The Cairo bulletin., 1904-07-21
FLORENCE MAVERICK FREE
QUITS ENCLAND'S SHORES
Sailed For France Alter Completing Parole Granted BY English
tiovernm nj Alter Serving Fifteen Years FOR Alleged
Murder OF Husband.

| Truro. Cornwall England, July 20,
Mrs. Florence MayhIick is free,
She left here az 1l:43 a. m. today on
her way to France.
Mrs. Maybrick, who was Miss Flor
/ ence Elizabeth Chandler, member
Of well-known and prosperous south
ern family, was married July n, 1881,
In st. James church. Piccadilly, TO
/ James Maybrick of Liverpool. She
/ was then rs years old, Her husband
was over 40 years Of age.
In the spring of 1889 Mr. Maybrick
became i'll, and in few days he died,
His brothers investigated his death
and charged Mrs. Maybrick with the
murder OF her husband.
A long trial followed and a number
of doctors swore that the deceased
died of arsenic poisoning
The defense proved that for 20
years Mr. Maybrick had been a con
firmed user of arsenic and that he
daily took doses large enough TO have
killed a dozen ordinary men. Mrs.
Maybricll was eventually sentenced
to death by the Judge, Sir Fitziames
Stephen. who spoke for TWO days in
charging the jury He said il was i'm
possible for him to find her not guilty
in the face Of the medical evidence.
The judge died some time later in
madhouse
AS to the justice of the verdict of
the punishment decreed by the home
secretary, there are many varied opin-
ions The objectors are consolidated
into three parties The first party ar
gued that Mrs, Mayhrick should not
have been convicted. because she was
an American. and that her detention
in an English prison was an interna-
tional outrage and a ilaunt in the
face of the American nation. The ar
gument served to aggrayate the stiff
neclEedness of British officialism, and
place almost insuperable obstacles in
the way of Mrs. Maybrick's release.
The second party, led by the Baron |
ess de Rogue, Mrs. Maybrick's moth |
er and Alexander McDougall, an Eng.
lsh barrister, declare that Mrs. May
brick was absolutely innocent of the
crime for which she has suffered, and
was the martyred heroine of wicked |
against her life and lib
erty on the part OF the 'Maybrick fam
ily,
But the majority of those who were |
associated with the trial, or who close
ly followed the evidence in this case, |
reach this conclusion:
!. That James Maybrick did not die
from the administration of arsenic, |
but that the gastro-enteritis from
which he suffered was induced by ma
tural causes.
2. That the evidence nevertheless |
clearly proved beyond the possibility I
Of doubt the purchase and systematic /
of arsenic by the pris- +
1ner TO the deceased with intent to
kill
g. That there was ample testimony
10 show that Maybrick himself had for
years. preceding and subsequent to
bis marriage. been an arsenic eater;
nat lhA . NAcg Dllth Noo away VI titto !
'act. and relied upon it to protect her
n the event Of accusation.
4. That Maybrick, by his long usage.
lad become saturated with the poison,
md was arsenic-proof.
s. That in deciding that Mrs. May
Prick had been guilty of attempted
murder, the home secretary arrived
It the only true solution Of the mys-
cry
G. That If Mrs. Maybrick was not
Tilty of the actual murder of her
husband she was legally entitled to
couttal.
Z That, inasmuch as she was never
ried for attempted murder, and as
hat charge formed no part Of the in
ictment on which she was arraigned,
he should not be punished for at (
emptcd murder, and was. in fact, IL {
egally detained.
The American ambassador repeated
y interceded with the British homo
ffice for Mrs. Maybrick's release, pre-
cutting long petitions, procured by
american women.