MURDER MYSTERY

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 871, 18 July 1910, Page 7

MURDER MYSTERY

WHAT A NEIGHBOUR HEARD. SHOTS AND CRIES. GREAT INTEREST IN LONDON, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. London, July 15. ■ 'Four months ago a resident near the house occupied by. the Crippens at Camden —where Mrs. Crippen's body was recently found buried in the cellar —heard shots in file garden, and later cries from tho basement, ''Oh, don't!" The body was buried in quicklime. , A revolver found in the cellar suggested that the woriian was first shot. It is not believed that the couple had much money before Mrs. Crippen's disappearance. All the neighbours agree that the couple appeared to have lived happily together. .. The woman never wrote to hex mother stating that she had been married. .' Crippen spent Easter on the . Continent. . Crippen's son is employed by a telephone company at Los. Angeles, California. He states that his father wrote to him in April last notifying his wife's death in San Francisco, where he had gone .to settle some estate business. A Liverpool hairdresser has notified Scotland Yard that he shaved the moustache off a man corresponding to. the description- of Crippen. BODY MUCH ' MUTILATED. MOVEMENTS OF THE SUSPECTS. (Rec. July 17, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 16. An autopsy by Professor A. J. Pepper, surgeon of. St. Mary's Hospital, shows that Mrs. Crippen's body was much mutilated, and that whoever dissected the limbs had a full knowledge of anatomy. In February—about the time his wife disappeared—Crippen removed some boxes from the house. The police are now digging for the victim's head and legs. The girl Lonove, or Neve, who was seen last week in boy's clothes, called at her father's house oil Saturday in a hurry. She promised to write, and left in a taxi-cab. Crippen's assistant the same night received a letter from Crippen, asking him to take charge of the house and sell the furniture to pay the tradesman's bills and the rent. Mr. Leneve and the assistant found the house in l charge of a French maid, whom Crippen had brought from France at Easter. ; ■ The house contained plenty of furniture and-handsome dresses. On Monday the police interrogated Leneve and his assistant. The case is creating immense interest. ■ ' '