The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-03
London Solicitor Sends Mes
sags Telling Prisoner Of
Plan to Aid Him
MISS LENEvE RECEIVES
GREAT CONSIDERATION
DIR. Crippen Keeps Silent at All Times
While the Girl Prisoner Has Re-
covered Her Spirits and
Talks Freely

, Quebec, August 2.-Dr. Hawley Fl
Crippen has friends in London who be-
1ieve he did not slay his wife, Belle
Elmore, and they are willing to pay for
a lawyer to defend him when he Is tried
there for murder. He received proof OF
this tonight, when the jailor handed him
the following cablegram from London
solicitor:
DR. H. H. Crippen, care of Inspector
Dew, Quebec: Your friends desire me tc
defend you and will pay all necessary
expenses. VIII undertake your defense
but you must promise to keep absolute
silence and answer no questions and dc
mot resist extradtion. A good deal must
be done at once. (Signed)
ARTHUR NEWTON, Solicitor.
London"
The unexpected message brought to the
ACCUSED dentist in his lonely cell, the
first gleam of hope since his arrest Sun
day on the steamer Montrose with his
companion in flight. Ethel Clare Len
leve. BY coincidence the bearer of the
Itidings was Inspector Dew of Scotland
Yard, who on Sunday morning swiftly
|crushed the fugitives hope of escape.
Whether Crippen has accepted the prof
lfered assistance of the unknown friends
lor has refused 1t in the same colorless
manner with which he has met all ad-
Ir,s,ao,or nan, ona Sshias McCarthy Of
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today explains the unseeming attitude
of DIR. Crippen that he did not care. As
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Crippen Is Not Talkative
Judging from his behavior since ne
was arrested. the pale little prisoner on
lQuebec Heights did not need the warn
ling to remain silent single mono
lsyllable in the negative to his jailor' s
Inquiry whether he wished to give out
Iany public statement was the only mes
sage that came from the prisoner today
for the outside world.
Reading something in his cell or silent
Ily pacing the corridor, where he Is al
bowed to exercise for part of the day,
lCrippen shows a desire for little except
TO be let alone. Today he wanted some
thing to read, and when asked MS cnolce
he said for one thing he would like a
Bible. He received the book, with other
Books
The attitude of Miss Leneve is unlike
the doctor The jail mstron ana tne
women of the household OF Chlef NC
Carthy, where she spent part OF. the aay
Yesterday, say she is not averse TO talk-
ling. She declines to say anything re-
|garding the crime with which sne is
Jointly charged with Crippen, or OF their
Iwanderngs together throughout Europe.
iReports that she had tod the ponce
lenough to convince them OF ner inno-
cence are denied by the autnorlties.
Many OF those VINO nave met 'ne si'
do not hesitate to say mat tney pc
llieve she knew nothing Oh the horripie
end of Belle Gilmore wnen she heu with
DR.. Cippen.
AS Che case now STANDS, the oniy eVi-
dence in the hands OF the ponce tna'
may be construed as hostlle 10 Crippeh
is the discovery OF the diamond rinsS
and the brooch the police look from mn,
on the street. These' they say peiohseu
to his wife,
Inspector Dew Ahected
Even the Unconditional Dew. the typ
Iical English detective, has been az
|fected by Miss Leneve's plight. Il am
sorry for her. he said today. i 90
not believe she knew anything about
It,"
While the Canadian and English laws
strictly prohibit any attempt by the
police to secure confession and cspe-
cially forbid third degree tactics. II
the girl should express a desire TO
make revelations the police say that
they would accept her statement after
she had been warned that anything
she said might De USED against her
at her trial. Thus In moments Of ex-
|treme shock and weakness the police
assert Crippen's companion has re-
silence is loyalty and has said abso-
lutely nothing ABOUT the crime or tne'r
relations.
Crippen To-Day was permitteo 10 re-
Iceive the nrst message tnat mas redcneu
him from the outsioe since MS arres,.
This message was an inVitation TOT
him to make his nrst PUBIC statement.
His reply was simply. NO
The police hao oehieu al requests
TO see and speak with the prisoner ana
throw up their hands IN amazement
at the very Idea OF newspaper IN
tarview. Today, however Judge anger
authorized Prison Governor Joseph MO-
rim to visit Crippen In his cell and give
him a verbal message asking IL ne
Wnuld make public statement. The