The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-14
Special from United Press.)

Special from United Press.) London, July 1+Scotland Yard au- thorities today are bending every ef- fort to locate Dr. Hawley Crippen, said to have been an American den- tist, who disappeared last Saturday. The body of a woman supposed to have been that of his wife. who was formerly Belle Fillmore. @. noted singer. was found late last night buried in the cellar of their home. No. 39 Hill drop Crescent. Islington. on the out skirts of London.
 It was officially announced this aft ernoon that Crippen has been formal ly charged with the murder and mutll- ation and that the police have been asked to arrest him on sight.
 Crippen is said to have fled with another woman with whom he was living and who had assumed the name of Mrs. Crippen- The identity or thls woman has not been revealed.
 Despite the calling in of all the tneighbors, the police have been unable ! positively to identify the body founo in the cellar as that of Mrs. Crlppen, though they are firmly of the belief that it was that of the famous singer. None of the nedghbors have seen Mrs. Crippen since February. when her husband gave 1t out that she had gone to the continent for a visit. A short time afterward there appeared a mo- tice in the papers that Mrs. Crippen had died abroad. Then another wo- man, also known as Mrs. Crippen. ap- peared at the Hilldrop Crescent house. | The dentist and the second Mrs. Grip pen" were seen in the house as late as last Saturday.
 The crime is SO unusual and sur rounded by so many peculiar features that the best operatives Of Scotland Yard have been detailed to seek the missing dentist.
 Mf4- Crippen, was famous all over England and the continent as a con- ceYt singer, owing to the wonderful range of her voice. It is said she was born in Philadelphia. the daugh- ter o6 Polish family of noble birth. persecution. The mother and father, it is understood tried to hide their real identity even from the girl. but sent her to Europe to have her voice cultivated. She made her first pro fessional aDpearance in London under the name of Belle Fillmore and sprang into instaHt favor.
 Returning to Philadelphia 1t is un- derstood she there met a dentist named Crtppen. After her marriage, 1t is declared, she began making search through papers left her father and there discovered that she was entitled to a Polish title and esate. She and Crippen, the London police say. then left Philadelphia with the announced intention of going to Poland to lay claim to her estate and title of Bar oness Makomaski. They never re- turned to America. Little is known of her efforts to re-establish her title in Poland.
 In reoent years they have lived in England, always keeping an expensive establishment and seeming to be Hb- erahy supplied with money. Crippen conducted an agency business in New Oxford street abandoning his dentis- try. He was seen little by his neigh bors at Holdrop Crescent. though Mrs Crippen WAS well known in the neigh
 Last February. when Mrs. Crippen's s absence was noticed Dr. Crippen told tnQusrsss that s'se had gore to the coneinent for her health. In March noumosmept of the death of Belle FL moro. Inc neighbors became suspi- ctros end notified the police. who learned that no such death had oc- ourred In the place mentioned in the advertisement.
 Scotland Yard officials questioned Dr. Cdppen. who was then living with . secoad Mrs Crippen." The dentist continued to live in the Hilldrop Cres- cent hoese replying to all questions and maintaining a calm demeanor. Saturday he disappeared. Then the police began searching the house. al- most tearing 1t to pieces. Gardens were dug up and walls sounded. Last night the body was found buried un- der cement floor in the basement. It was so badly decomposed that identification has been impossible.
 Mrs. Crippen was 34 years old and her husband was several years her senior. The police have scattered widecast the following description of Crippsn:
 "Hawley Harney Crippen, alias Pe- ter Crippen and Franckel Crippen, an American dentist; aged 50; five feet three inches; complexion fresh, hair light brown inclined to be sandy and scant, bald on top; rather long mus tache; mark on bridge of nose; wears speaks with slight American accent wears hat on back of head; is plausi- ble and outspoken; is accompanied by a woman calling herself Mrs. Grip pen; light brown hair, gray eyes, good teeth. nice looking and of pleasant appearance, medium bui1d.'
 The Star today declares that after his wife's disappearance last Febru- ary he variously told neighbors that she had gone to the continent. that she had gone to America and that she was touring with a theatrical GOHpdHE. Later ne tOlQ them IildC she had died at a watering place on the continent but the announcement published in the theatrical papers gave California as the place of death.
 The Star adds that the woman now missing with Crippen is his steno- grapher. Miss Leneve Dr. Crippen was the London agent of Dr. Munyan, the Philadelphia patent medicine firm, the Dean Drug Company and the Dr. Eut Institute a medical concern of Paris.
 It developed this afternoon that the Music Hall Ladies' guild, of which Mrs. Crippen was the secretary, re- ceived obviously forged letter from her in February saying she was going to America.
 The police charge that Dr. Crippen slew his wife and then told his neigh bors she had gone abroad. To sub stentiate this they charge he forged the letter. Then he had inserted the Advertisement of her death. The eff forts to conceal the crime and dis t-act attention, the police say, brands pr. Crippen as an unusually clever criminal.
 Scotland Yard men declared today that Crippen was born in Cold Water, Mich. He was educated somewhere Tn Indiana and also took degree in Los Angelss. The police say he loom-