Interview excerpt on Florence Maybrick in Lagniappe Magazine.
Ripper killer? Mobile woman married and was jailed for poisoning Jack the Ripper suspect
By Kyle Hamrick, Lagniappe Magazine, October 26, 2022
Florence Elizabeth Chandler Maybrick entered the world as the daughter of a wealthy Mobile banking family during the Civil War in September 1862, and left it a penniless woman living in squalor with dozens of cats in a small Connecticut town at the beginning of World War II in October 1941. . . .
Ron Suresha, a Connecticut author and editor who is writing a book on Florence’s last years, told Lagniappe even though Florence considered her reform work a hobby, she had a real effect.
“She is said to be single-handedly responsible for ending ‘the water table,’ which is basically waterboarding, which was a punitive prison practice at the time. She apparently got that abolished in Oklahoma and perhaps other states,” he said.
He and Hutto agreed her return to Mobile on the reform tour was a triumph. People filled the Battle House Hotel in December 1908 to hear her speak, and told newspaper reporters they remembered her and her family well 40 years later. . . .
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