THE CRIPPEN SENSATION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 885, 30 August 1910, Page 3

THE CRIPPEN SENSATION.

PRISONERS ARRIVE IN ENGLAND. London, August 27. Crippen and the girl Le Neve have arrived here. Owing to a police ruse at Liverpool, Crippeu and Le Neve disembarked almost unobserved. There were enormous and excited boo-ing crowds at Euston railway station as the prisoners were conveyed to Bow street, where the hearing of the charges commences to-morrow.

The N.Z. Times .London correspondent writing under date July 22iid says : Mr G. W. Rylauce, an Auckland, New Zealand, dentist, practising at Albion House, New Oxford street, informed the Pall Mall Gazette that Crippen was his advertising and business agent. “ A more humble, unassuming little man i have never met, and to me it seems unthinkable that he would have committed so dastardly a crime. I have met him in Munyon’s rooms in this building on the occasion of the Kaiser’s visit to Loudon. He invited me to look out of his window at the Royal procession. For mouths afterwards he pestered me to allow him to be my business agent, and eventually I agreed. In my judgment be was a smart man and a wonderful organiser, very exact, with fine business methods ; in fact, one could not have desired a slraighter representative. “ Of late I had observed that he had looked worried. He had, of course, his bright moments, but generally he appeared to be distressed and perturbed by something or another, and I came to the conclusion that it was due to financial troubles. “ His wife was a woman of charming manners. I frequently saw her here. What passes my understanding is how Crippen could have thrown her over in favour of his typist. It was a strange infatuation. She had little t« recommed her as far as I could notice. The typist was a delicate woman. She was always ailing, and was jocularly known in this building as the woman who was always answering inquiries with the same ramark, “ Not very well, thank you.” The Albion Magazine, published at 43, Chancery Lane, in an investigation last October of Crippen’s “ Aural Remedies C 0.,” of Craven House, reported how the investigator met Crippen in February, 1904. “ I remember the man very well indeed, <lnainly on account oi his get-up, and incidentally because of the story to be read In his face. I think Crippen is the only ‘physician’ I ever met who wore a frock coat, together with a remarkably ‘ loud ' fancy shirt, and his ‘ diamond ’ stud would have been worth a fortune —if real ! His face and eyes told the story of a life misspent. Only a fool would trust Crippen or accept his treatment. His connection with the Drouet Institute speaks for itself.”