The evening world. Newspaper, August 23, 1904, Page 2

a us Woman, Confined in an Eng- jail for Fifteen Years for the Al- d Murder of Her Husband, Ar- at Last in America. on Steamship Vaderland and| MRS: MAYB PRISON—SNAFSHOT TAKEN aba Tew aed me Up the Bay Early To-Day,| fting Her First Sight of America enty Yeara Steamebip Vaderland, Aug. 28, 1904, that the state of my henith ac well as business rea- pre T talking to my friends of the American press at iene, B should ike, To them aud to my fellow country: aa Tam deeply indebted. ne fiutr efforts ia my bebalf I take this means of expressing pidsting gratitude 2s well as words cau, and also to thank upon my release, which I regret I ly to acknowedge. wea uueble to accompany me, I have come ander of Mr. Hayden, of Hayden & Yarrell, my attor- Mayden. [am sncured by my Ruglish physteian Wilmer, of Washington, who prescribed for me during that quiet and mental rest will tm time restore my homey on the advice ef my cennsel and physician that I have to. guptess the feeling of deep joy and thankfalness with eh J return to my native land. At the earliest opportunity I my birthplace, Mobdite, Ala., and aleo Norfolk, Va., heme during my carly married life. | met Believe, 20 I have always, that God will in His own me righ great wrong I have auffered. heformation ¢oncerning my plans I must refer you comnse!, Most sincerely, ; FLORENCE ELIZABETH MAYBRICK., tad ® , rai¢ ‘Afier twenty-three years of absence from this country, fifteen of ind for the alleged murder of her husband, Mrs. Florence Chanler | ck returned here to-day. setting of this woman's foot again on her native land marked ‘of persistent effort, for it was only unceasing labor on the her friends, afterward reinforced by the interest and influence! Americans in this country and Europe, {hat finally over. the characteristic repugnance of the great British nation to fo one on whom the ban of its criminal courts has fallen, my attempt (0. naly > the fesiing this unfortunate woman, whos! i of prison Mfe have stamped themselves indeiioly on her once | 1 taco, om thé Gret giimpec of her native land, had in the early of this morning, When the sun rove over the eastern sky line, would “a ‘That she felt great things and that it took nerve and strength | them no one who saw ber could doubt. It was only after her ewopl over the glittering ime of New York in its morning bath af jand then rested on the city for several minutes that a quiver of the two gient tars 18 the still Bandsome eyes betrayed what she felt, (hie small craft ranged slongside the big Vaderiand and the con. jgtemen of @ liner coming in wore spread before her the realization % fact that the long, long home-coming wen at last over seemed to her with terrific force, for she buried her face in the arms of her on, Mrs. Hayden, tho wife of her lawyer, and wept bitterly, taken to her cabin, where she toon recovered herself, eo that when tat of tncing @ pier full of curious persons came she was able to with fortitude and strength. IN MANNER NOW. ju, 'tn whove behalf the machinery of two governments and world worked tn vatn for many yearn, who has been Se most talked of woman for # decade, is rather undersized and shows | style, in her every movement how entirely she bas absorbed abroad. She went away from the wife of @ man ‘of eminence most of ber beauty and her sili prison pallor that only years of air and free- Her blue eyes have not the brightness or the, betore her great trial. Another mark of the! are restless and weak. Her sight as been drawn ond it ie thie fact that gave prevalence to the stories | min time ago that she was rapidly becoming bilad. he authority of her friends and her physicians it may be said that | fs not lectrg her sight, but has an excellent chance to recover Goring the next few years, general health is somewhere sbatternd, as {s inevitable, but she isa) of Great courage and determination, and there is no apprehension tal inds of her friends over her ultimate recovery. For the Test, she is! ier Chto, there are rings under her eyes,and the brushing back of her | ~ the temples reveals the great blue veins standing out, Her voire - fad unshaxeu, and she !tves in but one destre, to be left in pert to found oat her broken life tp her own way. vaeye ct , wos xt : a TRAVELLED AS ROSE INGRAHAM. Eo) Mrs. Maybrick was happily epared the curious gase of her teliow pas- ! nears for the first three days of the trip from Antwerp. She had pur-| ase: her ticket under the name of Miss Rose Ingraham, a name she had al ber own family, an uncle being the Rev. John P. T, Ingraham, ‘Piest Presbyterian Church of St. Louls. On the paspenger list she e4 as Rose Ingraham, and to completely was her incognito kept | ‘Taree days she ranged the decks at will, exciting no greater com. | , any other passonger of her pallor and evident {1i health would, 4 Samuel V. Hayden, of