THEMAYBRICKMURDER CASE.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7357, 9 July 1889, Page 5

THEMAYBRICKMURDER CASE.

EVIDENCE OP » STEPHEN ADAMS." (took ottr cobbbspokdbnf.i [Bt Tklbgraph fbom the Blttff.] MELBOURNE, July 3. A telegram from. Albany gives news from London, dated May 31st, which states that a great sensation has been caused at Liverpool by the revelations made at the inquest on the body of James Maybrick, a leading merchant, who died under circumstances reflecting great picion on his wife, who was Mrs Jfaybrick is aged and her husband was fifty. She is the daughter of a banker in Mobile, United States, and the step daughter of Baron Eoque, and is underst.x>d to have a private fortune. Michael Maybrick, brother of the deceased, was the first witness called. He is the well known baritone singer, who is equally famous as Stephen Adams, under which name he has composed numerous ballads and songs. He stated that on the Bth inst. he waa summoned to Liverpool by a telegram. He was met by his brother Edward, and the two went together to the house of the deceased. They found him in bed attended by a nurse. Mrs Maybrick met them and followed them to the bedroom. He said to her that he had a suspicion that his brother was not being properly attended to and she asked what he meant. She said she had the most right to nurse him .and had done so up to the present. Witness the next day called in two doctors and another nurse. In consequence of a communication from the nurse witness removed a bottle of brandy which was among the medicine in the bedroom. He also took possession of a bottle of meat extract that was in the room and gave them to the Doctor. He found the nurse and Mrs Maybrick changing some whiskey from one bottle to another, placing it in one with a wide neck and changing the labels. He remonstrated with her, and asked her how she dared do it. She replied that it was because of a sediment in the bottle. The nurse waa again changed. Hie brother sank rapidly, and died on the 11th inst., having, been very delirious the day he died. The children's nurse came to him and gave him a parcel and a box. The parcel was in a brown paper, and was labelled " Poison "in writing. In the parcel were four small bottles containing white fluid, with the labels scraped off. There was also a pocket handkerchief or piece of linen in parcel. The doctors refused to give a certificate for the burial of the deceased, and ,the police were therefore called in. Alice Yapp, nurse, gave evidence aa to the finding of a number of papers soaking in a basin, though, none had been used in the house for a long time. Mrs Maybrick gave her husband a cup, which she said contained mustard and water, and asked him to drink it as it would make him sick and give him relief. One evening Mrs Maybrick gave her a letter to post to a lady. She carried it, and it fell into the mud. Witness opened it to put it into another envelope. It was addressed to "A. Brierley, Esq., Huskisson street, Liverpool," and it was in pencil. She gave it to Mr Edward Maybrick. The £oroner read the letter, which was as follows:— "Dearegi*— Your letter under cover to mc has come to hand just after I gave them to you on Monday. I did not expect to hear from you so soon, and a delay occurred in giving him the necessary instructions. Since my return I have been nursing all day and night. He is sick unto death. The doctors had a consultation yesterday, and now all depends on how long hia strength will hold out. Both my brothers-in-law are here, and are terribly anxious. I cannot answer your letter fully to-day, darling, but relieve your mind of all fear of discovery, now and in the future. He has been delirious since Sunday. I know he is ignorant of everything, even the name of the street, and also that he has not been making any inquiries whatever. The tale he told mc was a fabrication, and only intended to frighten the truth out of' mc j in fact he believed my statement, although he will not admit it. You need not now go abroad on this ground, dearest, but in any case do not leave England until I have seen you once again. If you want to write to mc about anything, do so, as all letters pass through my hands at present. Excuse this scrawl, my darling, but I dare not leave the room for a moment, and I do not know when I shall be able to write you again. In haste, yours truly, Flobeie."

Other nurses and servants gave evidence to a quarrel between Mr and Mrs Maybrick, and the inquest was then adjourned. pt has since been cabled that Mrs Maybriok has been committed for trial for wilful murder.]