The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-30
Commander of the Boat Sends
Positive Message to Mon
treal Paper.
HIS FEMALE COMPANION
DISGUISED AS A BOY
Both Show Signs of Worry and
Refuse to mix" With
Others.

FATHER POINT, Que, July 2e,-The
man who holds the key to the Crippen
case Inspector Dew OF Scotland Yard.
arrived today on the steamship Lauren
tic from London and is waiting here to
unlock the secret the steamship Mont
rose will bring to Father Point on Sun
day Dew is the English officer who
made an examination of DR.. Hawley II.
Crippen's home in London after the dis
appearance Of tho Doctors actress wife.
Belle Gilmore. He had an appointment
to meet Crippen later. but before the
house unearthed the mutilated remains
OF a woman, and DR.. Crippen was
fugitive.
Depends on One Man.
Inspector Dew probably is the only
man in America tonight qualified to say
with certainty whether the two suspects
who sailed on the Canadian Pacific lin
er Montrose from Antwerp on July 20
under the name Of John Robinson and
his typist, Ethel Claire Leneve, He will
board the Montrose when she stops here
to take her river pilot. seek out the two
believes are CrIppen and Miss Leneve.
and IL he clinches the captains suspi-
cions. the so-called Robinson" will be
arrested by the Canadian police officers
D.
charging Crippen with the murder of an
unknown woman. His companion will
be held as an accessory,
Chief Mccarthy Of the Quebec police.
who met Dew here today. says he is con-
fident the suspicious of the Montrose's
skipper Will prove correct.
The wireless station here resounded all
day with messages between the Ca
madam authorities, the Scotland Yard In
spector and the captain of the Montrose.
Plenty Of Formality.
An immense amount OF red tape had
to be unroled before the London detec-
tive could be landed hero from the
Laurentic.
Father Point has no quarantine and no
customs inspector, but Captain Jean
Baptiste Belanger Of the tug which puts
the pilots aboard on incoming liners re-
ceived orders from Ottawa authorizing
him to take Dew off.
When the pilot left here at $3.50 o'clock
she carried two physicians especially au-
thortzed to inspect the Laurentic.
The long expected detective proved to
be a large florid-faced man wearing a
long green ulster. a black derby and an
air of impenetrable reserve He i'm
police officers and declined TO discuss
the case.
Il am sworn to secrecy he said.
II cannot answer any OF your ques-
tions."
The fact that Dew sought out Chief
Mccarthy here seems TO indicate that
the provincial officers and not the 90.
minion authorities Will arrest Crippen IL
he is aboard the Montrose
Will Land Sunday.
The Montrose will enter the mouth Of
the st. Lawrence tomorrow and should
arrive here Sunday afternoon. She Is
due at Quebec early Monday morning |
Inspector Dew Dew and Ghef fafSoa MfSar'fS tS,i1S xS
TO make sure that the restrictions placed |
by the government upon wireless com
with the Montrose Will be
aboard the vessel do not yet know they |
are under suspicion and every precau-
ton is being taken to prevent their get
ting wind of the preparations TO re-
ceive them,
No private messages to the Montrose
are received here. and 1t Is said the
captain of the vessel exercises supervi-
ice fear that If any OF the passengers
near of the suspicion regarding the al
eyed Crlppen the latter may learn and
the task OF identifying and arresting
'icult BY complete surprise, In
spector Dew and the Canadian police
nope TO break down the self f-possession
# the man and perhaps obtain con-
esSlon before they reach Quebec
Avoiding Publicity.
Inspector Dew's disinclination to dis
.uss the case and his aversion to re-
,orters Is almost humorous. He even
hreatens TO bar them from boarding the
But he promised tonight to
rake known his plans just as soon as
lie deemed 1t advisable,
ST have been worried awfully by re-
orters.'' he said. He was greatly en-
when photographers tried to
AXE snap shots and became panicky
rhcn the crowd on the pilot boat sent
~ Three cheers for Dew!
Frederick NJ. Ryder. United States con. s
ul at Rimouski. arrived here today and
onferred with Chief Mccarthy to ia
1alIarize himself with the Crippen case &
\ the event the man thought TO be Dr.
rippen is arrested and demands pro- 5
nction as an American. The consul Will
g notified Immediately If any arrest is 7
,ade. u
MIR Ryder said he doubted If DR.. Grip
en- would appeal to him II arrested {
he state department at Washington
as given Mr. Ryder no instructions. $
IL was reported tonight that Inspector
lew had been in wireless touch with !
aptain Kendall Of the Montrosc while :
10 two vessels were approaching Cana
ian shores. While it Is impossible to :
btain the text of the messages eN =
hanged 1t is asserted that positive iden- ::
Gcatioa OF the couple WAS established :,
, Dews satisfaction This has not been :
Dnfirmed by the INSPECTOR.
The mar suspected of being Crippcn Is :.
ut no cne on board has been permitted :
guess his Identity with the exception II
CAPTAIN Kendall his officers and the :.
irclcsS operator !.
The government has appropriated all =
H. wireless service. and IL is impossi- =
e 10 get Il private message to the Mont :.
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