Fort 761 for by the 23 729 173- THE MAYBRICK CASE. A TREATISE BY ALEXANDER WILLIAM MACDOUGALL, B.A. TRIN. COLL. CANTAB., BARRISTER-AT-LAW, LINCOLN'S INN, ON THE FACTS OF THE CASE, AND OF THE PROCEEDINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE BAILLIERE, TINDALL AND COX, 20 & 21, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND. 1891. [All rights reserved.] OCT 21 1908 NOTICE TO THE READER. It is only on very rare occasions that the public have an opportunity of studying how criminal proceedings are conducted in this country from the beginning to the end, but in the Maybrick case, in consequence of the public excitement caused by the Mystery in which the case was involved, the Press furnished the country with every detail and with verbatim reports of the whole proceedings, including the Inquest, the Magisterial Inquiry, the Judge's charge to the Grand Jury, the Trial, and the Reasons for the advice given to the Queen by the Home Secretary, and an opportunity is thus afforded to the public, (now that the excitement has subsided—in fact, has been followed by apathy-of carefully studying how criminal proceedings are conducted, and of reflecting whether, as so conducted, they furnish that protection to society which they are intended to provide. It is the personal duty of every individual in this country, not merely as a public duty but as a duty of self-protection, to watch rigilantly the administration of justice, and to scrutinise jealously the conduct of those who are entrusted with the administration of justice, and this is especially so in matters which affect the Life and Liberty of the subject. In this treatise the text will be exclusively confined to the facts of the case and the proceedings as they appear in the reports, and to observations upon those facts and those proceedings. Any other or subsequently acquired information will appear as notes, wherever such additional information may throw light upon the subject of the text itself. |