Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-10-23

JURY OUT ONLY THIRTY MINUTES
Prisoner Protests Innocence After
Verdict is Brought In.
IDENTIFICATION FORMS ISSUE
Lack Of Evidence by Defense is Com
mented Upon.
EXECUTION SET FOR NOVEMBER IS
ChIef Justice says scar would ne
Remarkable Coincidence ON Body
of Another, In Conjunction
with other Evidences.
xECUTION SET FOR NOVEMBER Is

LONDON. Oct 2s-Dr Hawley Harvey
Crippen the American practitioner and
medical agent, was today found guilty Of
the murder Of his wife, the American aC-
tress Belle Elmore, and sentenced to
death. He will be hanged November 10.
The jury was out thirty minutes. When
1t returned and announced II had found the
defendant guilty Lord Chief Justice Alver-
stone asked the physician il he had any
thing to say. Crippen replied in a low
voice.
Il still protest my innocence"
The chief justice then donned tho black
cap that had rested near him throughout
the trial and pronounced the sentence OF
death. Addressing the condemned man.
Lord Alverstone said:
you have been convicted on evidence
which car leave no doubt in the mind Of
any reasonable man that you cruelty muir
dered your, wife and then mutilated her
body.
II advise you to entertain no hope that
you viii escape the consequences Of your
criIhe. implore you to make your peace
with Almighty God"
AS the Lord Chief Justice concluded a
policeman stepped forward and led Crippen
from the dock
Caae Goes 20 the Jury.
The case was given to the jury at 2l7
this afternoon and its deliberations were
brief
When court convened this morning
Richard Muir made the closing speech for
the prosecution. He declared the crown
had proved beyond a reasonable doubt that
the body found in the cellar Of the Grip,
pen home was that OF the doctors wife.
No one else, he said had e chance to
mutilate the woman and bury the body as
Il was found to have been buried
Lord chief Justice Alverstone at once
began his summing lip OF the case The
Justice described Crippen as an ex-.
traordiRars man whether guilty or inno-
cent. II guilty. he had covered up 4
shastly crime in a CHASTITY way and Il was
believed in. a most brutal and eauous man
ner 10 he was innocent. It was innpos-
sibie TO fathom his mind, as he was abso-
Iutely Indifferent TO the charge of murder.
He had taken no step whatever to prove
his innocence.
Crippen, the justice declared. undoubtedly
was q liar and lived an immoiAl lie but,
he added, the jury could not convict the
defendant on that score. 1t must be quite
convinced that the human PARIS found were
her death was caused by a wiiful act Of
the prisoner
some impossible ThfusA.
The Judge asked whether Il was possible
for Crippen to carry on a campaign OF mis-
representation for six months except with
the knowledge that his wife was not alive.
or. II It was possible that IL Belle Gilmore
was living. she could be SO aborninably
mean. that knowing her husbands present
position, she would not communicate with
him or the authorities
The court pointed out the lack Of testi.
mony which had been Forthcoming in sun
port Of the claims Of the defense. The t:ry
was cautioned 10 treat the evidence OF
the defendants medical experts with Soma
reserve because under cross-examlnation
they had altered their views as first ex.
pressed.
The chief justice expressed the opinion II
would be remarkable coincidence that a
scar should be found unless the flesh eans
from Belle Elmore's bOdv when takep In
conjunction with the discovery Of paiamas
dyed hair feminine under clothes ana
other articles similar 10 those worn h.,
Belle Elmore, in the cellar where the sodv
was unearthed
The lord chief justice charged the turv
that It must be convinced Of the identified
ion beyond a reasonable doubt As he
concluded. the jury retired
The trial OF Ethel Glare Ieneve a. an
accessory OF the fact IN the murder OF
Mrs. CripPen Will begin next Tuesday.