The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-19
GRIFFIN WIFE MURDER MOST
 BRUTAL CRIME Arrest of Suspect Early Today Gave False Hope That Slayer
 Was Captured Large Force of Men Dragging Pond For Other Portions of
 Woman's Body

London, July 19-More details of the methods used by Dr. H. H. Crippen in murdering his wife. Belle Fillmore the American actress, are coming to light and operatives from Scotland Yard declare the crime one of the most brut- al in English criminals annals. A large force of men with grappling
 hooks today began dragging Hoyt's Pond for other portions of the woman $ body Some of the detectives however believe that Crippen deposited the bones in vat of sulphuric acid. The fiendish intelligence with which the crime was committed and the proof of murder wiped out stamps the miss ing physician as an abnormaIly acute criminal the police say. They point out that Crippen's initial stories of his wife's hurried trip to America and her subsequent death
 there were well told. But even after
 his flight and the finding of the hu-
 man flesh in the basement of his Hill Drop Crescent home it was discovered that Dr. Crippen had so thoroughly
 hidden the traces of his crime and the
 identity of the victim that considerable
 doubt existed as to whether he could
 be convicted if captured.
 In the cellar the police found large
 chunks of human flesh. piecss of a
 pajama coat. a handkerchief and other
 pieces of cloth. The experts have been
 able, by niscroscpoe tests to ascertain definitely that the flesh came from a human body. But no head. hands or feet have been located. Not single bone was found in the cellar. The flesh had been pared away from the skel- eton as though by a skilled worker.
 No portion of the flesh was large enough for the physicians to determine whether the victim was a man or a woman.
 The arrest of a man early today at Canterbury gave the detectives hope taht the murderer had been captured but it later developed that the man was not Crippen, though answering his are still looking to America to appre- hend the missing doctor-dentist, be- lieving that he is on board a liner bound for some port in the United States.
 The police authorities today offered apprehension of Dr. Crippen. Accord ing to the statement accompanying the offer of the reward Dr. Crippen left his office at 1 o'clock on the afternoon of July 9 and since that time no trace of him has been found.
 East Chicago, H., July 19-Defending the character of Mrs. Hawley Crippen. the actress known as Belle Fillmore, whose dismembSred body was found in the basement of her London home where the police say she was murdered by her husband, Bruce Miller, a for mer actor now engaged in the real es- tate business here. gave a statement to the United Press today. Miller's name was mentioned at the London inquest yesterday when @ police fn- epector testified that when Crippen hi xxyifn n,c . whereabouts before her body was found, he said:
 "She threatened to e1ope with Bruce Miller of Chicago. and I suppose she has done so.''
 "Crippen was not Justified in making such a statement said Miller today. q suppose my name was the first one which came into his mind and that in his desperation he told that lie to shield himself l was in Europe from 1898 to 1904 on the vaudeville stage, and knew the Crippens quite well. I was at their house several times but my friendship for Mrs. Crippen was of a purely platonic nature. pr. Crippen never had any cause for jeal- ousy and I am sure did not feel any toward me.
 Mrs. Crippen's character was above I met her through an in troduction by a mutual friend. I was invited to her home and there met pr. Crippen. They were very cordial to me and Ihad dinner with them a number of times. I left England in 1904 and have not seen either of them since.
 ''As to my planning to elope with Mrs. Crippen it is ridiculous I have been married for 9 years and my wife is the only woman I love-
 Mrs. Miller was equally positive in her denial of Crippen's charge. "I know al about my husbands acquaint- ance with the Crippens." she said. "and I assure you that there was nothing to be ashamed of concerned with it'