The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-11-23
CRIPPEN DIES
FOR MURDER
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] Cora Makomeski of Brooklyn, y. Y,
/ known 10 the public as Belle Gilmore,
! and pressed his suit TO such advantage
/ that they were speedily married.
] IN 1895 the doctor and his bride
! moved 10 England. where he took a
! house at No. 80 HilldrOp Crescent, North
I London. They continued 10 live at the
HilidrOp Crescent residence, to all out
/ ward appearances. a happy and con
/ Ethel Clare LeneVe, who was employed
] as the doctors stenOgrapher early in
/ the year OF 1908.
Disappearance of wife.
! The doctors friendship for Miss Lee
/ neNe aroused the suspicious or MS
/ vile. Numerous quarrels are reported
/ by the neighDOrs. increasing in fire.
-Quency and violence until February.
| 1919, when Belle Gilmore mysteriously
/ dlsa ppeared
The doctor early in February adver-
l tised his Wifes death in American the
| atfical papers as taking place IN Lon
/ don, While he told the former actress
many London friends that she had
passed away while on visit to the
4 west trusting 10 public indifference
/ to hide the falsehOod.
I Her relatives, however, refused to be-
| lieYe that she had died in the manner
] described and further suspicious were
! aroused when it became known that
( Miss Leneve was making her home with
| the doctor. Mrs. Frederick Ginnet OF
/ Newark. y. J., Belle Elmore's dearest
friend. began investigation on her own
account and learned that Crippen had
told other stories about the absence
Of his wife. She communicated with
I +. c. Nash, a theatrical manager and
l friend of Belle Gilmore, who was about
to return TO England, and laid her sus-
pieiOns before him. He, TOO, thought
i il strange that there should be so
many stories current regarding the &C
I tress' death and promised 10 make a
rasa. NV
London.
Crippen's Many Stories.
In June he called upon Crippen and
offered his condolences. The doctor
was nervous and seemed much de-
/ pressed. He sObbed bitterly when
first he told Mr.. Nash that his wife
/ died in Los Angeles, but when ques-
/ toned more closely changed the town
/ TO San Francisco He declared that he
/ had received his Wife's ashes from a
I western crematOry, but could not re-
/ member the name or location of the
establishment In short. he became so
I confused in his story that Mr.. Nash $
/ suspicious We're confirmed and he COM
munieated with the London police.
on July 8. Crippen was visited by de-
| tectives from Scotland Yard. He was
Z calm and apparently frank. He admitted
/ that he lied about the death of his
1 wife, but gave as an excuse the rather
/ plausible statement that after a quar-
I rel Win MIN she naQ IolQ MIN tndL she
was going 10 leave him for another
/ man and return TO America. He gave
l the name or a man and said that he
! believed that his wife would be found
/ living with him in Chicago.
Escape of the Murderer.
Although the detectives were in a
/ measure dlsarmed by his story. they
/ decided TO keep him under surveillance.
/ Their activity, however, aroused the
| doctors fears. and that same night. in
| company with his stenOgrapher. he fled
I the city. Scotland Yard men paid an
/ other visit to the doctors home a few
/ days later. but the bird had flown. An
/ alarm was Immediately sent out. and
| developments followed thick and fast.
A nelshbOr suddenly recalled that on
1 the night OF February 2 she had heard
I a WOman's cries OF DON'T DOn'tr is
l suing from the Crippen house. The
I cries had ceased: then came a heavy
sound as though some one had fallen.
I She reported the story to the police.
! Scotland Yard made thorough exam
/ inattOn OF the house the doctor had
/ abandoned on the 18th OF July. nearly
/ five months after the commission of the
| crime, found the mangled remains Of
! the once beautiful Belle ElmOre buried
/ in quick lime under the cellar floor.
/ Then began the search for the pair
/ through Europe, through England and
| on the high seas.
Located by Wireless.
on July goth the steamer Montrose
pUffed slowly out OF Antwerp, changed
| her course and stood out for Quebec.
! Among the Few passengers were the
| Rev. Mr.. Robinson and the clerical gen
! llemaa son, slight and rather eff
I Terminate looking youth, who occupied
{ sIaterOOm with his father. The Rev.
Mr.. Robinson was very reticent cleric.
/ He talked but little with his fellow
/ passengers, preferring the society OF
l his books and the company of his son.
| In fact, his extreme and unna tural reti-
/ cence and nervousness drew the atten-
| Jlon OF the ships commander to the
\ pair. He had read in European papers
/ of the disappearance Of Crippen and
| the Leneve woman and had seen their
/ pictures in weekly magazine Their
/ actions aroused his suspicious, obser-
| walton changed these suspicious into
! certainty and he communicated with
/ the outside world by means of wireless
/ biography, with which his vessel was
| equipped.
! inspector Dew OF Scotland Yard re-
| ceived the message, and, although the
| ship bearing the suspects was far out
| at sea, he made inquiry at the London
/ steamship offices and shipped in the
| LauTentiC. also bound for Quebec and
/ due 10 arrive in that city before the
! MOntrOse.
Within a few days the ships were
/ in wireless communication with each
/ other, and the detective was kept in
| formed constantly OF the movements
/ Of the suspects. The wireless stations
/ ashore picked up the mysterious mes
I 81 AtHr anu L1dSlEu them over the Coun-
| try. Every day the newspaper read
ers throughout the country were given
/ full accounts of the movements of the
I bloodhound and his quarry.
CripPen ON ShiPbOard.
On board the MOntrOse DR.. Crippen
and his companion whiled away the
/ hours as best they could They We're en-
| tirely ignorant OF the captains suspic-
ions and the fact that all his move
ments were being reported by wireless
For that matter none Of the passengers
were aware OF the identity of the pair
nor the efforts being made TO appre-
bend them.
As the voyage neared its end their
spirits arose, and they even went so
far as TO make friends with some of
the passeng gers.
In the meantime the Laurentic had
landed Inspector Dew at Father Point
where he was greeted by representa-
tiVes OF the press from all over the
world. who had gathered TO report the
final chapter Of the great chase
Inspector Dew arranged to be taken
out 10 tie MOntrOse as soon as she
was sighted, and disguised himself as
q pilot so that in the event of Crippen
and Miss Leneve being on deck they
would not recognize him. lie feared
they might attempt a suicide.
The two fugitives We're on deck, but