The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-22
SEARCH
{ FOR DR.. ,CR|PPEN
1t Is Believed the Fugitive
Is Now In Spain
CLEW IN FRENCH VILLAGE
Photographs of DIR. Crippen Sent to
Vernet Les Baines Prove That the
American Dentist stopped
There Recently

Paris, July 21-The police at Vernet
Les Baines, the little French watering
place at the foot of the Pyrenees noun
tains, are positive in their belief that
DR.. Hawley H. Crippen, widely sought
by the London police, was in the city
last Sunday and vigorous search is be-
ing made for the fugitive.
The procureur at vernet Les Baines
telegraphed today to the editor of the
Surete Generate at Paris confirming the
identity of the man who arrived there
under the name of Tarboton Sunday as
DR.. Hawley H. Crippen.
The procureur added that he believed
Crippen had crossed the French frontier
into Spain.
The French detective department In
Paris is inclined to accept the procur-
eur's view as to the identity of Crippen.
He is in doubt whether he crossed the
Spanish frontier at vernet Les Baines
as all of the information in the possess
sion of the police intimates that he left
the train before 1t left Mount Louis to
which point he is said to have taken
passage en- route to Spain.
the authorities here, instead of making
for Spain. is headed for Andorra, the
little and almost forgotten republic of
5000 shepherd inhabitants nesting in the
foothills of the Pyrenees.
M Sebile, head of the research de-
partment of the police, who is directing
the search in France for DR.. Crippen and
his typist, Ethel Clara Leneve, who is
supposed to have left London in his
company, opposes the theory that the
woman who killed herself at Bourges
July Is was Miss Leneve. He points out
that the letter left by the suicide was
written in French, a language Miss
Leneve is said to be totally unacouaint-
ed with.
Furthermore, the suicides features
were those of person of Savonic type
he says and M. Sebille added that he
believes she was nihilist.
| photographs of the Bourges suicide.
however, have not yet been compared
with those of Miss Leneve. Another
theory of the police is that the couple
went by steamer to Marseilles and SEN
arated at that port.
The Suicide Mt Bourges
Bourges. France. July IA young
woman who committed suicide at a hotel
here on July 10 is now believed to have
been Ethel Clara Leneve, the companion
of DR.. Crippen. There are striking points
of resemblance. The woman was for
eigner and gave the name of Jeanne
Mazo. The police of Paris and London
have been notified
The mysterious young woman arrived
at the Hotel France on the night of
July 1S. She was beautifully gowned
and in appearance and manner was a
person of refinement
After registering as Jeanne Mazo" she
went at once to her apartments. An
hour later three revolver shots alarmed
the hotel people,. They came apparently
from the young woman's room, and the
door was broken in
The woman was found to be dead. Be-
fore shooting herself the guest had writ
ten a note, which read as follows: "I
request that identity be not sought. The
cause of my suicide is known to me
alone. ask to be allowed to rest tran
quilly in my tomb
IT am foreigner. I leave 100 francs
to defray my funeral expenses"
The note concluded
Life to me, alas, appeared unsml-
ing"
The young woman is described az
brunette. She had taken the precaution
to cut from her garments every mark
that might have served to Indicate the
identity of the wearer.
Though posing as a French woman. II
was recognized that the guest who ar
rived at the hotel shortly before she
killed herself was not of French birth.
When the lifeless body was discovered
in her room every effort was made to
determine her identity, or to get some
trace of her friends and acquaintances,
but without success. The suicide was
young, probably % years old. rather
slight in build and Of prepossessing ap-
pearance.
The matter dropped from public dis
cussion, only to be revived today, when
the authorities received from Scotland
Yard photographs of Miss Leneve. Grip
pens typist. Those who had seen the
body recognized in the likeness a re-
markable similarity.
Further inquiry strengthened the
theory that the suicide was Miss Leneve
and the local officers telegraphed their
discovery to the police of Paris and
Scotland Yard. s