Washington, who ts her legal ad- ‘nt Mire Haydon were in constant attendance on her, Capt..R. C. x unable to get after her relase from prison and in seeking which ‘MMl over the continent to escape interviewers and advisers, ‘Phere. Walking the decks or sitting in her steamer chair the njewed these three days as she hadn't enjoyed days in many years. WHR mysteriowsness suddenness ber identity became known. Just 1 about no one ever found out. Tt was believed by Mrs. Hayden be p of the Vaderiand, knew who she was, but was faithful to his pledge | Hing these \hree days Mrs. Maybrick enjoyed the complete privacy she | Tent ence Maybrick, RICK, BACK IN AMERICA A, : AS SHE WAS DESCENDING THE GANGPLANK. E AUGU i ae GAIN AFTER 15 YEARS IN ENGLISH wee gent inside the slonii:y wolls of the olf Aylestnn v Prisur, | the decks much at night, and toward the last day of the trip the other pas-| wax a crowd of those who would have been on the pier anyway and its con- sengers were gracious enough to wako thelr curiosity as inoffensive as pos- aidle, and the woman was able to walk about without embarrassment. DISTRESSING CONCERT EPISODE. Just one distressing episode occurred after the identity of Mrs. May- brick became known, The usual concert was held in the cabin, and un- fortunately the vehicle of amusement was a mock trial. It was a thought- leas thing to do, and the vividness of the scene worked badly on Mrs, Maybrick. She slipped from the cabin with Mrs, Hayden and went to her &rant| own stateroom, But Mra, Maybrick appreciated the fact that no bad MO") immod with black velvet, with a black velvet belt around her walet, Mer {tives ingpired the exhibition, and the mext day proved it by appearing 0 j4¢ was of cream-colored straw trimmed with chiffon and lace and with public und speaking graciously to all who spoke to her. 1 From the third day out Mrs, Maybrick was attended by Dr. W. H.| Wilmer, the noted eye apegalist, of Philadelphia. He was fortunately at hand when Mra, Maybrich’s eves begin to bother her. Her whole story was told to him hefore any other passenger knew it and he made a careful ex- fyaination of the woman, He sail when the steamer arrived to-day that the talk of Mra, Maybrick going blind was al! nonsense, “Flor eyes are weakened by long confinement and by reading in Insu@- cent light, Eye troubles of this kind come with general physical break- downs and leave as the constitution bullds up again. With plenty of reet and peace ot mind there is no reason in the world why Mrs. Maybrick’s eyes should not ultimately be as good as they ever were.” | Tt was a bitter disappointment to Mrs, Maybrick and her friends that Quarantine regulations prevented the passage of the Vaderland to her pier at the foot of Fulton street last night. The steamer was off the Hook at § o'clock and at Quarantine at 10 o'clock, As she came up the bay Mra, Maybdrick stood on the deck well forward and looked over the brilliently lighted city, She talked but little, and when Mr. and Mrs. Hayden begged her to goto bed, so as to be up for an early landing to-day, she obeyed and slept perfectly all night. She was up before the sun ¢ morning and was greeted by one of the most beautiful days of the summer. She | gazed about her and as her eyes lighted on the big Statue of Liberty ehe turned to Mrs, Hayden and sald: j “This is the happiest moment of my life.” Then her lips began to tremble, but she bore herself bravely and con- tinne! to gaze spellbenod on the panorama spread before her. ‘The knowl- edge that she was home again at last, actually back to Ler native country, | which shg left so many years ago in the first happiness of her life, seamed | Niely to overpower her, but she stood perfectly still and without a worl, drinking the scene in until other passengers began to come on dock. Then her eyes filled rapidly, her hands trembled and she burst into tears. She was taken to her stateroom, and (iid not emerge until the Vaderland bad swung into her dock at the foot of Fulton street. | HER LANDING EXPEDITED, | In the interim the United States Government had lived well up to Its promite to expedite the landing of Mrs. Maybrick. Every precantion was taken to safeguard her from Idlers. Her declaration waa taken and her tranks and luggage marked through without delay” A guard of customs officials stood around her stateroom and no one was allowed to penetrate it. Some of them were perhaps too zealous jn their wort, threatening vio-! lence to dny one who even came near the room where Mrs. Maybrick was quartered, but they were young men and a little puffed at ther new and: somewhat important duty, On the whole, however, the idea of saving Mrs. Maybrick annoyance was well carried out. Nothing moro could possibly have been done, and Mrs. Maybrick was very grateful for it Most of the passengers had left the steamer before Mrs. Maybrick and the Haydens came fiom their