TIRED OF HER LIBERTY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2137, 20 July 1907, Page 3

TIRED OF HER LIBERTY.

WANTS TO GO BACK TO PRISON. Mrs Maybrick has not found her liberty as sweet as she expected. Indeed. she is said to be one of the most unfortunate women in the world. After fifteen years in prison, and three of trying to support herself, she finds herself on the verge of poverty and helplessness, and wants to go back to gaol. Has fate a relentless grudge against Mrs Maybrick ? Step by st/tl .it fras followed her malignlv for more than half her life Whether it came to her in the guise of a diabolical impulse that prompted her to kill her husband or whether an unlucky combination of circumstances That has drawn about her as a net, giving her the sembblance of guilt, no one knows. She has said, “Sometimes I think I will go to the Engilsli Consul and ask to be sent back to prison, where I shall know that I will be clothed and fed, and have a roof over my head.” When she left prison, Mrs Maybrick. rejoiced to be free again. She said that all she wanted was a chance to earn her living. That .chance, she declared, she has never had. Mrs Maybrick sought the aid of the courts to restore to her some coal lands in Virginia, which she said was hers bv right or inheritance. No lawyer could be found who would regard the claim seriously enough to take up the fight for her.' Besides, Mrs Mavbrick has no money for a retainer. She tried lecturing.' but her lectures have been unsuccessful. The friend to whom Mrs Maybrick went to, when she crossed the Atlantic to mend her broken life was Mrs Cecilia Densmore, the wife of Dr. Densmore. of Dyker Heights, near Brooklyn. Mrs Densmore was wealthy and public-spirited. I’or more than ten years she had been active in every measure that promised Mrs Mavbrick’s liberation, and when the time drew near for the securing of Mrs Maybrick’s parole Mrs Denmore wrote offering her a home with her. Mrs Maybrick was met at the station bv her friend and taken to Cragsmor'e. There on the pine crowned summit of one of the Catskills slit rested and wrote her book. lliei Mrs Maybrick heard m agony the forging of the new link in the chail of her evil fortune. It was the slid den death of her friend. With Mri Den more’s death came the necessity of finding a new home. The friend shiv, of Dr. Denmore, never so pro non need as that of his wife, ceaset altogether when, after a year fu i married again. , Mrs Maybrick now lives alone in i small apartment in New York. Fev , people ever visit her. Persons hurry i- ing past her windows sometimes catc a glimpse of a pale, tired face,_fram ed in thin brown hair, at the window i They think it is the face of a woma who has been ill or who mourn; They are struck with the pallor of il Curiously the old prison pallor, wine . bad gone from' her cheeks in tli three years of freedom, is returninj The pinkness of her cheeks and tl , evanescent prettinoss of her fac ~ vanished with the forging of the hr ■A of the new links upon the last of tl old chain of her misfortunes. W 1 ■„ should this grim fate pursue hei 7 Has she not expiated the sin of h unfaithfulness to her husband ? H.r t not her sufferings purclir/sed tea - , n V absolution for a possibly "reater sn 1 Or is fate relentless? Is the clia " of malign events after all the cur r ' of fate, pursuing the guilty worn to the verge of salvation, even tt ugh she has escaped hanging for t crime of which she was convicted.

Airs. Elliot, tho wife of Air. John Lovo Elliot', has obtained a divorce, with £200.000 alimony and the custody of their one child, says the Aew York Herald. The parties were marked under romantic circumstances. AVbon Airs. Elliot, then Aliss Ethel Irene Stewart, was appearing in “Chris and tho 'Wonderful Lamp’ at tlie Victoria Theatre. She retired from the stage, and she and her husband passed considerable time in Lon•lon and Paris, and entertained extensively.'. Air. Elliot is a member of the Afetropolitan. Ardsley Lawyers’. and other clubs The livoree was obtained on statutory grounds in Westchester County.

Hilda Thompson, a child of two and a half years old, tho daughter of a Nowcnstlo-oii-Tyne publican, was intally shot by an older sister. Tlio father is a" pigeon shooter, and bis gun was in his bedroom. His eldest 1 daughter took tbo gun down to clean it, and not knowing it was loaded, placed it against tlio neck of her xounger sister and pulled the trigger. It failed to go off, but in response to the child’s request to “do ns dnda does the birds,” the older sister pulled tho triggor again. Tho gun went off this time inflicting fatal injuries.