The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-11-25
CRIPPEN DIES
ON GALLONS
American Dentist Who Kill
ed Wife Pays Penalty.
Spends Night With Priest, But He
Has Nothing to Say
Of Crime.
HISTORY OF CRIPPEN
MURDER CASE.

AhOkeDHAe ShoA<s
February !, 1910-Bolle Elmore be-
lieved to have been slain on this date.
March 26, 191O-Notice is publish
ed in the daily papers to the effect
}. that Belle Elmore had died suddenly
in California.
July S-Inspector Daw visits Grip
pen at his home.
July 9-Crlppen fleus from the city
with his typist, Ethel Leneve.
July13-Decomposed body of Belle
Elmore found in cellar of Crippen's
home in London.
July 2O-Crippen and his compan-
ion sail from Antwerp aboard the
steamer Montrose.
July 22-Capt Kendall, of the Mon
trose, recognizes Crippen and com
municates with Scotland Yard by
wireless.
July 23.-Inspector Dew leaves Liv-
erpool aboard the steamer Lauren
tic for Quebec.
July S1.--Dr Crippen and Miss Lee
neve placed under arrest as their YES
sci arrives at Farther Point, Que.
August 20.-Inspector Dew sails
from Quebec with his prisoners.
August 27.-The party reaches Lon
don.
y September 21-Dr. Crippen and his
companion formally committed for
trial for the murder of his wife.
September 26ACoroner's jury re-
turns verdict of wilful murder against
DIT. Crippen.
October 1S-Dr. Crippen placed on
Strial for his life.
OcotbG 22-Dr Cippen found gull
ty and sentenced to death.
October 25-Miss Leneve acquitted
of the charge OF being an accessory.
November date OF hanging chang
ed from November to November 20.
London Nov. 23.-Dr. II. H. Grip
pen was hanged within the walls of
the Jail here at 9:02 this morning
He went to the scaffold in silence
and had nothing to say even before
the trap was sprung.
He was accompanied by the priest
who has attended him since he was
condemned. There were but few Of
ficials present
The execution of DR.. Hawley Grip
pen in London Wednesday oompleted
the criminal records of one of the
sensational of recent murder cases.
The brutality of the crime commit
ted by man who had been known
as of a gentle and kindly nature.
the murderer's spectacular fight to his
native land and the fact that the case
against the doctor was purely circum-
stantial combined to make the trag-
sdy of absorbing interest not only
In England where the murder was don
but as we'll in America whene both
Crippen and his wife-were born
Crippen slight in figure. was just
fifty years of age. He was born In
Michigan and after studying medicine
practiced in the United States and
Canada. In 1906 he married Cora
Nackamotski, of Brooklyn. vaude-
VILE actress whose stage name was
Belle Gilmore.
They moved to London where the
doctor engaged In dental manufac-
ture. Soon there was domestic In
felicity, due, Crippen alleged to the
other men.
Then Ethel Clara Leneve, a prepos-
sessing woman, now about twenty
seven years of age, entered Crippen's
enpIoy as a typis,. She sympathized
with the doctor and the two foil in love
Meantime Crippen and his wife were
estranged.
Nearly year ago. Miss Len~e
feeling her position keenly. became
impatient with the situation. About
hte same time the doctor was in need
of money. Mrs Crippen disappeared
suddenly last February. Her hus-
band inserted a death notice in the
papers saying that she had succumbed
to an illness while visiting in Cali
firnia.
Actress friends of Mrs. Crippen per-
suaded Scotland Yard to maize an In
ysstigation and the police officials