Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-07-21
Mrs. Maybrick to be Free at Last


covery now or in the future. M. has.
been delirious since Sunday, and
know that he is ignorant of every
thing. even OF the name of the street,
and also that he has not been making
any inquiries whatever. The tale he
told me was a mere fabrication, and
only intended to frighten truth out OF
me. In fact, he believes my state
ment, although he will not admit 1t.
You need not, therefore, go abroad
on this ground, dearest, but In any
case don't leave England until have
seen you once again. You must feet
that those two letters of mine were
written under circumstances which
must ever excuse their injustice in
your eyes. Do you suppose | could act
as | am doing if l merely felt what
inferred. If you wish to write NE
about anything, do so, as all the
letters pass through my hands at
present Excuse this scrawl, my
darling, but dare not leave the room
for a moment, and do not know when
I shall be able TO write TO you again.
In haste, Florie."
The nurse-maid gave this to Edward
May brick, and from that moment Flor
ence Elizabeth Maybrick was in
danger of her life.
A few hours later James MaybIick
died and the new-made widow was
watched like hawk, but no step was
taken toward her arrest. The police
watched her and ten days afterward,
when she was i'll in bed processing TO
be Frustrated by her great bereave
ment, she was arrested.
The Widow in Custody.
She was told that she was only
witness to clear up the suspicious at
tached to her husbands death. When
| it leaked out that she was suspected OF
! having killed him the neighbors pro-
tested strongly against so harsh a
course by the police and the relatives
of the dead man.
! The letter to Briefly was the chemi-
cal agent which precipitated all the
evidence hitherto in solution. Only
for the dropping of the love letter 20
Briefly the case would have fallen.
! It became known that about April
20 Mrs. Maybrick went to chemists
shop, or drug store as it would be
/ called in America, and bought a dozen
! fly payers, saying the flies were
| getting troublesome in the kitchen.
! Now the cook swore that the flies
were not troublesome, which they
would hardly be at that time of year,
and to cinch the point it was nevel
mentioned by the defense at the
trials. Flypaper contains arsenic.
The housemaid found these fly.
papers soaking in a bowl and re,
membered it at the trial.
A week after the fiypaper was
bought Mr. Maybrick fell ill, pre-
sumably as the result of an overdose
of medicine prescribed by DR.. Fuller,
the family physician.
He had two bottles of this medicine,
one at his house and one at his Office.
Chemical analysis afterward proved
that the bottle at home had arsenic in
it, while the one at the Office had not.
Neither bottle originally contained ar
senic, according to the prescription.
The next day DR.. Humphreys was
called in, Mr.. Maybrick being sick
again. April 29 he was better
On that day Mrs. May brick bought
two dozen more fypapers. 1t couldn't
have been more than from ten to
fifteen days before that she had
bought a dozen.
April so Mr.. Maybrick went to busl
ness, and the next day, and the next
tafter that.
May l some Du Barrys revalenta
food was sent to his Office in jug.
When it was examined afterward,
there was some arsenic sticking to the
rim. May some beef tea was sent
him at his Office from home, and he
was i'll after taking it.
On May II, 1889, May died, the
letter to Briefly was intercepted and
! the authorities began to close in upon
the suspected wife.
Arsenic in powder and liquid soIu,
ton was found concealed in hel
home and woman's dressing gown
! her own-with arsenical stains upon
| the sleeve
The servants of the house testified
against their mistress.
! For many months now Mrs May.
! brick has been out Of prison yet de
tanned in home by the government,
/ but now she is TO have her full liberty.