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.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![evidence of Michael Mayhrich is, hoivever, so mysterious that he other woman in may have referred to some other woman; and it would he best to have a disclosure made of the particulars taken hy the police, toncerning the ether woman in the case and the disputes on both sides.—A. W. McD.] Mr. Addison said, in bis address to the Jury, that on Thursday, visit to London, the 21st March, when Mrs. May brick went to London— JohnK. She arrived there (at Flatman's Hotel) on Thursday, 21st of March, at about one o'clock ; and at about half-past six o'clock, a gentleman—whose aame we do not know, but who never appeared again, as far as we know anything about him, in the case—came and fetched her. That this gentleman's name had been kept back, even from the Crown Counsel (Mr. Addison), I, of course, cannot doubt; and I should like to ask why ? Mr. Justice Stephen, in summing up to the Jury, referred to the evidence given by Alfred Schweisso, in reference to this mysterious person, in the most damaging way possible to Mrs. May brick's character; in such a way, in fact, as to insinuate that Brierley was not the only man she was carrying on an adulterous intrigue with during her visit to London. [Note.—The name of this gentleman was Mr. John Baillie Knight, a very old family friend. Both the police and Messrs. Cleaver Tcnew all abotit him, and if there had been anything in his conduct unfavourable to Mrs. Mayhrich, the Crown would not have left it to Mr. Justice Stephen to bring it out. It will be presently seen, however, how Mr. Justice Stephen made tise of the fact that Mr. Addison did not know this gentleman^s name, as a damaging argu- ment against Mrs. Mayhrich. Mr. John Baillie Knight, when he found wliat use Mr. Jxistice Stephen had made of his not being called^ <it once communicated to Mr. Matthews all he hnew about what Mrs. Mayhrich did while in London, but I venture to thinh it woidd be more satisfactory to the pitblic, and more fair to Mrs. Mayhrich, 'Jiat he should publicly clear up the mystery which Mr. Justice Stephen made about him, and that the police should disclose the particulars tahen by them about him.—A. W. McD.] Mr, Addison made another mystery in connection with Mrs. Maybrick's visit to London. He said, and I am quite sure he would not have made such a statement (and Mr. Justice Stephen referred to it also with a damaging effect to Mrs. Maybrick) if the information contained in the particulars taken by the police had not been suppressed from him, but having told the Jury that Mrs. Maybrick left Flatman's Hotel on Sunday, the 24th, he said— What she did for the rest of the week until Thursday (the 28th), when «he was timed to come home, I do not know.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2193423x_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
