CRIPPEN'S EXECUTION

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 180, 9 November 1910, Page 5

CRIPPEN'S EXECUTION

THE DATE FIXED. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. London, November 7. Crippen's execution will take place on the 23rd inst. IS MRS. CRIPPEN ALIVE? New York, November 7. Mr. Tobin, a lawyer, of Philadelphia, says that Belle Elmore (Mrs. Crippen) is alive near Chicago. REPRIEVE ASKED FOR. I London, November 7. A petition in favor of reprieving Crippen is being prepared on the ground that there is grave doubt as to his guilt. THE COSTLY CRIPPEN. It is estimated that the pursuit, capture, and trial of Dr. Crippen will cost the taxpayers of London £SOOO. Never before has' Scotland Yard spent so mueh 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 alone will amount to £SOO. Twenty-five thousand large posters, containing descriptions of Crippen and Miss Le Neve, with reproductions of their photographs and I 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 Dew to Canada, and the expense of another detective and a wardress who j went to Quebec to look after the prison- . ers on their way back to England. Then there is the reward of £250, which will I have to be paid to Captain Kendall, of | the steamship Montrose, and the cost of j the long coroner's inquest, with the fees of the analytical chemists.