New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-23
MRS. MAVERICK IN PORT.
SHE WILL LAND TO-DAY.
Story Of the Woman Who Vas Re
Gently Released from Prison.

Mrs Florence F. Maybrick arrived from Ant
werp last night on the Vaderland. The ship was
sighted soon after O'Clock and reached Quaran-
tine at 1.3O o'clock this morning, where she
chored. Nc one was allowed TO board her last
night. The ship viii leave Quarantine early
this morning and Mrs. Maybrlck will land early
in the forenoon.
Mrs Maybrick was born in Mobile Ala. in
1862. She is the daughter Of W. @. Chandler.
a banker of that place. She educated in
this country and abroad, and had barely left
school when she met Maybrick on of her
trips TO England. She was just eighteen and,
while May brick was twenty-six years her senior,
q great attachment formed between them.
which In year led them TO the altar in ST.
James's Church. LONDON. For a short time the
couple lived at Norfolk. Va. where Maybrick
was in the cotton manufacturing business.
Then they moved to Liverpool where they
quired a large property in of the suburbs.
which they called BattIecrest. Two children-a
boy James Chandler. and a girl. Gladys Evelyn
were born OF the match. Mrs. Maybricks
father had died in the meanwhile, and her
mother had been married to Baron de Roques
In the early part Of March. 1883. Mr.. and Mrs.
Maybrick went for short visit Birkdale. and
stayed while there at the Palace Hotel II was
on this visit that the relations between the pair
became strained. The cause OF the quarrel was
the attention paid TO Mrs. Mayhrick by Alfred
Brierly, who was at the same hotel. Shortly
after this Mr. Maybrick taken with severe
cold and grew steadily worse The doctors at
tending him said that acute stomach trouble had
developed and that the patient was suffering
from poisorirs When he died Mrs Maybrick
took 20 her bed. and her condition became So
serious that constant medical attention was re-
quired. Whe1 certificate OF death was about
to be issued for Mr.. Maybrick his two broth
srs. Edwin and Michael. told the police that they
{ had cause TO believe that Mr.. Maybrick had
been poisoned by his wife as "a result OF their
quarrels over Briefly Investigation by the
coroner showed traces Of arsenical poisoning in
Maybricll s stomach. and Mrs. Maybrck was ar
rested on her sickLed and lodged in the Walton
Jail. May brick had been In the habit Of doc
toring himself with arsenic for stomach trouble.
At the post-mortem examination arsenic was
found in the liver
Mrs. Maybrick vas brought 10 trial on July
81 before Judge stephen. who seemed already 10
have shown predsposition against her
! The trial. which lasted six days. showed that
Mr.. May5rick had three months previous to his
death purchased 100 grains OF arsenic for
| medicinal purposes. and by the last day Of the
trial public opinion which had hitherto been
against the prisoner. declared her innocent
Judge stephen, in his charge to the jury. how
ever, left II little choice. and after being out
about half an hour it gave verdict of guilty
Mrs. Maybrick was then sentenced by Judge
Stephen 10 be hanged 1t was only a short time
after this that Judge Stephen declared in
sane.
Public opinion voiced itself forcibly that
Home Secretary Matthews commuted the SEN
tence TO life imprisonment which in England
usually means twenty years. For fifteen years
persisten. efforts here as well in England
were made 10 secure the woman's release. and
the United States government even took up
the case With five years deducted for good
behavior. Mrs. May brick served the full
tence. She was released about a month ago.
She comes to this country on a ticket of leave
which was granted on her plea that she had To
be here TO present her suit for the recovery OF
her right in large properties. 1t is rumOred in
/ Richmond that the friends Of Mrs. Maybrick
used this claim a ruse for getting her over to
this country, knowing that. with public opinion
so much in her favor in both countries, the Eng
lish courts would have small chance Of extra
diting her
MaybricI viii go to the home Of her friends. Dr
and Mrs Emmet Densmore, at Ellenville in the
Catskills.
d w Armstrong. against whom Baroness de
ROques brought slut to recover money from
which she says she was defrauded In the sale
OF her estate, made statement last night in
which he declared he had been greatly msrep-
resented. He said:
cannot lay claim TO the excessive chlvalry
( credited to me by the morning papers. which
declare that / remained silent that Mrs.
Maybrick's release might not be InUerfered with.
l do not see that l could have consCientiously
done differently than | have done. Not till
yesterday when a friend OF mine showed me A
newspaper clipping two or three years old, did
7 reaIi1a the ayteut of INSTRUMENTATION and
faIsehocd brought in play In this case.
I do not wish to appear as critictsing Mrs
MAVERICK her mother anybody connected
with her but il is clear that the British Home
OTice has been imposed on to an astonishing de-
gree As my answer to the complaint shows
Mrs MAVERICK IS not interested in the suit in
the least Her name is not mentioned in the
case.
when | bought the land from the baroness at
the time mentioned Maybrick had not yet died
and the statement that she was forced TO sell
at that time raise money 10 detend her
daughter is manifestly untrue. Her title 10 the
land at the time Of sale was only one or sew
eraI all OF which ! had TO buy. subsequent at
tempts to establish her title 10 the land nave
failed ! sold the land again soon afterWarG
realizing only small proht
I bought the land from the baroness without
anv solicitation on my part She came 70 me
and asked me TO buy the land, as AT that time
was in the business OF buying and selling tites
and had some reputation I'm that part OF tue
country
sANDsAeGED AND ROBBED OF $1,000.
Watertown. y Y Aug. 22.-Bert Belmont man