OCEAN MURDER HUNT.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 883, 1 August 1910, Page 7

OCEAN MURDER HUNT.

NEARINC THE END. CRIPPEN REPORTED TO SUSPECT NOTHING. DETECTIVE DEW ARRIVES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Rcc. July 31, 5.5 p.m.) London, July 30. After buying the passages to Canada for himsol fand the girl Le Neve, Crip-! pen,- who is wanted for the Camden murder, appears to have been practically penniless. Hu asked tho shipping agent at Brussels where money was lent, and how best to negotiate a loan.' According to a "Daily Mail" Marconigram from tho Montrose, Crippen has no baggage. Both he and Lo Neve' are reticent to the other passengers. They spend their time reading, and are always together. ■ Crippen stated that ho was a great traveller, and was taking tho boy to California on account of his health. They' booked respectively as - merchant and student. . The "Evening News" states that a Marconigrum from the Montrose reports that Crippen does not suspect anything. He has shaved his moustache and is growing a beard. The passengers are ignorant of his identity.- Le Neve refrains' from talking, and both suffer from sleeplessness. They spend much time in their cabin, and show signs of worry when' alone. Another "Daily Mail" message from the Montrose states that the girl ' Le Neve's action in squeezing Crippen's hand roused the captain's suspicions. Later it was found that her haVhad been packed with paper to make it fit. Crippen, with a revolver in his hip pocket, sits and reads "The Pickwick Papers." Crippen is stated to have been identified two hours after the 'ship sailed. Four men aboard the Montrose were detailed to. watch him daily. ; The'Montrose is due at Father Point on Sunday morning. It is expected that Crippen will be taken to Quebec after his arrest. ' Detective-Inspector Dew landed from tho Laurentio at Father Point, where the Atlantic steamers make their first stop in 'Canada,- and is awaiting tho arrival of-the Montrose.' Doteetive Dew was loudly cheered on disembarking, and was Immediately besieged by pressmen' and photographers. Tho London and New York papers devote columns daily to the . hunt far Crippen, and scores of kincmalograpk operators are waiting at "Father .Point to.take pictures of the arrival. . ■■■ . Tho Canadian Government instructed the captain of tho Laurentio in.the interests of justice to transmit, official .messages. '■' ' . . The police are shadowing' some supposed connections of Crippen's. A Mrs. Ginnett and other friends of tho late Mrs. Crippen aro awaiting tho arrival of the Montrose.