The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-21

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duct had been most exemplary, she
observing without question all the
regulations. She had not asked for
and had not been given unusual IA
Vors. Nevertheless, the mother SUI
perior was glad to be freed from her
responsibility.
Mrs. Maybrick is not freed uncon-
ditionally. She is out on ticket-of-
leave, but to all intents she is as free
as any other person, can go where she
will and will not have to make re-
port to the British authorities, as,
once Mrs. Maybrick is abroad, she will
be outside British jurisdiction.
The Baroness DeRoques has made
preparations at Rouen for Mrs. May
bricks arrival at her quiet home
there, where she will begin new life.
Story of Her Case.
( Mrs. Maybrick, who was Miss Flor
ence Elizabeth Chandler, a member of
well known and prosperous South
ern family. was married, July 81, 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. In the
spring of 1889 Mr.. Maybrick became
i'll and in a few days he died. His
brothers investigated his death and
charged Mrs. Maybrick with the MUIR
der of her husband.
A long trial followed, and a number
of doctors swore that the deceased
died of arsenical poisoning.
The defense proved that for twenty
years, Mr.. Maybrick had been con-
firmed user of arsenic and that he
daily took doses large enough to have
killed a dozen ordinary men. Mrs.
Ia NroTyiplx xaraS IlNT CanfnnRad IN
death by the judge. Sir Fitzjames
Stephen, who spoke for two days in
charging the jury He said it was
impossible for them to find her not
guilty in the face of the medical evil
dence. The judge died some time lat
err in a madhouse.
From the time of Mrs Maybrick's
conviction her mother, the Baroness
DeRoques, was unremitting in her eff
forts in behalf of the prisoner. She
succeeded in having the death sentence
committed to penal servitude for life
and finally has obtained the freedom
of her daughter, to whose release from
prison she had devoted her life. The
Baroness was aided by influential
friends on both sides of the Atlantic.
In 1900, after the death of Lord Rus
sell of Killowen, Chief Justice of Eng
land, a letter which he had written
10 MIS-. NdyUIICh III 1000 was ulSGON-
cred. It showed he was convinced that
she ought never to have been con-
victed, and it has been generally I'M
derstood that all the recent Ameri-
can ambassadors to the court of St.
James have done everything possible
to obtain Mrs. Maybrdck's pardon.
May Now Give Evidence.
The fact of her probable release was
W a roo cpPIJr11pr the rOGf-
ponement of a trial last year of law
suits bearing on Mrs. Maybrick's in
terest in land in Kentucky, Virginia
and West Virginia, until she might be
able personally to testify. If she was
not able to testify in these suits. Mrs.
Maybrick and her mother would have
lost all title and interest in the many
thousands of acres of land involved in
the case.
On Feb. 4, last. Home Secretary
Akers- Douglass, replying to a question
in the House of Commons. confirmed
the reports which had been in cirula-
ton that Mrs Maybrick had been re-
moved from Aylesbury prison to a
convalescent home, where she would
remain until the summer, when she
would be allowed her freedom. The
Home Secretary Said license had been
granted to Mrs. Maybrick under the
penal servitude acts.
The transfer of the prisoner from a
penal prison to a quiet country home
constituted an almost unprecedented
action on the part of the British au-
thorities. 1t was due to the mediation
of the Duchess of Bedford, who as a
visitor to Aylesbury prison for many
years, had taken a keen personal in
terest in Mrs. Maybrick and finally
succeeded in obtaining the mitigation
of her punishment to the extent of her
being allowed to spend the last six
months of her confinement outside the
prison walls.