THE CRIPPEN CASE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 137, 19 September 1910, Page 5

THE CRIPPEN CASE

ANALYST'S EVIDENCE. By Cable.—Pres? Association. —Copyright London, September 16. At the police Coiurt Mr. Wilcox, analyst to the Home Office, giving evidence in the Crippen case, stated that hyoscine was the cause of the death of the victim, who probably lived an hour after it was administered. The fragments of flannelette and a pyjama jacket found ■have an arrangement of green lines identical with the pattern of the pyjama trousers found in Crippen's box. THE CAPTAIN'S FUNNY STORY WHICH LED TO CRIPPEN'S DETECTION. When Captain Kendall, of the steamer Montrose, suspected that his passengers, Mr. and Master Robinson," were in reality Crippen and Ethel Le Neve, he organised a thorough secret watch' upon the fugitives. He remembered that the fecotlaud Yard description of Crippen referred to his false, teeth, and determined to make "Robinson" laugh. Inviting him into his cabin, he sat opposite him, and told him a good story about his experiences at a dinner at an hotel in Montreal. He said that the dinner was given in honor of one of the land officers of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The dinner table was a makeshift of boards' on trestles, covered with the usual tablecloth and table decorations. "The health," continued Captain Kendall, "of the guest of the evening hW been, proposed and we were all on our feet singing 'For, he's a jolly good fellow,' when some of us leaned across the table too strongly, and one of the trestles collapsed. Tablecloth, dishes, silver and glassware all came down in a crash, and the guest of the evening, who was the only man seated, found himself in the midst of ia mass of debris. The incident did net disturb him jn the least., He pulled out a cigar, lit it, and said calmly, 'Gentlemen, this is the quickest change to a smoking concert I ever enjoyed/ That was the point of the story that tickled; 'Robinson.' He threw back his head and laughed aloud. I had long worked for a sight of his teeth. They were as described in the police notice."