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Ought Mrs. Maybrick to be Tortured to Death? An Appeal from North America, and a Confession from South Africa.
W. T. Stead (The Review of Reviews, vol. VI, October, 1892) pp. 390-396
A somewhat curious experience befel me this autumn. A voice, as it were, from the grave compelled me to look into an almost forgotten past and reconsider conclusions which seemed at one time to be final. Three years ago, when I was editor of the Pall Mall Gazette, Florence Maybrick was tried and convicted and sentenced to be hanged for the wilful murder of her husband. In accordance with principles on which I had always acted, with one fatal exception, the Pall Mall Gazette objected to any retrial of the case by the Home Secretary in deference to clamour. I was on holiday at the time, and paid no attention to the case, merely assuring my locum tenems that I approved his adherence to the sound principle that a judge and a jury who have seen the witnesses and heard them give their evidence are more likely to be right than a heterogeneous omnium gatherum of newspaper readers who had no opportunity of forming an opinion of the comparative credibility of the opposing witnesses. Logically, Mrs. Maybrick should have been hanged. Mr. Matthews, howeve
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Florence Elizabeth (Chandler) Maybrick (1862 - 1941)
FlorenceElizabethMaybrick formerly Chandler
Daughter of William Gaines Chandler and Caroline (Holbrook) von Roques
[sibling(s) unknown]
Mother of James Chandler (Maybrick) Fuller Jr and Gladys Evelyn (Maybrick) Corbyn
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Biography
Florence (Chandler) Maybrick is Notable.
Florence Elizabeth Chandler was the daughter of a banker who was once the mayor of Mobile. On a ship to England, Florence caught the eye of a wealthy cotton dealer, James Maybrick. She was 19, he was 42. They married in 1881, and settled in Liverpool, where her beauty and her husband’s wealth guaranteed their social status. They had two children, James and Gladys. But James Maybrick had many mistresses, and even fathered five children with one. More perilously, hypochondria and an addictive streak led him to experiment with poisonous chemicals, including arsenic. At the time, arsenic was a recreational drug. Unhappy with her husband