Show 1 MRS MA I p FREE WOMAN Once Oll e Sentenced to Death For Poisoning Her Husband I HISTORY OF A FAMOUS CASE 4 UNREMITTING eFFORTS OF OP A AS MOTHER S S 1 S Truro Cornwall July Mr Maybrick ir jg free ee She left here bert at a a m nt today tod oa OIL o l Iter Ier er way to France e Mrs Maybrick Maybik who was Mf s Flor FIO Florence Florence ence Elizabeth Chandler a 8 member of ot ofa ota ofa a well known nd and prosperous pro southern family was Wu married July 25 2 1181 In St James Church Piccadilly to Jamos Jam 6 of Liverpool She was then th years yeatS old OiL Her husband was waso over ove o r forty years ears of age In the spring of SO Sir Mr 1 Maybrick became ill MI and andin andin nd in n a few days he died His Ills brother investigated his death and charged hed Mrs tIro Maybrick M with the murder of oC her husband A long Ions trial followed t and a 8 of oC doctors swore that the de deceased deceased deceased ceased died of arsenical The Tue defense proved that tbt for twenty years Mr Maybrick had bad been a con confirmed confirmed Confirmed firmed user of arsenic erde ar and that he dally daily took doses large arge Ja enough to have killed a dozen ordinary men Mrs Yrs was eventually sentenced to death toy by 1 bythe y the judge Sir mea Stephen StepheM poke for two days d in charging th the jury jUt He said it was impossible impo for Zor them to find her bel not guilty in the face of or the medical evidence The Judge e died some flome time Ume later in a madhouse life Lire Work of Mother At the time of Mrs con conviction conviction Jetton her mother the Baron de was ws lIS unremitting in her ef of efforts efforts forts on behalf of Ute tile prisoner oner Ste succeeded in getting her hf r death sen son sentence sentence tence commuted to penal servitude for fori i life ilfe l and finally has obtained the t he free freedom freedom dom of her daughter 1 to whose whee w e release I from prison she nbc had bad devoted her life fe feThe The was was aided ded J by influential nUal friends on both beth sides of the Atlantic i 5 4 l Kit after the death of or L Lord rd Rut Rus of Chief CJ e Justice of Eng Enga ian 1 n T a letter which he had written I Ito i to Mrs itira 18 ln WU discovered 4 ered It showed he was wag convinced L that ehe he e ought ou never to have been con convicted convicted conI I and it has been generally un understood understood that the recent American I ambassadors amb to the th court of or St James I have done everything possible ible pos to aid Mrs In pardon I The fact of or her probable release rele rel was used as a reason for securing the tae post postponement postponement I of a trial last year ye of ef law Jaw lawsuits lawsuits suits bearing on Mrs inter interest est ft In land Jand in Kentucky Kent ck Virginia and West Virginia until she st was able per personally to testify If site she was as not able aole to testify In these the suits Mrs Irs May Maybrick brick and her mother would have lost lostal all Rn al title titio and interest in the many thou thousands thousands sands of acrea ACree involved in the th case t 1 Removed Prom From Prison f On February 4 last Jast Home Secretary replying to a question in the house of commons confirmed the th reports which bad had been in circulation lion tion that Mrs Maybrick had ad been re removed re removed reS S moved from frem Aylesbury prison to a convalescent tome where she would be permitted to t remain until unU the summer when hen she would be allowed her free freedom dom dottl The home secretary SaId said a 11 li license cense had been granted to Mrs May Maybrick Maybrick Maybrick brick under the penal servitude acts The transfer of Nit Mrs from front froma fronta a R penal prison to a quiet country home horse constituted an n almost unprecedented dented act on the th th part of the Ue British authorities It was due to e media mediation tion of the I D 6 of Bedford Be ford who whoM as M a Visitor Vittor fi to Aylesbury prison for many mt ty y years arg had bad taken a keen personal Interest Int re t in Mrs Maybrick and finally succeeded in obtaining a mitigation of her bel punishment pun nt to the extent of or her Iter being allowed