THE CRIPPEN TRIAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 908, 22 October 1910, Page 3

THE CRIPPEN TRIAL.

London, Oct. rg. At the Crippen trial Teresa Dunne, Belle Elmore’s (Mrs Crippen) elder sister from America, gave evidence, that she saw a partly - healed scar on deceased soon alter Belle Elmore’s marriage with Crippen in 1592, and also later. Bruce Miller said he met Belle Elmore in 1899. He admitted kissing her, and writing, sending “love and kisses to brown eyes.” Belle Elmore did not discourage these endearments, and they had exchanged occasional letters since 1904.

Cross-examined, Miller denied going to a house in Bloomsbury Square for the purpose of illicit relationship.

Mr Tobin’s cross-examination of Inspector Dew was intended to show that the remains of the murdered woman had been in the cellar for years. THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE. London, Oct. 20. The prosecution in the Crippen case has closed. The medical evidence went to show that the absence ot sebaceous glands proved that the scar found on the remains of the murdered woman was the mark ot an old operation. Mr Tobin, in opening the defence, and incidentally referring to the cards found on Crippen indicating that he contemplated suicide, explained they were part of a plot with the quartermaster of the Montrose to enable Crippen to escape on reaching Quebec.

Mr Tobin will call eminent doctors to controvert the evidence in regard to the time the body was buried and the presence ot uyosciue. He also calls Crippen to testify on his own behalf. Mr Tobin, continuing, said the prosecution must prove that the remains were Belle Elmore’s (Mrs Crippen). He discredited the suggestions that Crippen murdered the woman for her money and in order to marrv his mistress. Neither suggestion was borne out bv facts.

Ciippen, giving evidence, said he had never made a post mortem. He was a specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat treatment. His wife, the night before her flight, got into a rage over a triviality and said she would leave him. He sought to cover the scandal the best way, and therefore lied to her friends. The story he told Inspector Dew was true. He admitted purchasing nyoscine, which he dispensed in minute doses to patients suffering from spasmodic asthma and nerve cases. He recounted the arrangements with the quartermaster on the Montrose as counsel had mentioned them.