The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 21, 1897, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1897. 21 HE WINRTER EXRIBIT A-ain the Hopkins Institute of Art has « i its doors to enable the p the fall exhibi ter pen and ink draw- number about fifteen co oan collection of the works c artists as Detaille, Dupre, La gogne, S Stone, Irvill, Lesrel, Briss while forty- nine other nu the Tol collection, re irawings black and sach well-known Eastern artists as Hamilton Gibson, Bo ton Jones, Siddons Mowbray, F Church, William Smedley and Will H. Low. The remainder of the numbers consists works resident TS, of paj The exbibition as a whole ranks well with former exhibitions, and as tiere are some most excellent tnings and hat are only mediocre. n the work of the loan e resident a el the pulse of the popu blic like highly finished 1n examining such works as rush, Detaille, Marcus Stone, realizes that “‘pictures may be Jished without being finicky. our own artists “The Matthews is the a conceptional and a cal point of view. Twoother sketches, tudy’’ and “Drifting Fog in Sand s,"”” are charm Mr. Matthews is He has outgrown ubtedly an art gapa r. receives the most attentio sented by five vases. H portrait of a Iittle n red nifice His No. 88, Yates,” is very pec eesting as a color st emarkcd at the reception on Thursds 2.1 I never sea such color,” and re- | c 1the Ruskin re “Don’t you wish Curtis two 80 and ¢ ses, No: W hile beir w care Mr. Greenb: 1 wor mber of large ble merit. striking, ed with | e can ap- | s work. His e composition L poised and ! ait of her mother, ‘ able. | Chandler’s | eli-ren tered head. { Miss Pearson and Mr. Jud- | No. 120 e pictures and making s SN ¢ Bon exhibit canvases ot heads that de- serve commendation. Miss Edgerly shows a case of fine min- ON AT THE SAND DVNES~FATHEWS iatures on iyory that testify to bher un- [isthat of Mr. Keith, which is so fall of usal ability. Prominent among the landscape work J mystery, suggestive rather than definite ite in drawing, and soft and rich in color. HOLLAND — YELLAND- little sketch in No. The gifted Cadenesso sends a beautiful | mistakes his canvases, 5,and Mr. Yeliand, | of interesting studies. whose style is so distinct that one never | L& sends a number GORITUTE OF ART { everything else, His “Afterglow’” is ex- quisite. A litile like his work 1s that of Miss Inez Bates. Her Nos. ¢9 and 61 are very simply rendered and very interesting. Mrs. Austin Mathews’ No. 132 is very charming. It has the simplicity and crispness of a Japanese study. Mrs, Schwamm shows some very nice pastels and Mrs. Menton exhibits several interesting sketches. Miss Nellie Treat shows a charming bit in her No. 83. Hobart Clark shows two canvases of merit. Among water-colors are some very in- teresting and pleasing work by Mrs. Curiis, Miss Briggs, Mr. Blatchiey and Mr. Urunella. That Chinatown and its people offer many attractive subjects o aruists is very evident from the number of studies e x- hibited. Mrs. Whelan’s ‘‘Lost in China’ attracts favorable attention. Mr. Kyle exhibits a charming bit of pastel In his No. 168, Mr. Armer’s No. 156 1s very artistic and Mr. Neilson has sev- eral interesting sketches. Among the studies in flowers Mrs. Mary Herrick Ross’ No. 233 1s fine. Mrs. Ross is certainly a master in this branch ot art. Her canvas suffers a litile by its hanging as well as by its framing. The picture fails to fill the frame. b Mrs. Chittenden’s study, No. 130, is graceful and well drawn. Miss Austin’s Geranium, No. 150, is de- ligntful, and her No. 225 is also very good. Of the still-life artists Mr. Carison is the acknowledged master. His No. 101 shows some excellent work. Mr. Hubacek’s No. 114 is well rendered. In sculpture there are but five pieces ex« hibited. Otto Dobbertin exhibits a very excel- lent and lifelike portrait of Colonel Crocker, and a bust, entitled, “'Girlnood,” that is very charming and is representa- tive of Mr. Dobbertin’s best work. Mr. Aitkin’s bust of Mr. Urunella shows work of a high order, and the study of Miss Rosener is pleasing. Mr. Tilden’s ability is well known, and his very strong work on the “Native Son’’ would show to better advantage if it had not been gilded. Afcer all gold is good for jewelry and coir, and gilding for flatirons and snow- shovels, but they have very little place in art. This article gives but the opinion of one person. There is much that has not been spoken of that is excellent, and it is to be expected that San Franciscans will lend their sympathy and support to this worthy institution, not only by visiting