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Florence Maybrick was born Florence Elizabeth Chandler in Mobile, Alabama. She was the daughter of William George Chandler, a one-time mayor of Mobile and a partner in the banking firm of St. John Powers and Company, [1] and Caroline Chandler Du Barry, née Holbrook. Florence's father had died before her birth. [2]
Oct 27, 2021 · Eighty years ago, a key figure in prison reform, Florence Chandler Maybrick, died in the village of Gaylordsville. Historian and author Ron Suresha first heard the story when a friend shared a photograph of a ramshackle house in town. The caption read, “Here was where Florence Maybrick, who had once escaped the noose, came to her death.”
Jan 6, 2017 · On a ship to England, Florence caught the eye of a wealthy cotton dealer, James Maybrick. She was 19, he was 42. They married in 1881, and settled in Liverpool, where her beauty and her husband’s wealth guaranteed their social status. They had two children, James and Gladys. But James Maybrick had many mistresses, and even fathered five ...
Maybrick, a hypochondriac, was a regular user of arsenic and patent medicines containing poisonous chemicals and had a number of mistresses, one of whom bore him five children. Florence meanwhile, increasingly unhappy in her marriage, entered into several liaisons of her own.
Jan 11, 2024 · Florence Maybrick Accused of Murder. On the 11th May 1889, James died. Michael and the Maybrick family ordered an autopsy to prove that Florence Maybrick was a murderer and that she had used the arsenic which they’d found in numerous locations, including in beauty papers in her bedroom and in containers discreetly stored in cupboards, probably procured by James.
Jul 27, 2020 · Now, over 130 years later, Florence and James’ relative Dave Maybrick, who has known about the story since he was a child, is seeking to question the original conviction and has called upon the ...
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At the inquest on 6 June, the jury returned a verdict of murder by Florence Maybrick. Florence Maybrick’s trial opened on Wednesday 31 July at St George’s Hall in the centre of Liverpool. She was 26 years old. As was the law at the time, it was an all-male jury – this would turn out to be a key issue.
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