THE SU20Ay 0EEGT02nAK, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 20, 190
Florence Maybrick Contradicts Her Mother
Released Woman Repudiates Statements Made by the
Baroness von Roane.
, ARONESS VONT ROQUES, mother o
Florence Elizabeth Maybrick, In a
number of letters written to your
-London correspondent, outlines at some
length the relations existing; between the
Maybrick children and their mother,
which from remarks made evidently arc
not of the bst Indeed, the. Baroness
says, regarding tho Maybrick boy, "who is
now of age, that unless his attitude
toward his mother changes, he will never
get a cent of her money. The Baron
ess is not rich now, for she has ruined
herself -working lor the release of her
daughter. But she expects to control
considerable money before long. And
she is outspoken as to what she -will do
with iti
The Baroness indicates that the May
brick children know where their mother
is, and that the boy has failed to hold
any 'communication with her. She does
not allude to the second child.
" That Mrs. Maybrick 13 anxious for a
reunion -with her children of course is a
foregone conclusion.
The Maybrick children are now living
under a changed name, that of Fuller,
la the Isle of "Wight, where Michael May
brick, the one-time concert hall singer.
Is now a Justice of the Peace, and where
In 1900 be was Mayor of Ryde. Fortune
has favored the author of "The Holy
City" since his sister-in-law saw the in
side of an English prison.
Florence Maybrick, surrounded by ev
ery comfort in the palatial mountain
home of her lifelong friend. Dr. Dens
more, at Cragsmoor, N. T., is busily en
gaged in writing details of her prison life
In England, relating her experiences in
"Wormwood Scrubbs, "Woking and Ayles
bury jails, and giving her impressions
and rehearsing particulars regarding the
famous Maybrick case, which are now
familiar to those who have followed this
woman's strange life tragedy.
.Mrs. Maybrick is guarded with the clos
est secrecy. "Wicked reporters are barred
from the Densmore home, and awful pho
tographers are kept at a respectful dis
tance. In several letters to the -writer, -however,
Mrs. Maybrick has emerged from
her shell of mystery to some extent;
emerged, strange as it may appear, to
correct false impressions of Michael May
brick, the brother of her late husband,
the man who devoted his greatest ener
gies to placing behind prison bars the
young American wife charged with the
poisoning of her husband..
The man -whom Mrs. Maybrick might
be excused for detesting", she arises
phoenix-like to defend. And not only
this she locks horns with her mother in
making the- defense. Assertions regard
ing Michael Maybrick made by the Bar
oness Ton Roques from her poverty-
stricken home in Rouen, France, are
flatly denied by Mrs. Maybrick from her
luxurious home in America; the convic
tions of the Baroness are repudiated by
the woman who is now free. The ideas
of mother and daughter seemingly ar6
as widely separated as the women them
selves divided by the broad Atlantic.
k A Mother's Great Sacrifice.
The -world has some slight idea of the
gigantic sacrifices made by the Baroness
von Rogues in pursuing her tremendous
battle for the freedom of her daughter.
But tho inside tragedy of the mother's
suffering, her want, her self-denial, her
physical and mental torture, never will be
known in full. The recital would be too
awfuL too ghastly in its details, too pit!
ful in the recounting. That she devoted
her Ufa. to, .the cause of her daughter's
freedom Is a matter of open history; that
she ruined, herself financially is more or
less generally known; but that she suf-
fered the pangs of hunger and of dis
comfort, that she stripped the walls of
Cost of Good
With an Old Road for
By James TV. Abbott, special agent. HocJcy
Mountain and Pacific Coaat division, office
of Public Road Inquiries, "United States De
partment of Agriculture. .
fHENEVER. the subject of road-
building is discussed anywhere
with a view of constructing an
object lesson road and advice is gven
as to the kind of road best adapted to
the existing local conditions, the first
question which is invariably asked is,
"What will such a road cost?" My re
ply to this question, so far, has always
been, "We are not yet in a position sat
isfactorily to exemplify costs.". In
building a short piece of road, as we
do in co-operation with other inter
ests, we can only demonstrate meth
ods and call attention to the principles
which determine costs. Economics
must, in every locality, to a greater or
less extent, be worked out by the in
telligence" and ingenuity of local offi
cials. In the states of Oregon and "Wash
ington, so far as our present knowl
edge of roadbuildlng goes, the best im
proved highways will be made with
stone coverings. The stone will be
either mechanically crushed or it will
be taken from gravel pits in which the
material has been prepared by nature
from what was originally solid rock.