the exhibition which will be open fora month, but by liberally patronizing its art treasures. KaTHERINE M. BaLn ————— Durrant’s execution, instead of Durrant, Rollo Peters, represents a style unlike is indefinitely suspended. - REVIEW OF THE FAMOUS MAYBRICK MURDER “Guilty or not guilty ?” A synoptic recollection of this crisis in ife of an American mother, sprung an ancesiry of unsullied repute, and ssowned for her beauty and wit, would Time, eight years ago; place, Liverpool; acousation, murder; victim, husband; ans, poison; motive, avarice; evi- Guilty or not guilty " Not guilty.” I'ne woman trembled and wept. Her y consciousness of shame and disgrace against her. all her friends and intimates none nigh in faith and charity, save her ven her lover, cowardly roue that he ved, was taking ship for the United ates at the very moment she shrieked to God and swooned under the sentence of | death. In the record of criminal jurisprudence of Great Britain, at least for the nineteenth century, the Maybrick case is unique for pitilessness of persecution, prejudice of conv:ction and injustice of condemna- s Mrs. Maybrick guiliy ? Au indignant and clamorcus public nion said no, and responsive to it Mr. Matthews, then Home BSecretary, mmuted her sentence to life imprison- To Woking she passed, instead of e gallows, buoyed up by tho semi- | official assurance that she was entitied 1o liberty, which must be denied her tem- porarily in deference to precedent and in ofense of the dignity and fair name of | glish justice. Y n the face of abundant proof of her in- cence, monster petitions supported by the sympathetic pleadings of such elo- quent champions es Gail Hamilton, and | urged through diplomatic channels, have | uot yet availed to place the circnmatances of her case before the Queen, who is the | real arbiter of her fate. It would now seem that Mrs, May- brick’s aoom is sealed, as the British Government has declined to consider the request of President McKinley that she | be pardoned as an act of international | courtesy, and this closes the only ap- | proach to the clemency of the Queen. | A person not familiar with the uncom- | promisinz severity of the English crim- | 1al justice and court procedure cannot | readily comprehend the singularities of | the Maybrick case, and the reason why | the woman’s innocence avails her nothing now in the efforts to secure her liberty. | Newspaper criticirm or comment, during ; trial or afterward, respecting either Judge, | jury, witnesses or prisoner, is disapproved | by custom and indulged at the peril of prozecution for libel and punishment tor # contempt. Such searching inquiry as the reporters of the American press make in judicial matters of moment is thus pre- vented. When Mrs. Maybrick was on trial James Gordon Bennett was publishing in London an edition of the New York Herald. Its staff included a number of clever and daring men Who had grown upin the American school of jour- | nalism, smong them John Russeli Young, now Congressional Librarian, Jghn C. Reid, formerly and for many ars managing editor of the New York € Oukey Hall, once editor of the ’Nw York Worla ; Harry Dam, well known in Cabfornia; Ralph Meeker, Thomas Fielders, Billv Knox, Irving Hawkins, Cleveland Moffatt and a number of crack reporters from New York and Chicago. This staff, inspired by Mr. Bennett’s feariessness, has already broken down the barrier of Enghish custom and dread in the matter of the Parnell Commission by notonly attackinz the process and animus 1ce, presumptive. | | else as a self-confessed adulteress. | jury promptly returned a verdict in keep- which was to drive Piggott, the chief wit- ness, to exile and suicide, and turn the august proceeding into a slanderous farce, 1t became obvious soon after the trial of Mrs. Maybrick began that behind the prosecution was some mystery, and that in the trial itself Justice Stephen was prejudiced against her. It may be well to explain at this point that the Judge had divorced his wife for infidelity. He was a peculiarly erratic | man, soured and out of sorts with the | world at large, ana especially severe upon | frail womankind. Only a short time previous he had pub- lished in the Nineteenth Century Maga- e an extraordinary defense of atheism. The Judge's rulings throughout were harsh and unfavorable to the accused. The case against Mrs. Maybrick rested upon expert testimony as to the presence of arsenic in the stomach of the dead man disclosed at the autopsy; testimony that she bad bought arsenic immediate!y prior to her husband’s death, and testimony that she