The consideration of the facts as given in evidence also covers the second issue which the jury had to determine, namely, whether, if arsenic poisoning was the cause of death, it was the prisoner who administered it with criminal intent. The evidence on this point was most inconclusive. _No one saw the prisoner administer arsenic to her husband._ She had no opportunity of giving her husband anything since one or two o’clock on Wednesday afternoon (8th of May), after which she was closely watched by the nurses. _It was not shown that any food or drink administered to the deceased by the prisoner contained arsenic._ It was not shown that the prisoner _had placed arsenic in any food or drink intended for her husband’s use_. Nor, in fact, was any found, although searched for, in any food or medicine of which Mr. Maybrick partook during his illness, _except the arsenic in Fowler’s solution, prescribed and administered by Dr. Humphreys himself_. THE FLY-PAPER EPISODE The episode of the fly-papers may be considered as one of the most important factors in the whole case. It supplies, so to speak, the only link between Mrs. Maybrick and arsenic, which, it is well known, forms their chief ingredient. It was proved she had purchased the fly-papers without any attempt at concealment, and, while soaking, they were exposed to everybody’s view, quite openly, in a room accessible to every inmate of the house. It was not suggested that Mrs. Maybrick bought the other large quantity of arsenic, between seventy and eighty grains, found in the house after death, _and no one came forward to speak to any such purchase_. It was found in the most unlikely places for Mrs. Maybrick to have selected, if she had intended to use it, and the evidence against her on this point is of _a particularly vague and indefinite character_. [Justice Stephen, commenting on the quantity of arsenic found on the premises, himself observed that it was a remarkable fact in the case, and which, it appeared to him, told most favorably than otherwise for the prisoner, as in the whole case, from first to last, there was no evidence at all that she had bought any poison, or had anything to do with the procuring of any, with the exception of those fly-papers.] The accusation rests entirely _on suspicion, insinuation, and circumstantial suggestions; not one tittle of evidence was adduced in support of it_, and yet the jury came to the conclusion, without allowing of any doubt in the matter, _that it was her hand which administered the poison_. HOW MRS. MAYBRICK ACCOUNTS FOR THE FLY-PAPERS