Show OF OP MRS LIFE LIPE Chicago Chronicle Under r the reign of Queen Victoria there was Wag no hope for Mrs Maybrick If aU all the women of England and America AmerI had united to Deg beg her mercy I the queen would not ilot have Dve heeded All AU efforts ff to appeal to ner her for tor clemency and many such were made were with without without withOut out avail Very early in her life and reign Queen Victoria took a rigid moral stand st nd and neither sentiment nor c ap pip apparent p parent right ever led her to tp t flinch one ote ne inch front her ler position pos tion She would not ot permit the presence of ot divorced women wo n nat at her court and though many marty wo n good brave and brillIant demonstrated ed their right to a social nOdal s acknowledgment ment from their queen qu en it was never forthcoming The queen was wS deter determined determined mined in her puritanical l determination and although England Bugland and nd indeed the world has benefited immeasurably and ft 1 has been proud of it there t ere is 15 no doubt that it caused mIch mach and many injustices as well Mrs Airs Florence Maybrick was w in a asen sense sen e one ope of its victims Princesses might plead for her the womanhood of or nations might demand demaud her right the queen showed no Womans sympathy for a womans wom suffering The English people are stern in their demand for justice they are loud voiced in their cry for fair play pl but for once the pon lon derance of their slow low moving machine machin of governmental justice was too much for them Mrs Maybrick went to pris prison on in spite of the protest of ot the Eng English English lish Ush people The judge who presided at her bel trial and the jury which de do declared declared dared her guilty were hissed through throughout out the court proceedings by an audi audience audience audience ence of deliberate clear headed Eng Ens Englishmen c 0 From Fram the very first of the chain of circumstances which led Mrs Maybrick to prison English justice was outraged i j Americans naturally sided with the wo we woman woman weman man who declared her hel 11 American birth birthright j right An organization of American I woman was wa as formed to procure her re release release release lease The women omen of England pro proclaimed proclaimed claimed their stand by forming a aim sim similar ilar liar organization It was not long be before before before fore men had bad joined in the effort and andI the continued interest and persistent I endeavor ende v r tf if these people through h twelve years of discouragement is one of the remarkable features of a tI most remark remarkable remarkable I able case The Medical and nd Legal Aid Aids I II s society which announces a renewed I hope and effort with the advent of the I new king has been one of the most I active of these agencies Many times this society has employed i I 1 powerful legal aid ald to decipher the mys mystery r tory ten and to relieve r the public con conI I science ence of Mrs suffering In Innocence inno InI I no nce As many times the apparent I truth had been forced home Mrs Maybrick is not guilty The power of I the government has been brought to I hear bear upon the ease case the secretary of state the minister to fo Great Britain land and an army of u have en endeavored eni endeavored de to prove Mrs Maybrick guilty i or to clear her innocence Public be belief belief belief lief In the and a d do I t mend mand for justice have been beens so strong j I I that nt President Pr kent I has hM made ma e per personal personal r rI I appeal for a retrial of the case i j jI with a fair and impartial verdict vcr diet Many I times the case has gone through the diplomatic departments of England d America the case has been re reviewed reviewed reviewed viewed and discussed sed d with each ench new I administration with either etther nation with but one ne result continued delay I 4 9 Dr DI Clark Bell pr president of ot the Aid society and a k New Yorker long l ng ago ec ex j I pressed pre sd the opinion th tt t s SQ o long as the I queen lived Jived the prison g doors doOl would not open for Mrs There is no se secret secret secret cret about the the Prince of Wales Vales members of or the royal roal I family long Jong on since used the cause of i th unfortunate woman w na It practically I I remains rema ns lor br the prince now no king to bring about bout a 8 new n w trial or to Sue issue sue a Il declaration Uon of Mrs Mr l lra inno innocence innocence cence That this will be done don Mr Bell Mrs Mia lra Ma M bricks ricks counsel feels certain C Mr lIr Bell helI rest re his hie cause on n n a letter which was written to Mrs Maybrick in 1896 16 by Baron Russell who was her original ori counsel and and who wito 0 was nt at the time of ot the writIng Ion chief justice j of I England The letter explains e Itself and andis andis andis is no doubt familiar to tile the average American or Englishman Royal Courts June 27 57 1895 Mrs Maybrick Madam I have been bean absent on circuit hence the delay in answer answerIng answerIng Ing lag your letter I beg to assure you that I have never relaxed my efforts I I when a suitable opportunity offered to urge that your jour release ought to be bei i granted I feel strongly as I have felti felt i flom the first that you ought never to toI I have been convicted and this opinion I Ivery Ivery Ivery very clearly expressed ex to to Mr Asquith But I am very sorry to say hitherto without effect Rest assured that I Ishall shall renew my representations to the Incoming home secretary whoever he may be he as soon ae as the government is and the secretary js Is In a I ton tion to deal with such matters Faith fully RUSSELL OF KILLOWEN I IThe The Maybrick case need be b reviewed but briefly In 17 Miss Florence Elizabeth Eli Elizabeth zabeth Chandler the daughter of Wil Vil William Wilham liam ham G C Chandler Ch a prominent banker of Mobile Ala ASia was married to James Maybrick Mrs Sf r i was 17 a pretty clever southern 1 girl Mr May Maybrick Maybrick brick orick was WH 42 a dissipated Englishman They had met on an Atlantic liner and he hen het hd t d been boen n charmed with her girlish beauty while she was flattered with 2 U attention of f the hand handsome some roe Englishman man I Mr and Mrs lived In Liver Liverpool LiverPOOl LIverpool pool where w ere their two children were horn a boy now 18 HI and a girl now 15 years Y old It was brought out in the t j evidence at the trial that Mr May brick wu nas as a confirmed arsenic eater 1 