had a lover to whom she was devoted. Theinference drawn by the prosecution and the court was that she wished to be rid of her husband, to secure bis fortune and marry her paramour. tion must be grounded in the hypothesis of the prosecution, inasmuch as the evidence was correct in the three essential particulars outlined. Conscious of her own innocence, and despite of the ad- vice of her counsel, Sir Charles Russell, now Lord Chief Justice of Kngland, she took the stand in ber own defense. Alas, her self-abasement failed to touch the heart of ths Judge and oniy served to fortify his manifest intention to hang her. Bhe admitted her intimacy with the man Brierly, but avowed that it was ap- proved by ber husband—perilous assertion without proof. She admitted that she bought the arsenic Maybrick took imme- diately prior to aeath, but asserted that be was addicted to its use. BShe protested Lier innocence before heaven. The case was concluded with a monstrous charge to the jury, in which Justic Stephen convicted her asa self-confessed murderess because she conla be nothing The | 'ng with the virtual command of the court, and she was sentenced to be hanged. | Toen it was that Bennett opened the | Herald baiteries. Thirty-six hours later | the Herald appeared in the streets of Lon- don with a journalistic retrial of the case | that caused a profound sensation. In the interim a vast amount of new evidence haa been procured by the enterprising methods characterist:c of American jour- nalism, Two “‘mysteriously disappeared” wit- nesses had been overhauled and inter- viewed, one in the mountains of Wale: the other in the Isle of Wight; drug- stores where Maybrick had often bought arsenic had been located; demonstration from the best chemical experts of Glas- gow that the post-mortem proved May- brick to have been habituated to the use of the drug was obtained; proof that the deceasea was the imbecile and incurable victim of a secret malady had been se- cured. In short & mass of evidence was come piled by telegraph, which showed con- clusively that Mrs. Maybrick, whatever her faults, did not murder her hueband. On the contrary it was made quite plain that she had been degraded by his liber- tinism and vices. of tneinquiry, but by securing a confession from Le Caron, the spy of Scotland Yard sud informer for the crows, the An investigation of the personnel of the jury also disclosed the significans fact ffect of | that four of the members were aggrisved, | Her convic- | like the Judge, against womankind, be- cause of similar experiences of marital in- fidelity. Editorial invective was not deemed suf- ficlently forceful for the cccasion, so Robert Buchanan was called upon to con- tribute an appropriate auxiliary, to be limited only by the bounds of poetic license, with the following result: THE COOD JUDGE’'S £OLILOQUY. By ROBERT BUCHANAN. (Bubscribed to Justice Stephen.) Grave in his place, ! lack cap on his head, The wise Judge fixed his gaze upon the sin- ner. “May God have mercy on your soul,’” he said, | Then took the ermine off and wenttodinner. | That evening o’er the walnuts and the wine, While the lone woman wept in desolation, He with a smile serene and superfin Fingered his chin and welghed th ituation. ‘How meet it is,” he mused, *tosit on high, vectator of life’s foolishness and vauity, { And in the name of God whom I deny To join the musquerade of Christianity. “ ‘May God have mercy on your soul.” Yes: Are words of mockery and contradiction, Since well I know, as every wise man knows, | God is a figment, and the soul—a fiction: “I, Stephen, God's fudge in a Christian land, Whose Queen’s defender of the superstition, Have ta’en the Holy Bible ia my hund, And sworn to countenance the imposition. “Judge? And a good judge, too, my critics swear, Itake my stand on sclence and reality; | A Puritan, as those I sprang from, where 1 hold one creed essential—that’s Morality. | “And yet Morality (which in its youth Men misnamed Faith) by ita mostsolemn pleading— truth— Seems 10 rebuke the 1ie which I am leading! “I think,” and here he smiled and filled his glass, “This world is ample, both for judged and judges; Life on the whole most pleasantly must pass, 1f we dispense with God and other fudges. “Books (moral books), newspapers (moral t00), Science and ert. friendship and good society, ake life worth iiving to the fit, though few, And hanging culprits lends that life variety. “To thrive, and to be moral. And get the loavi plessant. Athelst in thought and orthodox in deed, Ismile at future states, embrace the present. “That woman whom I judged? Humph! how 1 prest The issue home, unmoved by weale compas- ston; The law’s hot iron burning in her breast, 8ne shrieked to God in most immodest fashion. “I hold adultery (which I'm afraid Toe foolish Jew men worship treated lightly) To be the deadiiest sin of sins. I made Those twelve good. jurors acquiesce, and rightly. “And so they doom’d her, the sdulteress— And so I, man’s elect, pronounced her sen. tence. O may thet faith I loathe but must profess Chasten her thoughts and lesd her to repent- ance. To succeed, and fish, is surely ¢ ‘May God have mercy?’ Iatleast, I trust, Know better how to reckon with things human, With or without a soul, I ho!d man must Be moral, but especially woman! *Judge in aland whose need I hold in scorn, Voice of & God I pass as inexpedient; Arm of a queen who in God’s faith was born, I measure mortals with my morai gradient, 1, Stephea, athieist in a Christian land, Judge of the faith, forlorn and full of folly, Taking the code of God in my right hand, Pass judgment in the name fools still deem holyy Truth, the whole truth, and nothing tut the | | “Let the adultress dfe: breath Who ask my sympathy for such asinner”; And smiling at the merry Dance of Death, He shrugged hisshoulders and enjoyed his dinner. THE BALLAD OF RESURRECTION. (Tnscribed to Mr. Justice Stephen.) n his bed They waste their “I will light my lamp and srise.” Christ arose from bis bed, Where wearifu! years ne had lain, The stars were shining overhead, Thick as the golden grain, “Eighteen hunared years Have flown since I lay as dead; Ifound the children of earth in tears, But bade them be comforted. “Surely now at last My Cross is a blossoming tree, Evil and sorrow are past. My throne is ready for me,” He 11t his lamp and arose "Neath a sky without a cloud, . Bright and fair as a blowing rose His face shone out of its shroud, Christ stood fair and bright At the porch of the tomb and smiled, And the restless wind of the night Slept like a sleeping child, Slowly along the dark Unseen by men wept he, But the earih lay silently down to mark In the soft, still arms of the sea. He came to & city great, silent under the sky, And the watchman at the gate Beheld him not go by. Passing the empty mart, Creeptng from shade (0 shade, He saw at last in the city’s heart A templs that men had made. Dark at the temple door The ragged and outcast lay, And Lazarus wailed once more, Weary and gaunt and gray. And an altarlight burnt there, And a litany sounded hence— “Rejoice, rejoice, for all Gods that were Are banished and vanished hence, “And the only God we know Is the ghost of our despair; Gaze in the glass aud 1ol Our God is mirrored there. “Strong as when time began, Creature of dust and breath, God our Lord, the spirit of man, Crowned with the crown of death, And lo! from earth and sea, And the blue skies now o'ercast, Voices walled “Woe is me; Death is the first and last.” Christ went with shining feet, Through leathsome alley and den, He heard arouna him from every street, The moan of the Magdalen, “How long, O Lord, how long,” He heard the tone voice cry, “Shall they who wrought the wrong, While we lie lost goby?” “Reach down thy hand,” 1t moaned, To hielp the'lost and me— Rabbi, the woman still is stened, The man stiil wanders free?” Still and unseen crept he Into the prison square, And he saw the Upas tree, Ot man’s fnvention there. High as the Cross it stood, Crosswise its shadow fell, And the sap of the tree was tears and blood And its roots sank deep as hell, “Rabbi”—again that cry Cume from a lonely place~— Ana she who waited to die, Had a woman’s form and face, “Reach down thy hand,” it moaaed, “To help the 10st, and me= Rabbi, the woman still is stoned; The man still wanders free. { ¢ The lie, the blight, and the ban t doom me, men have cast— By man I fell, and my judge, a man, Threw the first stone and the last, * Master, maste: e sald, “Hither, come hither to me.” He left his blessing upon her head, His curse on the Upas tree. And all his soul was stirred, His tears like red blood ran, While the light of the woful world Flamed in the city of man. And the heavens grew black as night, And tne voice cried, **Sleep again,” And the cold sea’s arms clung wild and white Round a world that shrieked for pain. He walked upon the sea, And the lamblike waves lay still, And he came to Calvary And the crosses high on the hill, Beneath his cross he stooa, Between the thief and the thief, And lo! the cross dript blood, dript blood, And never put forth a leaf. Christ crept back to his bed, Where Death stood dark and dumb— 1 waked in