Lord Russell’s Conviction of Mrs. Maybrick’s Innocence
This statement of Mr. Lucy is of great value as an answer to the assault made on Lord Russell’s memory after his death, on his firm belief in my innocence.
Lord Hugh Cecil wrote to a constituent:
“I believe I am right in stating that he (Lord Russell) never said that he believed Mrs. Maybrick to be innocent.”
When this was shown Lord Russell by Mr. A. W. McDougall, Esq., the Chief Justice exclaimed:
“Does Lord Hugh Cecil suppose that I would abandon all the traditions of the Bar and put forward publicly as an argument in such a case my personal belief in this, that, or the other thing? Does he suppose that I would have made all the efforts I have been making to obtain her freedom if I believed her to be guilty?”