Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1910-10-25
CR|PPEN IS GUILTY
AND IS SENTENCED
To DIE ON GALLONS
The Deliberations of the Jury
Were Brief and the Members
Were Out Only Thirty
Minutes
fRr Assooiated Press.l

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| LONDON. Oct. 92.-Dr. Hawley Harvey
Z, Crippen. the American practitioner and
medical agent. was today found guilty
of the murder OF his wife, the American
! actress Belle Elmore. and sentenced 10
be hanged November 10.
The jury was out just 50 minutes.
When IL returned and announced that II
| had found the defendant guilty, Lord
Chief Justice Alverstone asked the physi-
clan IL he had anything to say. Crippen
replied in a low voice: II still' protest
my innocence ,-,-
| The chief justice then donned the black
cap that has rested near him through
out the trial and pronounced the sem
| tence of death.
Addressing the condemned man Lord
Alverstone said: .r.t. .....
You have been convicted on evidence
which can leave no doubt in the mind OF
any reasonable man that YOU cruelty
murdered your wife and then mutilated
her body. - -....,.- -..s.... -f.,,.. -
II advise you to entertain no hope that
you will escape the consequences OF your
crime-I implore you 10 make your peace
with Almighty God, o.. 49,.
As the lord chief Justice concluded, a
policeman stepped forward and in the
hush that had fallen over the court room
led Crippen from the dock.
The trial OF Ethel Clare Leneve as an
accessory after the fact. in the murder
of Mrs. Crippen, will begin on next Tues
day.
when the proceedings were resumed to-
day, Lord Chief Justice Alverstone call
ed Crippen TO the stand and asked him
questions regarding the use Of hyoscin,
the poison with which. II is charged, the
accused killed his wife.
The justice elicitated the Information
that hyoscin was administered through
the mouth and also hypodermically.
Richard Muir then began the closing
speech for the prosecution. He said the
defense had relied largely upon the the
DRY that Crippen was too kindhearted
to commit murder. Coun=ei poinSed out
that the defendant had, however, lived
for months a life OF hypocrisy, hooking
the grief Of his wlfe's dearest friends.
psIdnooo sssIppB s.IolnossoId sqL
scarcely more than an hour. lie con-
cluded by saying that the prosecution
had proven beyond a reasonable doubt
that the body found at Crippen's home
was that of his wife. Belle Elmore, the
actress, and that none but the prisone-
could have cut up the body and buried II,
In the cellar.
Lord Chief Justice Alverstone began his
had concluded.
Crippen as an extraordinary man, wheth-
err guilty or INNOCENT, II guilty, he had
covered up a CHASTITY crime in a CHASTITY
way, and IL was believed. in a most bru-
tai and callous manner. II he was in
nocent II was impossible to fathom his
mind, as he was absolutely Indifferent
to the charge of murder. He had taken
no steps whatever to prove his innocence.
Crippen, the justice declared, undoubtedly
was liar and lived an immoral life,
but, he added. the Jury could not convict
the defendant on that score. 1t must be
quite convinced that the human parts
found were from the body of Belle Ell
more and that her death was caused by
willful act of the prisoner.
The lord chief justice charged the jury
that they must be convinced of the iden-
tification beyond a reasonable doubt. AS
he concluded the jury retired. After be-
ing out half an hour, the jurors return
ed and reported that they had found DR..
Crippen guilty. Crippen thereupon was
sentenced to death.