vain,” he sa!d, “ My kingdom hath not come.” Buchanan’s wrathful satire, copied in extracts throughout Great Britain, touched the Chrigiizn sentiments of the people, while the exposures resolutely made by the Herald from day to day, in defiance of all threats of prosecution for libel and contempt, made a profound im- pression on the Liberal Ministiy, and par- ticularly on Home Becretary Matthews. Sir Charles Russell, absoiutely convinced of the guiltiessness of his client, was en rapport with B ‘nnett’s magnanimous de- termination to rescue the unfortunate woman from the gallows and restore her to liberty, if possible, no matter what tne cost. Words were not minced nor responsi-, bility dodged, in repeatedly challenging criminal action against the He-ald, so certain was 1t that a prosecution would immediately render it possible to present the proof of Mrs. Maybrick's innocence, which could then be placed before the Government 1n legal form. Not one of the many threatened suits for damages, or actions for slander, was instituted, Home Secretary Matthews finally took cognizance of the verity of tbe new de- fense, however, in obedience to the pres- sure of public opinion, and commuted the sentence of death to life imprisonment. It was understood at the time as coming from the Gladstone Ministry, though not officially proclaimed, that as soun as a reasonable time had elapsed pardon weald be forthcoming. It would be too much of a shock to the dignity of the law,too deep a wound to inflict on tho integrity of English justice, to ask for royal clemency until such time as executive intervention wou!d seem to be deliberate and independent of any in- tluence of sympathy or the actual facts. What has become of these gladdening half-promises, hopeful intimations, con- veyed fronr Victoria street to the luckless creature upon whom the bars and boits of Woking appear to have closed for life? Tricked out of recollection by the shuffle of ministries; lost in the maze of the in- humanities of government. One tes: of the facts should be sufficient to satisfy the most skeptical. Was Maybrick addicted to the use of arsenic as a stimulant for a swiftly de- pleting vitality ? Skillful analys's and credible druggists proved the aflirmative. This, after the trial. Did Mrs.- Maybrick innocently buy it DOOMED THROUGH THE PREJUDICE OF A STERN JUDGE having done so, and inquiry corroborated her. Arsenic is subtle. Maybrick earried it in nis clothing, when trace of it could ke found easily by analysis if any of his garments were obtainable. By some un- known hand every vestige of his clothing wasdestroyed immediately after death. If Maybrick did not use arsenic fre- quently, if he did not carry it about in his clothing, and if Mrs. Maybrick poisoned him with the motive alleged, why should she have burned or buried every garment he had in the world, which was certainly done. Iishe murdered her husband, why should she have made away with his clothing? If she was familiar with the volatility of this toxic material, and poisoned him with 1t, she would have preserved his clothes. Then, if he used the drug, the presence of it in the clothing would have sustained the defense that he overdosed himself. If he did not use it, she could have made out that ke did, by placing it n the clothes, and offering them for analysis. In other words, the existence of May- brick’s clothes, whether she were guilty of his murder or not, was of importance to her defense. 8he could have no pos- sible motive for destroying them. Why, then, were they destroyed? Sim- ply to remove the proof that he used the drug habitually, and that weould have advantaged the accused. The question as to what Maybrick’s clothes mignt reveal under analysis did not occur at the trial. It was a detective clew secretly run to earth by the Herald. 1t was the Herald that solved the otber complexities of the case, arising from the fact that Maybrick, when making purchases of arsenic himself, went to pharmacies where he was unknown, as did Mrs. Maybrick. Photographs of the couple were re- sorted to iu the development of this feat- ure of the detective work, and the evidence procured of the frequent purchases at various places was emphatic and com- plete. Maybrick died from disease and gradual arsenical poisoning. No one murdered bim. Who, then, sent Mrs. Maybrick to the gallows, and why ? Read the complications, domestic and otherwise, and guess. Maybrick not only knew of his wife's relations with Brierly, but suggested that they be established and rustained, decorously, as a bond pre- edent to a marriage he