Gravel is to ail intents and purposes
partially prepared stone.
In making crude estimates of the
cost of stone-covered roads it is a con
venient rule to keep in mind that there
will be required approximately 2000
cubic yards of broken stone for each
mile of roadway 15 feet wide. There
will be some variation from this gen
eral amount in most cases, but it Is a
convenient figure to use for a rough
estimate.
For improved roads there will generally-be
selected highways already In
use and partially constructed. If there
can be determined in advance the co3t
per yard of placing the broken stone upon
the roadbed, it Is nearly always safe
to figure that the entire additional cost
per mile of completed road will not ex
ceed $1000, and may come far within
that figure It Is to the problem of mln
lmiring cost of placing this broken
stone upon the road that the chief study
must always be given.
The cost of building our experimental
road at Belllngham was far in excess
of what it should be in future when
the question of macadamizing roads
and streets in that vicinity shall bo
taken up by the authorities as a defi
nite policy. "When we began that ob
ject lesson, there had been practically
no experience to guide the people there
as to what could bo accomplished with
local material.
Two Kinds of Rock.
As stated In my last paper, we used
two kinds of rock. "Within the city lim
its and reached by the local stroet rail
way was a large gravel bank from
which, in past years, there had been
hauled for city purposes thousands of
yards of graveL When this gravel had
been loaded into the carts at the pits,
it had been the custom to throw out to
one side and leave on the ground,
piles of boulders, which were regarded
as too large to be put into a graveled
road. These boulders ran from the size
of one s fist to sizes so large that we
made no use of them. It was a pile of
-very decidedly heterogeneous rock. The
granitic varieties rather predominated,
3ut there were volcanic rocks ot many
her little home, that she parted bit by bit
with almost the whole of her worldly
possessions, leaving herself without even
J-the commonest necessities of life, are
facts not widely advertised in connection
with her great life's sacrifice.
The aged mother's reward lies In see
ing her daughter free. Beyond that, it
is questionable if her great work has
wrought her any further reward ln'this
world.
Called Her Meddlesome.
One of Mrs. Maybrick's friends, com
missioned by her to see the writer re
garding certain seemingly' unfriendly
statements regarding Michael Maybrick,
made by the Baroness, remarked quite
recently:
"You see, we all know the Baroness is
rather a meddlesome old person, and
quite erratic"
And again:
"Mrs. Maybrick has had much to put
up with at the hands of her mother. She
knows this as well as we know It. The
old lady has recently been the cause of
much trouble from time to time. Borne
people think she helped her daughter,
and some of us are convinced that her
activity had quite the reverse effect in
many Instances."
From these and similar remarks, it soon
became evident that since the release of
Mrs. Maybrick the Baroness has appeared
but littlf in the arena. Letters from Mrs.
Maybrick herself seem to indicate that the
Baroness has been kept In the dark even
as to the terms of the release of her
daughter. As an example, the Baroness,
discussing the alleged interview with Mrs.
Maybrick and printed In a London news
paper shortly after her release, .said: "If
Mrs. Maybrick has granted any Interview
she has dmo it in defiance of the terms of
her release."
Denies Mother's Statements.
The Baroness explained that the British
Home Office had issued Mrs. Maybrick's
ticket of leave on the understanding that
she would not grant any interview, write
any book, or in any other way thrust her
relf before the public In a letter to the
winter Mrs. Mavbrlck sava these state
ments are made without the least author
ity.
"You assume," she wrote, "full knowl
edge, as coming from my mother, of the
text of my ticket of leave My answer
to this is the conditions of my ticket f
leave are known to myself and the Home
Office authorities only, and have not been
communicated either by them or myself to
any one else, it being a private and per
sonal matter. And I may add tnat my
mother is no better informed from myself
than others."
But it is taking up cudgels in behalf
of Michael Maybrick as against the state
ments of her mother that seems most pe
culiar. "Whether there Is any difference
between mother and daughter cannot def
initely be stated, but the flat contradiction
of the statements of the Baroness, togeth
er with the fact that he Baroness did not
accompany her daughter to America, may
be indicative of some slightly strained
relations.
Still Another Denial.