to spend the tile last six months of her bei confinement of ot the walls wall Taken to Convent Mrs Irs imprisonment was not terminated with the clanging of doors at Aylesbury prison where w ere she spent more m re than fourteen years of or her Iter life It closed before the doors of the 4 white convent of the Sisterhood of the 1 in this little town tow with the t e eL L g sisters softly uttering their I Ij j blessings ble ADd good wishes foe fot fo her fu to future I Iture ture With two to companions Mrs Maybrick entered the carriage carnage of Miss Dalrympie Dalrymple secretary of the sisterhood and ancl was driven to a 8 small station fourteen fourte n miles mUes away where exchanging goodbyes goody with her companions she boarded a train and started on her ber journey to France She will not go 0 to America until her prea pres presence ence there kt is considered con imperatively necessary Secrecy was WU thrown about shout Mrs rs May Xa bricks departure Mother er Superior Julian of the convent sid to a representative representative of or the Ute Press Frees that under instructions she aRe must mu t refer all alt inquiries to the home bome office odice Others at a the convent were equally uncommunicative 11 At the railroad d ji were issued J forbidding fOr the to tos di u Mrs Maybrick s I Watched by Curious Crowds The little town ton has bu taken takeR deep de p Inter est eat in this international figure flure Crowds I daily daU sued at the ate e of th waiting for tOl Mrs Maybrick Ia brick to t a neap They were rarely rewarded for tor she gen generally g orally went out only o when Ow read re das was as reported clear cleer f When Mrs MaybrIck first cst arrived here ahe be l was allowed l to walk in th quiet t streets sr ets of the ie town and In the i country lanes i iThe The villagers soon noon got bOt to recognize the tb women woman with black blackbonnet blackbonnet blackbonnet II bonnet and a flowing strings and gave her bel kindly greetings which frequently passed pas ed unnoticed Mrs ln Maybrick seek seeking I ing tag so 80 far tar as possible to avoid the at attention of the curious corio Her time at convent was WEa taken takeR up by sewing reading and chatting with the sisters endearing S herself to t them by b many act actIs showing that t even eveR the many years of servitude at Aylesbury prison h had 41 been unable to stamp out her innate kindly disposition Chronology of the Case 1881 Marries James Maybrick of ot Liverpool ol taken IH Ill ana an files Mrs Mis Maybrick igeI with hie hit mur mr murder der dee tried found fouad s g id and sentenced t to death deeth sentence to life me imprisonment Aug 21 1 Secretary Elaine Blame urges the American minister to Intercede April 14 Secretary Blaine Blame calls I Lord attention to the case cas casMay May 14 Lord S Salisbury an answers answers answers that he be cannot interfere June Lord Salisbury answers I petition refusing further clemency clemen I August Blaine Blame sends another petition the queen for Mrs pardon and release Nov 28 IS Secretary of State Fos Pos Poster Foster Foster ter takes ta charge chErge of the case May 34 1886 SEome Home me secretary an announces a aI he has no intention int to appoint I a committee of inquiry June 3 Z l Home secretary an announces announces announces that thU he be h sees no reason for fer ex extending extending tending further clemency June 13 lS 5 International Maybrick association as decides to peti petition petition petItion tion the queen June 31 31 Home secretary says he is stilt still most strongly opposed to the release of the prisoner July 26 ti British government de dc declines dines clines to interfere Oct 8 S Society off o New York takee ta up Mrs Mn case cane June Jane Ie l Additional nal memorials I 1 to the h British government sent to Am Choate July 24 4 Home secretary se says Mrs Maybrick will not be pardoned and that the queen is implacable Feb 11 ii 1991 False report that King Kint Edward II n pardons Mrs Irs Jan 26 5 Removed from fr m Ayles bury prison to sanatorium Stories of or release revived but denied Feb 1 Release during durins summer said to be decided on Feb I 1904 Confirmation of |