Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-08-03
TOLD ALL SHE KNOWS
Ethel lie Neve, DR.. Crippen's Companion.
Talks To Dew-Detective Saws She
Is Shielding Crippen

Is Shielding Crippen
Ethel Clara lie Neve may be limo
cent of any share in the murder of
Belle Elmore She has told me her
simple story and it is sufficient to
clear her of any guilt if certain facts
which she sets forth are established.
| am in communication with Scotland
Yard now, and detectives in England
are working to prove her story
This statement was made yesterday
at Quebec by Inspector Dew. The
girl, who fled across the ocean dress
ed as a boy, had at last given way
under the tremendous pressure
brought to bear upon her by the
police and by her mother and father.
She is doing all she can to
shield Crippen, however, added Mr..
Dew, "and constantly in her dis
cussion of the case she repeats her
belief that he is Innocent We know
better.
The authorities under the direction of
Inspector Dew, have done their ut
most to keep the girl secluded since
she landed early Monday morning
from the Montrose. She has been
moved about from the Parliament
House prison to the Jeffrey Hale
Hospital and TO the home of Chief Nc
Carthy, of the Quebec provincial po-
lice at st. Sauvier. After a sleep
less night she appeared yesterday to
be on the verge of collapse. Her
face is drawn, there are deep circles
under her eyes, there is but slight
color in her cheeks.
Her condition is the opposite to that
of Crippen. The accused man gave
evidence of having regained his spirit.
He ate hearty breakfast and even
attempted to jest with the guards
who kept him in their gaze every
moment of the day and night I'm
glad you're here; misery loves com
pany," he said with an attempt at a
smile this morning when he awoke to
see the keepers just beyond the bars
of his cell.
He appears to feel but light con
| Germ over his position, to Judge SUI
perfcially, but those who watch him
4
ance to the fact that he has reduced
himself to a state of nervelessness.
1t was reported in Quebec yesterday
that this apathy was the result OF
| drugs. The allegation that crippen
was a drug fiend, made in London,
while he was still fugitive, was re-
called The prison authorities when
| questioned refused to take notice of
| the statement.
The arrival of Mrs. Robert Mills,
of Newport, r. l., half sister of Belle
Elmore, was declared yesterday to be
the matter of few hours. Mrs.
Mills is prepared to testify, if neces-
sarY, in the proceedings preliminary
to the return of Crippen, and she will
also take the stand at the London
| trial, il is understood.
When the case continued from Mon
day comes up on August several
dispositions will probably be intro
duced, according to an admission made
yesterday by Deputy Attorney Gen
eral Lancelot. One of these will prob
ably be that of Mrs. emmett. IL is
likely that the story will not be told
in full until the London trial opens.
Inspector Dew went to Crippen' s
cell yesterday morning, the guards
were waved back, and for time the
| British detective talked earnestly in
low voice with the prisoner. Grip
pen seemed to take part in the talk,
answering in monosyllables for the
| most part. Dew, according tC the
prison officers, was laying before him
the facts he had wrung from Ethel
LIE Neve in the mild form of third de-
gree permitted by the authorities.
Crippen generally maintains the
attitude displayed when on shipboard,
conversing freely on all topics save
those that touch himself in any way
Yesterday, when asked what he
thought when he saw Mrs. Fred
emmett Monday he turned away with
a blanched face. This sudden ap-
pearance of the woman who started
the investigation into the death of
Belle Elmore, her dearest friend. has
had a stronger effect on Crippen than
did the appearance of Dew at Father
Point.
Crippen' S cell, to which the ordi-
nary wooden bench has been replaced
by an iron cot, was brighter yester-
day. About it were several punches
of flowers. These were sent to the
alleged murderer by a woman. Books
/ and magazines poured into the prison
in such quantities that the cell looked
like circulating library.
Ethel lie Neve sent a cable message
to her parents in England yesterday.
In it she said that she had told all
she knew of the Crippen tragedy.