Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-04
TOASKKINGFORPAR
MRS MAVERICK FINALLY TO BE
RELEASED ON JULY 80.
Corresponding Date of Trial in Liver
pool Fifteen Years Ago-Strong
Appeal for PREPARATION.

cablegram from London says: Mrs
Florence Elizabeth Maybrick will be re-
leased on July 30 this year-hfteen years
after the opening of the trial in Liverpool
England. on the corresponding day of 1881.
Interest in the Maybrick will thus
be revived in America and Great Britain
in a sensational manner. Mrs. Maybrick
herself. her mother. the Baroness de
Roques, and host of friends on both sides
of the Atlantic have all along strenuously
insisted upon her innocence of the
charge OF numbering her husband,
James Maybrick. a Liverpool cotton
merchant by poisoning him with ar
senic. On more than one occasion Mrs.
Maybrick appealed from Aylesbury prison
10 the English authorities for reinvesti-
cation of her case. and new trial at which
the evidence gathered by her friends and
suppressed in 1881 could be produced to es-
tablish her innocence.
SO far the lack OF court of criminal APP
peal In English law has proved an insuper-
able obstacle to the attainment of this OBJ
ject, while the Incarceration of Mrs. May
brick barred the way to an agitation. con-
Quoted by herself for reform in the GRIM
inal law of her adopted country. Tens OF
thousands of people i'll England and nun
dreds of thousands in America regard Mrs.
Maybrick as a martyr to the inetiiciency of
the English judicial system.
But MIS- NaNDTlCk ; lTltTOS Will not DC
content to let bygones be bygones. A de-
termined effort will be made. in the aSSur-
ance of ultimate success, to demonstrate to
the whole world that an innocent woman
has for fifteen years been confined in Eng
lish prisons under the stigma of killing
the father of her children. Mrs. Maybrick
has two children-a son and n daughter.
She has not seen them in fifteen years or
their photographs for twelve years. They
are now grown up. and it is hoped to
bring mother and children together in mu-
tual love and respect
Full Reparation to Be Asked.
1t will not be considered enough on the
part of Mrs. Maybricks friends to show
that she has been unjustly imprisoned, by
reason of the admitted doubt as to her
guilt, though this is point regarding which
the whole bar of England is unanimous.
Much more will be attempted. The great
project is to establish Mrs. Maybrlck's in
nocence. Having accomplished this. King
Edward Will be approached by the medium
of great petition to grant Mrs. Maybrick
a free pardon, which shall serve to her as a
passport to the society of honest and up
right people Along with this pardon rep
aration will be asked for in the form of
sum of money. There precedents for
this course, and it will be shown that inno-
cent convicts have been recompensed by
the British authorities at the rate of fl 600
for each year of their unjust Imprisonment.
An abundance of evidence has been col
Jecteu Wncn cannot 1dlI 10 convince MIS-.
Maybricks countrymen and her adopted
fellow citizens in England-for Mrs. May
brick Is an American by birth and parent
age-that she neither comprised her hus-
bands death nor in any way whatever at
tempted to kill him. In fact, revelations of
a most astounding character. exposing the
hollowness of the entire case for the prose
cution will be laid bare by the new light
to be cast upon the celebrated Maybrick
case. 1t will be completely proved that
James Maybrick did not die of arsenical
the time by the then home secretary, Hen
ry Matthews. when he granted a remission
of Mrs Maybricks sentence.
Sheltered in the Epiphany Home.
Since the 14th of January Mrs. May
brick has been an inmate of Church of
England home. called the Epiphany, in
remote corner of Cornwall. short way re-
moved from the cathedral town of Truro.
She was placed there by order of the home
secretary Akers Douglas. as representing
the king. 1t is believed that Akers Douglas
regards Mrs. Maybrick's case as a particu-
larly hard one; hence the concession ne
made to her of allowing her to pass the
last half of the fifteenth year OF her BAN
ishment in religious home.
1t was explicitly set forth that the king
ordered her "to be set at liberty thirty
days from the date of this order" Accord
ingly on the 18th of February the wardress
who accompanied Mrs. Maybrick from
Aylesbury prison was withdrawn. and since
that date Mrs Maybrick may be said to
have been convalescing in health and spir-
Its for the free years and the great UNDER
taking that lie before her.
Fifteen years imprisonment is the equiv
alent to a life sentence In the case OF wo-
men who, like Mrs. Maybrick, are SEN
fenced under the age of thirty.
Immediately after her release she sails
for America, with her mother, TO appear as
n witness in a property lawsuit in the New
York courts This dates back to an incl
dent at her trial. But before leaving Eng
land the movement for free pardon Will
be set on foot, and she will return here TO
vigorously prosecute the agitation by whlch
she will establish her innocence
Convicted on Circumstantial Evidence.
The fact that Mrs. Maybrick was con-
victed upon circumstantial evidence was re-
sponsible for the tremendous amount of
sympathy that aroused for her all over
the world. and in America especially. The
trial of Mrs. Maybrick for the murder of
her husband. James Maybrick, began at
Liverpool assizes before Justice Stephen,
July 81 1889. On August { the jurys YER
dict Of guilty was rendered. and death was
the sentence of the court. a few days later
il committed to penal servitude for life
by the British home secretary
At the time of Maybrcks death his wife
was only twenty-six years old. while he was
hfty-three. Their eight years OF married life
had been happy and contented up to within
a few weeks of his death. The discovery of
mutual intrigues then broke up the peace of
the family. Maybrick assaulted his wife,
blackened her eyes and attempted to turn
her into the streets He was a chronic user
of drugs, many of which contained arsenic.
He was taken i'll April Is, 1889, and died
May y. In spite of the evidence introduced
at the trial TO show that there was much
arsenic In the house, the autopsy on his
body forty-eight hours after his death
showed but one-tenth of a grain of arsenic
in his stomach. There little evidence
against her. and this purely crcumsta tial.
America became deeply interested.
Lieut.. Commander Carter Retired.