Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-21
CRIPPEN AND GIRL
COMPANION SAIL
To FACE CHARGES
Rope Catches Doctor by Neck as
He Boards Steamer for
FatefuI Voyage
MISS LENEVE BREAKS DOWN
TypiSt FaintS as She Reaches
Vessels Deck and Is
Carried to Cabin
MISS LENEvE BREAKS. DOWN
ASSOCIATED Press)

S QUEBEC, Aug. 20.-Hawley Harvey
Crippen and Ethel Claire Leneve sailed
for England on the White Star liner
Megantic at o'clock tonight and are
due at Liverpool at noon next Sat-
urday BY Saturday night they will
probably be lodged in a London Jail
to await trial for the murder of a
woman supposed to be Crippens wife,
Belle Elmore.
An extraordinary accident occurred
as Crippen crossed the gangplank' 1t
carried an omen that might well de-
press a man in the shadow of the gal
lows. Crippen came hurrying across
the plank. handcuffed, his hat pulled
low over his eyes and his chin buried
in his collar trying apparently to
dodge the photographers.
In his haste he ran squarely into
rope that held the gangway steady.
The rope caught him under the chin
and jerled him backwards, and had
not Inspector Dew grabbed him, Grip
pen would have fallen and possibly
pitched between the two vessels into
the water.
Notwithstanding the fears of the
British police that the dentist might
commit suicide. the occurrence was
too palpably an accident for its ma
ture to be mistaken.
MISS LENEVB FAINTS
Miss Leneve, who had left the Jail
with every evidence of willingness, had
to be supported as she crossed the
gangplank. AS she reached the deck
of the Megantic she tainted and had
to be carried TO her cabin. 1t was
half an hour before she revived. The
girl never has recovered from her
collapse at first, although her condi-
tion has caused her taller no anxiety.
TnGnAHtST Davy FnaT1a tbp npna n
the famous pair In manner to fur
nish a fitting climax to their sensa-
tional capture. The fruits of Dew's
deep thought during his twenty days
Of solemn silence first became evil
dent at o'clock this morning, but
the full beauty of his scheme did not
appear in all its elaboration until the
hour of sailing.
The finishing touch to a twelve-hour
performance that more than once
verged on opera bouffe came when the
Scotland Yard inspector climbed the
gang plank and, with impassive coun-
tenance. entered his name on the pas
senger list as "Silias P. Boyle" This,
in spite of the fact that Dew was
probably the best known man aboard
and that among his 900 fellow pas
sengers fully 500 had met him here In
Quebec.
Consistently he registered his assist
ant sergeant, Mitchell, of Scotland
Yard as IN. F. D. Johnston"
Mrs. Stone, one of the wardresses
brought from London to look after
Miss Leneve, appeared on the passen-
ger list as MARY Byrne," and Miss
Foster, her companion, as Miss Ogil-
vie.'
SIEUTH's FUNNY STUNTS
If Dew's object has been the attain
ment of publicity he could not have
oh chin than a Mnp1n-
tic. She carried 260 members of the
Queens own" crack Canada regi-
ment bound for England to join the
British army maneuvers Several
Canadian newspaper men and photog-
raphers accompanied the regiment and
others came from Montreal on the
Megantic this morning to see them off.
Dew smuggled his prisoners from the
local Jail at o'clock with three hacks
and five provincial detectives to help
his own Scotland Yard force. Then, |
by circuitous routes, he drove to the
river at Sillery, a village a mile from |
the jail in a straight line, but seven
miles over the road he chose.
Before the three hacks had reached |
the river the whole countryside was
aroused, and when party of news |
paper men came in pursuit shortly |
afterward they had no trouble in find
ing the trio. In an automobile they |
reached Sillery I'm time to see the tug |
Queen putting up the river with Dew |
on deck wearing triumphant smile. |
Thus the British detective escaped |
the photographers on shore, but the |
Megantic on her downward voyage
from Montreal was not due until noon |
and the Queen had to lie off Cape |
Rouge nearly three hours, until the |
liner arrived.
The photographers chartered a tug
and overhauled the Queen just as the
Megantic hove in sight. For the next |
half hour there followed an exhibition
Of marine maneuvering that would
have delighted the heart of Captain
Mahan. the Queen trying to reach the
Megantic so as to put the prisoners
aboard unobserved. the sharpshooters
on the tug jockeying for place
DEW is DEFEATED
Finding his task impossible, Dew
finally had the Queen lashed to the
steamers side and put Crippen and
Miss Leneve aboard under camera
fre partly masked by the efforts of
the two prisoners to hide their faces.
C,rippen dashed up the gangplank with
his felt hat pulled low and his face
buried in his coat collar, while the
girl had her features effectually con-
cealed by a heavy blue veil So anx-
ious was the inspector to foil the pho
tographers that every eye witness at
Sillery said he made Crippen hold a
handkerchief over his face when he
walked from the hack to the dock, al
though no reporters or cameras were
then visible.
While the prisoners were being
transferred from the Queen to the Me-
gantic passengers on the latter were
barred from the shelter deck by which
the pair entered. There was a heavy
FIRE of small cameras, however, from
the deck above.
II is understood that Crippen and
Miss Leneve will be confined closely to
their cabins during the voyage except