Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1910-07-14
AMERICAN IN
IAN ENGLISH
MURDER CASE
Or. HawIey CrIppen Believed
to Have Killed Wife Who
Was Noted Singer.
POLICE FiND BODY UNDER
CEMENT CELLAR FLOOR
gpso,ol by united Prs.. w,rs.

London, July 4:-Scotland Yard
authorities are today looking for
Dr. Hawley Crippen, said to have
been an American dentist, charged
with the murder of his wife, Belle
Elmore, formerly noted singer.
The body of a woman, believed to
have been that of Mrs. Crippen, was
found late last night buried in the
cellar of the Crippen home, No. 80
Hilldrop Crescent, Islington, on the
outskirts OF London. The police to-
day formally charged Crippen with
murder.
Crippen is said to have last been
seen in the house Saturday with
woman whom he had introduced as
Mrs. Crippen." The police believe
that Crippen slew his wife and then
told the neighbors she had gone
abroad for her health, forged letters
from her and later inserted death
notice in a theatrical newspaper to
cover the crime. Despite the calling
in of all the neighbors, the police
have been unable to positively tden-
tify the decomposed body found in
the cellar as that of Mrs Crippen,
though they are firmly of the belief
that it was that of the famous sing
er.
None of the neighbors have seen
Mrs. Crippen since February, when
her husband announced that she had
gone to the continent for visit. A
short time afterward there appeared
a notice in a theatrical paper that
Mrs. Crippen had died abroad. Then
another woman appeared at the Hill
dnnfiCf
and the second Mrs. Crippen were
seen In the house as late as last
Saturday.
e. The dead woman, II she Is really
Mrs. Crippen, was famous all over
England and the continent as con-
cert singer. 1t is said she was born
in Philadelphia, the daughter of a
Polish family, of noble birth, who
had fed from Poland to escape per-
secution. 1t is believed she met Dr.
Crippen In Philadelphia. After her
marriage, it is declared, she discoy-
cred she was entitled to Polish
title and estate. She and Crtppen,
the London police say, then left
Philadelphia with the announced IN
tention of going to Poland TO lay
claim to her estate and title OF
Baroness Makomaski, They never
returned to America. In recent years
they lived in London, always keeping
an expensive establishment, and
seeming to be literally supplied
with money.
When the death notice appeared
the neighbors became suspicious and
notified the police, who learned that
no such death had occurred In the
place mentioned in the advertise
}ment. Scotland Yard detectives
questioned DR.. Crippen, who replied
to all inquiries with perfect calm
Saturday he disappeared. Then the
police searched the house and found
the body under a cement floor in the
basement.
The police have scattered wide
cast the following description of
Crippen: "Hawley Harney Crippen,
alias Peter Crippen, and Franckell
Crippen, an American dentist; age,
fifty; five feet, three inches; COM
plexion, fresh; hair light brown,
bald on top; rather long moustache;
mark on bridge of nose; wears false
teeth and gold trimmed spectacles."
Afterward the police sent out the
following official announcement:
"Also arrest Ethel Clara Eneye, os-
tensibly Crippen's wife; age, twenty
seven; good looking English typist;
absconded July 8; will try to leave
England probably disguised as a
boy.'
The woman is wanted as an acces-
sorry to the murder.
The police undertaken today took two
coffins to the Crippen house to facilitate,
it was said, the handling of the fright
fully deeomposed body. Despite denials
by the police, rumors were persistent
that other startling discoveries had been
made, and that the police were keeping
quiet in the hope of making an arrest.
The police say that identification is
impossible, but they are certain the
body is that Of Mrs. Crippen. The body
had been cut and hacked with knife,
and the head crushed to a jelly with
heavy blows. The police now say that
Crippen admitted last Saturday that his
previous story of his wife s trip to
America was untrue. The police say he
declared they quarreled, and that she
left in anger.
The police are confident that be-
fore night they will have arrested
DR.. Crippen The Evening News, in
an extra edition, declares 1t has fur
nished the police with a clew as to
his whereabouts. According to the
News, the hall porter of the Raven
House, where Crippen had an office,
states that Crippen passed him at
noon today. Crippen, the porter
says, spent a few moments in his of
fee, then rushed hurriediy away.
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