The Baroness has been interviewed by
your London correspondent many times
during the years of her daughter's Incar
ceration, and while she has insisted that
her remarks be not published until after
the release of Mrs. Maybrick, fearing
'this might Interfere with the chances
of Mrs. Maybrick's freedom, she has made
many startling statements concerning the
case. JJot many months ago she said that
Michael Maybrick was holding the May.
brick children, and managing the May
brick estate, under what she considered
a very doubtful will. Indeed, she- indi
cated that when the proper time arrived
some sort of litigation might be opened
to set matters to rights.
Mrs. Maybrick's reply to her mother
in this connection is this:
"The legal action to give tho custody
Roads West
a Basis, $1000 a Mile Will Pay for a
varieties, and all, of course, of vary
ing degrees of hardness.
Some of the rock, especially the gran
itic varieties, had disintegrated under
the action of the elements, and we at
tempted rigidly to exclude from our
use all such. These gravel boulders had
evidently been left where found by
glacial action, and the very fact that
they had survived the attrition of'flu
viatlle and glacial processes, and the
disintegrating effect of the various ele
ments through unmeasured time proved
their stability of structure. That such
material will make good stone-covered
roads is certain.
The objections to it are: First that the
variation in character must result m some
corresponding variation in wear of the
road surface;
Second that its rounded eurfaces tend
to produce instability in the constructed
road, and more care and labor Is re
quired in such construction; and.
Third that very considerable less quan
tity can be satisfactorily crushed in a
given time, and consequently the crush
ing cost is increased. Such boulders are
also much harder on the dies of a" crush
er and cause much more uneven and rapid
wear, and in that way also tend to Increase
crusher costs, because the newer and
more nearly perfect the die the more rap-
Id and the more satisfactory is always
the crushing and the products, from the
crushing.
For tho accumulated piles of these
boulders at the Belllngham pit, through
the courtesy of the Street Railway
Company and the Belllngham Bay & Brit
ish Columbia Railroad Company, wo were
enabled to make the following arrange
ment, which, under the circumstances, I
still believe to have been most practical
for the purposes of our demonstration.
The B. B. & B. C. R. R. Co. furnished us
the flatcars. The street railway placed
these, as we required them, on a spur
running into the gravel pit, and hauled
them when loaded onto the sidetrack be
side our crusher. A gang of men 'with
wheelbarrows loaded the boulders into
the cars at the pit.
How to Work Gravel.
For future operations in a region where
6uch a gravel, pit is located, I would sug
gest the following arraneement: Con
struct a platform, say 15 feet wide by 20
feet long, at such elevation that from each
end of the platform a steel apron rotat
ing on a swivel can be lowered over the
side of a distributing wagon used to haul
material. At tho center of such platform
a grizsly three feet wide and six feet
long should be erected, sloping backward
in a direction parallel with the long way
of the platform, and at an angle of 45
degrees. This grizzly should bo made of
steel bars two and one-half Inches apart.
The bars should be one inch by two
Inches in cross section, with the narrow
edge up. The under side of each bar
should be swedged to a width of perhaps
one-half inch. A second platform should
be erected at such an elevation that ma
terial dumped upon it would fall through,
with an opening onto the grizzly. The
entire contents of the gravel bank should
then be brought by steel scrapers onto
the upper platform, and dumped, passing
through the opening in the platform and
falling onto the grizzly. All the fine stuff
and sand and the rocks less than two and
one-half Inches In diameter would fall
towards the under side of the grizzly.
The larger rocks would run down the bars
and drop upon the platform outside the
grizzly. The crusher could be placed just
outside the end of this lower platform In
position most convenient for feeding into
it the boulders. From the crusher the
of mytchildren to Mr. Michael Maybrick
was supported by the Homo Secretary and
the Lord' Chancellor. At no" time, there
fore, could a favorable judgment have
been given in any suit brought by my
mother for their custody. lnwthe. Court , of
Chancery. None was contemplated, "and
my children are now of age.
"Mr. Maybrick made his -will' 16 days
before his death, at a lawyer's office, in the
presence of two witnesses. At no tlmo
during his illness was he left alone with
of Cascades
First-CIass Highway.
elevator would carry the crushed rock
to the bins, from which It would be
hauled directly onto the road.
The material falling through the grizzly
could be raked and scraped Into wagons
-and hauled onto the subgrade for a first
course. In this way every particle of tho
gravel would be utilized to good advan
tage. Tho reason for making the under
edge of the bars narrower than the top
edge is that by this construction ma
terial is much less likely to stick be
tween ' the bars. Through a hole
punched for the purpose in the center
of each bar should be passed a steel
rod, firmly held in place by locked nuts
at its ends. In each interval between
the bars and firmly held in place by the
same rod should be wooden blocks 2
Inches thick, which will - thus stiffen
the grizzly and maintain, the uniform
distances between the bars. By taking
advantage of natural inequalities of
ground, such platform could bo set in
such position as to obviate, the neces
sity for constructing any long plank
incline up which the wheel crusher
would be pulled.
