The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-29


advice that Dew was on the vessel
I'~r-e fog ~ r-fprtssi IN the Gulf t0
night and very poor weather condition
) for sending wireless messages Tn.
l-lur-ntIc should he ofi Rimouski abou
put IN an appearance twenty -four hour
Later
scotland Yard wants Or Harvey HAw
Icy Crippsn for the murder Of his wife
who waS k.'lls Elmore. a must hall SINCE
we'll known both In England and Thu
country. The London detectives IA
trippen In their hands Immediately aftei
the actro~ss friends rAis.l a hue and CRY
over her disappearance. but they lot him
slip. and Scotland Yard has been p,,cke
NJ In Parliament and IN tho newspapers
for laundering
DR.. Cripp-n IL an American. as was his
/ wife. He u about 50 years old. For the
last fourtcsn years he has becn Identifies
~ London with concerns which called
themselves institutes for the cure Of
deafness 10y mail Several Of these COR
I respondsnce school clinics have been ex-
posed by London newspapers and de-
nouncet by Judges. Crippen and friends
associated with him IN what have been
shown to II" profitable enterprises wer.
unsuccessful in libel suits directed against
newspapers and lndlv Idlals who att 1ck ed
their regulations.
The doctor was graduate from a
homeopathic school of me iicine in Glove
land IN 1881. lie practis"i MEDICINE in
New York. san Diego, 81 Louis and Brook
lyn and for several years was employs
hy Muryon, the patent medicine manu-
fscturcr 81 Philadelphia Munyon sent
hun la london. bat found II necessary
after a Will" to employ another repre-
sentative. After that Crippen became
Interested IT. money making medical com
par les which were not lookei upon with
approval 10y reputable physicians. While
hs' live ~ IN. United State, there was
nothing against his reputation He was
regarded a. All unusually intelligent man
ard u capable physician.
Personal friends have described him
~ a vain man who WAS fond Of wom.n
aud liked ia hoast OF his succ-sses among
them. IL. was addicted to hashy dress
l"ui waistooats and scarfs aud Jewelry.
lie made pl,-nty Of money IN England. but
he spent freely and was often in financial
straits
Belle klmore was a Brooklyn girl. horn
in East Williamsburg thirty eight years
AFRO. Her stepfather. Frederick Messin-
ger lives at ass Grove street with one
OF his daughters. Mrs. n. IA. Mills. Belle
Elmore's half sister. Belle attended
school IN Williamsburg and met DR..
tnppen about twenty years ago when
she was visiting in q small town in north
ern New York with q family by whom
she Was employed as a Roverness Thcv
were married seventeen years ago in
New York city. and when III CnppeD
went TO London 10 work for Munyon
his wife accompan ieyi him.
Sh. had been on the stage IN this coun- |
try even after her marriage and che |
continued to appear in the music halls /
IN London. Belle fillmore was a hand |
She was popular among her vaudeville ,
and was the treasurer 7
% the Music Hall Artists Guild OF Lon .
don. Many of the members were accus-
toned to visit Or and Mrs. Crppen at
20 Hilldrop Crescent. where the CrppenS
lived in good style
young woman named Ethel Clare
l.. Scvs. who had been educated at a
convent in France. who spoke French
iinsn.,y ana who pos.d as a.. French
She was a stenographer whom Crippen
met IN the course 81 a libel trial IN IeO5
II - known that while living with his
" Z" h. visited France with the young
y fNIlhl NIll - dNlThANlNe, lNtNl win
her az an inn near BOulogns
Relic Elmore's friends saw her last
n the night Of February - One Of
hem called at III" house the next day
and Wa Informed by Dr Crippen that
hue wife had gone to America 20 claim a
egacv. The doctor said IN. news had
urn" ,'Idd"nly and that Mrs Crippen had
"a start ~ haste HIS story Vas unCon-
.inclng and suspicion Was increased " hen
,r ttipp"n Appeared az dance Jew
lag. atsaN
girl. Who wore a gown belonging Ia Mrs
rippen and some Of Mrs Cripren'S
ew.ry
\ short time aft@rward Dr Crippen
circulated a story that his wife had died
4 pneumonia IN California He wrote
q Mrs. trIppen'- relatives IN Brooklyn ,
cling them that Bells was dead and
hat h" was 50 shocked he could hardly
landl" a pen He CIuzed 10 ~ inserted
u London theatrical papers notices Of
'irS tripp~n~ death.
Ia. music hall artists who were Mrs .
'ripi-'n'- ntlmat" friends, invest gated
lul"'ly without gong to the police. They
"li.vsd that tn. doctor had killed his
SIi" Tn June - they went Ia Inspector
'ro"Sch Of scotland Yard with their
IsI lCionS Tn" inspector called on DIR.
'ripp.n and questioned him The Doctor l
vas calm and plausihl" II" said that he
Iad g'iarrelled with his wife and that she
ad left him. presumably tn GO tn her
-latIyes m the tniis~t States II was
he -aId and he thought 20
over up the situation 10y saying she was
cad The inspector accepted the story Il
nd lett CrlpJrn unwat rhsd The next
ay b" disappeared and So did Ethel
lars ls Neve. 4 search II the house
I IIlldrop Crescent the; revealed a
ody hurried IN the cellar
Scotland Yard quickly flashed de=crip-
onS Of Cripp-n and the girl over the
IOrld Steamers arriving here were
ra rrhod without result There was an
npre--lon that the pair had f.d To France
r IN" Continent. As tim" passed u
'pksd ~ n tho doctor and his young II
lend had got clean away Members
I Parliament sharply interrogatsd the
a rlian"ntary Secretary for the Home
nice. in1uirlng who was Responsible.
ne Govsrnm"1t answered that u WAS
To discuss the matter
Then Scotland Ward heard that DR.
riup~n and the girl had taken pa-sag
q ih" steamship Sandman for Mont real =
his proved To 10 q mistake: hut the newt
formation was correct. The Detectives
-cnver''d that M" pair had boartsst tn.
"am-hIp Mont o-.. ~ Antwerp and were
\ their wav tn Nnntr.al They bookad
Nv" S"c'nd rahin. "yafirg the I,nlr-.
no N"r" watching AZ Antwerp Scot
nj Nari d"-pa'Cn"i lnsI urrtor Dew on
}" steamship Iaur"ntic H. Montreal to
-re~i the dpciof and hts companion
ha laur'ni" -houh arrivs twenty -four
pu~S laf0re the Montr0S.
IN - not certain how Srp' land NarJ will