Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-06
FROM CELL
TO ASYLUM
MRS. FLORENCE MAVERICK, A
MENTAL WRECK NOW, MUST
TAKE TREATMENT.
DEATH THREATENS HER
Noted AIienlsts In Attendance Upon
the Unfortunate Woman Fear That
She Will Not Survive Shock Which
Has Destroyed Her Reason.

and relatives of Mrs Florence May.
brick will be shocked to learn that
while they are daily awaiting her ar
rival in the United States, she is still
in France and in a condition more
pitiable than ever has been imagined.
Mrs. Maybrick is now with her mother
The Baroness de Roques in Rouen.
1t can be stated on absolute author
ity that the long Imprisonment has
now affected her mind, She is guard
ed from the public gaze with the ut
most care, even servants of the house
not being allowed to see her. But is
is known beyond doubt that she is
so mentally Frustrated that her moth
er feels the widest kind of alarm con-
corning her Indeed it is extremely
doubtful if she will ever recover. The
long strain of Imprisonment, coupled
with the nervous tension due to hey
knowledge that her friends we're al
ways working in her behalf, proved
in the end too much for her to- bear,
and when at last, after years of wait
ing and suffering she learned she was
again to become free woman, the
shock proved too much and she col
Alenists Attend Sufferer.
The baroness has had two expert
allenists in attendance on her daugh-
ter They have expressed the fixed
opinion that Mrs. Maybrick must be
taken to an asylum for the insane be-
fore she can recover, and even then
they express doubt as to the outcome.
The woman has no delusion, seeming
~, but she is absolutely dazed and
passive Her appearance is pitiable
in the extreme. There are times when
she does not even recognize her moth
er, and it is impossible to arouse her
to action. She takes not the slightest
interest in her surroundings. She has
been buried from the world so long
that she has forgotten all about it,
and looks around as one in a dream.
May OF Survive Shock.
The complete mental collapse came
on Monday and since that time the
poor woman has not aroused from her
apathy in the least degree. Yesterday
she ate nothing at all. Her desire for
food seems to have left her complete
~ She is really being KEEP talive by
artificial means and unless there is a
radical change in her condition it is
firmly believed she will not survive
the shock
A PitifuI Picture. :,
There is a pen picture in the home
OF the Baroness de Roques fit for a
lola to draw. The tiny home with its
simplicity and the life within; the bar
oness, proud, dignified, motherly tc
idealism; wrecked in fortune, shatter
ed in health herself, still nursing anG
watching the waif-like bit of humanity
that years ago she held upon her knee
and later saw develop into the mos
beautiful womanhood. Their home il
not home, except for the great self
sacrificing love of the aged heroine
mother, who is still too proud to &C
knowledge her complete financial un
doing.
Devoted Mother is Poor.
She is really reduced to the dires
straits but bravely tries to hold up he
head and heart and screen from tn
world her real condition, just as sh
Is trying to save her daughter fror
knowledge Of anything that is nc
pleasant. The baroness herself is i
very poor health. She has slept yer
little since her daughter was release
from prison and for the last two night
she has been in constant attendant
on her.
1t was planned that Mrs. Maybric
should enter the United States by wa
of Boston, but all this has been chang
ed by the latest developments of til
cruel drama.