by this terrible injusticef Time may heal the deepest wounds | when the balm of love and sympathy Is poured into them. It is well: for if mental wounds proved as fatal as those of the body. the prison death | roll would be a long one."
 As the life story of woman tried almost beyond the strength of any hu- | man being, this book will compel the l interest of millions of readers. As 9 psychological study of soul, conscious of innocence, yet judged guilty of the
 most unnatural of crimes, yet striving for and reaching higher planes of faith and strength the book is'a mar vellous study. The story of her self discipline in the prison Is simply and unaffectedly related, 1t bears it's lesson
 to many who are doing less in far more advantageous circumstances:
 Mrs. Maybrick's Self-Discipline.
 The example of Mrs. .Maybrick her self is an instance of the ability of a
 mature woman to rise above the de-
 bilitating influence ,of prison life. yet only by the exercise of most resolute determination and severe discipline.
 "I felt 1t would be humiliation to have 1t assumed that I could or would deteriorate because of my environment. I therefore made 1t a point never to yield to that feeling of indifference which is the almost universal outcome | of prison life. I soon found that this self-imposed regimen acted as a whole some moral tonic. and so. instead of