Show - - - - 6 ik4: 1 - ' ' 1 - 4 i 4 Sunday Morning Zile' - 1 7 1 ' it t 1 ) I linr"r39 Infir"71131 1 1 ) I 17) 1 i: i I i ! t I 3 L 1 i I I ( t I 1 1 '' L L - "Suddenly the silence was broken by the banging of a closing door which startled me out of my stupor "Where was I? Was I alone? What awful thing had happened? A flash of memory! My husband was dead! "I drifted once more away from the things of sense Then a voice as if a long way off spoke "A feeling of pain and distress shot through my body I opened my eyes in ‘cl BIF IA 0 i e ' A I J I 1 1 ) I 1 1 I i i - ) : 1 '7 ' - ' - - - I -' e4401'' i - 1 ) ' z 44 - il - ' ' p-- e-''' r- - -- 719-fei' " against you" ' t I ' ' - - ti i t - : ' ' 14 t i --- t i i t f ' ) - ‘ 1 '"'N '‘ I I k '' - 4 I '' l'''' 7 -- s‘4 4 i i "4 ' - 4 "--- - - - i N e-- j I 1 s '' e''''''''''''''''-'-—' ' 7 I :: ' ' -- i"ftN '' ' i 1 I (2 ' : ' Iof ---- ''- - A - "4 e- 1 - : ”" 4----- - i IN TH1 SHADOW of the gallows Mori ante Maybrick (above) penned her Vef lion of a cause celebre which five decades ago roused public indignation —and the sympathy—of Iwo continents 1 1 i 4 I :' t l :aa 1 ) t f : A ir 1 v7(k 6'til 1 'i NE of the last remaining links with England's "Golden Age of Murder"—if not the very last— has passed from the Beene and literature and criminology have lost a woman who might have told a fantastic incredible tale It happened Just a little white ago when a solicitous neighbor carried a bottle of moraing milk into the dilapidated shack of a little 110year-ol- d lady near Connecticut's town of New Milford and stumbled across an astonishing story It was found in a scrapbook of clippings she had kept secret for more than half a century Saffron now and yellow with age they disclosed to the town-fol- k of New Milford that the octogenarian "Mrs Chandler" whom they had befriended and pitied for years was In Mn Florence reality the Ilaybrick condemned murderess Of her I i 1 I I I I I 1 i long-missi- ' busWInd 4 t I 1 1 ! 1 1 s z 1 For almost 85 years this little old lady had successfully hidden from prying eyes her sordid history of crime and conviction Hers was a 'cause celebre" close by in years if not eontemporary with the exploits of Dr Pritchard Dr Crippen Burke and liars and others of their ilk who for a tftW decades flour ished as stabbers garroters or poison-er- e par excellence in the then policed England of another day To these crimes may be traced the first essays of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself into the field of d and the fertile if destructive be held rethese may f g sponsible for the spate-ovolumes that has fol- and grave-diggilored in a cataract ever since Mrs Maybrick was during the period of her trial and conviction and for a few years afterward perhaps the mostwritten-about woman in the world not excluding her contemporary and - sympathizer Queen Victoria But so well did she hide her identity hen she returned to this country after 18 years in an English prison that the world came to forget about her completely She settled down in rural Connecticut with 20 cats and her scrapbook came to be loved and respected by the few who knew her and inadvertently the secret of her life by failing - spilled to destroy the aged and yellowed clip- vials before death overtook her To appreciate the full flavor of the real-lif- e adventure that Sirs Maybrick hid so well in the long twilight of her life It is necessary to flash back to the ancient busy city of Liverpool in 1883 To that thriving port on the Mersey then studded with the tall masts