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Show MRS. MAYBRICK TO GO FREE. Will Be Released From Her English . Prison In 1904. Mrs. Florence Maybrick, the American Amer-ican woman who was convicted at Liverpool In 1889 on the charge of poisoning her husband, James May-orick, May-orick, by arsenic, and whose sentence of death was commuted to penal serv-tude serv-tude for life, will be released in 1904. Mrs. Maybrick, who was Miss FIor snce Elizabeth Chandler and a member mem-ber of a well known and prospwus southern family, was married July 7, ISSi, 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 ill, and in a few days he died. His brothers investigated his death and charged Mrs. Maybrick with the murder mur-der of her husband. A long trial followed fol-lowed and a number of doctors swore Mr. Maybrick died of arsenical poisoning. 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. Maybrick was eventually sentenced to death by the judge. Sir Fitzjames Stephen, who spoke for two days in charging the jury, and who said it was impossible to find her guilty In the face of the medical evidence. |