Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-07-15
FAILED TO FIND
DIR. CRIPPEN
Gunard Liner Lusitiana Searched for
DIR. Hawiey Crippen, hut lie is not

Gunard Liner Lusltlana searched Tor
DIR. Hawiey Crippen, hut lie is not
Found.
New York, July 15.-Detectiye Geo.
Lessen, OF the New York police force,
and squad Of men boarded the Cum
ard liner Lustiania at Quarantine to-
day and searched her for DR.. Hawley
Harvey Crippen, wanted for the muir
der of his wife No one answered
Crippen's description, according to the
purser. but the New York detectives
continued up to the bay to the steamer S
pier, in order personally to look over
all the passengers in the hope that
Crippen might have successfully dis
guised himself.
The search of the Lusitania was most
thorough. The detectives personally
looked over" every passenger on the
big liner as she came up the bay, and
when they emerged from the vessel a
second detachment OF central office men
detailed by Inspector Russell, inspected
each individual.
Mrs. Fred emmett, OF Roselle, n. j.,
a close friend of Mrs. Crippen, was on
hand to aid the detectives. She was
well acquainted with the doctor and II
he were on board it was believed she
would have been able to recognize him.
London, July 10. - Scotland yard
authorities today abandoned the theory
that DIR. Hawley Harvey Crippen and
his typist, Ethel Clare Leneve, have
fled from England. The search for the
American physician and dentist, who
is charged with having murdered his
wife and buried her body in quickllme
i'm the basement of their home, 80
Hilldron Crescent, has narrowed down
to the city of London itself.
The detectives today declared they
we're convinced Crippen and Miss
Leneve are still in hiding here.
Frightful mutilation and dissec-
ton of the body was an after thought,
designing merely to facilitate the de-
composing action Of the quicklime in
which the body was inferred. Many Of
the larger bones were removed from
the body, for they would not soon dis
integrate in the bed Of quicklime.
The wife disappeared about February
,, on which date the police believe she
was killed. Crippen, with Miss Leneve
who wore some of Mrs. Crippen's furs
and Jewels, appeared at several en-
tertainments shortly thereafter, telling
all inquiriers that Mrs. Crippen had
gone to Los Angeles, Cal, where DIR.
Crippens parents reside, to look after
some of his business interests.
A short time after the death" OF
Mrs. Crippen, Crippen married"
Miss Leneve, and introduced her as
his wife.
Even when the police suspected him,
Crippen was unperturbed He ad-
mitted to the police that his story Of
his wife's death was fabrication.
She left me in anger" he told them,
and | invented the death story to
keep the neighbors from talking.
The police declare that even if they
capture Crippen, they will have some
difficulty in convicting him. 1t has
been thus far impossible legally to
identity the body.
This afternoon the police made public
the statement of the keeper OF shop
adjoining the Crippen home on Hill
drop Crescent. This man declared that
he often heard revolver shots in the
Crippen house and he had grown so
accustomed to them that when four or
five months ago he heard woman
piteously scream "Oh, don't; oh, don't,
followed by revolver shots he paid little
heed. As this happened about the
time the police believe Mrs. Crippen
was killed, the shopkeeper believes
Crippen shot lis wire to death on that
occasion