The Forrest City times., 1904-07-22
The Celebrated Case.

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 The Celebrated Case.
 Mrs Maybrick. who was Miss Flo renee Elizzabeth Chandler. a member of well-known and prosperous south- ern family. was married, July 27. 1881. in St James church. Piccadilly. to James Maybrick, of Liverpool. She was then IS years old. Her husband was over 40 years of age. h the spring of 1889 MT MaybriCk became ill and in few days he died. His brothers in yestigated his death and charged Mrs. Maybrick with the murder Of her hus. band A long trial followed. and a number of doctors swore that the de- ceased died of arsenical poisoning The defense proved that for % years Mir Maybrick had been a confirmed user of arsenic. and that he daily took doses large enough to have killed a dozen ordinary men. Mrs. Maybriek was eventually sentenced to death by the judge, Sir Fitzjames stephen. who spoke for two days in charging the jury. He said 1t was impossible for them to find her not guilty in the face of the medical eyiednce. The judge died some time later in a madhouse.
 Mothers tnremittinc Efforts.
 From the time of Mrs Maybricks conviction her mother. the Baroness de Roque. was unremitting in her efforts in behalf of the prisoner She sue oeeded in having the death sentence commuted 10 penal seryitude for life. and finally has obtained the freedom of her daughter, 10 whose release from prison she had devoted her life.
 The baroness was aided by infuen- tial friends on both sides Of the A lantic Tn 1900. after the death of Lord Russell of Killowen, chief justice of England. a letter which he had writ ten to Mrs. Maybrick in 1895, was dis covered IL showed he was convinced that she ought never 10 have been con- yicted, and it has been generally under stood that all the recent American am- bassadCrs to rthe court of St James have done everything possible to ob- tain Mrs Maybrick's pardon.
 
 The fact of her probable release was used as a reason for securing the post ponement of trial last year, of law suits bearing on Mrs Maybrick's in- terest in land in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. until she was able personally 10 testify If she was not able to testify in these suits. Mrs May brick and her mother would have lost all title and interest in the many thcG- sands Of acres of land involved in the case
 On February last. Home Secretary Akers-Douglas, replying to question In the house of commons. confirmed the reports which had been in circulation that Mrs. Maybrick had been removed from Aylesbury prison to a conyales- cent home, where she would remain until the summer, when she would be allowed her freedom. The home secre- tary said a license had been granted 10 Mrs Maybr under the penal serv- itude acts.
 An Almost Unprecedented Act.
 The transfer of the prisoner from a penal prison to a quiet country home constituted an almost unprecedented act on the part of the British authori- ties l. was due 10 the mediation of the Duchess of Bedford. who as visitor to Aylesbury prison for many gears, had taken keen personal in terest in Mrs. Maybriek and finally succeeded in obtaining the mitigation of her punishment to the extent of her being allowed 10 spend the last six months of her confinement outside the prison walls