The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-09-07
CRIPPEN TRIAL
=; ON IN LONDON
Prosecuting Attorney Out
lines His Case.
POISON In BODY FOUND
Large Quantities Discovered in Re
mains of Woman Buried in Cellar oil
Dentists Home--Charge Against
Miss Leneve Will Be Confined to Ac
cusation of Accessory After the Fact

cusaton of Accessory After the Fact
London, Sept. AT the opening OF
the trial of DIR. Hawley H. Crippen,
who is charged with the murder of his
wife, Belle Elmore, the prosecution an
nounced that large quantities of poison
had been found in the body of the wo
man found in the cellar of Crippen's
home and that there were evidences
that she had been subjected to an
operation.
In a written statement made to In
spector Dew when the investigation
first opened Crippen said Belle was
living in the protection of another
man when he married her in Jersey
City The doctor also spoke of Bruce
Miller's alleged acquaintance with his
wife while he was in America and fire.
queM threats which Belle had made to
quit him and go with another man who
occupied a better position in life.
Crippen's statement concluded with
story of the quarrel on the night OF
Jan. 81, after Paul Mortinetti and
Mrs Martinetti, who had spent the
evening with the Crippens, had left
the house. During the quarrel the doc.
tor said that his wife threatened to
leave him on the following day. On
returning from business on Feb. l
Crppen said he found that his wife
had gone. Ee took steps to prevent a
scandal and fabricated the story of her
trip to California and her death there.
Ethel Glare Leneve, the doctors
typist, who accompanied him in his
flight to Canada after the disappear.
ance of his wife, and who has been
held on the same charge, also was
brought to the bar, but the crown
stated that it had been decided to con
fine the allegations against the girl to
being an accessory after the fact
Girl Not Implicated in Murder.
This relieves Miss Leneve of any
fore knowledge of the crime and Is In
line with the belief of her family and
friends that she did not share Grip
pens confidence up to the time that
his wife dropped out of sight and was
said by him to have died in California
Interest in the Crippen case, which
was intense during the search for the
doctor, has by no means worn out, as
was shown by the crowd which gath
cred in the vicinity of the Bow stree
police court when the trial was be
gun.
Travers Humphreys appeared fol
the public prosecutors Office, while
| Solicitor Arbbur Newton represented
Crippen.
Mr.. Humphreys made long open
ing address, in which he reviewed tht
case from the time that suspicion was
| aroused against the husband by ths
unsatisfactory explanation which hi
| offered for the disappearance of his
| actress-wife to his return to London
In the course of his remarks thu
| prosecutor definitely stated that thu
l physicians who made the post morten
examination of the mutilated parts un
| earthed in the cellar of the CrippeI
home had discovered the presence o
large quantities of hyoscin, colorlesi
liquid poison, and also detected evi
dence that an operation had been per
formed.
Counsel did not suspect the want o
money as the motive for the crime
but did say that the disappearance o
Belle was fortunate thing for Grip
pen from a monetary view point. Oh
Jan. 20 the accused had pawned jew
elry for which he received $400, ant
on another day pawned other jewels
receiving $575 All of the propert.
pawned had been recognized as tn
| property of Mrs Crippen