The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-11-23
NECK BROKEN and Death CAME S00N
Miss Leneve, For Whom He Committed Civ.
Leaves London at Noon and Sails For
United States

LUNDON, NOV. Z5.--Df. ID. IL
Ciippen was hanged in Pentonvil,
Jail for the murder of his wife, Bell,
Elmore, at 8 O'Clock ~ morning.
He walked 10 the scaifoid cool ant
composed. His neck was b. oxen anc
death was instantaneous.
The body will be buried in quick
lime in the jail yard unde- a big flag
one.
Miss Leneve Leaves.
Miss Leneve l. booked for massage
on the Majestic for New York this
noon.
Tie London Times has an alleged
confession from Cripoen, given by
crippen to one of his friends who
gave i, to the newspaper.
The confession says = :ppen was
jealous of his wife and unable .to
live with her on accor J, of her tan
trums and drunkenness " poisoned
her. Then he cut up her body and
burned the arms and legs in the
stove.
Report Of Confession Denied.
An evening paper caused sen
sstion BY flooding the city with pla
cards that Crippen had made a writ
ten confession. Every one in a po
81 ion to know denied this. Ethel
Leneve said:
Y was the last person to see Dr.
Cfippen. So far as my knowledge
extends. he has not made such q
statement"
1t also was repor Ell that Crippen
wrote a statement for Sunday pa
per. which bought a previous story
of his. The paper, however, denies
mat IL has his confession.
From the time that his wife, Belle
Elmore. the actress, disappeared UP
70 the day of his conviction, public
sentiment against Crippen grew
stronger, but in his last hours the
american was not without sympathy
MISS leneve, for whom the crown
alleged Crippen killed his wife, has
continued her visits to the prisoners
cell and there are others who shake
heir heads and declare they would
never convict a man on circumstan
tial evidence.
From expressions in the papers ana
the gossip of the street, it is plain
mat no other murder case of recent
years has taken such hold on the
feelings of all classes.
Miss Leneye, at the request of the
prisoner, paid farewell visit to Grip
pen. She reached the place in q
closed cab, and was accompanied By
an elderly man, who remained out
side.
Miss Leneve remained for half
hour in the visitors room with the
doctor. During her STAY the warden
watched the condemned man closely
crippen slept well last night, and
'his morning ate hearty breakfast
rather Carey arrived in the cell
before daylight. Crippen greeted him
lervently and talked freely with him
me priest at once administered the
last rites of the church to the dying.
me priest spent the remainder OF
me time with Crippen, who did not
appear to brood over his fate.
Up to the last he was not told OF
Inc death of his father last Friday
IN Los Angeles, and went to the gal
lows in ignorance of it.
tFippen spent the early morning
conyersing with Father Carey.
Mystery Over Confession
Now that Crippen is dead, there
Is considerable mystery in London
over the alleged confession printed
this afternoon in the London Times,
which insists that the confession is
The confession is not in the first
person, but in the third person as
having been written by the man to
whom Crippen told his story.
Crippen, according to the alleged
confession, purchased hyoscin, one OF
lheemost deadly drugs, under the
pretense that he was to use it in
minute particles on nervous pa
nents. He began dosing his wife by
putting 1t IN tablet. She died on
February !.
Crippen left the body in the bed
room all the next day and on the
evening Off February he began to