Quarried Rock Commended.
One portion of the Belllngham road
was made of quarried rocky Since writ
ing my last paper I have received copy
of the report upon this rock from the
road material laboratory. I am ad
vised that the report was sent to me
a long time ago, and that my failure
to receive it was due to some unex
plained vagaries in the mail service.
This report is very interesting, -and, I
have no doubt, is substantially correct.
The rock is classified as "altered
diabase." Its adaptability for road pur
noses is characterized a3 "rather low
in toughness, with fair hardness, re
sistance to wear and cementing value.
Should give satisfactory results under
all classes of rural traffic.
The deposits from which this rock was
obtained aad never previously neen uu
lized for any Duroose. and it was neces
sary to exnend some money in opening
the quarry. The broken rock thus ob
tained was hauled on long sleds made for
.hauling shingle bolts, and over a kind ot
runway always maae ror use witn sucn
sleds. It was loaded into flat .cars on a
short spur of the B. B. & B. C R. R.,
which had capacity for only two cars.
"With the available facilities for loading
we succeeded in securing only two very
small cars each day, and the. result was
an unavoidable waste of time.
As this work was undertaken, purely as
a demonstration, it was regarded by all
interested as very desirable to give this
rock a fair test and the extra expense in
volved was a minor matter, as compared
with the Information sought. We suc
ceeded in getting an abundance of the
fine slzefrom this rock, and some of that
we were very glad to secure to reinforce
the fine from the boulders, which was de
ficient In amount.
In future, if rock from this quarry is
to be used for road construction, there
will be no motive for demonstrating proc
esses where they can be readily observed.
arid It will be desirable to install the
crusher at the quarry, delivering the
crushed rock Into bins of ample storage
capacity, from which it will' he economi
cally loaded into much larger cars than
we used, and delivered In them to wagons
near where the rock is to be .applied to
the proposed road.
As apropos of this discussion, the ac
compllshment and plans, of Judge, Scott
in Marion County, Oregon, are a most val
his brothers. I was always In hearing,
and am perfectly aware of what took
place. Mr. Maybrick's estate was left
in trust, under two trustees, until my chil
dren came of age. The will was pro
bated, and in a subsequent action brought
"by mo 'a gainst an insurancecompanyr was
accepted by the Judge of the Court of
Appeals as valid, and (L am Informed it
cannot be reopened, even if I were dis
posed, which I' am not."
The Baroness went to some pains to
uable contribution to the cause .of road
betterment in the Northwest.
At our convention in Portland; two
years ago, when the Oregon State Good
Roads Association was formed, with Judge
Scott for Its president, the subject of ob
ject lesson roads and co-operation in road
building seemed to make a deep impres
sion upon the Judge's mind. 'He immedi
ately began to study how, with the little
means available in his court, he could be
gin a system of road-building which
should lead to better things for Marlon
County, and later for the entire State of
Oregon.
With a crusher installed at a quarry ot
igneous rock near Salem, he began In a
tentative way to study the problem of get
ting the most for the least outlay of
funds from the -public treasury. He .first
used a simple screen ot local manufac
ture, made with Iron rods and designed
to separate the fine material from the rest
of the rock. The property-owners along
the route, and those whom it served, con
tributed most of the hauling. Getting the
crushed rock from the quarry when most
convenient, they hauled it out and placed
It on the road and covered tho single lay
er thus formed with the fine stuff. The
Judge had no roller then, and the rock
had to be consolidated very slowly by the
travel. It was for a time a sore vexation
for those who were compelled to use it,
but the Judge persisted, and by watching
the road from month to month, and re
surfacing it in spots where Inequalities
developed, he finally succeeded in getting
very good results. Later on he pur
purchased a good roller of the same kind
which we used at Belllngham, and now
has the same kind of crasher. He has
recently concluded an arrangement with
the Citizens' Light & Traction Company,
of Salem, which has agreed to extend Its
line VA miles to a quarry of igneous "rock
2 miles from the Courthouse at Salem.
The same company has also arranged to
furnish the Judge a 20-horsepower motor
with current to run It for $3.50 a day.