of ships that towered over buildings clustered along the shore the eyes of two eontiaents turned On trial chatted with murder most foul was the irSy vivacious attractive daughter of Mr and Mrs William 0 Chandler of New 'York and Mobile Ala She was Florence Chandler at birth educated in Berlin and Paris and married after a whirlwind courtship aboard ship to James Maybrick a wealthy cotton broker The accusation against her was that by distilling arsenic from a type of flypaper then in use she had done away with Maybrick either in a quarrel or to enable her to carry on a romance with a man identified only as a "Mr Brierly" Florence Maybrick stood in the dock at Liverpool Asaizes flanked by her rnother who had remarried and wai now the Baroness de Rogues and by Sir Charles Russell her leading counsel not-so-w- ) - ' - arch-crimina- ls ell s r- ' ng ‘ 4 ' 1 ) i I I 1 1 4 1 4 ! ) 1 1 3 - i i Later to become Lord Russell Chief Jus e - 4 4 1 '' rg -- 4:te"'sr - 44 v- 1 " - i 4 SA C L '" :04 ''' twile! 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''t o :: t- - ' " " ft 4'"ttle 49 - 74 4 'ye 7 r40'S kal"1' 1 : ''t " 44 ! a 4 v ' lin :A 41- S "' rt44444 ' N' 00''' - -- 4101 ' ""16 ver Ai ori 1 gt 1 4 41 e 1 1'!''''''1' ' s S t 1 4 I '''' 'le 1 4 ''' ' lot ':V' tr 4 i i f -- :l'i i 4 '' 44 ' : 's 1 474 a - 04-0'- -- grP -0- 2 - - --' ' " - g !:"" 7: i 't: ' '''lf 4- Ils- - t' - 11 - ' - -- - L 4A - i'Sr oliamv 'I' t: I :' 71 " ''4 k ‘ t ' I ei 574" - ) i But it did forget about her and th crime for which she paid And that was the next best thing 411:741 v 4 IL's' iNS ''''' 4 - i do c7''' 4 wr- - 4 f rs t I aga gg '" -a------g og i :4414k31111:44I: S v ' 144 pall-beare- g die 444 - '' - 5 it:: Inittag -- ' 46 V t os -- ' re' ' at A -'t '1:: - - Ilk N ' k- A- so'- 0 s!1 ' ? - 4 - f- ' fee' Y: '''1 - ' - - 4 —w0 Z zr-- -- - T 410--- rill (114 t -- - - - ---- r - — - -- - -- ''''' '''''''4 ': 1 f - st- f s ''' it I - : t tr' 3 ar-V- white-wigge- 1 i V ) F' 1-' ' -- L ':: dence to show that the quantity of sonic in his system might easily have over a long pe- been :led Mrs Maybrick's evident devotion to her two children and her patience with n husband whom no one tried to limn ass an unwinged angel — and 20 tics of EnglandDirectly above them in d pomposity sat the trial judge Sir James Fitsjames Stephens This judge's personality and peculiar ities incidentally played an important part in subsequent developments I said that even Contemporary writers the during proceedings he showed signs of deterioriating mental balance and it is written that three months later be was compelled to step down from the - l l' ri A r ------- (21c164 4 t: "k al 11'll : i t ''''" i' L IA '' 00 - 0i "''''4 ) R 1''- - W 71: '''-'ktt- 4 t f' 7-:- '71 f 4 ''' ' 14 4i e1 oOlt 14A ' P ''''(1--41--L':'--""-- - - - ! A tl'ri---'''-'''' 4tt- '' 1 AAA 44 '''t 'I aa- r1 21:--: trtd t0 ' ici - - ck z21:-zrr-4-- - ‘' 1 - 44-- -'- years her senior to boot—influenced irse:g neither judge nor- jury IN THIS DILAPIDATED shock neighbors found the body of their beloved "Mrs Chandler' later identified as the than It was late on- a simmering August Florence Maybrick Rural Connecticut was amazed to learn through the faded clippings of a yellowing scrapbook afternoon when the twelve men returned cases in criminal annals a bench quarter of a century It had harbored the "villainness" In one of the most with their verdict and Sir James FitsOld clippings quote persons present James Stephen rapped for order to de- I at the sensational trial as saying that