The Van Buren press., 1904-07-23
She Left Truro, Cornwall, on Her
Way TO Her Mothers Home
in Sunny France.
STEADY EFFORTS OF MANY YEARS
AT LAST CROWNED With SUCCESS.
The Noted Prisoner Has Passed the
Last SiN Months IN ii Gonzales
cent Home in Cornwall, Thanks
to the Intercession of the
Duchess of Bedford.

Truro, Cornwall, England, July 21-
Mrs. Florence Maybrck is free She
eft here at 11::43 a m, Wednesday,
IN her way 10 France
The Celebrated Case.
Mrs. Maybrick who was Miss Flo
renee Elizabeth Chandler, a member
of weliknown and prosperous south
arn family, was married, July %, 1881,
n st, James church, Piccadilly, to
James Maybrick, of Liverpool. She was
then 1S'years old. Her husband was
over 40 years of age. In the spring of
1889 Mr.. Maybrick became ill., and in
a few days he died, His brothers in
vestigated his death and charged Mrs,
Maybrick with the murder of her hus-
band. A long trial followed, and a
number of doctors swore that the de-
ceased died of arsenical poisoning The
defense proved that for 20 years Mr..
Maybrick had been a confirmed user of
arsenic, and that he daily took doses
large enough to have killed a dozen
ordinary men. Mrs Maybrick was
eventually sentenced to 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 eylednce. The judge
died some time later in a madhouse.
4 Mothers Inrcmitting Efforts.
From the time of Mrs Maybrick s
conviction her mother, the Baroness de
Rogue, was unremitting in her efforts
IN behalf of the prisoner. She sue
ceeded in having the death sentence
commuted to penal seryiWde 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 in1uen-
lantic In 1900 after the death OF Lord
Russell Of Killowen, chief justice OF
England, a letter which he had writ
ten to Mrs. Maybrick in 1895, was dis
covered 1t showed he was convinced
that she ought never to have been con-
victed, and It has been generally under.
stood that all the recent American am
bassadors to the court Of St, James
have done everything possible to OBJ
tain Mrs. Maybrick's pardon
Valuable Property interests.
The fact Of her probable release was
used as a reason for securing the post
ponement Of trial last year, Of law.
suits bearing on Mrs. Maybrck's in
terest in land in Kentucky, Virginia
and West Virginia, until she was able
personally to testify If she was not
able to testify in these suits, Mrs, May
brick and her mother would have lost
all title and interest In the many thou
sands Of acres Of land involved in the
case
On February last, Home Secretary
Akers-Douglas, replying to question
reports which had been in circulation
that Mrs. Maybrick had been removed
from Aylesbury prison to GONZALES
cent home, where she would remain
until the summer, when she would be
allowed her freedom, The home secre-
tary said a license had been granted
to Mrs, Maybrick under the penal serv.
itude acts,
An Almost Unprecedented Act,
The transfer OF the prisoner from a
penal prison 70 quiet country home
constituted an almost unprecedented
act on the part Of the British authori-
ties. II was due to the mediation of
the Duchess of Bedford, who Ms n
visitor to Aylesbury prison for many
years, had taken keen personal In
tcrest in Mrs MaybrIck, and finally
succecdcd IN obtaining the mitigation
OF her punishment to the extent VI her
being allowed to spend the last six
months OF her confinement outside 'he
prison walls,