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Show rON TO IJE IM. MItB. MAYnniCK NOW SURE OF RELEASE..' Her Ant aa nallonl a II,. ilrtf-fna ilrtf-fna . lojaallro llano AmrrlnS Woman lij an Initial, Court lor at liar laaa. After ten yeara In Aylesbury Jail U Ilngland, charged with poisoning ber husband, Mrs. Florence Maybrkx standi at last In the shadow of freedom free-dom The effort! of the AmerKS government, the press of that country ind Ihe American ambassador to B-.land, B-.land, Joseph II Choate, nre nt last to bear fruit. Ever ilnce hli arrival ln London Mr. Choate ha taken tie greatest Interest In Mrs MsybrKi' caie and hai leveral llmei talked " over with Lord Salisbury. A refit of the case furnished him by J II Levy, one of Mr. May brick's aJM cates, has convinced him of the IsJU" tlce of her Imprisonment, and actlx under Instructions from his govira-raent govira-raent he has determined to see t case through and aecure Mrs. M7 brlck'i freedom. The Miybrlck case In London ' been as celebrated and lensatlonsl ' the Dreyfui cue In Paris. In both cases It seems that after ean ol Injustice In-justice both countrlei are endeavorla to grant Justice and blot out ai fir as possible the stain upon their govira-mints. About twenty yean igo a br!M, pretty American young woman, MUi Florence Holbrook, arrived In Looton and was at once received In Ihe belt society She wai a lovely, vlvickms girl, lought nfler by the women ni admired by the men. She came from a good family, waa highly educated, nd took an active part In tho society or-etles or-etles of London. Among the acquaintances ac-quaintances ihe made was a weiahy old London merchant, who fell it-peratelr it-peratelr In loro with tho chsratag American So attentive was he that It was quickly noticed, and soon liter society received the announcement of their engagement with considerable surprise The wedding wai ono of the octal events, nnd after n continental tour Mnybrlck and hli joung bride Killed Ki-lled down In a beautiful country Kit outside of London Apparently the ma rr Is r wai a happy one. Three children blessed the union. Maybrlrk died very suddenly and an Investigation revealed Ihe preeenre of arsenic In his stomach. Upon this fact the young wife was arrested ami charged with murder, her children taken from her and sho was thrown Into prison, pending n trial. The cm excited the most profound excitement. Influential frlendi of tho accused rom- ,amblH-aattaaw aaatlloataUly Jld of England, endeavored to iccun Ber release, re-lease, but without avail She wii abut up alone, denied visitor! and Urassed for a confession. Her prolriUot Innocence In-nocence were useless PlnaUr realising real-ising her position, she secured learned counsel and awaited trial Wbn the caso finally came before the coins the one thing locking In the case of the crovin was the proof of motirt. It li true the queen's counsel endearsred to I show that Mrs Maybrlck was prompted to rid herself of her aged bushHd and secure his estates, but there u absolutely abso-lutely nothing to substantiate tMs allegation. alle-gation. On the other side bos over, couniel for Mr Maybrlck produced proof to show that her bushiM bad been a confirmed nnenlc ester ltd that his death was due to this habit. Medical Med-ical expert terMetl Ihe siitsiwets of the accused wife, yet In spite of the testimony she waa convicted lad sentenced sen-tenced to life Imprisonment The verdict ver-dict nnd sentence created as raorti excitement ex-citement as her arrest Influent ra Immediately set to work to bin the rase retried Tho American government, govern-ment, through Its ambassador, took an active part and has continued to do SIUS. FLOIIF.NCK MAYDIUCK. io ever iluco Mm. Miybrlck conviction, convic-tion, 8lr Jas Stephen, who presided at tho trial, wai afterward declared Incompetent Incompe-tent and forced to reilgn from th bench, but In view of this jja jr,. brick wa kpt la prison Boon after her Imprisonment her baby died. Her other two children a son and daughter, daugh-ter, have been denied to her from th day she wai taken from the courtroom court-room Picture of them, irhlel, are taken once a year, are sent to her but neither of the children has beer! allowed al-lowed Inside the prison gates Th, la being educated by relative, .ill the girl bai been adopted bi a well, known London physician, |