MRS MAYBRICK IN GAOL.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 2710, 23 November 1889, Page 6 (Supplement)

MRS MAYBRICK IN GAOL.

A cohkespom dbxt of the Press As<ooiation, giving aii acuouut or a recent visit, to the Wokiner Female Convict, Prison, says the building is in the midst of the prettiest part of Snrn-y, and, although providing accomodation for 710 convicts, V.as at present only 310. Madame Rachel notorious as the beautifier, and Constancy Kent, connccted with the Road murder, were confined here, but the best known prisoners now confined there are Mrs Gordon Baillie, the noted swindler, ana Mrs Maybrick. For life prisoners there is no fixed rule, their cases being considered by the Home Office periodically or upon petition. Mrs Baillie and Mrs Maybrick are entirely different in style and physique, but the prison dress and method of wearing the hair is a great leveller as to appearance. Both prisoners aro in excellent health. Mrs Maybrick id in the probation class, which undergoes solitary confinement for the first nine months. This class wears a red star on the arm, which denotes that the wearers have not before been convicted of serious crime, though some of them, like Mrs Maybrick, have been tried on the capital charge. Th 6 Home Office authorities have taken exception to many statements lately made in reference to Woking. It was announced that since the arrival of Mrs Maybrick the prison chapel had been crowded each Sunday. As a matter of fact the chapel is not open to the public, the only visitors allowed being relatives of officials or friends residing with them, and then only with the Governor's sanction. On the first Sunday after Mrs Maybrick's arrival at the prison there wore no visitors, and on the second Sunday the number was but three.