The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-07-14
SEEKING DENTIST
WHO KILLED WIFE
Disappears with Stenographer
Remains of Body Found
Under Floor
MARRIED BARONESS
AND NOTED SINGER
Moved from Philadelphia to Lon
don Where He Lived in
Expensive Establish
70. ment.

LONDON. July i4.-whiIe police
the world over are searching for DIR.
Hawley Crtppen. American doctor and
dentist, and his former stenoGrapher.
Ethel Clare Leneve. Scotland Yard,
detectives are continuing their explo-s
rations through the house at 50 Hili-
drop Crescent Isltngton, London
suburb. where the dismembered and
frightfuliy muttlated body OF q wo-
man supposed to have been Mrs. Grip
pen. formerly Belle Elmors. singar
and actress. was found last niEhks
buried aslder the cellar floor.
The great mystery with which the
police have surrounded TIE case has
caused persistent rinors that other
bodies have been unearthed in the
house. No one Is allowed to enter
the premises. A force of AborerAs
under police protection. has been dig~
cling In the yard. sounding the walk
tearing up the cellar doors and dig
ging. mining and counterminding for
many hours.
The police have especially requested
the New York authorities to search
the liner Lusitania, due in New York
tonight. and the liners Cedric. st.
Paul and Minnetonka, ait of whtcfx
sailed after Crippens disappearance.
and on which ne and the Leneve wop~
man may have sought to escape To
America
Despite the calling In of all the
netghbors. the police have been un~
able to positively identify the decom-
posed body found in the cellar AZ that
OF Mrs Crippen, though none of the
neighbors have seen Mrs. Crippen
since February. when her husband
gave out that she had gone to thA
continent for visit
Death Notice.
short time afterward there APP
peared a notice in the papers that
Mrs. Crippen had died abroad. Then
another woman. also known as Mrs
Crfppen. appeared at the Hiildrop
Crescent house. The dentist and the
second Mrs. Crippen" we're seen m
the house as late as last Sunday. The
crime lis 80 unusual and surrounded
by such peculiar features that the
best operatives of Scotland Yard have
been detailed TO seek the misEing den~
fist.
The dead woman, II really MrA
Grippen, was famous all over Eng
land and the continent as q concert
singer. owing to the wonderful range e
of her voice. 1t is stcsed she waa
bern in Philadelphia. the daughter 81
who had fed from Poland to esoape
The mother and father
II is understood tried to hide their
identity even from the girl. but Sonk
her to Europe to have her voice cul~
tivated- She made her first profe9-
siouaI appearance In London. under
the name OF Belle Elmore, and spran9
into instant favor.
Met Dentist.
{r~ 70 AL Gh tANwsGks5
met the dentist After her majority.
IT is declared she began making mi
search through papers left by hex*s
father, and declared that she wa1
entitled Ia title and estate. ShNs
and Crippen, the London police sAye
then left Philadelphia with the An-SSs
nounced intention OF going to PolAn0
To Fay claim to her estate and tit1M
of baroness Makomaski They newer
returned to America. Little = knoxE 1
OF their efforts to establish thetx tttia
in Poland. or recent years they have
lived in London. always keeping g.
expensive esta blishment and seeming
to be literally supplied With MONEY!
GFtePea- conducted an agency hsaas
ness in New Oxford street. He wn1a
seen little by his neixhbors At HILL
drop Crescent. Though Mrs. Crtppe4#
was we'll known in the notghborho00%
Last February. when Mrs Crippensm
absence was noted. DIR. Crippen tcl0 81
inquirers that she mad gone to the
continent for her health. In March 60
theatrical paper carried an announces;
ment OF the death OF Belle M1mcro
The neighbors became Suspicious An1<
notified the police, who learned tn943
no such death had occurred IN tnS
place mentioned in the adve<&tuefnGE1S#
Mysterious WffA 81!
d@ntIapH Yard nfHrIatm
DR.. crippen. who was then living N1e1N
a second Mrs. Crippen." Tho d0mtt1#
continued TO live in the HIildrop Cx1psa
cent house. replying to all queeta0u4
and maintaining an unusually cGln17
demeanor. Saturday he dtsnppea3edKS
Then tho police began searching fh4
house, almost tearing 1t to pieces
Gardens were dug up and w&l
sounded. Last night the body WGGSz
found buried under q oement doo4
in the basement. 1t was 70 bndk
that Identification |. ~
been impossible.
Mrs, Crippen was 81 years old.
The police have scattered wide8
cast the following description Of Crit
pen: 5N7
.Hawley Harvey Crlppen. ali&
Peter Crippen and Franckefl Crtppo1
an American dentist, aged so. 5 -
3 inches, complexion fresh: hair itGa
brown, inclined to be sandy ana sCai3
bald on top. rather long muatach&
mark on bridge OF nose. wears fM111
teeth and gold trimmed spectAhl1
speaks with slight American acr451
wears hat on back OF head. II pl6nG
BILE and outspoken. is accompanied
a woman calling herself Mira. CrtppAl
light brown hair. gray eyes, gQ4
teeth. nice looking and OF piean&nx a1
nearanca. medium build =
Afterward the. police sent out
official announcenn0nt:
xAlso arrest Ethel Clara Lan4N
ostensibly Crippen's wife. aged
good looking English typist. VIII
to leave England. probably dtx1azf
as boy IN
The woman Ia wanted az an ac2
sorry TO the murder. WIN N
Guilcd Police.
Scotland Yard mon To-day deciax(
that DR. Crippen was born In Ge
Water. Mich. was educated In
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