Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-08-01
The Story of
Alleged Crime.

The name of DIR. HaWley Harvey
Crippen, whose arrest was made Sun
day. was first brought into publicity
| when. on July 13. there was found
! under the cellar flooring of his house
at 80 Hilldrop Crescent. North London.
Eng, the mutilated remains OF hui
| man body.
At once the report spread that the
body was that of DR.. Crippen's wife.
known to the vaudeville stage as Belle
Elmore. and this belief was the more
readily accepted when it was learned
that on the previous Saturday, July
9, Crippen and his stenographer, Eth
ell Clara LIE Neve, had disappeared
| The attention of the police, it was
learned, had been attracted to Grip
pen since the last of June, when they
had been informed of the air of mys-
terry attending the disappearance of
Crippen's wife from the public view
nearly five months before.
In February, Crippen had circulated
the report that his wife had gone to
California on a matter of business.
aud had there died. The failure. how
ever, of Investigations made at San
Francisco and Los Angeles to find any
| norance of her journey to America by
her own family and the belief that a
letter dated Feb. /. announcing that
journey to the Music Hall Ladies'
Guild, of which she was a member.
was a forgery, all combined, led her
friends to report the matter to the
police
In the last days of June the police
visited Crippen and questioned him
concerning his wife's disappearance
He confessed to them that she had not
died. but said she had eloped and that
he know nothing of her whereabouts.
He welcomed the investigation and
showed the officers over all the
house. including the cellar
Unable to arrest Crippen on the in
| formation they had. but determined to
| continue the investigation. the Scot
land Yard men extracted from Grip
pen on Friday. July SS. a promise that
he would not leave the city.
On Saturday. July 9. Crippen evaded
the detectives and vanished from public
sight. leaving word with his assistant tc
look after his affairs. With him wen,
Miss LIE Neve, the stenographer, who hac
| formerly attracted his wife's jealousy
and whom he had, since the latter's dis
appe arance, introduced as his wife,
Crippen's departure only intensified the
suspicious of the police and their labors
were redoubled. On Wednesday, July 13
Inspector Dew found under Crippen's eel
lar floor. immersed in quicklime, the
fragments of a human body.
These remains were only blackened
pieces of flesh, none over a foot long
The body to which they belonged had
been mutilated. the extremities cut on
and the bones removed, and the remain.
ing flesh buried in quicklime
At, once the search for Crippen was
begun. AS he was an American, it was
believed that he would try to escape ia
America, and on July IA Scotland Yard
requested the United States authorities
to search all steamers.
The news that Crippen had purchased
boys suit in London led to the belief
that Miss LIE Neve might be disguised as
boy.
July Is brought the Lusitania and the
following day La Lorraine. but neither
disclosed any trace Of Crippen or his
companion. Attention was then first FIX
ed on Montreal. with which city he was
known to have been familiar in the past
and where he had friends
On July IL the inquest over the remains