The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-05
MUST DN
ON GALLOWs FOn
KILLING WIFE
Court of Criminal Appeal Dsci11
There Is No Ground for New Tn
and Execution May Take
Place Tuesday.
Prisoners Twitching Lips Show SUI
pressed Emotion as Decision
Echoes His Doom.

LONDON, Nov. 6.--Dr. III. III. CriI1
pen, the American doctor who smI.I>
dered his wife, Belle Gilmore, the ma
sic hall singer, must die on the xRI
lows.
The court of criminal appeal ct31
sisting OF Justices Darling, ChannI|
and Pickford, after hearing the ar&1
ments OF Crippen's attorneys and t1.
crown representatives, this Afternoons
decided that there was no ground fo1
new trial
Crippen heard his fate calmly
though his usually ruddy face wa
white as chalk and his twitching liI.
showed the suppressed emotion nM
was undergoing.
1t Is altogether probable that Cr;I
pen VIII be executed next TuogdAN
unless the home secretary interfcf6&.
Crippen's attorneys announced tk4<
their next step would be 70 ask thu
home office either to commute the
death sentence TO life imprisonmen[
or to grant a pardon to the prisoner.
1t is considered most unlikely, thai
any power will now intervene TO save
the prisoner.
Deathly pale, and showing by tho
twitching of the mouth the STRAIN
under which he labored. DIR. Crippeu
faced the judges of the court Of Grim
inal appeal.
He entered the court room betweer
two warders. He walked with firm
step, though all the iauntiness that
marked his appearance at his trial
was gone His face, usually ruddxs
was CHASTITY pale. He seemed dnzo1t
but soon pulled himself together and
walked steadily TO the seat that n40
been assigned to him and immedinte,
ly began comforting with his attorneyNs
over the arguments to be used In tho
| plea for a new trial.
Before court opened IL was the gem
eral impression that there was little
or no chance that the higher cOuEN
would order a new trial. Up 70 NNI
time the new court Of. appeal VIA, a.
tablished, which was only recently
! the only appeal from a conviction Wa
! to the home secretary and few were
granted this. II was declared thar
unless It could be shown clearly that
| gIaring errors had been made In the
| trial. there was little hope that Grip
pen would escape the gallows.
Barrister Tobin, set up as the fir1t
reason for the new trial that tho
Jurors had not been properly isolat-
ed by the court during the trial, and
that il would have been possible for
outsiders to communicate with thhems
This plea was overruled by the 1klnr
tees
Tobin further contended that the
prosecution had introduced impOrtant
evidence at an improper time during
the trial and by so doing had deprtv-
ed the defense of the right to rebuff
much testimony.
The defendants barrister then took
up the question of the remains found
in the Crippen home, declaring that
the body had not been sufficiently
identified as that OF Mrs. CripDen,
and that until this Identification wun
made positive, the jury was In error
in returning a verdict Of guilty. He
contended also that even IL identifg
cation had been maed positive. there
was no proof that murder had beau
committed. but even granting that
murder had been committed, he said
there was no prof that DIT. Crippen
was the murdered.