THE MAYBRICK CASE.
UNEXPECTED DEVELOPMENT. fPRR PRESS ASSOCIATION..! Received August 7th, 1.25 p.m. London, August 5. The trial of Mrs Maybrick for poisoning her husband at Liverpool, has taken an unexpected turn. The Official Analyst of the Home Office states Maybrick's death was not caused by arsenic, but was the result of gastroenteritis. Mrs Maybrick asserts she purchased the fly papers which were found in her husband's room for the purpose of making face wash. The night before his death her husband implored her to give him a powder, but she refused until he declared it would do no harm if taken in food. She then placed some in the tin of meat. Her husband was asleep when she returned, and never tasted the contents of the tin. Mrs Maybrick declared she never knew the powder contained arsenic until after her husband's death.
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Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7382, 7 August 1889, Page 5
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