although the secret ret had been carefully t Kept from the young wife N I lese lee the two had become alienated and andrs Mrs rs Maybrick had taken steps st ps toward I procuring a divorce One day diy in spring I Mr Maybrick rode to the races near Liverpool He went against the j advice of othis his physician and his wife j I Iwas was caught in the rain and drenched yet stayed out for lunch and anti a late din dinner i nero ner The indiscretion brought on a high I fever feyer and the next day physicians pro pronounced pronounced pronounced the illness fatal It happened toward tot the end of or his lils sickness that Mr Maybrick asked d the ab absence sence for some white which he kept in his dressing room These were procured by Mrs and under his direction one powder was mixed with some beef extract When the dose was prepared Mr Maybrick had fallen asleep timi 1 Mrs Mia Maybik set Bet Betit it aside not knowing what it was It was found where she had left l fl It by the police pollee and was recognized by her In Incourt Incourt court Alter Ater Aft r a thirteen days illness Mr Maybrick died Mrs Maybrick was ivan in ina Ina ina a state of or complete lete exhaustion having fainted the day before while on duty as us nurse When then she sh was aroused roused to be told of ot her husbands death three po policemen were standing guard over her bed w here where she lay too weak to move She had been unconscious for lionel hours The moment Mr Ir Maybrick died his brothers Edwin and Michael who had bad always alwaY disliked the American girl who came into their family to cut out off their right as helm heirs to the other brothers broth brothers ers ors estate eat t stepped forward as her ac acI ACcusers accusers I Mrs ks mother Ba BaI Batone I tone de Roques Rogues was WM sent for but It was wag Was another day before Mrs Maybrick could sufficiently comprehend the charge made mJ e against her to talk it over with her mother mothel The baroness ro ess left the house to secure an at Attorney and while he wa was u gone a of policemen arrived to take Mrs Maybrick to jail Warned of or this the mother returned but was locked In a room and could not bid her daughter farewell 4 4 Th The opinion of the public had al c ready set for the unfortunate widow The next morning the English press commented severely upon the uncalled for action of the police When the case came to trial public indignation was fully aroused and a 8 day never passed passe during that proceeding pr without some expression of this finK feeing The T e case was a long oner one yet Vet et each detail was followed with breathless Interest by the people of two nations Sir Charles CharlesI I Russell presented a masterful defense but the court was overwhelmed with arsenic bottles and the possible di dl I vorce proceeding j When rhen the summing up came Judge Stephens occupied two days and it Is asserted that he again and again deliberately deliberately declared Mrs Maybrick guilty His review of the toe case was so prejudiced prejudiced prejudiced diced and so extreme that it called forth forthan an added denunciation on the part of the public It was not long after this that insanity forced his retirement from the bench and it has since been fairly proven that he was wan insane at the time of the trial He laid great stress upon evidence of a London waiter walter who said he had seen Mrs Maybrick din dining dinIng dinIng ing in company with a 8 man named Brierly This was the alleged cause for the crime The waiter some years after filed a 3 protest declaring that he J had lied been employed l by y the prosecution prose to identify Mrs Mn Maybrick and a d that there was no truth in his testimony since he could not remember ever eer hav hay having having hayIng ing seen her before she was pointed out to him in the court room The I evidence which convicted Mrs May Maybrick Maybrick brick bric k was entirely circumstantial and much of it has since been contradicted The jury j ry was out minutes and returned with a 8 verdict to convict The death sentence was wu read and al although although although though the Indignant nt spectators mobbed the court and threatened the judges judge life the prisoner was carried carriel off oft to await her death From Front the cell where she lay in complete exhaustion she could hear the hammering with which the building of her scaffold was attended There Is s no court of appeal in England and the only hope or her distracted friends was 1 a pardon par on from the crown A petition p of names was waa soon tOOn in readiness which was presented to Home Secre Secretary Secretary tary tar Matthews with the request that he review the case The petition con contained contained I tamed the names of every member of the bar then present at the assizes 1 0 0 I The request was ws w granted and at its close Mr Matthews announced that the I evidence did not wholly exclude doubt whether death was caused bv by the ad I ministration of arsenic The sentence was thereupon commuted to life im imprisonment imprisonment Imprisonment Since then a a sufficient number Oi 01 facts ha have e been bean be n obtained and laid before the various home secretaries to vindicate Mrs Maybrick several times time over The most prominent ent jurists of both England and America have ex exerted exerted exerted their influence to raise the weight of prejudice and formalism but the department has been loath loth to acknowledge acknowledge edge and right the wrong A year ear ago the Duchess of Bedford through her prison relief work became interested in Mrs Maybrick May brick and convinced of her innocence threw the power of her in influence influence fluence which is broad into the affair She also interested her friends in the case and through this means Mrs Maybrick has received It a influential Influential influential backing Mrs May bricks own country has given her cit citizenship citizenship a tardy recognition and dur during dUring durins ing ins the last year yeat both Secretary tary Hay Hat Hayand Hayand and arid the president were urgent in press pressIng pressIng pressIng Ing the claim CI t 7 tA A Crowd Cr wd New York Weekly Visitor at poorhouse Where did that pauper come from Superintendent The city He owns the St Fashion flats flat My goodness Why la is he here hare He charges such high rents that they have been empty since the second year fe r Hum He seems to be on familiar footing with a good 1004 many nany y ef of the ether other yes they are the people peaRle who were his tenants the first year y r |