suit’ Dr. Bmmett Densmbre, of Dyker Heights, Brooklyn; his son-in-law,’ Mr. Painter, and Margaret Hubbard Ayer, whose distingulshed mothor, the tate Mrs, Harriet Hubbard Ayer, went abroad several yeare ago and worked uncearingly for tho release of Mrs. Maybrick, were some of those who went up theerangplank, and as privileged persons were atmitted to an audience. These were friends whom Mrs. Maybrick was very pleased to see, Tt is to Dr. Densmorc's heme tn the Catskills, meat Ellenville, N. Y., that Mrs, Maybrick |s going for the reet and recuperation which she stands in such need of. Mr IJ'ainter Is one of the Americans who worked hard, indew! for Mrs Maybrick In London, while the services of the mother of Miss Ayer have long since been recognized by Mrs, Maybrick and her relatives and friends. HER LAUGH LIKE A NERVOUS CRY. To these people and to one or two others Mrs. Maybrick talked freely ot herself, The very sight of them seemed to take her away from herse? and she langhed as merrily as a woman with such an experience behind her can laugh, @ laugh with more of a,nervyous cry to it than anything else, ) trom this side asked after Mrs. Maybrick by wireless and (out of the beg, However it happened, Mrs, Maybrick bof the stares of the curious and her privacy was ot her time in her cabin, only emerging at aie Th sgt pe 3 the but indicative of a hysterica! kind of happiness, Finelly the time for leaving the steamer came and Mrs. Maybrick steeled herself for an ordeal, which happily she did not have to undergo, ‘There was a crowd on the pier, but it waa not a crowd of curious sightseers {om ending of the usnally inexorable British Government. After she reached sideration was very protty to see. It conldn’t help gazing a little at thie now famous woman when she came down the gangplank, but it was nog an offensive gaze and ave not the least annoyance, Mr. Hayden was on one side and Mrs. Hayden on the other side of Mra, Meybrick as she came down to the plier. The woman walked with a rather uncertain step, indleating physical weaknese, Her hand trembled slightly as she grasped the orm of Mr. Hayden to prevent herself from slipping, but on the whole she had herself well in hand. She wore a neatly-fitting gown of black and white checked cloth, just a touch of lavender tn it, She wore light gioves aad carried a black and white striped silk parasol, Pinned in the folde of this parasol was a small American flag. All the way across the Atlantic Ccean Mrs, Maybriek had carried that little fag with her, never letting it leave her for a moment. ‘It wan the colors of her coun- try, the country whose sympathy for her alone Is responsible for the final the pier Mrs. Maybrick fondled the little flag tenderly. It was a pretty scene and made 4 man want to cheer or do something denfOnstrative. QUICKLY DRIVEN AWAY. On the pier, as everywhere else, the greatest consideration was shown for Mrs. Maybrick’s feelings. She stood but a few moments talking t6 hee friends before her carriage came up and then she was driven away. Mra Maybrick especially wished to avold the ordeal of am interview on the plier and when Mr, Hayden communicated her desire to the reporters she was not annoyed in any way. Mr. Hayden then gave out the written etatement, which came. by the way, from Mrs, Maybrick direct, Mr. Hayden added that under no circumstances would Mra, Maybrick add to this statement at present, i © Mire. Maybrick was then driven away to the Holland House, she is occupying Suit No. 205 Mf, on the second floor, To ward off the curious it was given out that Mr, Maybrick» would go to Brooklya te Dr. Densmore's house, but after reaching the Holland Hous? no attempt at secrecy was made. Mr. Hayden signed the name, “Mre. Florence B May- brick,” on the register. Mrs, Maybrick will only be in the city a day or two at the niost. It has been definitely decided to send her to Ellenville aa goon as she is over the fatigue of the sew trip, and she is herself extremely anxious to go there, After she leaves Elienyille she will go to Mobile, Ala., and then to Noifolk, Va., where she will probably settle indefinitely. Judge Yarrell, of Washington, came on to-day and met Mr. Hayden, his law partner, and Dr. Densmore at the pler. The three men then weat to ihe Filth Avenue Hotel, where they are to po th remgaly over the documents in the Virginia litigation, which, it was charged, was used by the friends of Mrs. Maybrick to induce tue Diittsh Government to pardon Mrs, Maybrick. The lawyers indignantly denied 1) at ery such trick tad ever b»zm used, but said they would make @ forma: statement on the entire matter later in the day at the Fifth Avenue lotei, \ TALKED FREELY OF HBR CASE. Mr. Hayden, after he had seen Mra. Maybrick off, talked freely of the difficulties encountered abroad after the release of Mrs. Maybrick to keep her from being annoyed by foreignrs, Mrs. Maybrick, after