Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-22
GIVEN
DEATH SENTENCE
Took Jury lust Thirty Minutes to
Find Him Guilty Of Murder
OF Belle EImore.
PROTESTED HIS INNOCENCE e.
Lord Chief Justice Told Him to Enter
tain No Hope of Escaping Can
sequences OF His Crime.

London, Oct. 22.-Dr. Hawley Harvey
Irippen. American practitioner, was to- s
aay round guilty OF the murder OF hi,
wife, the American actress Belle Ell
more, and sentenced to death This
Jury was out 80 minutes. When 1t re-
turned and announced 1t had found the
defendant guilty, Lord Chief Justica
Alverstone asked the physician II ne
mad anything to say. Crippcn replied III
Il low voice:
II still protest my innocence"
me chief justice then donned the
blacR cap that had rested near him
throughout the trial and pronounceu
the sentence OF death. Addressing the
condemned man, Lord Alverstone snid:
fou have been convicted on eti-
dence which can ieaSe no doubt IN this
mihd OF any leasUna.la ma, tnae you
cruelty nurdc.e. yo4.4 Mil4f ana than
mutilatcd ae. lUIy
advise Sou i. lEtsrtuin no hone
.hht you M!iifte>t.. tt.3 >0.iscqu nee OF
your ciiiHG, .s..i.Iu VS.. 10 ,nuke
your peace with .A...ii; nty God.I' 4
as the luru tJet .ustcc concluded Il
poiiceman stepped forward and in the
tnush that had fallen over the court
room, led crippen from the dock.
ciiprcn Will be hanged
crippin will hang on Novcmbcr1 Is.
COURT coNvENEs.
When court convened this morning
Richard Muir made the closing spcech
lor the prosecutions. He declared the;
crown had proved beyond Il reasonable
doubt that the body in tho cellar OF
me Crippen home was that OF the doc
tors wife. No one else had had a
fhaa III
inc 8womun's body as it was found,
Lord Chief Justice Alvcrstone at once
Desitn his summing upSof the case.
The justice described SCrippen as IN
extraordinary man who was either
guilty or innocent. II guilty he had
way, and it was believed In most
brutal and callou5 manner II he was +
innocent 1t was impossible to fathom
his mind, as he was absolutely In
different to the charge of murder. He
had taken no step whatever to prove
| his Innocence.
Crippen, the justice declared UNI
| doubtedly was q liar and lived an Inn
| moral life, but he added the jury could X
not convict the defendant on that score.
II must be quite convinced that the
human parts found were the body OF
Belle Elmore and that her death was
caused by wilf,il net of the prisoner.
CHARGE TO JURY.
The lord chief Justices charge to the
jury was that they must BIO convinced
of the Identification beyond a reasons n
able doubt, As, he concluded the jury
retired. After being out half an hour
the jurors returned and reported that
they had found Crlppen guilty. Crippen
thereupon was sentenced to death.
1t was announced this evening that
Crlppen would be hanged on Nov. 10.
The trial OF Ethel Glare Leneve as p
IN accessory after the fact in the MUIR
der of Mrs. tCrlppen will begin next
Tuesday. sg 5sl
1t is the rule in England to allow
three Sundays to intervene between
sentence of death and the execution.
The trial lasted less than five days.
having begun Mt 1880 o'clock last
Tuesday morning. E
The jury retired at 1911 O'clock
this afternoon and returned with the
verdict at a:47 o'clock.
,cRIPPEN CALM. ], Z
Crippen received the death sentence
with the apparent calmness that
characterized him throughout tho
trial and which in fact has been notice
able from the moment Of his arrest
He appeared rather nervous during the
Judges summing up which was strong
~ against him. AS Lord Alvcrstone
mercilessly portrayed his character
rs developed during the trial Crippen q
twirled his thumbs. crossed and re- s
crossed his legs and occasionally
shuffled his feet.
However as soon as the charge had
been concluded. the prisoner seemed i
to pull~himself together. AS the jui9
moved out of the3room he appeared
to be not quite sure what to do with
himself and fora moment he stood In
front of the dock with his elbows rest
Ing on the railing and watched the .
men in whose hands rested his fate,
file last him.
During the half hour that the jury
was out, the court oiled UP and when .
mn officer returned with the exhibits 4
in the case for when the foreman had
asked and intnutel that a verdict had
been reached every foot OF space 81 #
the room was occupied There was ;l55
bug of conversation, the spectators
being convinced fron1sthe early rctSt
of the jurors that Crlppen had nc 4
found guilty. 81
There was little delay after thu
judge and Jury had again taken their
prisoner mounted the stairs and con-
fronted the jurors. He walked be-
tween two warders to his seat, He
was paler than usual. When the YER
dict was announced he did not finch I,
and was In no need of the protecting
arm Wh!ch a}Whrdcr held out toward :
him.
PRISONER AT THE BAR. 4
The silence was broken by tho
clerks formal question: q. VT
at the bar have you any
thing to say why sentence Of the court Il
should not be passed against you'" tl3
For IL fraction of n second Crippen
hesltated. then replied betraying his E
emotion by only the slightest nutter OF
tho voice, III. ii etl,a ID
Ht"I still protest my Innocence" tn "
Lord Alrerstone pronounced the sem
tence OF death and the officers again
held out their arms to support the
prisoner. He ignored their proffcred
assistance and turning, walked firmly
from the room. stopping only once
and then for 4 brief moment to take
a last look at the courtroom within
which he had fought for his life. 4
DEATH OF JOSEPH GILL. X.