THE CRIPPEN TRIAL

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 166, 22 October 1910, Page 5

THE CRIPPEN TRIAL

CASE FOR THE DEFENCE. By Cable.—l'res* Association.— Copyriglil. London, October 20. The case for the prosecution in the Crippen case has closed. Medical evidence went, to show that (lie absence of sebaceous glands proved the scar .found on the remains was the mark of an old operation. ■Mr. Tobin, in opening the defence, incidentally referring to the cards found on Crippen indicating that he contemplated suicide, explained thai, they were part of a plot with the quartermaster to enable Crippen to escape on reaching Quebec. Mr. Tobin will call eminent doctors to controvert the evidence in regard to the time that the body has been buried and the presence of hyoscin. lie will also call Crippen to testify on bis own behalf. Mr. Tobin said that the prosecution must prove that. Ihe remains were those of Belle Elmore. lie discredited the suggestion that, Crippen murdered the woman for her money and in order to marry his mistress. Neither suggestion was borne out by the facts. Crippen. giving evidence, said that, be had never made a post mortem. He was a specialist in eye, ear, nose and throat diseases. His wife the night, before her flight, got into a rage over a triviality and said she. woidd leave him. He sought to cover the scandal in the best way, and therefore lied to her friends. The story he told Inspector Drew was Jrue. He admitted purchasing hyoscin, which lie dispensed in minute coses to patients suffering from spasmodic asthma and in nerve cases. Tie recounted the arrangements with a quartermaster Oil the Afoul rose, as counsel had mentioned them.