Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-01

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sure. 1t was some little town not far
from San Francisco. he thought. Then
he declared she had been cre,nated and
he had her ashes in his safe, but when
asked to show them he made excuses.
He had her death certificate, toe, he said,
but he couldn't remember where lie had
placed it
Mr.. Nash became convinced that Grip
pen was lying. so he went TO Scotland
Yard and told all he knew about the
case to the police. Chief Detective III
spector Dew was assigned 10 it, ard after
a series of inquiries interviewed Crippen
July S.
The doctor now changed his story
He told Dew that his wife was not
dead at all: that he had quarreled with
her over an incident of the dinner and
card party of January 81, and that
she had left him, and, to the best of
his knowledge, had gone to America
which was her native land.
Dew had no facts wherewith to deny
this story-although subsequently he
was severely criticised for not arrest
ing Crippen at once-and so he went
Investigations. When he again went
to visit the doctor, July II, he found
no one in the house. Crippen and his
typist had gone away. All that Dew
found of an unusual nature was that
Crippen had engaged messenger july
and had sent out and bought suit
of boys clothing.
The inspector realized that every
thing pointed to a flight by Crippen
and Miss Leneve-the latter disguised
came to the conclusion that the Hill
drop-Crescent house would furnish the
answer.
Found Body in Cellar.
July Is complete search of the house
was made. 1t was found that some or
the bricks in the cellar paving were
lcoser than others. They were pried up'
and beneath them was found what re-
manned OF a human body that had long,
been inferred. 1t had been buried deep
and had been heavily sprinkled Wlt4
quick-lime, so that most of the flesh NAG
been consumed.
1t was impossible, practically, to say
that the body was that of Belle Elmor9
though from the circumStantia evidence
there seemed no doubt of it. In fact
doctor who inspected the body Sald IF
was unable to state positively that it waf
a woman's body at all. Certainly the
was no means of telling the cause
death. Yet everything seemed to pol4t
to the likelihood that this was Belle r.
more's body and that she had been sIafl
by her husband n possible motive
apparent-the husbands fondness IPf
Ethel Leneve, young and good lookhFs'
who had been his constant compahEi'
even before the disappearance OF tne
A woman neighbor-aTter the discoNYy
of the body-remembered that she 10
heard screams and cries of Do1 -
DON'T apparently issuing from the ~
zen cellar one night late in JanuaryloI
early in February. Others recalieu a.
DR.. Crippen had been mysteriously ap7ens
from his usual haunts for a coup7 VI
days at about that time.
Hue and Cry Raised.
Then. July Il. a hue and cry was
raised that spread all over the world.
Scotland Yard telegraphed and cabled to
every civilized country a complete de-
scription of DR.. Crippen and Miss Le-
neve, and pointed out that the girl would
probably be disguised as a boy
Clues began to appear in London. one
of them made it certain that the Lee
neve girl had started out with Crlppen,
anyhow. 1t appeared that she had called
at the home of her sister-whom SCOTLAND
Yard described only as Mrs. 81
July 9 very much worried, and nad toid
Mrs. B that she was gong away
from London.
But from the time when the pair went
away from the Hilldrop-Crescent House.
july ~, not another pOSltlNc tAoSS "
them was found until the wireless early
last week discovered them aboard the
plodding steamer Montrose headed tor
Canada.
At once the police on both sides OF
the world started to work. Two days
after >the discovery of the body in the
London cellar the big Lusitan1a arrived
in New York. 1t was possible that the
fugitive might have boarded her before
the finding of the body. She was thor
nod nv 6atanflVpC a.
tives and friends of the dead woman
Nine emmett, a horse trainer, who had
been Belle Elmore's close friend, ana
Belle Elmores stepsister, Mrs r. M
tectives not only this liner, but every
other one that arrived for a week.
Discovered on the Montrose.
Meanwhile the wireless kept at work
day and night. From the shores of Eng
land to ships at sea sped messages de-
scribing in minute detail the suspected
doctor and his young woman companion
From the ships that received the mes
sages word sped on to other vessels
father at sea and out OF touch of the
land stations. Thousands of passengers
were under surveillance without their
knowledge. Not one on a steamship that
left England about the time Belle Ell
4nores body was discovered escaped the
scrutiny of captains and officers.
But it was by no means certain that
the two were on the sea. RurnOrs from
time to time had them seen in various
parts of the world. It was said Crippen
had fled to France disguised as woman.
and had abandoned the girl This seemed
for time to be corroborated by the sui
eide of young woman in France who
slightly resembled Miss Leneve,. But
she proved to be different person.
Then it was reported that the pair had
gone to Andorra. a forgotten little re-
public in the Spanish mountains. which
has no eXtradition laws. This likewise
developed to be false.
Again it was said that Crippen had
been in Paris under the name of Tarbot.
Another story had it that he was in Bel
GUM still another, in Barcelona Spain.
A young woman who killed herself near
Trenton, N. j.. was supposed to be Miss
Leneve.
At last, a week ago, it became known
in Quebec that the police there were
watching one of several steamers headed
for that port But, discouraged from
the vainness of the hunt so far, they
declined to give any Information about
the vessel until they We're surer.
The delay was not long. Certain cir
cumstances-among them another having
the strong element of chance-made it
first fairly certain, and then absolutely
certain, that Crippen and Miss Leneve
were on the MOntrose, which they had
boarded at Antwerp, This vessel had
been reached from the British land sta
tions by wireless, and then from other
vessels by relay, and her commander
Capt Kendall, was furnished with a
minute description of the fuGitives.