SirRobertAnderson
11-28-2009, 11:41 PM
THE TRUTH ABOUT JAMES MAYBRICK
I feel, therefore, compelled for the first time since the case was reported to let the public understand exactly what kind of a man James Maybrick was, in order that they may form some idea of the justice of the judge's invectives and the cold-blooded brutality of the sneer which Mr. Matthews put into Lord Salisbury's mouth.
James Maybrick, his friends will say, was "a very good kind of fellow," which, according to the standard of goodness that prevails in certain circles in Liverpool, may be true. But James Maybrick was a seducer, an adulterer and a debauchee. Before he married the young and innocent girl, for whose release the best and most influential Americans have been pleading in vain, he had seduced a young woman of eighteen under promise of marriage. He kept her as his mistress until she bore him five children and then he cast her off without remorse when he saw his chance of marrying poor Florence.
But after the marriage he continued occasionally to meet his forsaken mistress, paying her more or less irregularly a miserable pittance, and dying without making any provision for her maintenance. Mrs. Maybrick was suspected of having made away with her husband's diamonds, which, it was subsequently discovered, had been given by him to his old mistress within the last year of his life. But that was not all. James Maybrick was false to the young wife whom he had brought to his polluted home. His relations with loose women could have been proved in court, and as the result of his misconduct marital relations were suspended for the last two years of his life. It was not, however, for her sake that this virtual separation took place. He said he did not wish to injure any child he might have. Thus, by his own evil living, Mrs. Maybrick was virtually separated from her husband before she ever transgressed with Brierley. That does not condone or excuse her fall, but it entirely puts the husband out of court, and makes the judge's anathemas seem even more brutally unjust than they appeared at the time.
Ought Mrs. Maybrick to be Tortured to Death? An Appeal from North America, and a Confession from South Africa.
W. T. Stead (The Review of Reviews, vol. VI, October, 1892) pp. 390-396
http://www.jamesmaybrick.org/pdf%20files/Stead%20W.%20T.%20%28article%20on%20Florence%20May brick%29.pdf
I feel, therefore, compelled for the first time since the case was reported to let the public understand exactly what kind of a man James Maybrick was, in order that they may form some idea of the justice of the judge's invectives and the cold-blooded brutality of the sneer which Mr. Matthews put into Lord Salisbury's mouth.
James Maybrick, his friends will say, was "a very good kind of fellow," which, according to the standard of goodness that prevails in certain circles in Liverpool, may be true. But James Maybrick was a seducer, an adulterer and a debauchee. Before he married the young and innocent girl, for whose release the best and most influential Americans have been pleading in vain, he had seduced a young woman of eighteen under promise of marriage. He kept her as his mistress until she bore him five children and then he cast her off without remorse when he saw his chance of marrying poor Florence.
But after the marriage he continued occasionally to meet his forsaken mistress, paying her more or less irregularly a miserable pittance, and dying without making any provision for her maintenance. Mrs. Maybrick was suspected of having made away with her husband's diamonds, which, it was subsequently discovered, had been given by him to his old mistress within the last year of his life. But that was not all. James Maybrick was false to the young wife whom he had brought to his polluted home. His relations with loose women could have been proved in court, and as the result of his misconduct marital relations were suspended for the last two years of his life. It was not, however, for her sake that this virtual separation took place. He said he did not wish to injure any child he might have. Thus, by his own evil living, Mrs. Maybrick was virtually separated from her husband before she ever transgressed with Brierley. That does not condone or excuse her fall, but it entirely puts the husband out of court, and makes the judge's anathemas seem even more brutally unjust than they appeared at the time.
Ought Mrs. Maybrick to be Tortured to Death? An Appeal from North America, and a Confession from South Africa.
W. T. Stead (The Review of Reviews, vol. VI, October, 1892) pp. 390-396
http://www.jamesmaybrick.org/pdf%20files/Stead%20W.%20T.%20%28article%20on%20Florence%20May brick%29.pdf