Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-07-15
CRIPPEN
is HIDING
IN LONDON
is NOT BELIEVED THAT MOST
SKILLFUL CRIMINAL" WIFE
MURDERER, CAN EIUDE CAP
TURE WITH HIS BEAUTIFUL
COMPANION, AND ALLEGED
ACCONPLICE.
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London, July 15.-Surrounded
by Gordon Of regular police and
. Scotland Yard detectives, Hawley
Crippen, called "the most sillful
criminal of the age" today is hiding
in London with HIS beautiful young
companion, Mademoiselle Ethel Len
eve, with little prospect of escape,
according to the authorities.
While the police believe they have
Crippen caught in an inextrieable
web, the detectives are directing their
energies toward ascertaining the
movements of the suspected man at
the time his wife, formerly Belle Ell
more, a Polish noble woman and ia
nous singer was murdered.
Mrs. Crippen was sent to her death
In the lonely house at 80 Hilldrop
Crescent, Islington, about February
2, the police believe. The Crippens
were alone in the old structure, save
for the frequent visits of Mile Len
eve, between whom and the dead wo-
The man who is alleged to have
killed Mrs. Crippen was trained ply
sician and surgeon. He was a man,
the police say, used to handling the
scalpel and the knife, expert in com
pounding and giving drugs and sci
entifically trained in the knowledge
of their effects.
Mrs. Crippen was poisoned and
her husband gave her the fatal
drug" declared DR.. Pepper, the gov
ernment analyst, one of the keenest
students of medical jurisprudence in
England. whether Crippen was as
sisted in his work by Mile. Leneve
cannot be determined, although the
police believe such to be the case,
and have lodged charge of murder
against her as an accessory.
81 believe that the mutilation and
dissection of the body was an after
thought on tie part of the murderer.
The man who killed Mrs. Crippen
knew the insolubility of certain ele-
ments in,quicklime, and added chem
icals to facilitate their dissolution.
For that reason the body is in far
worse condition than ordinarily
would have been the case from free
lime. Then, too, the murderer care
fully excised the larger bones of the
body, thereby Fastening the action of
the lime. These bones are missing.
l believe they have either been
burned and buried or thrown into
the river.
"The police first must establish
identity of the victim before they can
convict the murderer, whoever he
may be. That has not been done,
and until it can be proved that Mrs.
Crippen is dead no one can be tried
for her murder"
The police, asserting that DR.. Pep
per is working independently of the
Scotland Yard men. declare that they
can prove that the dead woman was
Mrs. Crippen. Detectives from Scot
land Yard searched the Crippen
house and garden again today for
traces of missing bones, even opening
the gas, water and sewer pipes, in
the hope of finding them secreted
there, and the possibility of coming
upon telltale marks of the murder.
An inquest viii be held tomorrow.
It is believed that the police have
sufficient evidence to establish the
identity of the body, or they would |
not be willing to have an inquest at
this time.
Additional evidence gained by the
detectives purports to show that inn
mediately following Mrs. Crippen's
death Crippen and Mile. Leneve were
frequently seen in London by friends
Of Crippen' swife, and that DR.. Grip |
penis companion was wearing the
clothing, furs and iewelry of Mrs
Crippen.