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Portrait of Florence Maybrick
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Accused

Florence Maybrick

Born
3 September 1862
Died
23 October 1941, aged about 79
Record
Wikidata Q2912678 · Wikipedia

Accused in The Aigburth Poisoning

Born Florence Elizabeth Chandler in Mobile, Alabama. Convicted of murdering her husband; sentence commuted to life; released 1904.

1889–1904 · Aigburth, Liverpool, England · Disputed verdict

An American wife, a Liverpool cotton broker who dosed himself with arsenic, and a verdict so doubtful the Home Office reprieved her within weeks. Read the case.

Dated events

  1. She marries James Maybrick at St James's Church, Piccadilly.

  2. James Maybrick falls ill at Battlecrease House.

  3. James Maybrick dies at home in Aigburth.

  4. Florence Maybrick's trial for murder opens at St George's Hall, Liverpool.