The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-20
MRS, MAVERICK
GOES TO FRANCE
Continued From First Page.

the convent was taken up by sewing,
reading and chatting with the sisters,
endearing herself to them by many
acts, showing that even the many
years Of servitude at Alyesbury prison
had been unable to stamp out her in
nate kindly disposition.
Mrs. Maybrick, who was Miss Flor
ence Elizabeth Chandler, member of
a well-known and prosperous South
ern family, was married July II, 1881,
in St. James church, Picadilly, to
James Maybrick Of Liverpool. She
was then 10 years old. Her husband
was more than 40 years of age. In the
spring of 1889 Mr.. Maybrick became
i'll and in a few days he died. His
brothers investigated his death and
charged Mrs. Maybrick with the muir
der of her husband. A long trial fol-
lowed and a number of doctors swore
soning.
The defense proved that for twenty
years Mr.. Maybrick had been con-
firmed user of arsenic and that ne
daily took doses large enough to have
killed a dozen ordinary men. Mrs.
| Maybrick.was eventually sentenced TO
death by the Judge, Sir Fitzjames Ste
| phen, who spoke for two days In
charging the jury. He said it was i'm
possible for them to find her not
guilty in the face Of the medical evil
dence. The judge died some time
later in a madhouse.
Mother Worked for Release.
From the time of Mrs. Maybrick' s
| conviction her mother, the Baroness
| de Roques, was unremitting In her
efforts in behalf Of the prisoner. She
succeeded in having the death sentence
| commuted to penal servitude for life,
%f1o fron 1@r
Of her daughter. The baroness was
aided by influential friends on both
! sides of the Atlantic.
| In 1900, after the death of Lord
| Russell of Halloween, 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
convicted, and it has been generally
understood that all the recent Ameri-
can ambassadors to the court OF st
James have done everything possible
to obtain Mrs. Maybrick's pardon.
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. Maybrick's in
: terest in land in Kentucky, Virginis
and West Virginia until she was BIT
!, personally to testify. If she was no
able to testify in these suits Mrs. May
& Dr1Ck ana neT InOIHeT WOu1u nave lOS
all title and interest in the many thou
sands of acres Of land involved in tn
case.
Leaves Prison Walls.
On Feb. last Home Secretar,
l | Akers-Douglas, in reply to question
in the house of commons. confrme'
: the reports which had been in circu
J. lation that Mrs. Maybrick had bee
), removed from Aylesbury prison to
= conyalescent home, where she woul
), remain for the SUMMERTIME .she Woul
! be allowed her freedom. The HON
: secretary said license had bee
granted to Mrs. Maybrick under tn
: penal servitude acts.
The transfer Of the prisoner from
penal prison to quiet country HON
constituted an almost unprecedente
action on the part Of the British au
= thorities 1t was due to the mediatio
8 of the duchess of Bedford, who, as
II visitor to Aylesbury prison for man
years, had taken a keen personal inter
). est in Mrs. Maybrick, and finally sue
ceeded in obtaining the mitigation G
u her punishment to the extent Of he
l. being allowed to spend the last 81
months of her confinement outside tn
i prison walls.