[Gutenberg 55773] • My Fifteen Lost Years / Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story by Maybrick, Florence Elizabeth -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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MY FIFTEEN LOST YEARS CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FOREWORD

Sketch of My Ancestry

CHAPTER ONE Before the Trial

My Arrest A Prisoner in My Own House At Walton Jail Alone The Coroner’s Inquest A Plank for a Bed The Verdict of the Coroner’s Jury The Doctors Disagree Letters from Walton Jail Lord Russell’s Opinion The Public Condemns Me Unheard

CHAPTER TWO The Trial

The Injustice of Trying the Case at Liverpool An Unexpected Verdict The Judge’s Sentence In the Shadow of Death Commutation of Sentence

CHAPTER THREE In Solitary Confinement

Removal to Woking Prison The Convict Uniform In Solitary Confinement The Daily Routine The Exercise Hour The Midday Meal The Cruelty of Solitary Confinement

CHAPTER FOUR The Period of Probation

A Change of Cell Evils of the Silent System Insanity and Nervous Breakdown of Prisoners Need of Separate Confinement for the Weak-Minded Reading an Insufficient Relaxation My Sufferings from Cold and Insomnia Medical Attendance Added Sufferings of the Delicately Nurtured How Criminals and Imbeciles are Made

CHAPTER FIVE The Period of Hard Labor

Routine Talk with the Chaplain My Work in the Kitchen The Machine-made Menu Diet for Female Convicts Visitors to the Kitchen The “Homelike” Cell The Opiate of Acquiescence Visits of Prisoners’ Friends My Mother’s Visits A Letter from Lord Russell Punished for Another’s Fault Forms of Punishment The True Aim of Punishment The Evil of Collective Punishment The Evil of Constant Supervision Some Good Points of Convict Prisons My Sickness Taken to the Infirmary The Utter Desolation of a Sick Prisoner

CHAPTER SIX At Aylesbury Prison

Removal from Woking New Insignia of Shame Arrival at Aylesbury Prison A New Prison Régime The Board of Visitors Regulations Concerning Letters and Visits A Visit from Lord Russell

CHAPTER SEVEN A Petition for Release

Denied by the Secretary of State Report of My Misconduct Refuted Need of a Court of Criminal Appeal Historic Examples of British Injustice The Case of Adolf Beck

CHAPTER EIGHT Religion in Prison Life

Dedication of New Chapel Influence of Religion upon Prisoners Suicide of a Prisoner Tragedies in Prison Moral Effect of Harsh Prison Regime Attacks of Levity Self-Discipline Need of Women Doctors and Inspectors Chastening Effect of Imprisonment on the Spirit A Death-bed Incident

CHAPTER NINE My Last Years in Prison

I am Set to Work in the Library Newspapers Forbidden How Prisoners Learn of Great Events Strict Discipline of Prison Officers Their High Character Nervous Strain of Their Duties Standing Orders for Warders Crime a Mental Disease Something Good in the Worst Criminal Need of Further Prison Reform

CHAPTER TEN My Release

I Learn the Time When My Sentence Will Terminate The Dawn of Liberty The Release In Retreat at Truro I Come to America My Lost Years

PART TWO ANALYSIS OF THE MAYBRICK CASE Introduction

Petitions for a Reprieve Illogical Position of Home Secretary New Evidence of Innocence Ignored Lord Russell’s Letter Efforts for Release Even New Evidence Superfluous The Doctors’ Doubt Public Surprise at Verdict Character of Jury The “Mad Judge” Justice Stephen’s Biased Charge Lord Russell’s Memorandum Quashed Repeated Protests of Lord Russell The American Official Petition Secretary Blaine’s Letter to Minister Lincoln Henry W. Lucy on Lord Russell Lord Russell’s Conviction of Mrs. Maybrick’s Innocence Explanation of Attitude of Home Secretaries Upholding the Justiciary Need of Court of Criminal Appeal

THE BRIEF OF MESSRS. LUMLEY & LUMLEY

Opinion—Re F. E. Maybrick Justice Stephen’s Misdirections Misdirection as to Mr. Maybrick’s Symptoms Misdirection as to Mrs. Maybrick’s Access to Poisons Misdirection as to “Traces” of Arsenic Misdirection as to Arsenic in Solution Mr. Clayton’s Experiments Misdirection as to Arsenic in Glycerin Misdirection as to Evidence of Physicians Misdirection as to Times When Arsenic May Have Been Administered Misdirection as to Mrs. Maybrick’s Changing Medicine Bottles Misdirection as to Administration With Intent to Kill Exclusion of Prisoner’s Testimony Misdirection as to Identity of Meat-Juice Bottle Misdirection in Excluding Corroboration of Prisoner’s Statement Misdirections to Jury to Draw Illegal Inferences Misdirections Regarding the Medical Testimony Conflict of Medical Opinion Misdirections as to Cause of Death Misdirection to Ignore Medical Testimony Misreception of Evidence Cruel Misstatement by the Coroner Medical Evidence for the Prosecution Maybrick Died a Natural Death The Chief Witness for the Prosecution Medical Evidence for Defense A Toxicological Study The Medical Weakness of the Prosecution The Administration Of Arsenic The Fly-paper Episode How Mrs. Maybrick Accounts for The Fly-Papers Administration of Arsenic not Proved Intent to Murder not Proved Absence of Concealment by Prisoner Some Important Deductions from Medical Testimony Symptoms Due to Poisonous Drugs Death from Natural Causes Prosecution’s Deductions from Post-mortem Analysis Misleading Recapitulation Of Legal Points

Mrs. Maybrick’s Own Analysis Of The Meat-Juice Incident MEMORIALS FOR RESPITE OF SENTENCE

From the Physicians of Liverpool From the Bars of Liverpool and London From Citizens of Liverpool

NEW EVIDENCE

Arsenic Sold to Maybrick by Druggist Arsenic Supplied to Maybrick by Manufacturing Chemist Depositions as to Mr. Maybrick’s Arsenic Habit Justice Stephen’s Retirement

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