The Cairo bulletin., 1904-07-21

II was not until January %, last,
that the government took any action.
Then IL secretly ordered her removal
To the home of a sisterhood in Corn
wall for six months probation. This
was to enable her to prepare for her
freedom. There she was Kept In linn
3 tied confinement, seeing no one. The
British goyernment kept its purposes
/ secret, and one except the home of
flee officials knew until today the
! date OF her formal release.
/ The fact of her probable release
/ was used as a reason for securing the
! postponement of trial last year of
lawsuits bearing on Mrs, Maybrick's
| interest 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
thousands of acres of land involved in
the case. The land contains valuable
deposits OF coal and its value has
been estimated at considerably over
81 ,000 900,
The transfer of the prisoner from
penal prison to 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, as Wis
itor to Aylesbury prison for many
years, had taken a keen personal in.
terest in Mrs Maybrick and finally
succeeded in obtaining the mitigation
of her punishment to the extent of be-
ing allowed to spend the last six
months of her confinement outside OF
the prison walls.
The story of the alleged murder of
Maybrick is the story of an unhappy
marriage of American southern wo.
man of sunny temperament, used to
the chivalry of southern men, tied to
an Englishman, "a hypochondriac, pos
sessed of the belief that wife must
be the obedient servant of the hus
band. Maybrick was hard drinker.
The marriage, following a meeting
ON an Atlantic steamship, was a fail
ure from the first, but the disgusted
wife did not turn to another for the
companionship she missed in her hus-
band until eight years later, when she
became infatuated with Alfred Brier.
ley, an associate of her husband. 1t
was alleged she left her husband for
one period of four days, which she
spent with Brierley. Maybrick caught
them together at a race track and
knocked his wife down before a
crowd.
Shortly after this she began to com
plain TO the family physician that her.,
husband was constantly eating a
white powder-arsenic-b May |
brick disavowed this when he was
charged with it by the doctor
One day Mrs. Maybrick bought |
some hy-paper containing arsenic. A
maid, noticing a dish with cloth |
folded over it, lifted the cloth and
saw the fy-paper soaking in water.
After that Maybrick suffered intense
stomach pains after eating anything
prepared by his wife and traces of
arsenic were found in the vessels in
which this food was prepared or car
ried. On May s, 1889. Maybrick be-
came fatally i'll, but a doctor was not
until the following day,
Mrs. Maybrick saying her husband OBJ
iected to physicians
However. there was no suspicion
hat Maybrick's illness wasn't natural
until a letter alleged to have been
written by her. was given to a servant
o mail. Mrs Maybricks baby was
permitted TO carry the letter, but
he little one dropped it and the mail
opened II to change the soiled envel-
,pe Then she read it and this was
What it said to Brierley:
Dearest: did not expect to hear
rom you so soon. as Since my re.
urn have been nursing day and
light. He Is sick unto death. Tho
ioctors held consultation yesterday,
md now all depends upon how long
his strength will hold out. cannot
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