Show MRS MAYBRIGK MAY Hf fAtED f Her Release From Prison Is Expected at Any Moment 4 AMBASSADOR CHOATE WORKING ON THE CASE + His Representations Have Met With a Promising Reception 4 Fickleness of Popularity Is Demonstrated Demon-strated In the Case of Tod Sloan Whose Recent Failures On the Turf Are Causing His Former Friends to Desert Him Many Americans Have Pocketed Their Losses and Returned Home t Copyright 1S89 by the Associated Press London June 3 A representative of the Associated Press has made inquiries in-quiries with the result that he is able to confirm the report that those who have been working in favor pf Mrs Florence Maybrick will not be surprised J sur-prised at her release at any moment now that the United States ambassador ambassa-dor Joseph H Choatev has had two interviews on the subject with the Marquis Mar-quis of Salisbury at which strong representations rep-resentations of the American view of the matter met with a most promising reception Mr Choate since his arrival in England Eng-land has taken the liveliest interest in the case He has received every shreJ of information in the matter has asked for higher judicial opinions and his own legal knowledge has given him ex eptional facilities in dealing with the intricacies of the case One of Mrs Maybricks advocates a wellknown worker of the Liberal party J H Levy provided Mr Ohoate with a specially compiled dossier of the whole case in the collation of which he received the advice of the highest legal authorities in the kingdom including the lord chief justice Baron Russell of Killowen and Lord James of Hereford attorneygen eral to the Prime of Wales one of the calmest judicial minds who definitely states the position as left by Henry Matthews the former home secretary now Viscount Landaff is absurd and shows in the strongest light the present pres-ent confused state of the English crim inal law I I Will Carry Thing Through Mr Choate received the most definite instructions from Washington the gist being that he was to press for an immediate im-mediate revision of the case as the United States government considered the time had come for an immediate consideration of it To these instructions instruc-tions and the spirit In which they are earned out by Mr Choate who said I will see this thing through Mrs Maybricks pending freedom will be larstiy due The fickleness of popularity is beginning begin-ning to demonstrate itself in the case of Tod Sloan whose recent failures have wrecked many of his supporters His big backers like Riley Grannan and the Dwyers have pocketed their losses like true sportsmen and have retired to America It is the small fry who while Sloan succeeded reaped a harvest har-vest and are now losing cannot find words to denounce him One of these en returning from Epsom last night filled the corridors of the Hotel Cecil with rantings against the honesty of Sloans Oaks failure until the hotel officials had to remonstrate CQlonel Tom Ochiltree declares himself a heavy I loser and says Sloan is a great jockey for five furlongs but when everyone expects ex-pects him to win and hacks him lieav lly he is left at the post and that in no other way in the world could he have lost the Oaks Sloan Still Has Hope In spile of the clatter of disgruntled losers Sloan maintains hope of ultimate ulti-mate suicess this season Of 103 mounts he has won thirtyseven while Otto Madden heads the list of English jockeys jock-eys with fifty winnings out of 261 i mounts and Loates has fortythree I wins out of 201 mounts So Sloan has won 35 per cent of his races and the best English Jockey has only won 19 per cent Th recent na lect of the Bank of England to protect its gold reserve has made a deep and unfavorable impression impres-sion in the city and is invoking an unusual amount or hostile banking criticism crit-icism Many of the directors themselves them-selves are said to be greatly dissatis fied with the recent management dur ing which the bank concentrated its whole attention on increasing its purely banking business neglecting its duties as holder of the countrys ultimate banking reserve The Statist in a strong article on the subject this week says England is absolutely dependent upon the amount of gold held by the bank which is over 11000000 less than the amount held by the associated banks of New York The total stock of gold in the bank is now a little over KO000000 while the Bank of Russia holds 100000000 The Statist also declares the country ought not to be again exposed to the danger and humiliation it had to face during the Baring crisis through the banks neglect of its duty |