THE CRIPPEN CASE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 914, 5 November 1910, Page 4

THE CRIPPEN CASE.

It is estimated that the pursuit, capture, and trial of Dr Crippen will cost the taxpayers of Eondon .£SOOO. Never before has Scotland Yard spent so much in the pursuit of any criminal. A large item in the “ Yard’s” Crippen bill is the cost of telegrams and cables giving descriptions of Crippen, which were sent to many Continental, American and Canadian headquarters. This item will amount to Twenty-live thousand large posters, containing descriptions of Crippen and Miss Ee Neve, with reproductions of their photographs and handwriting, were scattered broadcast up and down two continents. Fifty clerks were engaged night and day for a long time in wrapping, addressing and mailing these posters. That will be a costly item. Then there is the expense of sending Inspector Drew to Canada, and the expense of another detective and a wardress who went to Quebec to look alter the prisoners on their way back to England. Then there is the reward of which will have to be paid to Captain Kendall, of the steamship Montrose, and the cost of the long Coroner’s inquest, with the fees for anolytical chemists.