The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-02-05
MRS. MAVERICKS CASE
Story of Her Crime Which Is
Fifteen Years Old.
Is AN AMERICAN WOMAN
Was Charged and Convicted
of Poisoning Her Husband

New York, Feb. 4.-The World re-
hearses the story of Mrs. Maybrick as
follows:
No other murder case mas so deeply
Interested the American people as that
for which Mrs. Florence E. Maybrick
has suffered for nearly dfteen years in
q London prison.
She is an American woman who was
charged with poisoning her husband.
convicted at Liverpool of the crime, Au-
gust T. 1889 and sentenced TO death a
few days later. The death sentence was
commuted to penal servitude for life
Worldwide sympathy was aroused. The
women of America took up the prisoners
cause and throughout the long years the
English government has been bombarded
with petitions and bcsiesed by powerful
influences. American ambassadors to the
court of ST James have ldbored unoffi
cially in the prisoner benalf but home
secretaries in every succession turned a
deaf ear
Since the accession Of King Edward
VII. the friends Of Mrs. Maybrick have
kind heartedness Of the English monarch
has nots been misplaced. The release of
Mrs. MaybIick will excite warm graft
tude among the women of America.
Pamphlets in no end have been written
and printed in an Engish-spcaldns COM
munities from Rangoon TO San Francisco
and back again. Gail Hamilton interest
ed herself and wrote a letter to the
queen: petitions were circulated all over
America and England, benefits were got
up for defense fuEds-there never was a
case So celebrated
II she poisoned her husband with ar
senic, how was it that some doctors said
he died Of castro enteriJis2 If she didu
poison him. what made her buy 50 many
fly papers before flies had come What
was the reason for so much arsenic about
the house in food ard drink The widest
theories have been propounded. Here is
one: Perhaps Mrs. MaNbrick had been
attacked with Indian rineworm while in
America and was taking arsenic % cure it.
II was the greatest murder case of the
age. ard il Is connected with one of the
most popular songs. Nancy Lee and
with an immensely popular religious
novel. The Prince of the House Of
David the ante-bellum prototype Of
Ben Hur."
James Naybrick's brother. Michael.
better known as Stephen Adams. COM
posed Nancy Lee" and the uncle Of
Mrs Maybrick's mother. the Rev. J. II.
Ingraham. rector of St Johns church.
Mobile was the author of The Prince
Of the House Of David"
The merest triviality set all the world
TO talking y baby dropped a letter
into 4 muddy street. That misadventure
set the machinery Of the courts TO going.
brought the babys mother under the
shadow OF the gallows and into prison
for life, and excited the whole habitsble
globe 10 sympathy and interest.
That baby was the offspring of James
Maybrick and Florence Elizabeth May
brick, born Chandler.
James Maybrick was a wealthy cotton
merchant in liverpool CoHing from
America In 1881 he met Thorne Chand-
Ter with her mother. the Baroness Caro-
line Holbrook Chamberlain Barry Won
Roaue Maybrick fen in love with Flor
e1ce. who was then about eighteen years
old, and when she and her mother got
TO london he followed them and married
the young woman in 81. James's Picca-
dny. The bride was then described as
being from Norfolk, Va
Her mother. the Baroness. had ca
reer of considerable romance She visit
ed in Mobile n 1856 al the house Of her
uncle the Rev J. II Insrahcm. and
being very handsome and a good con
versaticnaIist she got on very wen. She
became Acquainted with Young William
c. Chandler. son of leading lawyer.
He followed her 10 New York City and
they were married He brought her
back to Mobile ard she reigned in So
ciety-
The Msybricks got along pretty Well