The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-16
Poor Bungling Police Appeal
to Fugitive Admitting
Their Own Defeat
DETECTIVES WARNED
THEM OF SUSPICION
Will Now Try to Make Luck Take
Place of Brains After
Letting Quarry
Escape.

padient in the nope If capturing DIR.
H. ii. Crippen. wanted for the muir
der of his wife. was adopted by Scot
/ land Yard to-day.
The newspapers have issued an ap-
peal, in the name of Scotland Yard,
to Miss Leneve, Crippen's typist, with
whom he is believed to have eloped.
urging her to come out of hiding and
to- reveal Crippen's whereabouts. They
hope this communication viii be seen
by the young woman and she will be-
tray the physician In this appeal
1t Is pointed out that Miss Leneve
has everything to gain and nothing
to lose by adopting such course,
and being perfectly frank with the
! police officials.
The press is still taunting the po-
| lice over their bungling of the case.
and point to this unusual appeal to
| Miss Leneye to show the hopelessness
of the police department.
The police have retaiiated by issuing
a statement that they had no legal
Justification for arresting DIR. Crippen
! before the discovery of the body prov
/ ed that a crime had been committed
/ They add that even To have Swallowed
the doctor when he was under sus-
( piciou, and thus have prevented him
4 from escaping from London. would
have been to exceed their authority
! and laid them open to damages.
Took Jewels.
/ The London police and Scotland
I Yard authorities, baked in their eff
( forts TO apprehend DIR. Hawley Harvey
/ Crippen. are to-day basing their hopes
! ON the fact that when DIT. Crippen dis
appeared he had only $3.50 in money
! but carried jewelry belonging to his
I -
! The detectives have an accurate list
/ of this jewelry which they have
/ ca BLEED to all parts OF the world. They
/ believe Crippen'g funds Will shortly
! be exhausted. and that be will be
forced TO dispose Of some OF the
/ jewels.
The police admit that Dr, Crippen
has slipped through their fingers,
| though they have not relaxed their
efforts Scotland Yard and the Lon
don police department are actually on
trial before the people in this case,
( owing To the bungling manner in
which they handled the preliminary
stages. practically warning DIR. Grip
pen that he was under suspicion. The
pa pers are particularly severe on the
| action of the officers,
Direct Warning,
/ 1t is pointed out that Crippen
thought himself above suspicion and
had been iured into the belief that his
wife's disappearance had been for
| gotten, when two detectives called
on him and requested him to remain
in London. until the case was cleared
up,
t'rippen readily gave his promise
and then vanished Although Scot
land Yard has asked the New York
police not te let up in their surveil
!ence OF all incoming liners, they are
of tho opinion that Crippen is still
hiding in London, and house-to-
house search of all places in which
he Is likely to hide has been ordered
The officials believe, however. that
Miss Leneye. his stenographer, who
is thought to have been implicated
in the murder Of Mrs. Crippen, mas
ESCAPED to France, Statements made
by the girls father caused the de-
tectives TO cable France 10 institute
a rigid search for the typist. 1t ii
pointed out that the continental police
maintain such a severe surveillance
over foreigners that Crippen would
hardly have sought refuge on the
continent:
Miss Lsneve, though of English
birth, is of French extraction ant
speaks French with the fiuenoy of q
fnaliNG u one tHIAhA tpt cut
ceed In hiding herself In some of tht
larger cities.
Woman Accomplice.
That Miss Leneye must have beer
Acquainted with the crime is attestet
Eto-day by a dressmaker, who de
ciares that shortly after Feb. 2. tn,
day OF the murder. Miss Leneve ap
peared with hamper of clothing
since identified as having belonged Il
Mrs. Crippen.
She told the dressnakers she in
tended marrying DIR. Crippen. that th'
gowns had been left her by one of DIR
Crippen's aunts, and she wished I,
have them altered. Miss Leneve caliet
for the dresses Friday. the day h
fore she and DIR. Crippen disappeared
The coroner's inquest has bseI
postponed until Monday, 1t is ad
United that DIR, Pepper, who has beer
examining the tody, has been un
able to prove positively that 1t is tina
of Mrs. Crippen: in fact, SO mutilatet
was 1t and so badly eaten by quick
lime, that there might be- doubt tina
he even could swear that murde
was oommitte.
The failure, therefore to prove
corpus deficit" II Is said. will great,
hamper the crown In prosecutin,
Crippen, In the event he is apprehend
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