A LONDON TRAGEDY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 866, 16 July 1910, Page 3

A LONDON TRAGEDY.

London, July 14. Mrs Crippen, an American aged 34, the wife of an American dentist recently secured a music hall engagement in London, her stage name being Bella Ellore. She has not been seen since February last. Scotland Yard detectives yesterday found her battered remains under the flagstones of a coal cellar of a house in Hilldrop Crescent, Camden road, where she and her husband had resided for some years.

The police are enquiring as to the whereabouts of the husband, who was fifty years of age. He quitted the house recently. The Daily Mail states that Mrs Crippen held an official postal the Music Hall Artists’ Guild. Enquirers at her house in February were informrd that she had gone to the Continent to recuperate. The announcement of her death appeared in the theatrical papers and the police discovered that no such death had occurred in the town named.

Crippen also represented to the neighbours that his wife had gone to America, died there, and been cremated. Two friends informed the police of the suspicions, and Inspector Drew interviewed Crippen, who readily answered questions. He denied the American story, substituting another that his wife had quarrelled with and left him. Crippen disappeared on Saturday with a woman passing as his wife, and wearing his real wife’s jewellery. All ports are being watched. Crippen has been seen in London.