Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1903 — FIGHT FOR A FORTUNE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FIGHT FOR A FORTUNE.

Legal Battle to Recover •40,000 for Mrs. Maybrick Begins. Fighting to secure a fortune for Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Maybrick, whose release from an English prison is expected next July, her New York counsel has begun proceedings to recover more than $40,000. That is all of the cash that is left of the immense fortune of Darius Blake Holbrook, grandfather of the American woman whoee death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and whose release by the British authorities next July has'been promised. Attorneys for Mie. May brick have appeared before a referee to ask an accounting from Hamilton B. Bradshaw and William H. Gardiner bf New York. They were the executors of the will of Mr.

Holbrook, Who left his vast estate to his daughter, now the Baroness von Roques and a resident of Rouen, France, with a reversionary interest to her daughter, Mrs. Maybrick. Tens of thousands of that fortune went to save Mrs. Maybrick from the gallows, when she was sentenced to death in 1889 for poisoning her husband. Darius Holbrook also owned 2,500 acres bf coal and iron lands in Virginia and West Virginia, and suits to recover them have been instituted. Should they be successful Mrs. Maybrick may become one of the wealthiest women in the United States. Mr. Holbrook was a capitalist of Mobile. Ala. He was associated with Cyrus Field in the laying of tiie first transatlantic cable, he founded the town of Cairo, 111., and was one of the promoters of the Illinois Central Railroad. When he died, in 1868, he was considered one of the wealthiest men in the South.

MRS. FLORENCE MAYBRICK.