The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-22
American Doctor, Found Guilty of Murdering His Wife, Belle Elmore, Sen
 fenced to Gallows by Lord Alverstone This Afternoon
Jury Brings in Verdict, Aft CT Being Out but 29 Min utes- Charge of Chief Justice Strongly Against Prisoner, Who Was Bit terly Arraigned by Grown Prosecutor Muir.

Prosecutor Muir.
 January 31-Dr: Crippen and
 his wife, Belle Fillmore, gave a
 dinner party and apparently
 were on the best of terms.
 February 2-Be1le E1nlOre re-
 signed, by letter, as treasurer of
 Music Hall Ladies Guild, saying
 she was. going to California to
 see sick relative.
 On March 22, advertisement of
 Belle EIrnore,s sudden death in California. printed In London
 newspapers.
 July 8-Friends of Mrs. Grip
 pen tell Scotland Yard they be-
 Heve she has been murdered.
 July 9-Crippen tells Inspector
 Dew his wife not dead, but they have agreed to separate.
 July 11-Dr. Crippen and his
 typist, Ethel Clare Leneve, dis
 July 13-Body found buried in
 cellar of Crippen home.
 r July 2sMGaPtsfh MoStEoan Ksnaall' Eenorfa Of Of
 Scotland Yard, Crippen and
 Leneve passengers, bound for
 Canada. Inspector Dew hurries
 to Canada.
 guised as pilot, boards MontrOse
 and arrests Crtppen and LeneVe.
 August 20-PaTty return to
 October is-TriaI of pr. Grip
 pen on charge of wi1fuI murder
 began.
 Especial from United Press.)
 London, Oct. 22.-sEYou have
 of Belle Elmore Crippen, and the
 sentence of this court is that you
 be taken from this place and
 hsngsd Sd. Py tne and nesE sk the 4nth rSDd Sod
 have mercy on your souls
 This was the sentence delivered noon, which spoke doom for Dr. Haw1ey Harvey Crippen, and marked the conclusion of one of the most sensational murder trials ever held Lord Alverstone fixed tt1er date of the hanging of Crippen for either November 14 or Is. sentence on the prisoner, the custom ary formality was followed of asking Crippen whether he had anything to little of the emotion that must have been agitating the prisoner, Crippen replied: q still protest my innocence.''
 The death sentence was the only possible one that could have been inn posed under the charge of murder. Crippen was immediately taken to Brixton Prison and placed in the Crippen may appeal to the crirr1i- nal court of appeals, either on the
 
 is scant probability of such an ap- peal aVaiIing him anything.
 The jury was out only twenty-nine minutes. retiring at 2:17 and return ing with it's verdict at 2:45. It is understood that the verdict was reached on the second ballot, the first being the usual division for the sake of a brief discussion of the evil dence.
 Tn pronouncing sentence, Lord AL Nerstone said:
 ''The prisoner. has been convicted on evidence that leaves no doubt in any reasonable mind that he cruelty poisoned his wife and mutilated her body"
 stone then said, inpressive1y:
 "I advise you to entertain no hope of escaping the gallows. I implore you to make your peace with God" Ethel Clare Leneve, Crippen's for ner stenographer, who fled with him after the murder of his wife and who being an accessory after the fact, will be placed on trial next Tuesday. Had Crippen been acquitted, she would have been freed.
 Despite the frmness of Crippen's bearing, during the jury's delibera- tions and when it was announced ed, he gasped slightly when the ver- dict was announced.
 Crippen listened to the imposition of the death sentence as though in a
 
 his stupor when asked whether he had anything to say, and spoke loud Iy and boldly in protesting his inno- cence. He immediately re1apsed in to a stupor and remained in this con dition even after he had been re- moved to the condemned cell.''
 Besides the appeal to the criminal court of appeal, the home secretary can order this court to reconside CT the case. This court can either affirm the sentence, upset the verdict or or der a, new trial. If the sentence is the only chance for Crippen is the Exercise of royal clemency which is only put into force on the recom- mendatton of the home secretary. London, Oct. 22=with one of the of a prisoner ever heard in Old Bailey court, Kings Counsel R. D. Muir Completed his address at noon today, ln the prosecution of Dr. H. H. Grip pen, on a charge of murdering his Immediately following Muir's ad- dress, Lord Alverstone, the presiding fudge, began instructing the jury. It Ls believed that a verdict will be reached this afternoon.
 Muir contended that the circum- ;tantiaI chain against Crippen was complete in every link and declared hat Crippen's own story on the stand yesterday only strengthened the pro ;ecution. He went very carefully ,yer the statements made by Crippen ,n the stand and with clever analysis attempted to break down the accused lentist's defense. As to the identity If the body supposed to be that of here could be no doubt.