Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-15
CR|PPEN AND GIRL
NOT ON LUS|TAN|A
No Trace of Fugitives Found
When Incoming Ship
Is Searched.
NEIGHB0R OF PHYSICIAN
HEARD CRIES OF WOMAN
Sounds of Distress From Cellar o.
CURED Months Ago.
ACTRESS ACCOUNTS STRAIGHT

music Hall ARTISTS Guild Clears
Treasurer's Record - Leneve
Girl Told Mother She Was
Married. -.
NEW YORK, July 15.-The first Of
the big liners on which II was thought
DR.. Hawley Harvey Crippen might
reach here from England. whose police
have requested his arrest. passed up
the harbor early today after having
undergone a search at quarantine
which failed to reveal any sign Of the
American physician whose wife was
found murdered in his London home.
The steamer was the Lusitania, which
left England Saturday.
Supposed to Be Aboard Ship.
DR.. Crippen was supposed to have
| taken passage for this country in COM
pany with a young woman named Ethel
Clare Leneve, formerly the physicians
stenographer.
The steamer st. Paul. due from Liver
pool Sunday. and all other steamers
from English ports reaching here with
| in the next week will be watched by
the New York police. The German
liners which touch at an English port
will be searched by the Hoboken police
on their landing in that city. No ave-
nue. of entrance to this country will be
neglected in an effort to apprehend the
| fugitive.
Trenton Suicide Like Crippen.
| On notification from the police OF Tren-
ton. n. j.. a New York headquarters de-
tective was dispatched to Trenton today
| to examine the body OF an unidentified
man who shot himself in that city yes
| terday in base ball park.
The man resembled DIR. Crippen I'm many
particulars, being about the physicians
age and stature and wearing short mus
tache which appeared to have been re-
Gently trimmed. Crippen had a long
mustache Of dark brown when he left
| London.
Neighbor Heard Woman's Cries
4 ONDON, July 1o-lHe IfSt stOTy -
what may have been the actual COM
initial of the crime was told today by a
neighbor of DIR. Hawley II. Crippen. in
the cellar of whose home was unearthed
the body believed by the police to be that
Of the physicians wife, who was known
on the stage as Belle Elmore.
Since the discovery Of the body and tho
disappearance of DR.. Crippen and his
/
Scotland Yard detectives have inquired
diligently among those living in the vi
cinity Of the Crippen home in Hilldrop
Crescent. North London, for some infor-
nation that would throw light upon the
domestic habits and relations of the
American physician and his actress wife.
| Nothing helpful was learned until today,
when the proprietoress OF a small shop
told of hearing a woman's screams and
pleas for mercy arising seemingly from
the cellar in which the burned and mutt
lated corpse was found.
Disappeared in February.
Mrs Crippen disappeared in February
last. 1t was four or nve months ago
said. Her shop overlooks a little garden
back of the Crippen home.
| II had often heard revolver practice In
the garden the shopkeeper said to the
police.
"One night about four or five months
ago. l cannon place the time more exact
| ly, / was awakened by a woman's cries.
1t was midnight.
The screams appeared to come from
| DIR. Crippen's house. / listened and heard
a womah's voice pleading: Don't, Oh.
don't" To me it seemed the cries were
| from a woman I'm the basement of the
house occupied by DIR. and Mrs. Crippen.
LAS nothing developed further L soon
4 l
it until yesterday, when 1 learned Of the
| tragic discovery"
The Music Hall Artists Guild issued an
official statement today. declaring that all
| was treasurer of the guild. are found to
| be in perfect order and that none of the
funds Of the organization are missing.
Bright, Bonnie, Beautiful"
Miss May. secretary OF the guild, de-
scribes Mrs. Crippen as bright. bonnie
and beautiful"
I'VE thought it strange" says Miss
May, that February 2S shortly after
we had received a letter purportins to
| come from Belle, saying that she had
gone to America, DR.. Crippen appeared
| at the annual dinner of the Music Hall
Railway Association with a typist. who
| was showily dressed.
| "Our members were startled to see that
| she was wearing a handsome sealskfn
| coat similar to one which had been worn
by Mrs Crippen. She had also a beauti-
full brooch exactly like a piece OF Mrs.
| Crippens tewelry.
| The typist sat at Mr.. Crippen's right
hand during the dinner, and he afterward
danced with her. Ii was given out that
| she was his wife"
While the police authorities were ex-
| hausting their resources today to lay
| hands upon DR.. Crippen. physicians were
examining the mutilated body of his wife.
with a view to determining the manner In
which the murder was done.
The finding I'm the cellar OF revolver
gave rise this afternoon to the report that
| the vaudeville artist had been shot before
| the body was battered into unrecog-
| nizabIe mass and buried in auicklime in
| the cellar of ths Crippen home at Hilldrop
| Crescent North London. Ii also was re-
ported that traces OF poison had been
found.
The physicians will present their theories
as to the cause of death at an inquest to
be held tomorrow.
Little Left Of Body.
Prof Pepper has not issued q report OF
his examination of the remains found In
the Crippen home, but 1t is gathered that