The Maybrick Case.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 358, 1 October 1889, Page 3

The Maybrick Case.

A London correspondent writes in reference to the Maybrick case:—The extraordinary prolixity of the learned Judge in jury in the case excited general remark. Phot Mis Maybrick had evidently braced herself for tie verdict on Tuesday evening, and her dismay on learning that His Lordship would not conclude before the morrow betrayed itself in an involuntary exclamation. On Wednesday morning the unhappy woman was so weak she had to be assisted into the dock, and at first everyone expected her momentarily to faint. By a great effort of will, however, she appeared to fight down the illness (or whatever it was) and once more concentrated her attention on the Judge's observations. These were for a long time greatly in her favor, but when His Lordship came to discuss the prisoner's voluntary statement she must have shivered inwardly, Bit by bit the learned Judge dissected this remarkable impromptu, and pointed out its terribly weak points. There was, he said, a curious lack of evidence to confirm it, and its inconsistency with many admitted facts told seriously against the prisoner. Why, too, did Sir Charles Bussell pass so lightly over such a vital part of the case 1 How came it, if he believed Maybrick’s statement, that his cross-examinations were not directed towards proving it ? Where, moreover, were Mrs Maybriok's mother and the Brooklyn doctor, who could have deposed to her using the arsenic lotion ’ Other witnesses had been brought from America; why not these ? Mrs Maybrick sat like a statue during this trying period, and the Court was so quiet you could have heard a pin drop. Tue Judge doesn’t always speak quite clearly, but he delivered these criticisms with an impressiveness not to be mistaken.