The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-10-21
Dentist Takes Stand in Own
Behalf
HYOSCIN NEEDED In CASES
Will Contest All Points--Counsel Says
Experts Will Deny Murder The
DRY and Explain the Al
legged Scar.

| Crippen faced his accusers from the
witness box yesterday. Crippen was
pale, but mis- composure that has re-
manned since he was first charged with
the mYder OF his actress wife, Belle
Gilmore, did not desert him.
| Under the tactful guidance Of his
counsel, Crippen gave sketch of his
career He had studied the theories,
but had not taken a practical course
in surgery He had performed post
mortem The drugs which he had pur-
chased in England, he explained, were
wholly for his own preparations. He
explained the purchase Of hyoscin, the
poison which the crown alleges was
used to kill Belle Elmore, BY saying
that it was required for use in the
treatment OF nervous cases and described
his formula in making up hyoscin tab
loids. OF the hyosein which he pur.
chased on Jan 10. the doctor said he
had used about twothirds.
The prisoner spoke slowly. He adj
mitted that there was scar on the
body OF his wife four and half inches
in length, 1t was caused, he said, by
an operation twelve years ago. He had
never administered hyoscin to his wife
He had no idea whose was the body
uneartaed in the cellar Of his Hilldrop-
Crescent home In fact he was not
aware that body had been buried there
until he returned to England under ar
rest
Crippen told Of the gradual aliena-
ton OF his wife's affections until the
climax was reached in quarrel on the
night OF Jan. 81, last His wife, he
said, had accused him Of lack Of at
tention to Mr.. and Mrs Martinetti. who
had spent the evening with them They
quarreled and on the following day his
wife went away. He bore out his eoun-
sells statement Of an alleged plot which
he mad formed to escape from the steam.
or Montrose He said the quarter mas
ter had told him that the captain had
recognized him and Miss Leneve and
that he was to be arrested when the
steamer landed Toe quarter master
offered to make a splash in the water
during the night when Crippen was to
pretend to commit suicide
The quarter-master lad told him that
there was no charge against Miss lie.
neye and so he planned to separate from
her for q time but he left his proposed
address in America 50 that she might
join him later. This concluded his di
rect evidence and court was adjourned
Drs Marshall and Salisbury, medical
experts who examined the human parts
unearthed in the cellar OF the Crippen
home in Hilldrop- Crescent, yesterday re-
peated their evidence Of the lower
courts This was in confirmation Of the
testimony given Wednesday by PROBES
sor Pepper, the pathologist, who swore
that the members were human but that
be could not determine anatOmicallv the
sex Of the victim DR.. William H. VIII.
cox, the scientific analyst to the home
office, testified TO having discovered IN
the body, a poison which he was salts
fed mad been taken through the mouth
and was the cause of death. This pois-
on he said was not used by homoeo-
pathists, as was suggested BIZ the de-
fence
The medical evidence closed the case
for the prosecution and the stir in the
court room as Mr.. Tobin rose to address
the court, showed the keen interest with
which the announcement of the line Of
defence was awaited This interest was
whetted by the first sentence OF eoun-
sci, who confirmed his earlier statement
to the press, that Crippeu would enter
the witness box Immediately when his
attorney had concluded his address.
Medical witnesses would follow. Mr..
Tobin said, one of whom had the high
est reputation as a microscopic expert,
would give conclusive reasons why the
mark on the skin was not scar. Sim
ilarly an authority on poisons would
testify that the alltoloid found in the
body might be easily animal alkaloid
developed after death.
Mr., Tobin contended that the prose-
cution's claim that a desire for money
and the wish to marry Ethel Clara Le-
ncye formed a motive for the murder.
was untenable Crippen, he said, owed
nothing, and ne had not married Miss
Leneve since the disappearance Of his
wife, although he had had a chance to
do so. No purchase of lime in which
the parts mad been buried had been
traced to Crippen, nor had a weapon
with which the deed could be connected
been found
Mr.. Tobin said that Belle Elmore had
threatened frequently to leave her hus-
band, and at last carried out her threat
VINO knew, he asked, whether Belle FL
more was alive or dead
Crippen, he said, took fight because Of
the prejudice against him. Mr. Tobin
made the surprising statement that Grip
pen, two days before his arrests on the
steamer Montrose, arranged with the
quartermaster to hide him in the cargo
and to land MIN in the night time at
Quebec
Counsel revealed Belle Elmore's life,
her association with a man before she
married Crippen, the appearance on the
scene of Bruce Miller of Chicago. at
whose assertion of innocent friendship
Mr.. Tobin seoifed. and finally asserted
that the defendants wife disappeared
because her dislike Of Crippen had turned