Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-30
DEW ARRIVES NOW
Supposed Murderer Ignorant Of Net
.... Drawn About Him.
He WAS SUSPECTED AT ONCE
Claims to Be Taking Disguised Girl
to California.
FIVE HUNDRED MILES AWAY
Scotland Yard Detective VIII Try to
Identify Couple when Vessel
Reaches Father POInt-Oa-
madam Police Active.

=
MONTREAL, July 2s.-The Montreal Star
prints the following message which It states
it received from Captain kendan, of the
Montrose:
Steamship Montrose. July 2s.-To tho
Editor of the Montreal Star: DIR Crippen
and Miss Leneve, 1 am confident. are on
board. He is stil shaving his mustache
growth and he is growing a beard.
''Dr Crippen has suspicion that hls
Identity is suspicloned. The other passens
gers are also ignorant OF ms iuenuty. Mass
Leneve refrains from talking The pair have
no baggage.
They cannot be parted and are very re-
tcent DR.. Crippen has stated that he has
travelled much He puts in much Of his
time reading books. He is very sleepless at
nights.
IL first suspected the Identity Of the cou-
pie two hours after leaving Antwerp when
1 got the first clue.
"Dr, Crippen says with regard to his
companion who is disguised as boy that
he is taking him to California The boy
says the doctor. is in bad health. They
spend much time together in their room.
Ordinarily they are bright and cheerful,
but at times both show signs OF decided
WHY ACIs 1IlPpoH uo n
chant. The woman disguised as a boy is
booked as a student.
''This is the first account given to any
| newspaper.
| (Signed) KENDALL, Commander"
Vessel Passes Belle Isle.
FATHER POINT. Quebec, July 9.-ThS
Canadian Pacific steamer Montrose, carry
| among its passengers two persons believed
by Captain Kendall to be Dr. Hawley II.
Crippen and his typist Ethel Clara Lee
neve, steamed through the strait OF Belle
] Isle this morning.
This places the vessel, about whose ar
rival the greatest interest centers, some
500 miles east OF Father Point. 1t iH -ex-
pectcd to take on q pilot here Sunday
morning.
Early today thirty-two-mile wind swept
away the fog that had covered the broad
mouth Of the st. Lawrence river since last
evening and the Mohtrose win not experi-
ence delay unless the weather predictions
for the. next forty-eight hours fail.
The White Star liner Laurentic, aboard
which is Chief Inspector Dew of Scotland
Yard, had already entered the St. Law
renee, and. under favorable conditions.
should pass this point between 8 o'clock
and o'clock this afternoon. At $50 q. m.
today It was $50 miles east OF here. The
purpose Of Scotland Yard has been ao-
complished in that Inspector Dew, travel
ing on faster steamer, has outstripped
the suspects and he will be in q position to
make his attempt at Identification when
the John Robinson and the John Robinson
, jr of the Montrose passenger list arrive
Ut Canadian port.
, The provincial police understand that
Dew willsland here and walt for the Mont
lrOga. qnI l.
OF doubt to those hero. He may board
the Montrose and continue to Quebec. II
Is believed that his plans have been worked
out with the minutest detail and that there
can be no hitch
Police VIII Make Arrest.
Chief Mccarthy of the Quebec provincial
police Will make the arrest of DR.. Crippen
II he should prove to be on board the
Montrose. The chief received word today
/ that arrangements had been made betweeu
1 Scotland Yard and the dominion kovern.
/ ment whereby Inspector Dew would be per.
: mitted to land here under a special order
q suspendtng the quarantine regulations and
: the Quebec police are prepared to cooper.
aye with the Scotland Yard man In what.
( ever course the latter may saopt.
n The liner Sandman. which was first ar
: roneously reported to have the suspects on
board, passed here early today. It's captain
d already had sent wireless message statins
!, that no one answering the description ot
II DR.. Crippen was aboard
The Sandman, however. helped materially
= In the early stages of the Transatlantic pur.
4 suit, 1t was this vessel that picked IN tbs
n stray wireless from the Montrose ana "a
; layed to the European coast the word tha,
Il two persons believed to be CrIppen and
# Miss Leneve were aboard the Montrose.
/ Plans of InsDectOr Dew.
e. The plans or the police are based, o.
course, upon the assumption that Crlpper
II and his accomplice are aboard the Mon
q trose. This fact has not been absolutei,
a established from the police standpoint
Nevertheless the frequent wireless mes
- sages which have been received since m,
Montrose got into touch with this side o
the Atlantic tend to confirm the belief tha
Captain Kendall is correct in the matter q
Identification.
These messages are in varying degrees O
y positiveness, some making the expliel
statement that Crlppen is aboard IN
steamer, others reterating the fact tina
the suspected parties are aboard The mes
or sages have definitely established that NJ
er actual arrests have been made thus far
II was Dew who interviewed Crippen I,
On London and he knows the man well. II wa
es Dew. also to whom Scotland Yard saw
s. Crippens promise was given that he woul,
le not leave London until the mystery sur
III rounding the Disappearance OF his actres
81 wife, Belle Gilmore. was cleared I'D.
he A personal element enters into the kea,
OO activity OF Inspector Dew as he has bee,
er sharply criticised by the press and public 1,
1g London and by some members OF ParIia
bt ment for not arresting Crppen al the tim
he suspicion was first strongly directed agains
rs him.
w ------