THE MAYBRIOK CASE. ACCUSED FOUND GUILTY. SENTENCED TO DEATH. Lonon, August 8.

Te Aroha News, Volume VIII, Issue 394, 17 August 1889, Page 5

THE MAYBRIOK CASE. ACCUSED FOUND GUILTY. SENTENCED TO DEATH. Lonon, August 8.

Mrs Maybrick, charged with poisoning her husband, James Maybrick, cotton broker, of Liverpool, has been found guilty of murder, though the expert evidence went to prove that death did not ensue from poisoning. The evidence adduced showed that she had been a constant purchaser of fly papers, and the inference was, that knowing these contained arsenic, she scraped off the coating and gave it to her husband in his food and medicine. The evidence also showed that she had a parcel of arsenic in her possession, and that she had been remonstrated with for tampering with her husband's medicine bottles by Mr Michael Maybrick, the brother of the deceased. The verdict of the jury caused some sensation and surprise in Court, and there was some slight hissing. The piisoner, when called upon to make any statement she wished before sentence was passed, admitted improper familiarity with A. Brierley, but averred most strenuously that she was innocent of the murder of her husband. She was sentenced to death, but it is expected that she will be reprieved. Sir Charles Russell's tee for defending the accused was .£l,lOO. The "Times" expresses grave doubts as to the guilt of the condemned woman, and endeavours are being made to stay her execution. Sir James Fitz-James Stephen, the Judge who sentenced the prisoner to death, was hooted as he left the Court, and thousands followed the prison van conveying the prisoner to the condemned cell.

The town of Spokane,in the Washington Territory, United States, has been devastated by fire, the damage done being estimated at 10,000,000 dollars. Sir Henry Brougham Loch, Lady Loch, and family have left England for Canada, and will return to Melbourne via San Francisco.

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