liver his verdict ' ' 744ti ' ''n"7-"'- ' ' he was unfair in his rulings harsh in Ilorenes Chandler Maybrick the belle 1 ti f f1 1 his language dictatorial and selfassert 4'A of Mobile chatelaine of the Maybrick ' t f's I I " lye to the jury Russell himself etigma family home of Battlecrease near Liver- t tised his closing charge as a "plea tor pool heard herself sentenced to hang by 0 ? I it i the prosecution" the neck until dead upon the gallows 4t alk— Y 1 I William Roughead the eminent Brit for the foul crime of murder it ish authority on criminology firmly be "And may God" added Sir James t i ' '' lieves that Mrs Maybrick was a victim with the stentorian finality whieh t i c I judges the world Over reserve for their i f'- st -' z p ! fateful pronouncements "have mercy ' i 11 i t t t on your soul" iA Itti r- -' ''1Ll'Ct 41) Sb There was a dead silence Mrs Maye AL i1: s' rø1'°'wo t i - --' brick had previously Made her own im iA k -- 'N 1c"111211:14"c? ' ' - passioned plea for acquittal in which -e 1 ' she admitted diNerences with him and 1 1' t st ' ‘ 'I of "taor confused infidelity t ' 1 ' t II t 14 ' 1 I "I have only to add" she said in her t 1 I4 ' ' peroratien "that for the love of our I t 126i ehildrenand the sake of their future 1i :yi I a perfect reconciliation had taken place t l ' between my husband and myself and 7 4 4 --- -r(1 0 I on the that A I ' day before his death I had VI Ji t 7— a i made a full and free confession to him c --- and received his entire forgiveness for i t -' - ''' ' the fearful wrong I hid done him" L -- - 1 Her eloquence stilled k '''t'' el t'' crushing 3"44 (JIi' 1 ' ' ! blow of 1 the Mrs verdict was Maybrick tvt 0'''-- " t Itt off to Watson prison incarcer4 hustled - ' -i r 4 2 i 4 ated in a 7 x 14 death-ce- ll and forced to '' I k 1 i i listen to the t noise of i Oil dt wardens knocking together a gal- - i ott1 ' prison I 041 4 lows her exclusive use ' $00 i tt w wtt1 ' - tat avc4 041 ' - - j Butforhardly ' had the first nail been - ' driven home when a tremendous move- - IN THIS ROOM the eiviet and retiring "Mrs Chandler' (with twenty cats) spent the last years of her life Nene el her New t mint was launched for Milford neighbors even guessed that the little old lady was at one time convicted In the arsenic poisaning el her husbenst ' -- -' ' ' the death sentence — both in Englag 400000:11011 wealthy James Maybrkki sentenced to the on the gallows and finally released after spending sixteen long years In prise& 't and the United States President Ben- It ' - ' 0 ' r— 1 liarrillOtt wrote a personal letter ' - as mows 13"" 44'2V7 ''716"""anr 11:'44100"16"1 out '''''''a'a416""'"'""'"""'"""'"'"a14141004St 'f k a I jariltil to Queen Victoria who expressed sym- t124:3 (1 L 1 1A113 MAYBRICK but explained her helplessness Q' : ' og uthy clubs on both sides of the At- always contended t 114 - i lantic raised an unearthly clamor and r'' that l: ' the Suffragists went cc CAr' was a i ' to work at full lance 4v -- -4 le: 1) "arsenic eater" and t t Three weeks after she had been ion te (i that at the time of demned to die the British Home Sete —— ' : his death she her— commuted to the sentence life rotary ' self was in a coma imprisonment at hard labor But at this 11 public criticism rose even higher Crimie — ' nologists and medical men all over the i - 0 r 11-'t v: comand of conÄ world castigated judge and jury for of a miscarriage ' justice i : -l' i one Mrs of etre i the famous case with on her victing Maybrick solely t — pares ' c:: 4 ' 't i140 44011 f' it Aisga Oscar