Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-01

tune was a light colored necktie.
Detective Dennis gave the most in
| tereSting account of him Miss LIE
Neve was trapped in her cabin.
LAS soon as Crippen had been taken
! in charge by Mccarthy he said, en-
spector Dew and myself went to cab
ing :. where we were informed that
| Miss lie Neve was reading a maya
zine. Dew gave instructions for a
stewardess to stand ready with q
glass of brandy to be administered in
case the girl tainted. then he entered
| the cabin, followed by myself
'"Do YOU recognize me?' he asked of
the girl when she arose to greet him.
NO" she replied bluntly. as the col
or left her face.
"Well." said he, II am detective
| from Scotland Yard and have here a
warrant for your arrest on a charge
| of murder and mutilation of the body
| of an unknown woman"
He used the Same words with which
he had addressed Crippen. taking them
| from the wording of the warrant
The magazine fell from the girls
hand and she sank back on the sofa
in faint. Then the stewardess en-
|
little of the liquor between her lips.
Breathing heavily she lay back on the
sofa with her eyes closed. She was not
| handcuffed."
The girl was clad in a boys suit of
| brown material. but even in this ILL
fitting attire she showed some Of the
beauty that the police believe led
Crippen to turn against his wife. Her
/ :-l,t hoi, i- ant CHI N r,or
ed in the middle, after the fashion OF
/ the English boys. Her eyes are gray
and large and heavily fringed and her
complexion is clear. Her face Is pleas
ingly oval and her expression winning.
| 1t was more than four hours after
she faced the detective before the girl
was able to sit up. Even then her con-
dition was pitiful and no one could see
her except the ships surgeon and the
stewardess. At times her means could
be heard in the passageway outside
her cabin. After satisfying themselves
that there was no weapon in her room,
the officers did not return until she
was instructed to prepare for leaving
, the vessel at Quebec.
| Crippen was attired in travelling
suit of blue serge and wore an over
coat Gold rim eye glasses rested on
| his nose and from behind them his eyes
looked out duly. His face was pale
and drawn.
| In a belt strapped about his waist
the detectives found Ave diamond rings
and a diamond pin. If 1t can be proved
that these jewels belonged to the pris-
oner's wife the police think they will
have gone far forward in establishing
their hypothesis of murder on q firm
basis. Careful search Of his person
revealed no weapon Of any sort, nor
did his cabin disclose any.
With both under arrest the Mont
roses whistle sounded hoarsely sig
nal to the waiting Eureka that lnspec-
tor Dew's search was at an end. I'M
mediately the pilot boat came along
side and the newspaper men ana
photographers swarmed aboard. Grip
pen they found handcuffed In his state
room, No. and Miss LIE Neve under
the care of physician In No. 5.
The news by this time-iaad spread
among the passengers. who had been
duped throughout the voyage by tho
bogus clergyman and his retiring. Ell
Terminate son. Capt. Kendall had kept
from them the identity Of the two
mysterious passengers and although
the recent bombardment OF wireless
messages had aroused their suspicious
none Of them on board besides Llewei-
llyn Jones' the wireless operator, knew
| that the two were DR.. Crippen and Ms
girl companion.