Chapter V: Introduction: Petitions for a Reprieve--Illogical Position of

Home Secretary--New Evidence of My Innocence Ignored--Lord
Russell’s Letter--Efforts for Release--Even New Evidence
Superfluous--The Doctors’ Doubt--Public Surprise at Verdict--
Character of Jury--The “Mad Judge”--Justice Stephen’s Biased
Charge--Lord Russell’s Memorandum Quashed--Repeated Protests
of Lord Russell--The American Official Petition--Secretary
Blaine’s Letter to Minister Lincoln--Henry W. Lucy on Lord
Russell--Lord Russell’s Conviction of Mrs. Maybrick’s
Innocence--Explanation of Attitude of Home Secretaries--
Upholding the Justiciary--Need of Court of Criminal Appeal, 225

THE BRIEF OF MESSRS. LUMLEY & LUMLEY.--Opinion Re F. E.
Maybrick--Justice Stephen’s Misdirections--Misdirections as
to Mr. Maybrick’s Symptoms--Misdirections as to Mrs.
Maybrick’s Access to Poisons--Misdirection as to “Traces”
of Arsenic--Misdirection as to Arsenic in Solution--Mr.
Clayton’s Experiments--Misdirection as to Arsenic in
Glycerin--Misdirection as to Evidence of Physicians--
Misdirection as to Times When Arsenic May Have Been
Administered--Misdirection as to Mrs. Maybrick’s Changing
Medicine Bottles--Misdirection as to Administration with
Intent to Kill--Exclusion of Prisoner’s Testimony--
Misdirection as to Identity of Meat-Juice Bottle--
Misdirection in Excluding Corroboration of Prisoner’s
Statement--Misdirections to Jury to Draw Illegal
Inferences--Misdirections Regarding the Medical Testimony--
Conflict of Medical Opinion--Misdirections as to Cause of
Death--Misdirection to Ignore Medical Testimony--Misreception
of Evidence--Cruel Misstatement by Coroner--Medical Evidence
for the Prosecution--Maybrick Died a Natural Death--The Chief
Witness for the Prosecution--Medical Evidence for Defense--A
Toxicological Study--Medical Weakness of Prosecution--The
Administration of Arsenic--The Fly-paper Episode--How Mrs.
Maybrick Accounts for the Fly-papers--Administration of
Arsenic not Proved--Intent to Murder not Proved--Absence of
Concealment by Prisoner--Some Important Deductions from
Medical Testimony--Symptoms Due to Poisonous Drugs--Death from
Natural Causes--Prosecution’s Deductions from Post-mortem
Analysis Misleading--Recapitulation of Legal Points, 262

MRS. MAYBRICK’S OWN ANALYSIS OF THE MEAT-JUICE INCIDENT, 366

MEMORIALS FOR RESPITE OF SENTENCE.--From the Physicians of
Liverpool--From the Bars of Liverpool and London--From
Citizens of Liverpool, 381

NEW EVIDENCE.--Arsenic Sold to Maybrick by Druggist--Arsenic
Supplied to Maybrick by Manufacturing Chemist--Depositions as
to Mr. Maybrick’s Arsenic Habit--Justice Stephen’s Retirement, 384

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Florence Elizabeth Maybrick, _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

The Late Dr. Helen Densmore, 32

Lord Charles Russell, 48

St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, 52

Justice Fitz-James Stephen, 56

Baroness von Roques, 112

Aylesbury Prison, 128

Miss Mary A. Dodge (“Gail Hamilton”), 144

Right Hon. A. Akers-Douglas, M.P., 216

Hon. James G. Blaine, 248

Hon. Robert T. Lincoln, 256

Hon. John Hay, 288

Hon. Joseph H. Choate, 320

Samuel V. Hayden, 352

Leonidas D. Yarrell, 368