Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-09-06
BELLE ELMORE 5
BODY HELD DRUG
CRIPR'E!:N BOUGHT
London Police Theory Is That
Actress Was Poisoned
With Hyoscin.
TRIAL OF DOCTOR FOR
MURDER BEGUN TODAY
Girl Who Fled With Him Prose-
cuted as Accessory After
Fact Only.



today at the trial of DIR. Hawley H.
Crippen, who is charged with the mur-
der of his wife, Belle Elmore. the pros
ecution announced that large quanti-
ties of poison had been found IN the
woman's body and that there were
evidences that she had been subjected
to an operation.
Ethel Clara LeNeve. the doctors
typist, who accompanied him in his
flight to Canada after the disappear
ance of his wife. who has been held on
the same charge. also was brought to
the bar today, but the crown stated
that 1t had been decided to confine the
allegations against the girl to being an
accessory after the fact.
This relieves Miss lie Neve of any
foreknowledge of the crime, and is in
line with the belief OF her family and
friends that she did not share Grip
pens confidence up to the time that
his wife dropped out of sight and was,
said by him to have died in California.
Interest in the Crippen case, which
was intense during the search for the
doctor, has by no means worn out, as
was shown by the crowd which gath
cred in the vicinity of the Bow Street
Police Court when the trial was opened
today.
Travers Humphreys appeared for the
public prosecutors office, while Solici-
tor Arthur Newton represented Grip
pen Mr.. Humphreys made long
opening address, In which he revived
the case from the time that suspicion
was aroused against the husband by
the unsatisfactory explanation which
he offered for the disappearance of his
actress wife to his return to London
and the arraignment of the doctor and
Miss LIE Neve on the joint charge Ut
murder
Find Trnces of Poison.
In the course of his remarks the
prosecutor definitely stated that the
physicians who made the post-mortem
examination of the mutilated parts un-
earthed in the cellar of the Crippen
home In Hilldrop Crescent, Camden
road, N, had discovered the presence
of large quantities of hyoscin, color
less liquid poison. and also detected
evidences that an operation had been
performed.
It had been known that the authori-
ties had been working on the theory
that Belle Elmore, or, properly speak
hands of one having at least a rude
knowledge of surgery, and, further,
that she had been poisoned. The official
announcement of these alleged discov-
cries, however, have not been made be-
fore.
At the time of the arraignment of
the two prisoners on August 20 MIR.
Humphreys said that the governments
evidence against the typist pointed only
to her as being an accessory after the
fact Today he said that 1t had been
decided to thus limit the charge against
her Beth Crippen and his wife were
born in the United States. he at Cold
water, Mich, ana she in Brooklyn. Her
maiden name was Cora Belle Makoma-
ski. They were married in New Jer
sev and subsequently came here, where
Crippen was a patent medicine agent
and later engaged in the dental busi-
ness, Miss LeNeve was employed by
the doctor as a typist, and 1t Is al
legged that he became infatuated with
the girl.
The prosecutor went over the whole
story for the benefit of Sir Albert De
Rutzen, senior magistrate of the Bow
Street Court who was not present at
the last hearing.
Girl Was Crippen's Mistress.
Speaking of the relations between
Crinnen and his wife. DIR. Humphreys
sa;d that the affection apparently was
.so,, the surface, according to Crippen's
own statement as the result of Bellies
cutbursts of temper. The prosecutor
smoke of Mrs. Crippen as Belle, the
name used by Crippen when referring to
his wife. The two, the prosecutor con-
+inued. had occupied separate rooms
for four years. For at least three years
Miss LeNeve had been Crippen's mis-
t,ess which might account for the
-vife's anger. In January Miss LeNeve
was feeling her position In regard to
crippen acutely, and particularly so at
that time when she expressed consid-
erable jealousy of Mrs. Crippen.
IN a written statement made to In
snector Dew when the investigation
frst opened. Crippen said that Belle
was living in the protection of another
man when he married her in Jersey
citv. The doctor also spoke of Bruce
NnIler's alleged acquaintance with his
e wife while he was in America, and
freouent threats which Belle had made
n quit him and go with another man
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