The Crippen Case.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 September 1910, Page 4

The Crippen Case.

Lis NEVE'S TROUSSEAU. WEDDING DRESS OF YTEUX ROSE. An extraordinary storv_ of her dealings with Ethel Lo Novo has boon told by a Hampstcad diiessmaker. "I know Miss Le Novo well, said the dressmaker. "She came to me last November twelve months to get some work done. She was a nicelooking girl, and I was quite taken with her. She did not dnoss expensively, and T did not see heir often until early in February. Then slu came with a large box, and said. 'Oh, T want you to do a lot of work for me, because in six weeks' time lam going to be married.' I oxpressed my pleasure at tho news, and she said: 'Don't you think it's, very good of Mr Crippen, tho gentleman I a.in going to marry? His aunt has gone to America and left the bouse in Hilldrop crescent for him to dispose of, and also left uk all these things. T want- you to make so-me up. so that they shall be ready for my wedding. They wor< lovely things,"' continued the dressmaker. "There was one dross and quite a number of dross lengths — a vioux rose, which T made into a Princess ruhc; and a mole-coloure:. shade, with a stripe, which I niadi 'Ip for her. She told me afterwards that she was married in th; vioux rose. Between February and Easter she was coqstantlv coming to me to bo fitted, and she was happy and cheerful. After the wedding 1 saw her often, and I ask ed her one day how she like:! married life. 'I a.rn very happy,' slu said, and she also told me they wort anxious to give up the house at Hilltop orescent and go into tin West End to live. I had a lotto,l from her enclosing a postal ordet for £1 for some work, and askinc. mo to deliver a coat on Friday, athey were going to Bournemouth on Eastbourne for a ho-lidav. Tiir letter was signed 'Ktliel Crippen.' f could not. finish it on Friday, and when T took it. on Saturday tho\ had gone. 1 romemeher once 1 thought it funny that the Amor: ni aunt should go away and' leave ail those things behind.' I ment- : one: it to her, and she said :'I expect she net want to pass tho Custom: with all these goods.' I noticed after February that she wa.s wearing a lot of brooches, but T did not care to remark on them. Sho wa.s a splendid woman for paving hoi bills promptly."

M IDNIGHT TERR OR — "NERVERACKING SHRIEKS." A curious story of a woman's shrieks in the dead of the night wa.s told by Mrs Louisa Maria. Glacknar. who keeps an oil and general store Her house at- the back of tho shop looks on tlio roar of tlio promises in which -the borly wa.s discovorcd. "One night before Easter, it might- have heen as far back as Fehruary," Mrs Glacknor said, "T la\ asleep in my bedroom, the windows of which look out towards Hilldrop crescent. Suddenly, I should think .between half-past 12 and 1 in the morning, I was awakened by piercing screams. There was no doubt in my mind that what I heard was tho cry of some woman ;-i terribledistress. I got out of bed and threw up the window to discover, if possible, the cause of tlio screams and the direction whence they come. No. 39. Hilldrop crescent, lie's somewhat to the left of my window. 01 course, there was nothing to attract m,\ atention to this particular house, at the time, but in tho stillness of tlio night it was plain to me that the sound came from that direction. Once or twice tho fearful cries were repeated. Then as suddenly as thev begun they ceased. Ail was sil«nt once more. After waiting a few moments f closed the window and returned to bed. I was "not the only person who heard the screams. My son. whoso bedroom is also n.t the back, was awakened at the same time by what he describes as 'nerve-racking shrieks.' "