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

The jury’s verdict of guilty was rendered on August 7, 1889. The evidence at the trial, as well as the learned judge’s “summing up,” was reported almost verbatim in the English...

Having passed solitary confinement and probation, I entered upon the third stage, hard labor, when I was permitted to leave my cell to assist in carrying meals from the kitchen,...

On our arrival at Aylesbury Prison there was no chapel. Divine service was held in one of the halls, in which the prisoners assembled each morning for twenty minutes of service....

Slowly consciousness returned. I opened my eyes. The room was in darkness. All was still. Suddenly the silence was broken by the bang of a closing door which startled me out of...

I had been admitted to the infirmary suffering from a feverish cold. I had been in bed a fortnight and was feeling very weak, when, on the morning of November 4, 1896, I awoke t...

When I recovered from my nervous breakdown, by medical order I was given lighter employment, and went into the library. I was now the only prisoner in the building who had suffe...

I had been at Aylesbury about eight months when I petitioned the Secretary of State for a reconsideration of my case, with a view to my release. To this I received the usual off...

The day I had completed the nine months of solitary confinement I entered upon a new stage, that of probation for nine months. I was taken from Hall G to Hall A. There were in W...

On the morning of the 29th of August I was hastily awakened by a female warder, who said that orders had come down from the Home Office for my removal that day to a convict prison.

INTRODUCTION.--Petitions for a Reprieve--Illogical Position of Home Secretary--New Evidence of My Innocence Ignored--Lord Russell’s Letter--Efforts for Release--Even New Evidenc...

After I had been incarcerated for a few years I found out that it was usual in the case of a life convict who has earned good marks to have her sentence brought up for considera...

My trial was set for the 31st of July in St. George’s Hall, Liverpool. Immediately after nine o’clock on that day, the part of the building which is open to the general public w...

“Pleaded guilty to a former conviction! Adolf Beck pleaded guilty to nothing. How could he plead guilty, being an innocent man! He cried aloud when the charge of the first convi...

Chaplain--My Work in the Kitchen--The Machine-made Menu--Visitors to the Kitchen--The “Homelike” Cell--The Opiate of Acquiescence--Visits of Prisoners’ Friends--My Mother’s Visi...

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...

Library--Newspapers Forbidden--How Prisoners Learn of Great Events--Strict Discipline of Prison Officers--Their High Character--Nervous Strain of Their Duties--Standing Orders f...

Chapel--Influence of Religion upon Prisoners--Suicide of a Prisoner--Tragedies in Prison--Moral Effect of Harsh Prison Régime--Attacks of Levity--Self-discipline--Need of Women...