Click2Famous Trials - Florence Maybrick - Chapter 1 - Preface

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff cellpadding=5> <tr> <td align=center valign=top><div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>FLORENCE MAYBRICK</b></font></p>  <table width="590"> <tr> <td align="CENTER" valign="top" bgcolor="000000" colspan=2><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="3" color="FFFFFF"><b>STORY CHAPTER LINKS</b></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width="313" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" border="0"> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="289"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><a href="#preface"><b>1. STORY PREFACE</b></a></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="289"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="maybrick_ch2.htm">2. A MAN WITH A DOUBLE LIFE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="289"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="maybrick_ch3.htm">3. HARD TIMES FOR THE MAYBRICKS</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="289"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="maybrick_ch4.htm">4. FLORIE'S MISTAKES</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="289"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="maybrick_ch5.htm">5. FLORIE IS CHARGED WITH MURDER</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="289"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="maybrick_ch6.htm">6. FLORIE'S DISASTROUS TRIAL</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="289"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="maybrick_ch7.htm">7. FLORIE'S DEATH SENTENCE</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="289"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="maybrick_ch8.htm">8. AFTERMATH OF THE VERDICT</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="289"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="maybrick_ch9.htm">9. WHAT'S THE RIPPER GOT TO DO WITH IT?</font></b></a> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> <td align=center valign=top width=50%>  <table width=297 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 border=0> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="273"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="maybrick_ch10.htm">10. WHITECHAPEL: SCENE OF THE CRIMES</a></b> </font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="273"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="maybrick_ch11.htm">11. POLLY NICHOLS: THE FIRST VICTIM</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="273"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="maybrick_ch12.htm">12. THE RIPPER EARNS HIS NAME</a></b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="273"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="maybrick_ch13.htm">13. THE RIPPER TURNS TO EXCESS</a></b></font> </td> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="273"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="maybrick_ch14.htm">14. A DECEIVING CALM</a></b></font> </td> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="273"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="maybrick_ch15.htm">15. TOTAL DEPRAVITY</a></b></font> </td> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="273"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="maybrick_ch16.htm">16. A CHANGE OF SCENERY</a></b></font> </td> <tr> <td align="LEFT" valign="TOP" width="273"><font face="ARIAL, HELVETICA" size="2"><b><a href="maybrick_ch17.htm">17. A KILLING ADDICTION</a></b></font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  <p><b><font size="3"><u><a name="preface">PREFACE</a></u></font></b></p> <div align=center><b><i><font face="Times New Roman" color="000000" size="3"> <blockquote>"The court doth order You<br> to be taken from hence...<br> to the place of execution<br> and that you be hanged<br> by the neck until<br> you are dead..."</i></b></font></p></blockquote> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align=left valign=top> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" size=3 color=000000>If anyone had told Florence Chandler she would be sentenced to hang from an English gallows in <a ; target="_blank" href="http://www.worldcityphotos.org/U/UK-ENG-Liverpool-britainfromtheair1.jpg"><b>Liverpool</b></a>, she probably would never have left the comforts of her Mobile, Alabama home. But misadventures are never known beforehand, so an unwitting Florie (as she liked to be called) and her mother, Baroness Caroline von Roques, boarded the SS Baltic on March 12, 1880. Their final destination was <a href="http://www.paris.org/Curiosites/23March/gifs/charc.html" ; target="_blank"><b>Paris</b></a>.</p> <p align="justify">By the time the Baltic docked in Liverpool, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.casebook.org/images/florrie1.jpg"><b>Florie</b></a> had changed her destination. Impulsive and headstrong at age eighteen, she had fallen in love during the crossing. She decided to marry an Englishman.</p> <p align="justify"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.casebook.org/images/maybrick.jpg"><b>James Maybrick</b></a> was 24 years old the day Florrie was born. Now, at 42, Maybrick had several dark secrets that he did not tell the young American. Had she known, one can only hope Florie would have made better choices. Had she known, she might have later recalled the Baltic voyage as a wonderful memory, not as a time to regret.</p> </div> <p align="right"><font size="2"><a href="maybrick_ch2.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="3">Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.</center></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </tr> </table>  </body>