Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-03
Retain and Will Pay London Lawyer TO Defend Him
--SoiCtor Cables to Keep Mouth Shut and Not
To Oppose radition--Crppen Nervous
And (Jneasy--MiSS lie Neve Better.

Quebec, Aug. DIR Hawley II. Grip
pen has friends in London who be-
lieve he did not Stay his wife. Belle
Gilmore. and they are willing to pay
for Il lawyer to defend him when he
is tried there for murder. He received
proof of this tonight when his taller
handed him the following cablegram
from London solicitor:
DIR. Crippen, care of Inspector Dew,
Quebec:
Your friends desire me to defend
you and will pay all necessary ex-
pen%es. Will undertake your defence,
but YOU must promise to keep abso-
lutte silence and answer no questions
and don't resist extradition.
Reply, confirming, as good deal
must he done at once.
(SigneD "ARTHUR NEWTON,
solicitor, London"
This unexpected message brought to
the accused dentist in his lonely cell
the first CLEAN of hope since his ar
rest Sunday on the steamer Montroso,
with his companion in flight, Ethel
Glare LIE Neve. And by coincidence the
bearer Of these good tidings was In
spector Dew of Scotland Yard, who OH
Sunday swiftly crushed the fugitive's
hopes of escape.
Whether Crippen has accepted the
preferred assistance of these unknown
friends or has refused it in the same
colorleSs manner with which he has
met all advances could not be learned
tonight.
Inspector Dew and Chief Mccarthy
of the Quebec police had nothing to
say after their visit to him. Thus the
question arises whether the offer OF
today may explain the seemingly IN
concerned attitude of Dr. Cripprn
since his arrival The question is ask
ed did he have assurance to this eff
feet before he broke his gentleman:
agreement with Inspector Dew in
London and fed? The identity of thu
friends who volunteered their funds
in his behalf could not be ascertaineC
here tonight and nothing is known
about the solicitor who signed the ca
blegram.
Judging from his behavior since he
was arrested the pale little prisoner OF
Quebec heights did not need the warn
ing to remain silent.
single monosyllable given to his
jailers occasionally when he was asked
to give out any public statement was
the only statement that came from him
today for the outside world. Reading
in his cell or silently pacing the cor
ridor where he is allowed to exercise
for part of the day. Crippen shows q
desire for little except to be let alone
Today he wanted something to reae
and when asked his choice. he said for
one thing he would like a Bible. He
received the book with other literature
The attitude of Miss LIE Neve Is I'M
like the mans The Jail matron and
the women of the household of Chief
Mccarthy where she spent part of the
day yesterday, say she is not adverse
to conversation, but she declines to
say anything regarding the crime with
which she is charged jointly with Grip
pen or of their wanderings together
through Europe. Reports that she has
told the police enough to convince
them of her innocence are denied by
the authorities. Nevertheless, many
of those who have come in contact
with the girl do not hesitate to say
they believe she knew nothing of the
terrible end of Belle Elmore when she
fed with DR.. Crippen.
AS the case now stands. the only
evidence in the hands of the police
that may be construed as hostile to
Crippen is the discovery Of the dia-
mond rings and the brooch the police
took from him on the steamer. These.
they say, belonged to his wife.