her release from prison, was taken to Truro, Cornwall, which place she left on July 20 on a rowndabout trip to Antwerp, where the date of her sailing had anae- tutely been fised. It was necessary to proceed with caution, in order to throw pursners off (he track, Above all things the friends of Mrs. Maybrick were desirous of getting her on the Vaderland absolutely unknown, and they 4id finally succeed im doing it, alihough not without a good deal of trouble. From Cornwall the party went to Rouen, France, where they remained in goclusion. English and French newspaper men finally located them, however, and became so annoying that an appeal had to be taken to the French authorities, Gen. Horace Porter, the American Ambassador te France, acted with the same promptness that bas marked all that Mr. Choate, at London, had done. over Mrs. Maybrick, and she was not annoyed again for a time. When Mrs. Maybrick lef, Rouen for Brussels she was followed by five , Engligh newspapel men, but she managed to elnde them there by leaving /her hotel along one afternoon She went straight to Antwerp, where she put up at the Hotel Dei Antwerpen, Tiere Yhe Maydens joined her the next day. Wher sailing time came Mr, and Mrs. Hayden left the hotel alone ard were (cllowed by a crowd, the latter being mistaken for Mrs. Maybrick. Whon the crowd bad denarted Mrs, Maybrick sauateréd forth alone and was soon dafe and sound om tne steamer, Mr. Choate secured orders that no one but passengers be allowed to board the Vaderland when she touched at Dover, and these orders were! the vigor trom her step and the life from the tones of her roles, faithfelly carried out, so that the real ideatity of Mrs. Maybriek did not}ties and while there te life there i9 bope. The sympathy of become known untii it suddenly burst:on the pamengera in midocenp/¢n has been with her in her sufferings, in the loss of her children, He had French police placed in protection | sie i eT | Ip ; AYER WELCOMES MAS, MA ee eet oe Greets on the Arrival of the Steamship the Women Set Free from an English Prison After Years of In- cessant Work in Her Behalf, a Work in Which Mrs. Ayer Took a Conspicuous and Effective Part, nye BY MARGARET HUBBARD AYER. From haif-past 7 until a few minutes past nine I watched the Vader- land steam slowly up the bay, conscious of but one thing—Florence May- brick was om that ebip, Free at jast, coming home, and Shas buge ocean Mner approaching, oh, Bow slowly! 1 was realising ove of my mother’s dearest ambitions, It was bringing Florence Maybrick back to her friends and to freedom. To this purpose ry my mother, Harrlet Hubbard Ayer, had devoted years of her life. Florence Maybrick’s fate was always close tw her heart, and when she made @ jour- ney to England in 1902 for The New York World to witness the coronation ot Béward VIT, I knew thet secretly to her the journey meant & quest in the cause of Mrs. Maybrick, whom she believed absolutely innocent of the lerime for which she was suffering. To learn every particular my mother had gathered together all the literature concerning Mrs, Maybrick. GoingtoEngland and ou the homeward voyage her stateroom was literally packed with tooks, references and notiees concerning tbo famous case, and go much did Florence Maybrich'e terrible fate touch her heart that on the homeward voyage she neglected taiing the much needed rest the ocean trip afforded her, but continued daily working’on the Maybrick lecture which she euteequently delivered at many women's clubs Im thie-country. VIsiT TO MRS. MAYBRICK'S MOTHER. No sooner had we reached Paris than my mother began communicating with the Baroness von Roques, and finally we both took the short journey" 4 to Rouen to visit Mrs. Maybrick’s mother personally and to learn if possi- ple if there Were any way of eecing Mrs. Maybrick in her prison and im what wey my mother could be of service to the causd in America. 1 shall never forget that trip to Rowen. It was one of those dull days, with now and then @ slight driaziing rain. In a queer, lumbering cab, driven by & coachman who insisted on going to sleep every few minutes and had to be reused by being poked with an umbrella, we slowly climbed vp the eteep, narrow stone road that leads to the Baroness von Boquea's cig are walls on either aide the last bit of the way, and these high walls and the narrow street without sidewalks and with never a passar-.br, together with the aul! day and the unconscious coachman, made us feel before we had reached the Baroness's house that the setting was fit for the tragedy of patient, despairing effort enacted behind those bigh brick walls, ‘The gate was opened for ue by Mme. von Roqueas’s maid, Marte, a large, placid, elderly Frenchwomaa, who has been her mistrese’s devoted factotum for more than seventeen years. VEARS OF STRUGGLE TO FREE DAUGHTER. . The Baroness greetod us cordially, with