Show Labor in vain The case of Mrs Maybrick will be agitated agi-tated until she dies or is released from her English prison Continual efforts are being be-ing made to obtain herpardon Unfortunately Unfortu-nately for her they are made on sentimental senti-mental grounds They may answer the purpose sometimes in the United States where excited females kiss a married woman in court who has shot a man because be-cause he had professed to love her and yet followed her example and married another an-other and where such women carry flowers to convictedmurderers and snivel over them as heroes But we are afraid such appeals will be wasted on the British Homo Secretary Mrs Maybrick is an American and is entitled to American sympathy and help if she is innocent But if she poisoned her husband as an English jury found the crime being committed on English soil she must be held for the term of her sentence The facts that she is a woman and a native of this country and is in ill health form no just plea in her behalf All the fine things that the petitioners say of English royalty and English respect re-spect for the weaker sex are useless The only thing that will help the prisoner is something the nature of proof that after all she is not guilty The idea set forth that she was convicted out of retaliation retali-ation for the conviction of an Englishman English-man in this country is puerile and its expression will damage instead of aiding Mrs MAYBRICKS cause It is probable that the evidence which I went to show that the defendant was not a faithful wife aided in fastening upon I her the greater charge of which she was convicted But the testimony against her was very damaging and there are not so many technical advantages on the side of persons accused of murder in England as we are accustomed to in America If there are any nroofs that Mrs MAY BRICK did not kill her husband by slow poisoning her friends had better be bringing them to the notice of the Home Secretary Mere sentimental petitions will be labor in vain |