The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-21
Ethel Clare LIE Neve IL Given q
Warm Reception.
Crowd of Men and Women Fol.
low Her Carriage.
TRIAL NEARING END.
Proved That DR.. Crippen Was
in Financial Straits.
Wife Had Withdrawn Joint Ac.
count i'm Bank.

London, Sept. 21.-Ethel Glare Le
Neve was hooted and jeered at today's
trial by crowd of men and women
that awaited her arrival at the Bow
street police court. The trial of Miss
LIE Neve and DR.. H. H. Crippen for the
murder of his wife is drawing to a
close and this fact probably accounted
for the unusual number of persons who
gathered in the vicinity for a possible
view of the prisoners.
A group of women followed the cab
occupied by the accused girl through
the streets to the police court yelling
their opinions of the typist as they
chased along. When the vehicle Stop
ped in front of the court building a
crowd that filed the thoroughfare boot
ed derisively. Miss LIE Neve held an
| open umbrella before her face and was
Ialrly successful in escaping observa-
ton as the police made a way for her
Ihe financial affairs of the Crippens
were gone into today, in line with the
prosecutors opening assertion that the
DOCTOR at the time of Belle Elmore's
disappearance was pressed for funds
and that the death of the woman was
TO the advantage of the husband
The manager of bank testified that
Mrs. Crippen notified the institution on
December Is, 1909, of the Withdrawal
of joint account which she and Grip
pen had kept there
Didn't Need the Poison.
MISS Merton Curnow. an employees
of the Munyon people, who succeeded
Crlppen IN the management of their
local office, testified that the poison
alleged to have been purchased by the
doctor and traces of which were found
IN the mutilated body was not used by
the company. She added however,
that Crippen frequently bought drugs
for his own preparations
The witness said that during Febru-
ary, when Crippen told her that his
wife had gone to America and died
there, she cashed for him several
checks, one for $500. She last saw the
doctor July 9, when she gave him the
money on a check for $1S5. This was
just before he disappeared He said
to the witness:
'If any one inquiries for me, Won are
to know nothing Say nothing
Before this Crippen had left several
packages with the witness saying: eff
anything happens to me, give these to
Miss Leneve."
Both Held for Murder.
At the close of the court proceedings
today DR.. Haw1ey H Crippen and
Ethel Clare LIE Neve were Committed
for trial charged with the murder of
the doctors wife, Belle Elmore So
licitor Newton reserved his defense for
the trial proper.
| When Crippen left the employ of the
medicine company, he formed a part
nership with Gilbert NJ. Rylance under
| the firm name of Crippen & RyIance,
LOT tne manuIdclure OF artlnclal teeth
| Rylance was called by the crown today
and, after telling of his business rela-
tions with the doctor testified that
Crippen told him of the story of Belle
Elmore's death and added that he had
married Miss LeNeve. Later Inspector
Dew called at the dental establishments
in the course of his Investigations of
Belle Elmore's disappearance and short
| ly afterward Crippen left a note for
| his partner in which he said:
1 In 0r6o IN frn1 + -1,711 r.
obliged to absent myself for a time"
William Long, a former associate of
the accused man repeated the evidence
which he had given at the inquest, de-
scribing how at the request of the doc
tor he had purchased a suit of boys
clothing. for Miss LIE Neve on the day
that the defendant dropped out of
sight.