Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-08-04
CURIOUS CROWD WAITED.
Police Had Their Hnnds Full mt Que
bee Landing.

bee Landing.
Quebec Aug. lit was known that the !
steamer with the prisoners and their
captors aboard would be due here soon
after midnight and early in the evening
crowds began to gather at the pier. As
the night advanced the crowd grew
greater until the police found that they
had a big job on their hands to restrain
the curious ones and so permit the land
| ing of Inspector Dew and his prisoners.
When the steamer was sighted down
! the harbor the excitement was intense
and the police who up to that time had
used moral suasion, assumed q more de-
tcrmlned attitude. finally pushing back
the throng from the gang way in no
| gentle manner.
A half hour before the landing the
prisoners were told that they were near
| ing Quebec Both who had been under
the greatest strain for hours, showed
increased restlessness. Crippen. who had
been attempting to read Il novel by the
aid of the Pickering light in the cabin,
tossed the book aside and dropped his
head in his hands in the same despaIring
attitude that he assumed yesterday fore
noon when he heard the fateful words:
In the name OF the king / arrest you"
| At the same time Miss I.eneve in her
quarters fell on her knees and ga2ed out
! of the portfolio into the blackness of the
night. Suddenly she turned back into
her room and was seized with Il fit of
coughing.
At 1870 o'clock Captain Kendall
came down from the bridge and noti-
fled Inspector Dew that In a few mo-
ments his passengers would be taken
ashore. Dew notified Mccarthy and
Denis. Presently Denis emerged from
the cabin door with Crippen whom he
held firmly by the arm as they passed,
not up the main companion way to
the afterdeck where the gangplank
ing both main cabins in a rounda about
direction and in a less conspicuous
path.
Crippen. his face white as the pallor
of death, walked with Il stumbling
gait. AS they passed the stateroom
which the doctor had formerly occu-
with Miss Leneve. the door Of
that room swung open and Detective
Mccarthy led. or rather half carried,
Miss Leneve out to the gangway.
NEAR PHYS COLLAPSE
Both prisoners were in a state so
near to physical collapse that they
scarcely glanced at each other. Miss
Leneve tottered as she moved forward
and hardly could have proceeded
r alone. On one side Mccarthy held her
1 gently by the arm while on the other
= side she was supported by a steward
, ess. The woman wore gray dress
t which had been given her by the stew
y ardess when the boys clothes, In
r were taken from her. Over her hat
a heavy veil had been thrown
l. AS they appeared on the gang plank
:. and caught sight of the enormous Grove
s that surged about the pier desperately
n determined to get glance at the pair
n Crippen and the woman would hav,
!. dropped in their tracks but for the stront
1t arms which supported them. Crippen',
d manacled hands swung loosely in from
is Of him.
& Miss Leneve swayed from side to side
$ Her closely cut hair still gave her thu
boyish appearance which she had trieC
to adopt and many of the crowd wer
- fooled into thinking that the diminutiv
a figure was not that of the woman wh'
had challenged the attention of two con
:. tinents and believed that the police wer
!
=. to distract the attention Of the crowd an
so give them opportunity to remove tn
y. real prisoner with less Inconvenience.
-, The little procession had scarcel
~ reached the gang plank when the strug
40 CLING crowd closed in around them an
:, It was only after the police had charge
roughly that they were able to make
. passage to the cab that was waiting JUS
| outside the uipr ghpI ba ofiice r
"a found an opening they rushed. half cal
ried their charges to the carriage. pushe
:, them inside and in another moment tn
~ vehicle was on its way to the Jail.
CAPTAINS DEDUCTIONS.
Another hero to-day IS Captain Ken
Sc dali Of the Montrose, who dscovere
he the identity of the suspects after the
H. had eluded the police of the other sid
e. for eleven days The captain said to
day that he suspected Crippen the mo
by ment he laid eyes on him. shortl
oi after the man boarded the steamer a
~ Antwerp on July 20.
Y" THE English papers were full c
en- the case while we were on the othe
'o eide" said the captain, "and T becam
%, very much interested in 1t. I bougt
40 all the papers and used to lie in m
bunk and read them. Look here
~. and opening the drawer OF the des
in the cabin the skipper produced ha
-, n dozen papers each containing pic
80 lures Of Crippcn and Miss Lenev
Ia One Of the dentists pictures had II
wo piack h'ous'ohe "i"cNeo o"' W"
lie. white chaiN' o'' 'n"''
I'D kenoaI' me 'WS' ""S "a" 'he ih'
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