The Maybrick Case.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 367, 22 October 1889, Page 3

The Maybrick Case.

HOW A YANKEE REPORTER WAS TREATED. London, August 2(1. This country is now almost surfeited with the details of tr,e Maybrlck case. The woman has been committed to penal servitude for life. There are still heaps of persons who imagine that help will be forthcoming to obtain a full pardon for her, but those who know the case best shake their heads and say no. There has been a difficulty in getting real genuine information about the case. All parties concerned in it are very reticent. A smart reporter of, a Chicago paper (The Tribune) was probing about the other day in search qf it occurred to him that it would, be a good stroke of business to interview Sir James Fitzi' ames Stephen on the matter, thinking no loubt that by going to the fountain head he would be sure to get something pithy. So Mr Reporter put on his best visiting suit of clothes, hired a swell trap with servant in livery, and drove up to the residence of the Judge in great style. The servants of the house thought it must be some person of consequence, and as the visitor's card bore a well-known English name without a smell of the press ahopt It, tbe visitor bad no a iffipplty in getting Into the presence oi the august Judge, when the following Bneeohes took place Judge Stephen : " Well, Sir, what do you want ?” Reporter i “ Well, I want to ask your Lordship a few questions with reference to the Maybriok affair, which you alone can answer. I am, Sir, a reporter from the Chicago Tribune.!’ Judge Stephen, in his awful judicial voice; “ Sir, tjxerp ;s tbq door,” and turning to tbe close- at hand, said | ” See that he leaves by it, The reporter did not stay to ask any questions. He had a great ambition to put distance between his valuable self and the terrible judge as quickly as possible, and British S 'ud^es rter hBB ““ 8W?8 ‘