CRIPPEN'S TRIAL BEGINS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 909, 31 August 1910, Page 7

CRIPPEN'S TRIAL BEGINS.

ACCUSED AT BOW STREET. INSPECTOR DEW DESCRIBES THE ARREST. SUICIDE CONTEMPLATED. By Teleeraph—Press Association—Copyright. ' London, August 29. The Camden murder trial began: to-day with the appearance ■ of' Crippen and his bompanion at the Bow Street Police Court. The male prisoner, Hawley.. Harvey Crippen, \ alias Peter Crippen, alias Franckel,: an : American ~ doctor, was charged with having murdered'his wife, Cora Crippen, otherwise Belle Elmore, or Belle Mackamotski, at 39 Eilldrop Crescent, Camden, in February. " . '.The, female accused, Ethel Clara Le Neve, typist and shorthand-writer, aged "27, was.charged with having been an. ac-, cessory after, the fact. • Detective-Inspector Dew; 1 who'went to Canada and arrested the accused pair on board the steamer Montrose,- stated in that he found on Crippen a card on which was written:— "I cannot stand every night's hor-. .'Tor.' As there is nothing bright ..ahead, and the journey ie ending, I will jump overboard to-night. I have spoiled my life. Some day you '' may learn to forgive .me." On a second card, in the same handwriting, were the words"Shall we wait till eleven to-night?" , " '' Inspector -Dew stated' that he. believed both the cards were in Crippen's 'handwriting. He added that when Crippen had been arrested he said:—-'I am not sorry.:. The anxiety has been too much." The detective' said':—"As you have written that you intended jumping overboard, I; must fasten the handcuffs on you." ' ..To this Crippen replied: "I won't, do that. My anxiety has -been too awful." Crippen added: "It is only fair to-say that Le Neve knows nothing about the affair.", ■ Le Nove. also'assured'witness, that she 'knew nothing-about' the murder. /; The hearing was .adjourned. ; SCOTLAND .YARD'S STORY. • A NEW DEPARTURE.. In dealing with' the Camden murder, Scotland >¥ard made a new departure of a most- interesting character of their method of 'criuie' investigation'.. The authorities for the first time in their history took the press into their conii'.dence, and on July 14 issued the following , official statement relating. to the 'crime and the steps which - led to its discovery':— "Airs. Cora Cripppn, • otherwiso Belle Elmore:, or, Belle. Aiaekamotski, ail Ameri--can. lady and musio-nall artist,. was married some'year',', vo in New- York to janAmerican doctor named Hawley. Harvey Crippen, alias "eter. Crippeu, . alias Franckel, who foi - some, years represented Munyon's-remedies in London,, was connected with the Lrouet Institute; and has latterly carried on a. den-tal business -at House, New Oxford Street; .as the Yale Tooth Specialist.... Mts. Crippen ;was a very .chairming lady, and was very in. the music-hall world, and was honorary secretary to the Music-hall Guild.'. They have been in.Eng-' land for some years, ~ and for the past .four years they have resided, apparently', jtfery happily, at. 39' :-,pi Jldijip, Camden ,Koad.- - ' ; "On February 2 last Crippen circulated '-the report that Mrs. Crippen had left for. America to transaot business. . Later, on. he said.that he had.received.information, from America that she was- seriously ill with pneumonia, , and. later still that she was dea;d, and had been cremated near San Francisco, and that'the ashes were on the way to'him. . ' . ; "Although her . friends were. not satisfied with. Crippen's story - they did not inform the police until June 30 last, when a.lady aud gentleman friend of-hers came to New- Scotland Yard and gave information as to her mysterious disappearance to Superintendent: :Froest ,-and Chief Inspector Dew. Every possible inquiry was made> by the latter, who, not being satisfied as to Mts. Crippen's death, interviewed Crippen, who. admitted that all.his former stories were incorrect, and that he had had a quarrel with his wife, who had gone away, saying that she should never see, him again, and he. believed she had gone to America. "On Saturday .last Crippen and Miss Le Neve, whom he had told people he had married, disappeared together about 1 p.m. Chief Inspector Dew, with Sergeant -Mitchell, continued the . inquiry, made a thorough examination of the house and garden, and on ■ Wednesday afternoon determined to make a still further examination of the garden and the house. _ -v. "In making a close examination of the cellar, and on probing the-brick floor, they found that they could move the bricks in some parts easier than in others, and decided to . dig the whole cellar up,-, with the result that' the inspector, after digging some little distance down, came across what was evidently a portion of a human body, and later on the mutilated remains of a body were found. He communicated these facts to New Scotland Yard, when Sir Melville Macnaghten and ..Superintendent Froest attended and. viewed the remains.

"Crippen was born at Cold Water, Michigan, U.S.A., and was educated at Indiana and Los Angeles, Cal., completing his medical education at Michigan, Cleveland, and New York, and has practised at Detroit, San Diego, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, and Brooklyn, as ear- and eye specialist, and has managed Munyon's business at Philadelphia and Toronto."