This will operate the crusher and the
elevator, and probably some automatic
device to assist in getting, the broken
rock from the quarry' into the crusher.
The Judge will erect commodious bins,
and will use revolving screens similar to
those we used at Belllngham. The
crushed product classified into fine, medium-size
and coarse, will be hauled in the
cars, furnished by the railroad company,
and delivered at any point upon their
system for a transportation charge of 25
cents a yard. There is no doubt that
property-owners in the county, will read
ily contribute the .transportation to haul
a very large amount of this crushed rock
gratis to roads which will be improved.
Already the Judge, by the methods previ
ously described, has built nearly 20 miles
of macadam road 12 feet wide, which has
been in use, some of it one Winter and
some of it for two. and has taught the
people ot the Willamette Valley the great
boon which a good road brings to
community during Oregon's wet season.
These , roads have been absolutely hard
and firm during the wettest periods, and
have sustained, wagons so heavily loaded
that when they reached the city limits,
where the roads have not been improved.
it was necessary to add extra power to
get them Into town. In my next article I
shall deal with the width of roads.
JAMES-W. ABBOTT.
(In Mr. Abbott's article published last Sun
day two. typographical errors occurred. One
lino -was. dropped out of this sentence: "The
combination roller is a useful machine for
county purposes where such a combination Is
mora desirable than a. roller destrned solely
for- road rolling, but ' Is not adapted lor
economy, efficiency ana most flushed re
ults.'
In HeetloBlg' tke sereas it wv said they
hol Be pcae4 with soles . aad
laches la eUBMter. 3tr. Abbott wrote "K
'aa& l& lnelwa In .AlMnMer"; the 'Scare- X
WM MIUU4.)
T
explain for publication incidents
rounding .the deathbed scene of James
Maybrick and went to the point of add
ing: ."Florie would not -like this pub-
llshed.'' . Tfcls point being brought to tho
attention of Mrs. Maybrick. elicited from
her the remark that it "Js pure inven
tion."
Another statement made by the Baron
ess -was that Michael Maybrick pretended
to hold certain documents in connection
with bis retention of the children, to
One Fortnight of China
Oregon's Short Season When Everyone Can Get a Taste 01 the Gamebir d.
THB invasion of Oregon by the Chi
nese pheasant is an instance of
rapid conquest and dispossession
ot the previous inhabitant that is hard
to equ.al.
It is about 23 or 24 years ago that the
late Judge O. N. Benny, then United
States Consul to China, noticed these
handsome birds, exposed, alive, for sale
in baskets In the Shanghai market. There
they are common, finding their hauntB
chiefly in the ancient temple grounds.
The foreign residents hesitate to buy
them dead, as the native hunters pot
them with a charge of Iron scraps, which
are unexpectedly hard on teeth when the
bird 13 brought to table.
Judge Denny saw no reason why they
should not thrive in the moist climate of
Oregon, where brush covers the hillsides,
and wild berries and seeds abound. So
he sent over, I think, 14 pairs, which in
cluded with the ring-necked China pheas
ant, so common today, both gold, silver
and bronze varieties. Probably more
of the birds were shipped, but 14 pairs
survived the voyage and were turned out,
some In Marion and some in Linn Coun
ty, to take their chances.
. They were protected by law, and even
so had to work to survive and perpetu
ate their kind, in spite of the envious
eyes of the farmers, small boys, and
some, I fear, of larger growth.
What helDed them was their fecundity.
It Is hard to extirpate a bird that has
two, and sometimes three, broods a year.
especially when the gentleman of the
family (he certainly looks like one) takes
charge of the first brood of half-grown
youngsters while the lady Is preparing to
hatch out a second family ten or twelve
strongr
Opinions differ somewhat as to their
domestic relations. Bach partisan has
some story to telL He who upholds the
ring-necked beauty as a model of hus
bandly virtue, tells of the care of the
beautiful bird over this same family of
young" ones, .while the mother Is far off
in the next copse, sitting tight on the
new clutch of eggs in the nest in the
thick grass between the rose stems. But
the other side tells of watching the soil
tary king over a harem of six or seven
modestly clad wives, marshaling them
out Into the sunshine on the wheat stub
ble, and showing off his fine feathers and
sheeny colors in the early norning. In
the glory- ot Jiis dandified dress.
Perhaps the truth lies midway. Pos
sibly ' a choice. once made Is for good as
far as that season goes, and the rejected
fair ones are left on the market for the
next comer to choose from.