Slater who was convicted in eumstantial evidence and there was a 1 rr4 '! I tLt rt'! t at: hue and cry to prove that in truth Glasgow and spent many years in prigreat 11" 4" ' '' ' :: :10t voe : 1 : :olift41 son for a crime of which he was com1444ado Maybrick was an arsenic eater -- e ' — ' ' f 4 ' '-'''' 66 41 ' Meanwhile Of always in ignominious ' pletely ininnocent ' ‘ A : manacles Mrs Maybrick was shifted The trial was long and featured Il ""' from one prison to another spending all - iin--"'r'S' chiefly by testimony from avid servants k "i er111144 4 ' ' her time in knitting clothes for British 0 6'' t who appeared more than anxious to tell Sik 1:1 -- ' ef : eelotkp : colonial soldiers Her children went into of spats between Maybrick and his o '144pirr"'7''w 6 61 t ' ' litzAto1b4440:41400 4 :1464 -"4 ) i ) t461 ok e American wife to hint mysteriously the care of her brother-in-laMichael 104 '‘ii s F 1eiA ' ' i i :Im - r) tA -- t 4t Y 4 -0 a song-writabout "Mr Brierly " One told of openand in the 1 -- N G' ' 1 V r PIN' 4:0 ) i c:: v44 course both died to of time fal him addressed a letter tt"' "pit A shortly : ing 4 C ii 14( 1 I before Mr Maybrick disappeared from ' 4 During those frightful years Mrs f I '4 ' E4 Ai In k Mrs this mueclane sphere which k I Maybrick wrote or prepared notes for Iti ivk r tot 10' 4 was quoted as saying—presumthe only story of her ordeal she ever told ' 1 t et which rewas and ably with delighted anticipation—that published after her ''' 1 sr 1 leaso and return to this country Here he was "sick unto death" ge0 0 ? ''' I: ' o't:: t'' ' A12 ' ' ' oott' Mrs Maybrick's protestations of inle verbatim is bar own incredible account t1 wool tt Ittot x tt1 Iftl '$ t ot A P' SO14k ' 1i t ' - 1't' of the tragedy: nocence were to no avail Her defense ri t1 4 ot 1' 4 ' ''' ' vi:::' "!? '' I: A was that her husband was a confirmed A "It was the dawn of a Sabbath day ' "arsenic eater" a hypochondriac re- May 12 1889 I bad been taken ill and duced to taking this drug at regular as consciousness slowly returned I in buried MAYIRICK MIS was reverence and whom she students had befriended dignity boy Intervals because of his nerves and opened my eyes acting as None would have even guessed at her lurid past if only she had destroyed her Kropisook and other mementoes of the cose much testimony was introduced on her "The room was in darkness All was which invoked the sympathy of two nations and roused to action such personaaes as Queen Victoria and President Horrisotu behalf There was even medical rd still ig -- — A 4 1 ! : - $ — T"' 4 4 r 14t — ' t f9 - if - ---- 1 ! -- -gr 14 t -i ‘ l -- t 1 it- ( : i-- a k t - I i I P 5 -- ‘ 4 e hy-th- )'-g- r ) E soul-wracki- ttstc 1 - C:" N 4 i 41 -- t " t': -- t f 7 -- ---- g! - - - 4' f'": - T 1 --- k - -- - -'--'" ' :7- 1 - i 1 k" 4 : minds hair-raisin- 1 - : ' ''' ‘okalniaf (g' ---- 1011t--- 0 1 - -- A i By John Cahill j ' s I - t 1 1 11g gmag 0" " ri - ' vI't' aPsg 1 - i ok ' seSSISSnftftVg - a f4 sa"' 1 4:1 A ool"s ige wide 0 'V"118" '' it Afr 1: ' I- 4: - - N ''' ' t 1111 ' 11 4 -- ri f- - - i - 0 1A I -- - - -- euverwate- 4 - 's 1:114 " ' - - naggg ' dp t- Lirli - 1)""------14swall1- i I ' - e i fte I - ) V oso -- i i INOt i g '''14 r i 1 - —' : i -- 4V‘ CL'l ": if' '4'1' --- r i 1 4 3 i 54 -- ggeftwge r4r7gftespagniegsn'anangggg 111:4 s : ' - r 4 ' kow--- I 6 g ''''' 4 - 4 t - ''' - - i et i t - '' " 1' f e ( Itk sges r 1 I' It - 161 OT LI i ": -- ' '' " e 4 ''' :-" ? a ' - -- : 1' i ''eli 4'' - lif v:t i-- ' -- )) '' - - k : -- 1 t 1 - ""s I - 7 "NsSiglk s '4144 ''-1- : - - - 7:-- - :' -- oggla t- ::44 - I '' 't t Vi k ' - l'-'-'- '' ' i' L -- ' : - ' s "' t ' 'ss 1 i 14i 1 k I i k I 1 1 ) - A t- the quiet confines of a Connecticut town "Mrs Chandler and her-2cats were symbols of peace and obscurity but death—and a faded scrapbook— revealed a secret and tragic past - - 2:71 I In 1 1 1 Mrs Maybrick convinced scores of I persons during and alter her trial that she was innocent and that in truth she been unconscious at the time of her '''''''N0'11""'" had husband's death Most in her favor was the factor of circumstantial evidence Ns " ''' " 1 and the exposes of the British penal system which resulted from her condemns 410144MEN- ir 11 ' - I tion eventually led to numerous reforms 40 i ! particularly as regards solitary confineI : jrsi--ment branded as the "cruelest feature" of English penal servitude I I t L to serve But Florence t 16 terrible years neveYrtheless she Then ti - 1t1 ti: came back home 4 traveling aboard the ! Vaterland as "Rose Ingraham" and findv'"-of solicitude and i ' r— ing herself an object ' i 2— when her identity became i sympathy ' 40 4 44111411011141 '' 1 ' Nv j 0 640111111n - ) : k you are in custody of causing the death of your late husband James and I caution you to be careful in your replies for whatever you say may be used on suspicion N i e r 1 1 qu"omtedrsitsiptisaayyibnrg ' 4 1 A Li ' I - 17) : 1941 the years I have spent within prison walls the friends by whom I am forgot ten the children to whom I am dead the sunshine the winds of heaven my wornan's life and all I have tor rible injustice? "Time may heal the deepest wounds when the balm of love and sympathy is poured into them "It is well—for if mental wounds proved as fatal as those of the body the would be a long one" prison death-ro- ll Mrs Maybrick was buried in reverence and in peace on the grounds of the old South Kent School near her rondest home and the were boy students who had loved her and wht had not known her past The whole world may not have acquitted Mrs Maybrick as she wished it to ng Florida and eventually —more than a y ago—built herself the little home near New Milford There she buried her past completely Once there was a report that an Englishman who died in France had left her a fortune of 750000 but it never materialized and as she faded into brittle old age Mrs Maybrick was dependent upon her neighbors It was one of these Howard Conkrite who found her body in the weatherbeaten old cottage on the New Milford Gaylordsville Road one day this fall and who turned up her clippings and her own memoirs These were the closing paragraphs of her poignant story: "The time will come when the world will be forced to acknowledge the verdict which was passed upon me was untenable "But what then? Who shall give back At that moment she continued her doctor walked into the room followed by a superintendent of police whomshe i 4 ever-increasi- quarter-centur- - i She lived for a while in obscurity in Illinois and in known terror" I i : — November ao Zan gakt'irribunt I I '4i -- A -- ttt4 fr - - 411' - ---- L: 1 f 1 1 - - ! -- - - - c 4 E 1 ioi 1 - ! -- '- can-firm-so i? 1 1 - !- l 4 1':1 - ' i -- ttr t 0" ‘ 'well-kno- r er May-bric- r AO ) )'-- 0064111P 1? p 41"-- r ' 4 4 " d '1 ' 16 1 '- -- '6- - - ----- --- v kg r a rrA A - V-- jZ P 0 -- ' ' ) --- -t v2 - - 4 ts - 4 - Nr A 7 0 ' : ' ' 7 'H4:' A ' - 4" - 1 tt '" poll-bear- !or WIRI & 6- 1 6' t- World RIAU Rosorrod 0 z -- t i -- - i 1Ac w i 1I s -- 065t7 'J 1- g "- — 1 f I t er 1 restores dyad tests : '' al |