The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-21
of an alleged plot which he had formed

of an alleged plot which he had formed | to escape from the steamer Montrose. | He said the quartermaster had told him
 that the captain had recognized him
 and Miss Leneve and that he was to | be arrested when the steamer Mon | trose landed. The quartermaster of- | fered to make a splash in the water during the night when Crippen was | to pretend to commit suicide. The quar-
 termaster had told him that there was
 no charge against Miss Levene and so
 he planed to separate from her for | a time, but he left his proposed ad
 dress in America so that, she might join
 him later.
 More Interest Aroused 1 This concluded his direct testimony
 and court was adjourned.
 Earlier in the day the prosecution closed It's case and Alfred A. Tobin,
 for the defense, made his opening ad-
 dress in which he said that the de- fense would mantain that it could not
 be proven that Belle Fillmore was dead
 without which proof his client could
 not be convicted. The defense then
 called Crippen to the stand.
 | There had been much speculation as | to whether Crippen would testify in | his own behalf and the decision of l his counsel was not made known until I just before the resumption of the trial this morning when Arthur Newton an-
 nounced to the press that this course | had been determined wise from the standpoint of the defendants interest. DTS. Marshall and Salisbury, medical experts, who examined the human parts unearthed in the cellar of the Grip
 pen home in Hilldrop Crescent, repeat ed the evidence which they had given | in the lower courts.
 I This was In confirmation of the tes- timony given yesterday by Professor
 Pepper, the pathologist, who swore that
 the members were human but that he
 could not determine beyond doubt the l sex of the victim.
 1 The cross-examination of the experts, | in which Lord Chief Justice Alverstone, who is presiding, joined, centered on the alleged scar on the body which the de- l fense contends was only fold in the | skin.
 | Alfred Aspinwal Tobin, chief counsel | for Crippen, placed Drs Salisbury and l Marshall with searching inquiries, but the | medical men were not shaken from their assertion that the mark had been left from the wound of an operation and that l no sebaceous gland was discovered in the
 scar area. Lr. Salisbury agreed that if the presence of sebacious gland was I established it would be conclusive eyi- l dence that the mark was not scar. Crippen Follows Evidence followed the evidence with strange in- I tentness.
 1 William H. Wilcox, the scientific an alyist to the home office, testified to hay l ing discovered in the body a poison which I he was satisfied had been taken through | the mouth and was the cause of death. | The poison, he said, was not used by homeopathists, as was suggested by the defense.
 l The medical evidence closed the case I for the prosecution and the stir in the courtroom as MT Tobin rose to address the court showed the keen interest with which the announcement of the line of | defense was awaited. This interest was whetted by the first sentence of counsel. who confirmed his earlier statement to l the press that Crippen would enter the witness box immediately when his attor- ney had concluded his address. Medical witnesses would follow, MT. Tobin said. one of whom of the highest reputation as miscrocopic expert, would give con- | elusive reasons why the mark on the skin was not a scar. Similarly an authority on poisons would testify that the alkaloid ] found in the body might be easily animal
 
 l The defense, as is now known, will at- tempt to prove that the body found in Crippen's home was not that of his wife. Tobin's Contention
 | MT Tobin contended that the prosecu- | tion's claim that desire for money and | the wish to marry Ethel Clare Leneve | formed a motive for the murder was un- tenable. Crippen, he said, owed nothing and he had not married Miss Leneve since the disappearance of his wife, al- | though he had had chance to do so. No purchase of lime in which the parts had been buried had been traced to Grip pen. nor had a weapon been found with which the deed could be connected. | Mr. Tobin said Belle Fillmore threatened frequently to leave her husband and at
 last carried out her threat. Who knew.
 he asked whether she was alive or dead.
 The defense insisted that 1t was per- fectIy natural that Crippen should flee with Miss Leneve and both disguised when he realized that the lies he told to keep up the scandal of his wife's depar- 1 ture had served only to create a noun
 tain of prejudice against him.
 Surprising Statement
 l MT. Tobin then made the surprising statement that Crippen, two days before | his arrest on the steamer Montrose, ar ranged with the Quartermaster to hide | him in the cargo and to land him In the
 night time at Quebec. The discriminating card suggesting suicide which inspector Dew found in Crippcn's cabin was said by his counsel to have been deliberately left there by the fugitive with the object of | giving the impression that he had taken his life and so cause anyone who might be looking for him to search the vessel.
 MT. Tobin said Crippen had concocted this deception because he had been in formed by the quartermaster that he was to be arrested upon landing at Quebec. Crippen had hoped to get safely into the interior of Canada, where he planned to be Joined by Miss Leneve after the talk
 concerning their flight had blown over. Counsel reviewed Belle Elomre's life, her association with a man before she married Crippen, the appearance on the scene of Bruce Miller of Chicago, at whose assertions of innocent friendship MT. Tobin scoffed and finally asserted | that the attendants wife disappeared be- cause her dislike of Crippen had turned