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Florence Chandler Maybrick (1862–1941) was an American woman whose life became one of the most controversial legal dramas of the Victorian era. Born Florence Elizabeth Chandler in Mobile, Alabama she married much older English cotton broker James Maybrick in 1881 and moved to Liverpool. Their marriage was troubled by jealousy, infidelity, and James’s long-term use of arsenic and other stimulants, which were sometimes taken medicinally during that period. In 1889, James died after a sudden illness, and Florence was accused of poisoning him with arsenic. Her sensational murder trial attracted international attention, and although the evidence was widely considered weak and circumstantial, she was convicted and sentenced to death (the first American ever sentenced to death). Public outrage and doubts about the fairness of the verdict led the British government to commute her sentence to life imprisonment. After spending about fifteen years in prison, she was released in 1904. Florence later wrote memoirs defending her innocence called Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years. Eventually she settled under her maiden name in Gaylordsville, CT and lived a reclusive life. Only a few knew of her background while many of the locals simply called her The Cat Lady.
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Florence Chandler Maybrick (1862–1941) was an American woman whose life became one of the most controversial legal dramas of the Victorian era. Born Florence Elizabeth Chandler in Mobile, Alabama she married much older English cotton broker James Maybrick in 1881 and moved to Liverpool. Their marriage was troubled by jealousy, infidelity, and James’s long-term use of arsenic and other stimulants, which were sometimes taken medicinally during that period. In 1889, James died after a sudden illness, and Florence was accused of poisoning him with arsenic. Her sensational murder trial attracted international attention, and although the evidence was widely considered weak and circumstantial, she was convicted and sentenced to death (the first American ever sentenced to death). Public outrage and doubts about the fairness of the verdict led the British government to commute her sentence to life imprisonment. After spending about fifteen years in prison, she was released in 1904. Florence later wrote memoirs defending her innocence called Mrs. Maybrick's Own Story: My Fifteen Lost Years. Eventually she settled under her maiden name in Gaylordsville, CT and lived a reclusive life. Only a few knew of her background while many of the locals simply called her The Cat Lady.
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