New-York tribune., 1910-07-22
CR|PP[N NOW IN SPAIN?.
French Police Sure He Was Seen
in PTenees Village.
MAY BE GOING TO AND0RRA
Small Republic Possible DestIna-
tien Of Fugitive London
Dentist.


Efawley H Crfppen was seen at PligceFda'
a town just across the frontier in Spalii'
on Wednesday night.
The police at VerHets-ies- Bains, which
is little French watering place at the
foer of the PyFenees Mountains, are pesf-
tive in their belief that DF- Hawtsy n
Crippen widely sought by the London
police. was in their little city last Sunday
and a vigorous search Is being made Tor
the fugitive.
The pFecureur At Vernets-Ies- Bains tete-
graphed to-day TO the director OF the
Susete Generate at Paris confirming the
identity of the man who arrived there IN
der the name of Tarbot on Sunday as Dr.
fTawley Fl Crippen. The procuFeur added
that he believed Crippen had crossed the
French frontier into Spain
The French detective department n
Parts is inclined TO accept the procuFeuF
view as TO the identity of Crippen-t out >
in doubt whether he crossed the Spanish
frontier at Vernets-IeS-Bains, as ali the
positive information in the possession OF
the police indicates that he left the tram
before it reached Mont-Louts, TO when
point he is said to have taken passage en-
route 70 Spain.
The suspect. according TO the belief Of
Spain. is headed for Andorra, the little and
almost forgotten republic of six thou
sand shepherd fnha bitants, nesting IN the
foothills of the Pyrenees. Once IN this
country II is said extFadition would be
difficult. If not impossible Andorras which
IS under the nominal suzerainty OF the
President of the French Republic and the
Bishop of Jrgel. has sometimes served as
q refuge for persons who have committed
a crime
A warrant was issued today at VerHet-
les-Baius for Henri Tarbot. Persons who
saw the man during the stop at that place
on Sunday say he is identical with DR.
CFippen, photographs OF whom were shown
them by the police. The suspect left here
on Monday morning, purchasing ticket
for 1ont-Louis- Before leaving he teie-
graphed to Ment-Leuis engaging q car
riage TO meet him there and 20 convey him
to- Puigcerda. spain ten miles distant The
detectives learned of this without difficulty
and promptly Notified the police on the
other side of the Spanish boundary 10 be
on the lookout for the man and TO appre-
hend him If he turned up, as expected
The traveller however. did not reach Mont
Louis and later it developed that he LETT
the train at station between that place
and VeFnet-les- Bains,
NJ SebiIe, head of the research depart
nent Of the police, who is directing the
search in France for Or. Crjppep and his
typfst Ethel Clara LIE Neve, VINO is sup
posed to have left London in his company,
opposes the theory that the woman who
killed herself at Bourges on July Is was
iss lie Neve. He says the suicides features
were those of a person Of . Slavenic type.
and NJ SebiIIe believes that she was
nihilist
Photographs of the Bourges suicide have
not, however. as vet been compared with
those Of Miss lie Neve. Should the suicide
prove TO be Miss lie Neve it would give con
sistency 10 the story told by a guard on the
boat train running between Dieppe and
Paris that he had seen q couple answering
the description Of Dr.. Crippen and mis-
rypist or July L. According 10 this guard
the couple came through 70 Paris on his
train. Here they are supposed 10 have
separat ted, Crippen hurr3ing south and the
girl going to Bourges. where she subse-
quentIy took her life.
Another theory OF the police is that the
couple went by steamer TO MaFseiies and
separated al that port
Bourses. France, July IA Young woT-
an vino committed suicide at hotel here
on July l3 is now believed 70 have been
Ethel Clara Le Neve. the companion of
Dr. Crippen. There are striking points of
resemblance. The woman was foreigner
and gave the name of Jeanne Maze.
Much mystery surrounded the suicide.
Though posing as FrenChwoman, it was
recognized that the guest, who arrived at
the hotel shortly before she killed herself,
was rot of French birth, When the life
less body was discovered in her room every
effort was made TO determine her identity
or TO get some trace OF her friends and
acquaintance, but without success The
suicide was young. probably about twenty
five years old. rather slight in build and
Of prepossesstng appearance.
When nothing could he learned regarding
her antecedents the matter dropped from
public discussion, only to be revived to-day
when the authorities received from Scot
land Yard photographs of Miss lie Neve,
Crtppeus typist, who disappeared from
London on the day that the police lost
track of her employer. Those who had
seen the body recognized in the Iikenesses
a remarkable similarity. and directed the
attention of the police to the probability
that the suicide and Miss lie Neve were
one
LAr NFiilS WoHldh Was DSdhltUI4F
gowned. and in appearance and manner
was a person Of refinement
After writing the name Jeanne Maze" /
upon the register she went ar once 20 her /
apartment An hour later three revolver
shots alarmed The hotel people They cams
apparently from the young woman's room,
and porters hastened thither The door
was broken in. The briefest space had /
elapsed between the shooting and the forced /
entrance tc her apartment but the woman /
was found 10 be dead. The proprietor of /
the hotel was one Of those who discovered /
the body stretched across the bed Before
shooting herself the guest had written a
note, which read
Il request that my identity he not
sought The cause OF my suicide is known
TO me alone. I ask 70 5e allowed 10 rest
TRANQUILITY in ny tomb. am a foreigner
! leave 100 francs TO defray ny funeral ex-
penses''
The note concluded, Life to me. alas |
appeared unsnailinS.'
The Young woman is described as a brql-
nstte. She had taken the precaution 10 I
cut from her garments every mark thar /
might serve "a Indicate the identity OF the I
wearer. She was so successful in this ef- I
fort at coneeelment that not until TO-DAY
had the authorities learned the slightest
clew as to who she was or from where she I
came
London. July e1.-The police to-day dis