The bright plumage of the male pheas
ant Is plainly his chief attraction. His
nearest neighbor among the game - birds
relies on his" voice to catch a wife or
two. The- big. dusky grouse files up un
der the--dark stiade of the fir tree limbs.
and havlntr found a clear sDace for his
antics, swells out his breast and hoots,
hoots, hoo'ts, till the wood re-echoes, and
the air Is full of his deep bass voice.
Presently a 'single note in answer, and
he listens and.redoubIes his efforts. Then
his first raite- steals quietly to the tree
and "flutters up beside her lord and mas
ter on the" limb. But the scamp is not
content, .and hoots th more until yet an
other ontvo or even three have answered
to his blandishments, aad joined the fam
ily group.
The Chlaa'pSeMaBtv though, is a ged
father,-whatever else soar he Ms weak
ness; He' TkSiM the tttU troed afeent
which Mrs. Maybrick says: "Mr. Michael
Maybrick holds no documents written by
my husband which require further inves
tigation, or which -were not submitted to
the court at tho time. . . ."
And again, in reply to the Baroness'
statement that Michael Maybrick prevent
ed her from seeing tho children, Mrs May
brick writes:
"The decision that my children should
neither visit me nor receive vislfs from
my mother, was a necessity under the
conditions of their custody, and received
my consent."
These flat contradictions of the state
ments, of her mother, while decided, are
by no means all of thai denials made by
the released woman.
Heard Maybrick's Song.
There appear to be many points, in con
nection with the famous case about which
the Baroness and Mrs. Maybrick dis
agree. The Baroness tells of the friend
ship that existed between Mrs. Maybrick
and Michael, of his kindly attentions to
ber; and of their later disagreement, and
the coolness that followed and that was
followed by the bitterness of feeling dis
played by Michael Maybrick against bis
American sister-in-law. She relates how,
on board a yacht, Mrs. Maybrick was the
first person to hear the strains of "The
Holy City," which was sung, to her by the
composer, and she recites a number of in
stances of the seeming friendship of
Michael Maybrick for the young Ameri
can.
Mystery In the. Relationship.
Mrs. Maybrick writes in reply: "Mr.
Michael Maybrick and Mr. Edwin May
brick met me only once before my mar
riage, and were' guests at my home, not
oftener than once a year, uur relations
were friendly until their minds were In
fluenced against me by raise imputations
of mv enemies.
That there is still some mystery in
connection with the relations existing
hntrreen the various members or tne
Mavbrick family seems certain. Mrs.
Maybrick of course is desirous or Do
ing restored to her children, ana it is
difficult to see how tnis can De pre
vented, as they are of age, and cannot
be bound by any agreement entered
into by th,e mother.
According to the Baroness, .airs.
Maybrick was surrounded by a perfect
network of enemies. James jaaynricK,
she says was a debauchee She adds
that when he married the attractive
younsr American girl, Michael May
brick was a frequent visitor at tne
Maybrick home. This, again, Mrs. May
brick denies. James ilaybrlck was 44
years old. He led a dissipated life The
brothers were very close to each other,
and Michael presumably knew the life
that James was leading, when May
brick married the handsome Miss
Chandler. Michael was anything but
inimical to his sister-in-law. He was
mmctilious in his politeness for some
time Then his conduct changed.
Regarding Mrs. Brlggs.
Another element of hatred in the
Maybrick family against the young
American was a .Mrs. Brlggs, who, ac
cording to the Baroness, had known
James Maybrick a number of years,
and who acted as his housekeeper.
The Baroness von Boques declares
that Mrs. Brlggs was once the fiancee
of James Maybrick. She declares that
prior to Jam.es Maybrick's meeting
with her daughter he had promised to
make Mrs. Brlggs the mistress of his
house. "When Mrs. Maybrick came
upon the scene of action, James May
brick's life plan was obviously upset,
so far as it might have . affected Mrs.
BriKKS and it was evident from the
first that the young American, was re
garded bjr nearly every one asan in
terloper. '
In the house with Mrs. Briggs were
several other female servants, to all
of whom James Maybrick had been
from field to field, scratches here and
there; and keeps an eye ever watchful
for the approach of man, dog or hawk.
Jq bird takes a hint more quickly to run
or fly, and .he does both to perfection.
It takes a fast dog to put him up if he
thinks a race up the furrow, with out
stretched neck, is safer than to take the
chance of a charge of shot In the air.
