Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1904 — MRS. MAYBRICK IS FREE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MRS. MAYBRICK IS FREE.

American Woman Wlro Served Fifteen Years in English Prison. Mrs. Florence Maybrick Was freed Wednesday after serving fifteen years in an English prison for the murder of her husband. Mrs. Maybrick is on a ticket-of-leave under the terms of which, if rigidly enforced, she would be obliged to remain in England and report herself at periodical intervals to the authorities. .’However, in view of her promise to go to America and stay there, a cablegram says, the government has withdrawn the usual conditions and she will be free to go her way and choose her own paths so soon as she arrives in New York, for which port she will sail after a short stay in France, where she is at present.

Mrs. Maybrick, who was Miss Florence Elizabeth Chandler, a member of a well-known and prosperous family of Mobile, Ala., was married Jiffy 27, 1881, in St. James’ Church, Picadilly, to James Maybrick of Liverpool. She was then 18 years old. Her husband was over 40 years of age. * In the spring of 1889 Mr. Maybrick became ill and in a few days he died. His brothers charged Mrs. Maybrick with the murder of her husband by admiuis-

terlng poison. She was first condemned to death but the sentence was afterward commuted to imprisonment for life. Ever since her commitment strenuous efforts have been made for her release by many prominent people who Lave not believed the woman guilty.

MRS. FLORENCE MAYBRICK.