The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-07-21


Married In This Country.
London Especially. - Police and
music hall circles in this city are
worked up over the murder of Belle
Elmore. the beautiful and popular
| singer and vaudeville performer,
whose body has been found in the
| cellar of the residence of the wom-
ans husband, DR.. Hawley Harvey
Crippen, at 80 Hilldrop Crescent,
North London. The woman was an
American, so is her husband, who
has had a varied career in American
cities. The detectives of Scotland
Yard are hunting for him and they
have cabled the New York depart
ment to keep a close watch upon all
incoming steamers for him, as 1t was
reported he sailed for New York
Saturday.
The case is strikingly similar to
that of the Charlton murder at Lake
Como. Italy. Both women were ac-
tresses who left their American
homes to meet death by violence in
a foreign land, and in each instance
the police pursued the American hus-
band to the shores of his native
land. Porter Charlton was arrested
in Hoboken, but in the absence OF
an extradition treaty between the
United States and Italy specifically
| providing for the return to either
country of a citizen of the other
country who has committed crime
abroad. may go free.
No Legal Loophole.
plications are probable, as the Brit
ish-American eXtradition treaty
leaves no loophole of which q sus-
pected criminal may take advantage.
The London police have made a def
mite charge against DR.. Crippen, and
propose to get him with the coop
GRAFTON of the American authorities.
DR.. Crippen, who is dentist, so
years of age, has made his home
for sometime at 39 Hilldrop Cres-
cent, North London Sometime ago
his wife. Belle Elmore, a vaudeville
actress and treasurer of the Music
Hall Artists Guild. disappeared. and
subsequently a notice of her death
appeared in the local papers. The
| fact of her demise was generally
credited, but there was more or less
gossip among the wcman's intimates,
and this finally reached the ears
of the police. The latter visited Dr.
! Crippen and the interview appeared
to be satisfactory.
Saturday noon last DR.. Crippen
disappeared and since then the po-
| lice have not been able to locate
him. A search of the Crippen house
was made and the battered body of
woman was found buried In the
cellar. 1t had been blaced in quick
lime and was burned beyond recog-
milton, but the finding of the body
| together with other discoveries has
left no doubt in the minds of the
authorities that the murdered wom-
an was Mrs. Crippen. It is stated
that almost all the bones are miss
ing. The viscera is sufficiently pre-
served to enable an analysis to be
made. A quantity of long hair and
some hairpains have been found.
| Sir Melville McNaughton, chief of
the criminal investigation department
of Scotland Yard, took the matter
in hand and developments followed
rapidly.
Woman In Male Attire.
The first thing the police did was
to cable to the police of American
ports asking them to search incom-
ing steamers for Crippen, who was
described with the aliases of Peter
Crppen and Franckel Crippen. They
state that he is accompanied by
fEthel Clara Leneve, Frenchwoman
whom he recently introduced as his
wife. This woman, the police state.
is believed to be dressed in male
attire. Before leaving Hilldrop
| Cre-cent. Cippen sent out a boys
suit. and this, the police surmise, is
now being worn by his companion.
The indications point to a coolly
MANNED murder