From page 262: “I think it my duty to renew my protest against the continued imprisonment of Florence Maybrick. I consider the history of the case reflects discredit on the administration of the criminal law. I think my protest ought to be attended to at last. The prisoner has already undergone punishment for a period four times as long, or more, as the minimum punishment fixed by law for the commission of the crime, of which she has never been convicted or for which she has never been tried, but for which she has been adjudged guilty by your predecessor in the office of Home Secretary.” THE AMERICAN OFFICIAL PETITION The following is quoted from the American Official Petition sent to the Rt. Hon. Henry Matthews, Q.C., M.P., Her Majesty’s principal secretary for the Home Department: “As Florence Elizabeth Maybrick is an American woman, without father, brother, husband, or kin in England, except two infant children, enduring penal servitude for life in Woking Prison; “As the conduct of her trial resulted in a profound impression of a miscarriage of justice, in an earnest protest against the verdict, and the execution of the sentence of death, and its commutation to penal servitude for life on the ground of reasonable doubt whether a murder had been committed; “As a careful legal scrutiny of the evidence given at the trial by eminent solicitors, barristers, queen’s counsel, and members of Parliament, and the production of facts not in evidence at the trial have resulted in a final decision of counsel that the case is one proper for the grave consideration of a criminal appellate tribunal--if such a tribunal existed; “Therefore, we earnestly ask that the Rt. Hon. Henry Matthews, Q.C., M.P., Her Majesty’s principal secretary of state for the Home Department, will advise Her Majesty to order the pardon and release of the prisoner, who has now suffered an imprisonment of three years. “LEVI P. MORTON, Vice-President of the United States, President of the Senate. “CHARLES T. CRISP, Speaker of the House of Representatives. “CHARLES FOSTER, Secretary of the Treasury. “JAMES G. BLAINE, Secretary of State. “S. B. ELKINS, Secretary of War. “W. H. MILLER, Attorney-General. “JOHN WANAMAKER, Postmaster-General. “B. T. TRACY, Secretary of the Navy. “JOHN B. NOBLE, Secretary of the Interior. “G. M. RUSK, Secretary of Agriculture. “J., CARDINAL GIBBONS. “J. M. SCOFIELD, Major-General Commanding the Army. “A. W. TRULY, Brigadier-General-in-Chief, Signal Office. “THOMAS LINCOLN CASEY, Brigadier-General-in-Chief of Engineers. “JOSEPH CABELL BRECKENRIDGE, Brigadier-General, Infantry-General. “J. O. KELTON, Brigadier-General, Adjutant-General. “WILLIAM SMITH, Paymaster-General. “H. M. BATCHELDER, General-Quartermaster-General. “B. DUBARRY, General and Commanding General Infantry. “O. SUTHERLAND, General Infantry General. “D. W. FLAGLER, Chief of Ordnance.