THE CRIPPEN SENSATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 867, 19 July 1910, Page 3

THE CRIPPEN SENSATION.

WHAT A NEIGHBOUR HEARD.

London, July 15

Four months ago a resident near the house occupied by the Crippens at Camden—where Mrs Crippen’s body was recently lound buried in the cellar —’heard shots in the garden, and later cries from the basement, “Oh, don’t!” The body was buried in quicklime. A revolver found in the cellar suggested that the woman was first shot.

It is not believed that the couple had much money before Mrs Crippen’s disappearance. All the neighbours agree that the couple appeared to have lived happily together.

Tne woman never wrote to her mother stating that she had been married.

Crippen spent Easter on the Continent,

Crippen’s son is employed by a telephone company at Los Angeles, California. He states that his father wrote to him in April last notifying his wife’s death in San Francisco, where he had gone to settle some estate business.

A Liverpool hairdresser has notified Scotland Yard that he shaved the moustache off a man corresponding to the description of Crippen.

Crippen’s first, wife died at Salt Lake in 1892; it is stilted of paralysis and apoplexy.

BODY MUTILATED. An autopsy by Professor A. J. Pepper, surgeon of St. Mary’s Hospital, shows that Mrs Crippen’s body was much mutilated, and that whoever dissected the limbs had a full knowledge of anatomy. In February—about the time his wife disappeared Ciippen removed some boxes from the house.

The police are now digging for the victim’s head and legs. The girl I-eneve, or Neve, who was seen last week in boy’s clothes called at her father’s house on Saturday in a hurry. She promised to write, and left in a taxicab.

Crippen’s assistant the same night received a letter from Crippen, asking him to take charge of the house and sell the furniture to pay the tradesmen’s bills and the rent.

Mr Beneve and the assistant found the house in charge of a French maid, whom Crippen had brought from France at Easter. The house contained plenty of furniture aud handsome dresses.

On Monday the police interrogated Beneve and his assistant. The case is creating immense interest.