Show if MRS LONG imprisonment TO END the british home secretary has at last promised to release mrs may brick the american woman who was convicted fourteen years ago on charge of murdering her english bus band she is to be released next y eai the organized movement to sec VU ire lre a pardon for mrs maybrick was begun as soon as she m was as con evicted and the case became famous owing to the almost general belief that mrs maybrick was innocent and the efforts of thousands of men an I 1 women on both sides of the atlantic in her behalf dersons of worldwide prominence and even those concern 4 icv AW t ai V A 7 FIBS az E E L ir ed in her prosecute prose cut on petit aning queen victoria and her successor king edward for the pardon STORY OF MAYBRICK CASE unfortunate woman may have been V ct m of C florence elizabeth maybrick is an all american woman having been born in mobile ala her father being wil wit liam G chandler a bani er miss chandler met james maybrick of liv while mal ing a voyage across the atlantic they were married in 1879 when she was only seventeen years of age and he forty the couple made their home at garston a suburb of liver pool and during the ten years follow ing their maneage three children were born mrs maybrick s life with her hus bus band was not 4 appy and toward the beg nning of 1889 it had grown antol erable it is said that both husband and wife confided their troubles to others mrs madrid being accused by her husband of having gone to the extent of clandestinely meeting alfred br erly a wealthy cotton spin ner and a business associate of may brick A vis t by mrs maybrick to london in march 1881 marks the beginning of the serious triable tro able it waa on march 28 1889 that mrs Mayb mayoria attended the races at aintree cintree with briera maybrick was there aid and met his wife and brierly May martrick trick was under the influence ot of liquor and in a towering rage after abusing his him wife in the vilest language he could coan ard he struck her with hie his fisi square in the face brierly fled it was only a short time later that may brial attended atren atten deu the races again it was raining and he caught a severe cold that night he was down with high fever mrs maybrick nursed him all the nursing was under the direction of maybrick and it was some days before a doctor was called in maybrick died after an illness of eight days and the diagnosis was gastro enteritis from poison rs maybrick was accused by brothers of maybrick and the brit ish officials took the case A letter was produced said to have been written to brierly by mr mrs may brick during the illness of he her r husband in this letter were the state ments he ile is sick unto death no v all depends upon how long his strength will hold out relieve your mind of all fear of discovery during the trial mrs gore a night nurse testified that mrs maybrick had entered the sick man mans s room and had taken from a stand at his bedside a jar of meat ju ce which she return ed only a short time 1 loter ter the nurse secured the jar and gave it to one of the physicians it contained halt half a grain of arsenic it was further tes tidied that arsenic was found n many other places in the house an en deavor was made to explain this by showing that maybrick had been ad dieted to the use of arsenic the trial was a long one and there was a great battle between medical experts mrs maybrick was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to death the sentence was later corn com muted to life imprisonment since 1889 mrs maybrick has been in aylesbury pison prison she has not been perm ced ted to see her children two of whom are still alive and in good hands hand from the time of mrs May maybrick brIcks s conviction her mother the baroness bi von yon roques I 1 as been unremitting in her attempts to obtain the prisoner prisoners s release in which she has been a ai led by influent al at fi lends on u both sides of the atlantic in 1900 after the death of lord kussell russell of Ki llowen chief justice of england a letter written to mrs maybrick Alay brick in 1895 was discovered it showed that the lawyer was convince ed that she ought never to have been convicted |