IS IT A CRIPPEN CASE?

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1107, 21 April 1911, Page 5

IS IT A CRIPPEN CASE?

MAN CHARGED WITH WIFE MURDER. MARRIES VILLAGE GIRL. BODY FOUND UNDER TILES. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyrisrlit (Eec. April 21, 0.15 a.m.) Paris, April 20. Victor Gaubert has been arrested on a charge of murdering his wife Eliza in the village of Lappene, near Marseilles, under circumstances resembling the Crippen case. Eliza Gaubert disappeared in October, lier husband alleging that she had gone to Mauritius. Later on ho announced her death, and married Antonia Sidolles, a village girl. He left home during repairs to the house, and tho workmen noticed that the tiles in the scullery were uneven, and on removing them they discovered Eliza Gaubert's body. The accused states that Eliza and ho had a violent altercation over Antonia, and she suddenly dropped dead. Fearing arrest he buried the body.

THE CRIPPEN CRIME. The story of the Crippen crime is briefly as follows:— "Mrs. Cora Crippen, otherwise Belle Elmore, or Belie ilackamotski, was married some years ago in New York to an American doctor named Hawley Harvey Crippen. They had been in England for some years, apparently very happily, at 3!) Eilldrop Crescent, Camden Road. On I February 2, 1010, Crippen circulated tho report that Mrs. Crippen had left for America to transact 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 dead, and had been cremated near San Francisco, and that the ashes were on tho way to him. Although her friends were not satisfied with Crippen's story they did not inform the police until June 30, when a lady and gentleman friend of hers came to Now Scotland Yard and gave information as to her mysterious disappearance. A police officer 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 lie believed she had gone to America. Subsequently Crippen and Miss Le Neve, whom he had told people he had married, disappeared together. Chief-Inspector Dew, with Sergeant Mitchell, made a thorough examination of the house, and ; on probing the brick floor they found thai: they could move the bricks in some parts easier than in others, and decided to dig the whole cellar up, with the result that tho 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. Crippen was arrested on landing in Canada, brought back to England, tried, found guilty, and hanged.