Shortly after Judge Denny made his
first successful importation,, he tried
again, but being brought in a sailing ship
t oan Eastern port and then across the
continent to Oregon, the venture failed
and all these birds died.
The serious effort of the Multnomah
Rod and Gun Club, nearly 20 years ago,
deserves to be described. This club was
then in its glory in Portland, and many
men still prominent here were members.
They arranged for a large consignment
of birds, several hundred In number, and
in due time they arrived in Portland.
Four varieties were represented, the now
common ring-necked, the sliver pheasant,
the bronze, and the copper. The names
suggest their differences. The birds were
delivered here, weak after their long
voyage, and half their numbers gone,, at
the beginning ot winter. Tne rlsK or
turning them loose then was too great to
run, so a large store was rented
by the club on North First street,
and fitted up with fir boughs and
greens, and an attendant paid to
care for them. In the early Spring,
thanks chiefly to the good- offices of
Frank T. Dodge, a member of the Club,
and then superintendent of the water ser
vice of the O. R. & N. Co., a home was
found for the strangers on Protection
Island, near the Straits of Fuca,
Puget Sound. There was an area
of about 600 acres of rough land covered
with brush and thickets, far enough from
shore to give security from coons, minks
and hawks. The one inhabitant of the
island was engaged -by the club, at a
pay of $25 a month, to keep off poachers
and hunters till the club should send for
the birds after the following- nesting sea
son, and return the Increased numbers to
Oregon.
All went well the pheasants multi
plied and replenished the land. And
the guardian was faithful to his charge.
But as the months rolled by he asked
for his pay. Unfortunately by this time
the club's' finances had got into dis
order and the money was not forth
coming. Time passed, with repeated de
mands, but no pay. At last the man's
patience was exhausted. He notified
the chib that the pheasants were eat
ing him out of house and home. He
told then that his garden was ruined,
that the birds were eating out all his
turnips and positively digging up his
potatoes and that he should protect
himself by having- his visitors killed off.
Alas, he went scientifically to work,
and got even by selling shooting" privi
lege3 to the officers of the United
States revenue cutter and to sport3
men from Port Townsend- and Vic
torla. Great tales were in the air about
the splendid bags made. It did not
take long- to clean up the Island, and
not a bird was left to be returned, to
Oregon. Still one or two survived, and
In, the end the Island itself changed
handsand is now, as we are tojd, the
hunting ground of a well-to-do sports
man of Victoria or Vancouver, B. C.
So much for the pheasant venture
of the Multnomah Rod & Gun Club.
Fortunately the Oregon law protected
those turned out in Marlon and Linn
Counties, "and from those beginnings
th rlng-aecked pheasants have cov
more or less kind, and other clrcuwC
stances arose that made it quite
pleasant for the young wife For In
stance, some of James Maybrick's
trigues with other women came to ill
attention of his- wife, though in an ac
cidental way. She saw in his office
books, where he had paid out a larg
sumof money to a woman in LivatSi
pool, who. together with her children,
he was supporting in splendid style.
Stormy Scenes Ensued.
ir -
Mrs. Maybrick was allowed only
enough money to run her large hous- .
hold, and pay actual expenses. Stormy
scenes ensiled. The servants did not
like the change In the atmospheric
conditions that had remained so Iocs'
undisturbed. None ot them -loved Mrs.
Maybrick, and a good deal of petty
spite was aroused by her presence.
when James Maybrick became ill.
Mrs. Brlggs was the first person Jto
leiegrapn 10 j-ionaon lor Aiicnaei Max
brick. Mrs. Briggs told Michael May
brick that Alice Yapp had told her that
Mrs. Maybrick was poisoning her hi$r-
Out of that piece of gosslD jrrew the
charge against Mrs. Maybrick for miirV
aer. The charge was brought asrainat
her while she lay In a comatose condi
tion, for some hours after her hu.
band's death. She was sriven no onndi-
tunlty to explain herself. . Police offi
cers were brought into the house, andt
she was practically convicted before
the post-mortem had revealed a tittle
of evidence. She was noti allowed to
see her own mother, to consult counsel
or to be defended in any way. Poliqa
officers were placed about her bed and
she was carried practically from her
house to prison in a manner at once
outrageous and unusual.
A Mother's Untiring Work.
