The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-07-15
DENTIST A BLUEBEARD?

range Of her voice. II Ii said she
Was born III Pbiladclphla, the daush,
Ter OF Polish family Of noble birtli,
who had fed Poland 10 escape per
secution The mother and father. II
IL said, tried to hide their identity
even from the gill but sent her %
Europe to have her voice cultivated,
she had her first professional ap
i'earancc In London under the name
Df Belle Gilmore and sprang into IN
staDt favor.
crlppen Seldom Seen by Nenghbofs
lsctufning to Philadelphia she mct
q dentist named Crippon. After her
marriage Il Is dccla ed, she began
making a search through papers lcls
by her father and discovered that shr
" as entitled to title and estate
She and Crippen, the London police
say. then left Philadelphia with the
announced intention Of going to ro'
land to lay claim to her estate anu
title OF Baroness Makomaski. They
Fever returned to America ~
& Little Ia known OF her efforts 10
Ieestablish her title in Poland IN
recent years they have lived In Lon.
don, always keeping an expensive es-
tablishment and seeming TO be liber.
ally supplied with money Crippon
conducted an agency business IN
New Oxford street. He was seen
little BY his ncighbors at Hin Drop
Crescent though Mrs Crippen was
well known in the neighborhood.
East FebruaEv when MIS-. Cr'p'
pep's absence was noted the dcnt'st
told inqulrcrs that she had gone 70
europe for her health. in March "a
fiicatricsl paper carried an announce.
Irent Of the death Of Belle Elmore.
l'he neighbors became suspicious and
Efoftfied the police. who llcaFned that
40 such death had occurred In the
11ncc mentioned.
Girl Also Sought BY The Police
Scotland Yard officials questioned
Dr.nCrippen who was then living with
a second Mrs Crippen. The. dentist
continued to live in the house, reply
ing to all questions and maintaining
an unusually calm demeanor. Satur'
day he disappeared. Then the police
began searching the house, almost
tearing IL TO pieces. Gardens were
dug up and walls sounded Last night
the body was found buried under &c
ment floor IN the basement. II was
So badly deromposed that identihca
ton has been impossible. Mrs. Grip
pen was "a years old. and her hua
land was several years her senior.
After scattering the description ol
crippep. the police sent out official
announcement: Also arrest Ethel
Clare rencvc. ostcnsiblyis his wife
aged "a; good looking typisl, alb
seconded July .. win try TO leave Eng
land. probably disguised as a hoy"
The woman Is wanted AZ an aeccs
sory to the murder. II Is declared
that after his wife's disappearance
last February. Crippcn yariously told
rolghbors that she had gone to the
continent, that she had gone to Amer
ira and she was touring the country
with theatrical company.
crippen Agent For Or. Munyon
Later he told them that she had
Gied al watering place on the con
tinent, but the announcement pub
lisbed in the theatrical journals gave
Paris as the place OF her death
DR.. Crippen was the London agent
Of Or, Munyon, the Philadelphia pat
ent medicine firm. the Dean Drug
company and Dr. Eut Institute, med
ical concern OF Paris. II developed
that the Music Hall Ladies'. guild
Of which Mrs. Crippen was the secre
tary. received an obviously, fI,rged
Letter from her In. February. saying
she was going to Europe. ss
The police charge that DR.. Crippen
slew his wife and then told her
Ineighbors she had gone abroad. To
substantiate this story. they charge
he forged the letter and then inserted
the advertised notices Of her death