The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-26
WHAT OF L.ENENEt

In a few weeks the case 81 DR.. trlppeh vail III
Iii ,r,hahihfy terminate at the end OF a rope.
All the ehastly details Of the murder aud disp''
sitlon Of Belle. Elmere will speedily iade from
the public mind. The testimony that has been
featured IN alarine headlines will be finally en-
eompassed in the dry yellow back Of law reports.
The grave thar will swallow the murderer VIII
yawn fer the story 81 his crime In a remark
ably short while. some reminiscent individual
w,Il. IN The excitement of some new and analogous
crime. raise the Indifferent query, Nv ho was Dr.,
lrlppen - .,
So. like ali stories, will that OF Crippen, and
his wife. and the girl Leneye be covered With the
dust !. foreetfulneSs. Their tive~ viii dlsap-
pear in the voluminous pages that record the rs"
and fall Of human passions, Inspector Dew, aud
MI the other stage sllpers OF tins ,ordtd drama
will 90 the ordinary route to the oblivion from
which they were temporarily >natclled. OF It
Ill will remain the wreck Of what was once a
young and attractive girl. sacrificed to the pa
ing whim Of a Uterine and made ~ suffer more
than death as the result OF Il youthful folly. The
grave .yawrs for Crippen, What remains Tor The
eirl whom the jury acquitted, but who will never
Sao long as life eudures. he aequit OF the canse-
sSQuesces OF her SIM
The horror Of the EIa4ore murder has possibly
given to the public a false view of the woman
who has Just been tried a accessory after The
fact. Woman. because she excited the passion
that was the motive of the crime, Girl, IA fact
her head turned with f~atterv, her feet lured with
evil sophistry, her life ruined beeause-posslhly
-she had caught in her humble experience the
suggestion Of the cynical philosophy that virtue
as looks virtuous thai vice Is a mptter OF APP
pearauce. aud that religion is a thing to put Oh
like a hat and take of like a coat. Dearly has
Ethel Glare leneve paid for her experience in
fhe fash wisdom Of life, and dearly az she has
paid there are and will be thousands Oh tholt-
sands of others who will see in her pitiable con
sfdition only the superficial fact that she WAS
S1sfound ont. Thus. also, does the world rush on,
md SO, also. will Ethel Lcneve sink finally below
the surface without 50 much rs an echo OF her
eobs To reach the lmrrving throna ahnNe- --
Ethel Clare Ieneye came ot good parents.
She was carefully educated and guarded. She
Was. In one way or another. III no way unlike
millions of her sisters who. at the uniformed and
untried period Of their lives. venture forth into
n life that Is filled with beasts Of dulcet speech
and pleasant seeming. Fortified with the dignity
Of her wonanhood the perils among which She
walks roll aside from the woman who works.
Before the knowledge Of her purity and in recog-
milton Of her faith. evil for the lime foreets it
self in response TO the thing ii docs not under
stand. But let the girl so circumstance make
one slightest mistake. let her BY but the turn of
M eyelash intimate an invitation. and She wakes
the beast that sllnnbers only till the moment when
AT senses his prey. II. a. il Is pleasant To hope,
there is always that Of good In the most unre-
B lieyed evil. the tragedy of Ethel lenevc= may
@kerve the end Of salvation to MANY who read the