New-York tribune., 1910-10-22
Suggestion Regarding Body.

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Suggestion Regarding Body.
The witness suggested that it was posi-
hle that the human parts found in the
cellar Of his home had been placed there
during periodical absences Of himself and
wife.
It developed during the cross-eXamination
that no time was lost in establishing Ethel
Clara Beneve the doctors typewriter, who
is charged as an accessory after the fact
in the murder of Mrs. Crippen. in the Hill
drop Crescent home. Crippen admitted that
Miss Leneve had slept in the house on the
night of February 2. within twenty-four
hours after his wife had disappeared.
Witness said that he resolved to go away
on July q after realizing that suspicion
had been directed against him. He feared
that he might be arrested and kept in jail
until his wife was found. He wished also
two spare Miss Leneve. whom he persuaded
% disguise herself and quit London by ex-
planning that the statement which he had
made TO Inspector Dew involved her as
well as himself He told the girl that there
would he a scandal and that if his wife
were not found there would be trouble. The
only way Of escape was for both to start a
new home together abroad.
Crippen was under cross-examnation for
practically four hours. Throughout that
time he was the perscni1cation Of COolness
He responded to the rapid, searching ques-
tions promptly, sometimes smilingly. and
always in a calm tone of voice, such as
would be natural TO a man ready TO explain
a series of matters concerning which he
had nothing to hide.
When the defendant was excused from
the box DR.. Turnbull, director Of the Patho-
logical Institute of the Gordon Hospital.
was called as the next witness for the de-
fence. He Dluntly said that the so-called
scar on the body OF the victim could not
possibly be a scar.
DR.. Turnbull said that a microscopic ex-
animation had convinced him that the
mark on the body had been caused by a
| folding Of the skin under pressure. When
the witness testified that 1t was not char
acteristic of a scar TO be wider at the
bottom than at the top the Lord Chief JUS
tice interposed with the remark that the
witness differed from Professor Pepper,
who had performed hundreds Of opera
tons, and asked Dr.. Turnbull whether he
had ever operated. The witness replied that
he had not.
DR.. Reginald {. 3. Wall, assistant physi-
clan at London Hospital and at Brompton
Hospital for Diseases OF the Chest, was
called next by the defence. He testified
tnat as result of three examinations he
had concluded that the disputed mark was
not scar. He had found hair follicles and
q sebaceous gland within the area of the
so-called scar The Importance Of this evil
oence rests on the admission by the med
ical experts for the prosecution that the CO.
existence OF a scar and a sebaceous gland
was impossible. This closed the evidence
for the defence
The Lord Chief Justice announced that at
It's own request the jury would be allowed
later in the day to examine rnicrosconiceuv
the skin from the part found in the Hill
crop Crescent cellar which bears. 1t is adj
legged by the prosecution, a scar such as
Bene Elmo7e received from a surgeons
knife twelve years ago. The defence ho1dS
InaI there is no scar, but that what an
pears TO be such was caused by a fold In
the skin. ~ AOiu al