So much for the facts of- the case as
narrated in various conversations and
letters "by the Baroness von Roquar,
Since the moment when she was con'
vlnced of her daughter's innocence, the
Baroness has left no stone unturned to
wards vindication. A few years after the
Maybrick trial the Baroness 16ft Eng
land and began that wonderful crusade
through the press which has kept alive
the spark of life in the Maybrick case-
The Baroness found, however, that her
malls were tampered with, and It was
impossible for her to accomplish any
thing under the system of surveillance -to
which she was subjected. It was for this
reason she moved away from England
and went to France, where' she was 1st
least away from the species of persecu
tion. For many years she conducted a
monthly newspaper and published all the
new facts bearing on the Maybrick case.
She never allowed a statement to appear
in the press without an answer from her.
She wrote regularly to hundreds of cor
respondents, and her monthly newspa
per was sent to every important member
of both the English and American gov
ernments. Indeed, the Baroness has been thougfit
at times- to have tried from her little
home In Rouen to edit the newspapers of
the world so far as they affected the
Maybrick case, and to a great extent she
has succeeded. Certainly .she has pur
sued to a conclusion the most wonderful
press crusade the world has ever known.
There are some statements made by
the Baroness that, like the wisdom of
Providence, passeth all understanding.
As an example, in Bouen she was au
thority for the statement that her daugh
ter's mind was affected, and vthat it
would be necessary for her to go into
a retreat that she was a nervous wreck,
and had been handed over to the world
a human, derelict. These statements -do
not seem to be borne out by the facts,
though there did not appear at the tlgee
to be any reason for making a mislead
ing statement. (Copyright, ISOi, Percy
Lindon-Howard.)
Pheasants
ered Western Oregon, finding- their best
homes in the Willamette Valley coun
ties.
It was believed that they were suf
ficiently established for sale of them-to
be allowed for half a month. And thia
next two weeks will see festoons and
bunches of these beautiful birds adorn
ing all the markets.
But our Legislators have been pre
mature and have not reckoned with the
money gree,d of the two classes of the
birds' enemies the farmer boys and
the pothunters from the towns the
latter the worst.
The law should be modified at TStk -coming
session of the Legislature, fe
bidding the sale of the birds absolute
ly till further notice. This season Hs
been a lamentable example. Bird's tne
size of quail have been shot down, by
the hundred, before the season conr
menced, and when it did then the cold
storage houses and markets, all over
the country have been filled up.
Talking this over, a well-known
member of the Rodvand Gun Club sug
gested that strong influence should 'be
brought tos bear to have the old male
birds spared first, because they are
tough; second, because without them
next year's families, being composed ol
young- birds, will not be up to the ways
and wiles of the wicked hunter, and
will die young and foolish. But the no
tion of sparing the brilliant bird, at
he risses In the bushes, of the fence cor
ner, with a rush and dash into the
air, that fetches your heart Into your ,
mouth and sets it beating like a trip?
hammer! Or. as you watch him skimming-
and floating towards you at the
head of his brood from the wide field
yonder, where your friend's setter has
put him up! That Is just more self
sacrifice than one in a thousand sports
men can compass. No, long life to th
China rooster while his craft and quick--ness,
quick eyesight and instant decisj
Ion can keep him out of shot rangVl
and a noble death to him" at the ha(
of a sportsman good and true, who ha
kept to the rules of the game, followed
on the heels of his well-trained dog-,
walked long and widely for him, amd
killed his quarry clean, at fair rang
and in fuU flight.
A good many attempts have been mad;
to establish them in other states, pairs
of breeding birds having been pbtained
from Oregon. But as far as is known
none have succeeded in anything llki
the same degree as in this state. The
climatic conditions here seem exactly
adapted to their breeding, and maturing;
For tame breeding It is by far the
safest method to secure birds bred aruf
raised in confinement. In a wire aviary,
supplied with growing- bushes atfd
plants, with dirt and gravel to scragffh
In and abundant fresh water, the bfcrfr
flourish and get as tame as chlcke
I have known tame birds to lay frifm
75 to 100" eggs in a season. An aviary
of this sort Is a pretty adjunct to" a
cool conservatory by the side of the.
house. In the old country the tiny
chicks are Jed for the first few weeks
of their lives on ant eggs, brought-ln.
from the woods and poured out with
the dirt of .the ant nest on the gToutid
In front of the coops. Hard-boiled egg
crumbled smalU with boiled rice, is ths
following bill of fare, and then "the
maggots from meat are fed to th&n.
until they take to the woods on tRefe
own account. "WALXJJ3 JfASHL?
Portlaad. Nov. IS, 1M4. r"'
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