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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 338, 15 August 1889, Page 2

Tha latest English papers mentioned that the defence confidently claimed they could satisfactorily explain away the fact of arsenic being in the house. The Pall Mall Gazette says-—'ltis stated that the suggestion of the defence would be that the very foot of Mrs Maybriok leaving the flypapers to so.k in so open a manner showed that she had not intended to extract the arsenic for criminal uses. It would appear that for American ladies to use arsenic for the purpose of the toilet is not uncommon, The practice is certainly common in Germany. The effect of araenio in beautifying the complexion is well known, and Mrs Maybriok’s friends assert that she had been in the habit of using this for a long period. Thia explains the presence in tbe house both of flypapers and of the arsenic in powder. As to Mrs Maybrick having, as alleged, obtained the flypapers surreptitiously, and not allowed them to appear in the ordinary account at the chemist’s, it is stated that she did not desire her hueband or friends to know that she used the poison as a cosmetic,' If (added a colonial paper) tha acouaod succeeds in satisfying the jury of her innocence, her escape should prove a lesson to those silly creatures who try ta improve upon nature's handiwork by using such dangerous cosmetics as arsenical face powder. Tha final outcome of the trial will be awaited with some curiosity by those who have read tha detailed accounts given of the preliminary examination in the English papers.