Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
The Celebrated Moybrick Poison Case Was
Almost Forgotten When the Old Lady's Body
Was Found in Connecticut Shock-the Last
Hiding Place Of the Woman Whose Trial Stirred
the World i'm 1882

ress." 1t was asserted that they poisoned
James mind against her
Before the mental virus got in its work,
a boy was born in 1882 and girl, four years
later Soon after that second birth the rift
in the family started and by 1889 had become
so wide that the broker BACKED his wife's
eyes, in jealousy over a fellow member of the
Liverpool Cotton Exchange, named Briefly
She left him. and why not, her sympa-
thizers asked for she said his jealousy was
entirely unfounded?
But it was proved at the trial, even before
Florence admitted 1t in the paper she read,
that she had stayed with Briefly for two days
at an abscure London hotel.
To cancel this evidence was brought to
show that the dead man had also broken his
marriage vows Justice Stephen of the Liver
pool Assizes told the jury that it was a
murder trial not morals court and TO dis
regard the matter except as it might indicate
q motive.
Hardly had the wifes eyes returned to
normal appearance than she returned for the
sake of the children" and affected a recon-
citation on the understanding that she had
given up Briefly forever But the cold-blooded
prosecution offered evidence to prove that she
had not given him up.
Also they pointed out that he was not
man Of wealth and that the money problem
would be nicely solved for her lover and her
self, If she could become the widow Of Mr..
James Maybrick
Soon after the reconciliation, widowhood
began TO loom as a possibility. The broker
suddenly was afflicted with digestive disturb
ances, flushing of the skin and stiffening of
the limbs together with an alarming feeling
of weakness
DR. Humphreys the family physician, was
puzzled by the symptoms but putting his
patient to bed and on a strict diet fixed him
up in a few weeks well that he was able
to go back to the office
AS might be expected from a dutiful wife,
Mrs Maybrck deeply concerned about
her husbands food and preparing his lunches
with her own hands, sent them TO the office.
She insisted on his eating a large portion
of the patent food invented by her mothers
second husband.
There is no evidence that this contained
poison except that the first time he obeyed
her wish, he was brought home in commissions,
a very sick man. destined never to see his
office again.
The prosecution brought out that Mrs.
Maybirck had made rather light Of her hus-
bands relapse and refused Or. Humphreys
request TO call in other physicians for consul
tation.
It was not until Edwin Maybrck visited
his brother that she was overrlled and DR..
Carter confirmed the family physicians opin-
ion that things were mysterious. Meanwhile
Mrs. Maybrick had acted as nurse In the
sickroom, personally preparing most Of his
food and administering the medicine which
seemed only to make him worse. Edwin
interviewed khe servants and learned from
HUMPHREYS he cook, no relation to Humphreys
the doctor, that she tasted the food before and
after it went to the master and often, when
it came back, 1T tasted funny
Any playwright would know better than
to confuse a drama with two unrelated per-
sons with name that sounded the same but
fate committed the error twice in this caste
There was Briefly the lover and also
Briefly the upstairs maid. Upstairs Briefly
said that Mrs. Maybrick had ordered her to
empty and wash thoroughly a jar containing
arrowroot.
In doing so she had noticed a sediment and
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