Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-09-20
TORN BY JEALOUSY
ETHEL CLARE LENEVE
SUFFERED TORTURE
Witness Describes the Manner
in Which the Girl ACTED
When She Spoke of DR..
Crippen'S Wife
fHr Annotated Prass.)

LONDON, Sept 19.-Something of what
Ethel Clara Lensve suffered as. half
mad with jealousy. she impatiently wait
ed the fulfillment of DIR. Hawley II. Grip
pens promise to make her his wife, was
revealed at today's session of the in
quest into the death of Belle Elmore.
with the murder of whom the doctor and
his typist are Jointly charged.
In her distress, Miss Leneve confided
in her landlady, Mrs. Jackson. and the
story that the latter told on the witness
stand rivaied the most sensational evil
dence introduced at the preliminary trial.
SAID SHE WOULD MARRY.
Mrs. Jackson said that the accused
girl gave up the room which she had
occupied at the home of the witness on
March IL, explaining that she was leav-
ing to be married to DR.. Crippen,
Until the first week in February Miss
Leneve had slept regularly at Mrs. jack
sons. After that she stopped at the
house only occasionally. She said that
she spent the other nights at homes OF
friends On one occasion she mentioned
having been at the Hilldrop Crescent
home of the Crippens early in February,
to help the doctor In a search for a
bank book, which showed an account of
81, 900. She added that a diamond tiara
and rings had been found in the house
and that the doctor had raised $3.50 on
these.
About the middle of February. the wit
ness said, Miss Leneve appeared miser-
able and depressed. Such was her state
that Mrs Jackson followed the girl to
her room to learn. IL possible, the source
Of her trouble. Miss Leneve, the wit
ness said, was I'm terrifying state of
agitation. Her eyes seemed fairly star
ing out of her head. The landlady In
sisted upon an explanation, telling the
girl that she must have something awful
on her mind to be in such condition.
The witness said that the other replied
Would you be surprised If 1 told you
that 1t was the doctor and Miss Elmore
who was the cause of my trouble when
you first knew? She is his wife and
when / see them together 1t makes me
realize my position and what she Is
and what I am"
Mrs. Jackson asked, What Is the use
of your worrying about another wo-
mans husband?"
To this Miss Leneve answered:
MISS Elmore has been threatening to
go away with another man. DIR. Crippen
has been waiting for her to do SO, when
he would divorce her"
the interests of Crippen and Miss Leneve,
closely eross-examined Mrs. Jackson,
suggesting that her lodgers' excitement
was due to the landlady having resur-
rectcd a trouble which the girl expert
enced during her earlier association with
Crippen, but the witness maintained the
correctness of her evidence as given.
THINKS BODY A WOMAN'S
Professor Pepper, the pathologist, re-
peated the testimony which he had given
at the trial in the Bow street court.
In response to questions by the coroner
he said:
II can form no definite opinion as to
whether the parts found were those OF a
male or a female. There was a sug-
gestion that they were from the body
of a female. 1 have formed a very
strong opinion. If l take the hair dis
covered into consideration. there is a
strong conviction, almost convictng evil
dence that the parts are those of II wo-
man."