A Pathetic Story.

Manawatu Herald, 2 April 1904, Page 3

A Pathetic Story.

In connection with the release of Mrs Majirick, referred to in recent cable messages, a pathetic .story is told in the London Evening News. When Mrs Maybvick was sentenced, the little girl was between two and three years old and the boy was six. The latter has now almost reached man’s estate, and the former is a girl of sixteen. But the name they bear is not Maybtick, and they are wholly in ignorance of their mother’s terrible history. She on her side is unaware of their identity, and although it is to be arranged that when the mother is released she shall meet them, it is on the understanding that she makes no attempt to disclose the fact that she is their mother. The lad and his sister are b.oth living in London. After Mrs Maybrick’s conviction, Mrs Maybrick’s brother, the wellknown composer who is known as “ Stephen Adams," and another close friend of, the family, took the children away, and eventually found a suitable family with whom to board them under an assumed name. The children were subsequently adopted by this family, who have never had the slightest clue to their identity or to their association with the crime with which at that time all England was ringing. For the first six years of Mrs Maybrick’s imprisonment photographs of the children were sent to her once a year. Then, for the sake of the children themselves, the despatch of the photographs was stopped, and for the past seven and a half years Mrs Maybriek has been given no information concerning them save that they believe their mother to be dead. When she is eventually allowed to see them she must remain in the character of an unemotional and undemonstrative stranger.