Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-08-03
CRIPPEN VERY
CLAD IT'S over
Admits His Identity When Ap-
pretended Aboard MOntrOSe
DRAMATIC SCENE AT ARREST

Doctor Momentarily Stunned as He
Recognizes Scotland Yard Detective
Disguised as Pilot-Miss Leneve
CoIlapses When Taken into Gus
tody-Culmination of Sensational
Flight Which Was Watched by the
Whole World
Father Point, Que, Aug. DIR.
Hawley H. Crippen and Ethel C.
Leneve, his stenographer, who fed
from London after the disappearance
of Belle Gilmore, the doctors wife,
were arrested aboard the Canadian
liner Montrose, at the command of In
spector Dew of Scotland Yard.
The Identification of the long-sought
fugitives on board the fog -shrouded
steamer by the English detective, who
had raced across the Atlantic ahead
OF the Montrose, marked the culmina-
ton of one of the most sensational
flights in recent criminal annals.
Accompanied by two Canadian Off
GERS, Inspector Dew boarded the YES
sci at $50 o'clock Sunday morning,
and fifteen minutes later both man
! girl were locked in their stateroOms,
! Crippen broken in spirit, but men
, tally relieved by the relaxed tension;
! the girl, CARRIED in boys clothes, sub
bing Historically. They were no
longer Rev. John Robinson and
son." as booked from Antwerp on
July 20.
After a brief delay the Montrose
continued her 16O-mile journey up the
river toward Quebec, where Jail
awaited the pair. Crippen is charged
with the murder of an unknown wom-
an, believed to have been his actress
wife. The girl is held as an Access
sorry.
In charge of Inspector Dew they will
be taken back to England for trial on
the steamship Royal George, leaving
Quebec next Thursday.
Seldom has there been a scene sur
rounding the pursuit Of a criminal so
pregnant with dramatic features as
that enacted off this little settlement.
Dew had spent a sleepless night at
the Marconi operators side COM
municating through the fog with the
liner which bore the man and woman
he sought.
The man had deceived him in Lon
don by fleeing the city with the mys-
terry of Belle Elmore's disappearance
unsolved, and strong personal feel
ing enetered into the case, accentuated
the detectives desire to carry out the
task set him by Scotland Yard.
At 4;30 a. m. the approaching ships
whistle was heard above the below
ing of the Father Point fog horn.
Like a giant alarm clock it awakened
the nervous villagers and the expect
ant newspaper men, who dressed
hastily and waited in drizzling rain
for the liners arrival.
The minutes and the hours passed
with tantalizing slowness. Dew's i'm
patience increased. The rain con-
tinued to fall and the more ambitious
residents, not to be denied the scene
of capture, began fitting out their
, rowboats and variegated sailing craft,
ready to hasten to the liners side i'm
mediateLy she arrived. -
Shortly after 1880 o'clock the Mont
rose pushed her nose through the fog
and at S:15 the pilot boat Eureka set
out from shore. She carried host
] of newspaper men and photographers,
and the more fortunate townspeople
who were able to crowd aboard. But
Dew was not among them. AS pre-
caution he had embarked on the
Eureka's small tender, accompanied
by Chief Mccarthy of the Quebec po-
lice and ex-Chief Denis Of the same
: city.
All wore the garb Of pilots, and over
his ford face Dew had pulled a pilots
, visored cap to hide his features from
, the man he sought. He did not wish
, Crippen to recognize him before he
could approach and take advantage of
the only avenue of escape-suicide.
Four sailors quickly rowed the ten
der alongside the Montrose, and Dew
, and his companions stepped aboard.
, Crippen was standing near the rail
talking with Dr. Stuart, the ships
surgeon, and attempting to appear
calm But that he was nervous was
his remark to Stuart. There are
his remark to Stuart. There are
three pilots coming aboard" said
Crippen nervously, SIS that not un-
usual?"
The physician did not reply but kept
his eyes on the strangers, who walked
rapidly toward them.
j, "Crippen, l want you, said Dew
quietly, as he approached. The
dentist recoiled involuntarily as he
recognized the man who addressed
him, then the blood left his face, his
breath came short and fast and he
gurgled incoherently.