The Maybrick case : a treatise on the facts of the case, and of the proceedings in connection with the charge, trial, conviction, and present imprisonment of Florence Elizabeth Maybrick / by Alexander William MacDougall.
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- 1891
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Credit: The Maybrick case : a treatise on the facts of the case, and of the proceedings in connection with the charge, trial, conviction, and present imprisonment of Florence Elizabeth Maybrick / by Alexander William MacDougall. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Baroness de gee her before she is removed you had best hurry.' I did not wait a moment, Roque's arrival. jjj^jf understanding, I rushed back to Battlecrease, but arrived too late to see her, the house was filled with thirteen men. Dr. Hopper spoke to me, and said, ' It is on your account they are removing her so soon, of whicn I understood nothing at the time, but learned afterwards that it was because of the exclamation—' Better death than this dishonour, which I had made the night before. There was a man there whom they said was a magistrate, whom I asked to be allowed to say ' Good bye,' to my daughter He ref used. I asked him if he had not a mother that he couldn t feel how I felt ? I think that vexed him ; anyway he refused to allow me to see her. I went up to my bedroom, which looked out on the front, to try to see her face as they put my child into the cab, and they turned the key and locked me in After the cab had gone I shook the door, and a policeman unlocked it, and I asked by whose orders he had locked me in. He mumbled something I did not hear. He was a red-haired fellow, not one of those I had seen before. Dr. Humphreys went with my daughter in the cab to Walton jail, and he sent me a kind note, with Mrs. Maybrick's love. He told me that as she had no money he had let her have a few shillings himself. They hurried her away m so unseemly a manner, that even her hand-bag with toilet articles was left behind, ihey wrapped her up in so hurried a manner that the nurse snatched up my cloak and hat and put it on her, and they hustled her into an arm chair, she bemg too weak to stand, and she was carried to the cab.—Cakoline de Roque. This narrative was read to two of the servants in the house, Elizabeth Humphreys, the cook, and Mary Cadwallader, the parlour- maid, and they say that it accurately represents the treatment, both of the mother on her arrival and of Mrs. Maybrick. I wdl ask any of my readers to conceive such a state of things in their own household, whether rich or poor. At that time, not only had no doctor (although they had attended him during his illness, and had made a post-mortem examination J been able to say that he had not died a natural death, hut no arsenic had been found in the body. From that moment all now Mrs. Maybrick has been in gaol, and the hotise was left to be ransackei by tmfriendly persons, a.nd the police, with their assistance, got up the case against her.—A. W. McD.] I think the public ought to have the particulars of that long conversation outside the house which made Messrs. Cleaver so com- plaisant. One thing is perfectly certain, and that is, that whatevei- the evidence was which was disclosed to this group of mystified frentlemen outside that house at that conversation, which tlie one representative of the Press does not appear to have heard, on that 18th May, none of it has yet been disclosed to the public, and was not even' given in Mrs. Maybrick's presence. All that the public know is the evidence which was disclosed at the Trial, and according to that neither had the medical men at that time come to any conclusion as to the cause of death, nor had any weighable arsenic been found in the hodj. The question which arises at this 9tage of these criminal proceedings is—What could have been the necessity for the police treating this woman in this way] Was it because she was an American, and friendless 1 As soon](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2193423x_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
