THE MAYBRICK CASE.
London, August 18. Mr Matthews refused to receive a deputation of the House of Commons on the May brick case. An excited meeting was he'd in Lon. don in favor of a reprieve. August 14. Mr Justice Stephen has bad a conference with the Home Secretary on the Maybrick case, He approves of the verdict, August 15. Mr Matthews, Home Secretary, will consider the petition in favor of Mrs Maybrick before the sentence is carried out. These petitions have been signed by a quarter of a million people. The Lancet, the medical journal, considers the verdict was justified by the evidence. As usual in these cases Mrs Maybrick has received plenty of offers of marriage, at least seven being known of, but besides these one infatuated admirer has carried his folly so far .as to offer himself as » substitute on the scaffold. .. August 17. The English Press Association states that Mrs Maybrick’s sentence has been commuted to penal servitude for life, but this announcement is regarded as premature, as Mr Matthews is still considering the case. August 18. Dr Biird, in a letter to the Medical Journal, condemns the verdict against Mrs Maybrick.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1933, 22 August 1889, Page 1
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196THE MAYBRICK CASE. Temuka Leader, Issue 1933, 22 August 1889, Page 1
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