expected to take place after the speedy death he antici- pated. He was himself the wreck of faithiess- ness, and by one of those curious twists of conscience explicable only as phenomena of turpitude deemed his invention of this arrangement a generous atonement for the wrongs he had done. The Maybricks had as governess 10 the two children a beautitul young woman named Yapp, whom a brother of Maybrick nad ecraftily placed in ths househoid. Miss Yapp was fond of intrigue and amaiive excitements. She was a protege of Maybrick’s brother, who.rezarded with envy the moderate fortune of Maybrick. He disliked Mrs. Maybrick; she distrusted him. Another character in the drama was Miss Briggs, a very gay and handsome woman, who relished pleasure and made a companion of Miss Yapp. Mrs. May- brick trusted these two women—Mrs. Briggs and Mrs. Yapp—never suspecting that Brierly was on such reiations with them as she regarded as being exclusive to herself. {or him more than ence? She confessed | Unasentiently, she was the target of jeals CASE ousy from two quarters, When Maybriek died, who can doubt whence the poison slander emanated? Pernaps the primal motive of its circulation was to injure her sociaily and compromise her. Perhaps it was tha short-sighted scandal of either one or both women. At all events one thread ot it was traced to Miss Yapp, who was a witness for the prosecution. Maybe it was not the inten- tion of the first accusative words to get her hanged. Once embarked in the en- terprise of defamation who shall measure the steps to the end ? Here Mrs. Maybrick was abandoned by every one in her home circle, and the day her sentence was pronounced, while the echo of the verdict of guilty was sull ringing in the courtroom, Miss Yapp was seen scurrying off with the two Maybrick children. At this juncture the brother of May. brick appeared to prefer his claim for administrator of the estate and guardian for the abducted children, whose taking off by the Yapp woman had been ar- ranged. The Herald captured Miss Yapp and the children in the mountains of Wales. Again, it may be asked, who destroyed the clothing of Maybrick, so vital to the solution of this mystery of infamy when Mrs. Maybrick stood in theé shadow of the gallows? Buchanan’s lines, which will live in lite erature and carry down to posterity an awiul reprobation, will have this explana- tory note: “Justice Stephen went insane,” for thus he died, while the victim of his cruel in- justice lay withering in prison. D. Cowrx. THE WORLD’S LARGE LIBRARIES. The largest library in the world is the National Library in Paris, containing more than 2,000,000 printed volumes and about 200,000 manuscripts. The British Museum has a collection of about 1,500,000 volumes, and exceedsthe St. Petersburg Imperial Library only by 12,000 volumes, The Royal Library at Munich contains about 900,000 printed works, and it is ex- ceptionally rich in pamphlets, while the Berlin Royal Library has 800,000 volumes, that of Copenhagen 510,000, that of Dres- den and the University Library at Got- tingen each have 500,000. The Imperial Library at Vienna has 400,000, while the University Library in the same me- tropolis has 370,000. e e The driving of light carriages by means of liquefied carbonic acid as a motive power has been often proposed, the diffi- culty chiefly encountered being the great absorption of heat, and consequently loss of efficiency through the refrigeration of the engine, as the liquid expands and returns to the gaseous state. The latest method brought forward for avoiding this aifficulty is due to the ingenuity of a French inventor, M. Rassimier, his method being to press the care bonic acid through capillary tubes in a chamber heated to 247 degrees Fahren- heit by petroleum or coal briquettes, the heated gas being then admitted to the engine cylinder, where it acts upon the piston, and is then led into a chamber or jacket surrounding the liquefied gas. The gaseous acid giving up the necessary heat to cnange the liquid acid to the gaseous form o: 30 degrees Centigrade, a pressure of 75 atmospheres is finally developed. The final exhaust of the gas takes place from the jacker or chamber. The siates ment is, in substance, that the capillary heater insures the first expansion of the gas, while the addition of pressure through the heating of the reservoir by the exhaust gas takes place only when the engine is working, — e “Has Jim Budd a future?” asks an ex- change. Yes, dear brother, le has, but we refrain from talking about it for fear we might be accuged of plagiarising Danie’s “Inferne’