| Show MRS MAYBRICK TO GO FREE will be released from her english prison in 1904 1004 mrs florence maybrick the amer lean ican woman who was convicted at liverpool in 1889 on the charge of poisoning her husband james may brick by arsenic and whose sentence of death was commuted to penal etude for life will be released in 1904 mrs maybrick who was miss flor ence elizabeth chandler and a mem mera her of a well known and prosperous southern family was married july 7 1881 in st james church piccadilly to james maybrick of liverpool she was then 18 years old vivacious and beautiful and a social favorite her husband was 34 years old in the spring of 1889 mr maybrick became fit and in a few days he died his brothers investigated hie his death and charged mrs maybrick with the mur der of her husband A long trial fol lowed and a number of doctors swore mr maybrick died of arsenical poison ing the defense proved that for twenty years mr maybrick had been a confirmed arsenic eater and that he daily took doses that would have killed a dozen ordinary men mrs yrs maybrick was eventually sentenced to death by the judge sir fitzjames stephen who spoke for two days in charging the jury ind who said it iwas was impossible to find her guilty in the he face of the medical evidence |
