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Show "ttc-t much rr.cre of tie nan who v.th net tcr hesbasd ttaa cf the c-'a who was, axd tte claim was t;tc?t!--t t! i c:r:r.-.:ttcJ t!.3 n::r::r to tecure t:r freedom. TL3 trial vas swift zzl tie decUioss of ths Judc; r.ere tuch'as to arcurs unfavorable con-not con-not at the time. The Jude died afterwards insane, in-sane, and is believed to hare beca of unsound mind at the time cf the trial. But no Ezslish court would admit that Mrs. Maybrick tad not had a, fair trial and for fifteen years the verdict returned against her has been in force, . , , . " ' The Pardon Granted Mrs. Maybrick. ZTbe announcement that Mrs. Florence Maybrick wilT be pardoned next summer will be received with satisfaction by Americans who have followed the case of this unfortunate woman. The release of Mrs. Maybrick is not an act of grace on the part of ihBritish Government; it is simply one of custom. In. cases tried in England, where there is a reasonable reason-able doubt as to the guilt of the convicted person, it is customary to grant a pardon after fifteen years' Bofvitude. Mrs. Maybrick was sentenced to death for4i crime for which she was not on trial. .Promi-ueat .Promi-ueat Americans and Britons immediately made tetreuuous efforts to obtain her release, but only succeeded in having her punishment committed to lif imprisonment. Every year since that time, friepds of the convicted American woman have petitioned peti-tioned the English Government for pardon, but suefi are the. peculiarities of English laws that it hataken fifteen years to obtain what many believe to q simple justice for Mrs. Maybrick. Few per-Borii per-Borii even in London believe her guilty and the fact that since her conviction it has been discovered that her husband used arsenic habitually, has served to strengthen that opinion. Every juror and every person connected with the prosecution of the. case signed a petition for pardon. But it required fifteen rears for the slow machinery of English jnstice to do what the majority of Americans and Britons believe should bave been done long ago. The case !s a peculiar one, In 1589 Mrs. May brick's husband I died' from what 'was said to be arsenical poisoning. ' Examination of the stomach showed traces of this 1 form of poison, and Mrs. Maybrick was tried for mn'rder. It was shown that he had been sick and thrt'his wife had attended on his illness, which had sud lenly terminated fatally to the surprise of nearly near-ly everyone. The sole suspicious circumstance was t!.: t Mrs. Maybrick was known to be unhappy in her i ';ns with her husband and very happy in those r.rr.ther- man. The chief motive advanced ;at x,as to the effect that Mrs. Maybricl |