The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-01

spite of Scotland Yard. The British secret service started out. with a seri- ous blunder and kept it up.
 On June 22. Scotland Yard twas in- formed by friends of Mrs. Belle Grip pen of their apprehensions. Dr. Grip pen had told Mrs. Crippen's friends that she died while on a hurried busi- ness trip to Los Angeles. Cal. Detec- tive Chief Inspector Walter Dew was assigned to the mysterious case. With other officers he questioned CriDpen in his Hflldrop Crescent home and seem ed satisfied with the story he told. Later, through Mrs. Crippen's sister in America. who had been Investigating the case. it was learned that no one by the name of Mrs. Crippen had died in Los Angeles. Again Dew sought Crippen in his London office and ob- tained from him a ready promise that he would not leace London until the mystery of his wife's disappearance had been solved. Hardly had the door closed upon the astute representative of Scotland Yard than the willy doc tor and his typist fled. leaving London on July g or 10 for the continent.
 On July 13. their suspicious that having been fully aroused, the detec- tives instituted a thorough search of the doctors house and finally located the oismembered and Iime-eaten frag- ments of a human body-as yet uniden- tified, but believed to have been that of Mrs. Crippen-in the cellar But their prey had escaped.
 Even then Scotland Yard continued to blunder. They refused to give any information to the press until forced to do so by popular clamor when at last, grudgingly. they gave out the story. It was not until several days after the discovery of the body that the police circulars containing de- scription of the fugitives, were mailed to the headquarters of the continental police departments.
 Captain Kendall of the Montrose was newspaper reporter. So when his vessel prepared to sail from Ant posted on the Crippen case. When, therefore, "John Robinson and son. came over the side without baggage and holding hands in a manner un- aroused. Next he noted that when the ''son" removed his coat, he had employed a safety pin to hold up his trousers. Closer scrutiny made him suspect that the 'son" was really woman. He engaged them in con- versation. Between times he re-read his London papers. With Kendall, who is not detective of the Scot land Yard type, to suspect was to act. The seafaring follower of Sher- lock Holmes had wireless on board and Louis Jones, a 23 year old opera tor as his ''Dr. Watson"
 Jones, the operator, called the wireless stations on the English coast and was soon in communication with Scotland Yard. He described the couple so accurately. with Captain convinced. On Saturday, July 23, In- spector Dew rushed to Liverpool and boarded the fast White Star liner bound for Father Point, to intercept the suspected pair.
 The Montrose's wireless set was a short distance one, capable of send ship was out of communication with the world speculated as to the chase. Then, last Thursday, came the my steric message from Jones that Grip pen was on board the Montrose. The Montrose was again in touch with the land-this time the American coast,-and the wireless hunt was on again.
 Dew-mysterious "Dewhurst''-of the Laurentic, reached Father Point Friday and at that point the arrest was made. Jones remained at his post, sleeping in the operating room, and kept the world posted.
 Together Captain Kendall. the mariner detective, and Inspector Dew of Scotland Yard, talked" over the
 
 tails of the arrest, arranged that someone should engage Crippen in conversation and guard against sui eide. Kendall, unlike Scotland Yard, did not blunder. The wireless had told him what to do and Captain Kendall did his part as well on the last day as he did on the first
 When Dew disguised as pilot, over the side, his quarry was waiting there for him. One silent  ed to little Lew Jones and called him a hero.
 Jones didn't like it at all but the Montrose passengers when they learned the truth believed it. They even put him in the category with Jack Binns, the 'C. o. D." man of the steamer Republic. Binns, they said, was in no more danger in the wireless room of the Republic than many of the 1000 passengers. To stick to his wireless was to secure
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