her famous spaniel ia her arma, ‘We went.into the small house from which the faithful mother has yearly sent thousands of letters to all who tried In any way to befriend her uafor~ tunate daughter, Thie herole mother was behind every effort made to ob. tain Mrs. Maybrick’s release, Sho worked unceasingly, spending all her time and el) her money tn her attempts ta obtain juntics for Mrs, Maybrick. To return to our visit, however, mamma and Mme. Von Roques talked for a long time together, the Bavenees telling her of the manner in which her daughter was Hving in the Pngtieh prieom, her fare, 2c. At tea time the Baroness spologized for what she galled the frugality of the meal, thongh there was no need; for every Cont in that household was going toward the hoped-for Liberation of Florence Maybrick. Upetairs Mme. Von Roques kept & trunk in which she was collecting articles of apparel toward the time—tho time that has -ome—wheg ber daughter shall once more breathe the free air of her own country, All the raimy afternoon Baroness yon Roques and my mother talked adout the possibilities for Mrs. Maybrick's immediate release, which seemed very small at the time, My mother promised to do everything she could on her return te this country to rouse the women of America to sympathize with the sufferings of their poor fellow countrywoman. There were many tears shed that afternoon, and the terrible gloom which eeemed to have set- tled over the little brick house sank deep into our souls, The barning outrage of an inuocewt American wéman, deprived of her chillreu and incarcerated in an Kaglish prison filled us with such intense consuming pity and indignation that for days we spoke of nothing cise ~-thought of nothing else. INTERVIEW IN THE PRISON. On her return to Engiand my mother obtained an interview with Mrs. Maybrick tn the prison. For days she could not speak about the pathos of this frail little womea whe had eardly spoken to aud never touched a liv- ing creature for thirteen years. Her beloved children, taken awey from her—no one Reewing where they are—health, fortune, everything gexe— imprisoned for Hte by the verdict of a judge who went crasy six weeks after the trial, and who in his lucid moments admitted “that there was a teasonable doubt" of her guilt—no wonder Florence Maybrick cafled here self the most unhappy woman on earth. . The interview she had with my mother was the firm she had ever had @uring her imprisonment except with her own mother, who every three mouths, In storm or in shine, sailed across the channel-to have the longed- for visit of an hour with her child, For these fleeting moments with each other the two wornen Mved. In them they found strength and courage, the ‘one té live without light or freedom, the other to fight indomitably untid justice should be done, Through all these years of suffering Mrs. Maybrick has had the sus- taining sympathy of multitudes. Great men, great women, believed her to de innocent and have fought and sacrificed themeelves for her sake, That sympathy which her sad story evokes wes visible ja the emai? crowd that awatted the Vaderland to-day. Every one was talking about the one partiewlar passenger whose arrival I, too, was eo anzlously ex- pecting. Smypathy came from the expressions of the burly French sailors waiting the incoming ship” “Ciel, Afteen year!” he murmured, “and without her children.” Sympathy looked out of more than one pait of teat-dimmed eyes as the {radi little woman slowly, feebly, came down the gangway, leaning heay- fy on the erm of her escort, It was Florence Maybrick at last. A solid lump rose in wy throat when | saw thie little gray-clad figure, with the ' touch of violet ia ker hat and the glorious protecting colors of our flag in her hand. If 1 clutched her hand in too firm a grasp and mumbled fool- iehly, “I'm so glad to see you,” she know that it meant a thousand things ‘The alm for which my mother had worked was achieved. The gloom about the little house in Rouon was dissipated forever. She is free. Her face does not tell the story of her frightful misfor. tune, but the tones of her voles, sweet but even, are never found is people who have lHved‘an unhappy life of freedom. The wind had pretty pink into Mrs. Maybrich’s Sheek this morning, the health and strength that are to be hers. She does not look young. But the pinched nostril and the pathetic resignation tell a story that no one can fall to note. The smvl crovd of min and women followed Mrs, Maybrick to riage, They were not merely curtows to see the famous prisoner, were Americans aympathising with the sufferings of a compatriot, and the pretty pink into Mrs, Maybrick's cheeks this morning, the forerunner 0} message: “Thank God | am home again.” ‘The years of prison lite have taken the light from Mrs. Maybrick’s tut American ef of the hor tribulations That, ring “ogee eam ot yar 1 she Aarts wid z