Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-07-20
MRS. MAVERICK
Is FREE TODAY
Complete Pardon For Famous
AmericanWoman, Convicted
of Murder In England
LEAVES BRITAIN FOR FRANCE
It Is Said She Will Come to America,
But Not ImmediateIy-story Of the
Death of Her Husband and Her
Trial On the Charge of Murderina
Him-Relieved Innocent.

L
Truro, Cornwall, England. July 20
| Mrs Florence Maybrck is free. she
left here at 11:4O this morning for
France.
Mrs. Maybrick who was Miss Flor
ence Elizabeth Chandler, member of I
well known and prosperous sn,,tberr
family was married July 27. 1851 In ST.
James church. Piccadilly. to James
! Maybrick of Liverpool She was then
Is years old. Her husband vas over
40. In the spring of SO Mr. Niaybrtck
| became Ill and in few days died. His
brothers investigated his death ana
charged Mrs. .Maybrick with the mur-
der OF her husband. A long trial fol-
lowed and number of doctors swore
| the deceased died OF arsenical poison
Ing. The defense proved that FOR
twenty years Mr.. Maybrick had been
| confirmed user Of arsenic. TINT he
daily took doses large enough to have
| Killed dozen ordinary men, Mrs. Mav-
brick eventually was sentenced IL
death by Judge Sir FitzJames Stephen.
| VINO spoke for two days in Charging
| the jury. He said it was impossible FOR
them to find her guilty IN the face 81
the medical evidence The Judge tiiet, B
some time later in madhouse. From
the time of Mrs Maybrick's convicfion Is
her mother, Baroness De RodueS was
lunremitting In her efforts II, behalf of
| the prisoner. She succeeded ia ha wing
| the death sentence committed to penal
servitude for life and finally obtained
the freedom of her daughter. 10 whs4s
release from prison she mas devoted
her life. The baroness was aided 81
influential friends on both sides Of the,
Atlantic. In 1900 after the death OF Lord
| Russell OF Killowen, chief Justice of 4
England. letter which he had writer,
to Mrs. Maybrick in 1895 was discov-
ed. 1t showed he was convinced she
ought never to have been convicted
With black-robed sisters softly ut-
tering blessings and good wishes Tor
her future Mrs Maybrick left the con
vent OF the Sisterhood OF Epiphany,
and with two companions entered
SetAA 1A o eAAiu was 4uI1tGH1 fdDIQlVst
Staustell station. fourteen miles away.
Where she boarded train and started
on her journey to France She will not
go TO America until her presence there
IS imperafively necessary. The great
est secrecy was thrown about Mrs
Maybricks departure.
The Maybrick Case.
The MAVERICKS had met ON an AtIan-
tic liner bound from New York to I.iy-
erpool.9 They had been eight years
married. Those eight years told the
story of hsggard weariness and peey-
ish discomfort, OF a ceaseless dragging
at the chain that held them together.
There is evidence that Maybrick
maintained at least one establishment
of the kind not sanctioned by the
usages Of society. He drank heavily
and at such times his moods were sui
len. fierce and brutal. In sobriety he
was the kind of creature most despised
by women--a hypochondriac.
On "a woman OF the temperament OF
Florence Maybrick, born In the Ameri-
can south bred among the men Of the
south, with whom woman is an idol,
loving the sunshine as butterflies love
it, all these conditions could produce
but one effect. The dull indifference
with which he. narrowed life had be-
gun had given place to dull, steady
hatred. She turned helplessly for COM
ISOLATION. In the eighth year Of her mar
riage it was ready to her hand in thu
person OF Alfred Brierley, wealthy
young cotton spinner and business
associate Of her husband.
It was on the morning Of March 1e.
1889, that Mrs. Maybrick wrote in an
assumed name to Flatman's hotel
Henrietta street, Cavendish square
London, engaging two rooms for her
sister, Mrs. Maybrick. of Manchester.
The ostensible reason of her visit to
London lay in the sickness of a friend.
a Mrs Baillie. The fact that Mr.. May
bricks brother Thomas. with whom he
had held no communication In many
year lived in Manchester. covered tho
second part Of the deception. 1t was
afterward proved in Identification bJ
the proprietor and the waiter that for
four days she lived with Brierley at the
hotel. An on the morning OF March
% she reappeared at her home In Gar
ston.
Mrs. Maybrick went to the races with
Rmerley and while there was discover
ed by Mr.. Maybrick. A scene follow
ed in which Maybrick struck his wifa
a terrible blow in the face with his fist.
Brierley fed without attempting to
protect her.
In the afternoon of May "a, Mrs.
Maybrick called at the drug store kept
nv Thomas Nokes, in the Aigburth
road. Liverpool and bought some nv
napers that contained arsenic "for
mice Alice Yapp. the children's nurse,
and Bessie Brierley, housemaid. no.
tfeing some cloths carefully folded over
4 SOUP dish. lifted them and found the
fly papers soaking In water II may
be noted that Battlecrease house had
always been free Of mice or other ver-
min. &,
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