My Fifteen Lost Years

About this eBook

Author

Maybrick, Florence Elizabeth, 1862-1941

Title

Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years

Credits

Produced by Cindy Horton and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

HV: Social sciences: Social pathology, Social and Public Welfare

Subject

Trials (Murder) -- England

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 55773

Release Date

October 18, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.MY FIFTEEN LOST YEARS
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.FOREWORD — Sketch of My Ancestry
5. 5.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
6. 6.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
7. 7.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
8. 8.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
9. 9.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
10. 10.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
11. 11.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
12. 12.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
13. 13.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
14. 14.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
15. 15.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
16. 16.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
17. 17.Mrs. Maybrick’s Own Analysis Of The Meat-Juice Incident
18. 18.MEMORIALS FOR RESPITE OF SENTENCE — From the Physicians of Liverpool — From the Bars of Liverpool and London — From Citizens of Liverpool
19. 19.NEW EVIDENCE — Arsenic Sold to Maybrick by Druggist — Arsenic Supplied to Maybrick by Manufacturing Chemist — Depositions as to Mr. Maybrick’s Arsenic Habit
20. 20.Justice Stephen’s Retirement
21. 21.Untitled
22. 22.Untitled

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