The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-11-23

Despite the denials of all interested
parties, the Times insists that the con
fession is legitimate. According TO
the paper, Crippen confessed his guilt
TO a friend before he was executed.
This friend. unable TO hold the secret
longer. had given il TO the Times.
The confession" is not in the first
person, as having been written or die
tated by Crippen himself, but in the
third person. as having been written
by the man TO whom Crippen made II.
Murder Was cold-6ooded.
The confession" relates the unhap-
piness Of Crippens married life. due
10 the alleged unfaithfulness OF his
wife, Her jealousy. her slatternli-
ness. her tantrums and her drunken
ness
These things. Crippen's friend says
he confessed. drove him to- the point
of desperation and he determined TO
kill her. This determination was not
the result of a sudden passion, but of
cold-blooded. due elaboration, dur
ing which Crippen made his plans
with fiendish carefulness as 10 detail.
Crippen. according TO the state
1.
deadliest OF drugs, under the pretense
that he was TO use 1t, in minute guam
titles, upon nervous patients. He be-
gan impregnating digestive tablets
which his wife was taking, with the
poison. and administered doses to her
on Jan. 81. and Feb |, of this year.
The second tablet given her on Feb.
|. caused her TO fall into a stupor.
which was relieved by death an hour
later
Death. therefore. is established as &C.
curing on Feb. / Crippen left the
body in their bedroom until the next
day, and on the evening of the second
he began his preparations 10 remove
all traces Of his crime. so that he
might send out his already prepared
story that his wife had fled TO Amer
lea.
Crippen was n skillful anatomlst,
and with his surgeons instrument he
began dissecting the woman's body
into small pieces, which he burned in
the kitchen stove.
The ashman. the Confession con-
tinues, came near discovering the
crime. for he removed the ashes from
the stove before the obliteration of the
flesh was completed. Crippen was
greatly alarmed that the man would
find the human flesh in the ashes, but
was relieved to know that the mans
suspicious had not been aroused
Before he had had time to destroy
the whole body in the stove, Crippen
began TO fear the neighbors would
notice the increasing odor. He was
also overcome with belated horror
at his own crime and was unable TO
go on with the bloody dissection of
the corpse
Accordingly he resorted to burial.
selecting the brick paved cellar of
their home as an ideal spot for dis
posing of the remains.
After he had thus inferred what
was left OF the body. Crippen declared
he threw Ills bloody dissecting knife
into the dooryard OF an adjoining va
cant house Traces of the crime hav-
ing thus been obliterated Crippen
spread the story that his wife had
gone TO America and died
There seems TO be no way either
proving or disproving this Comics
sion" Certain IL is that IL Crippen did
confess. he did so before he was
placed behind the bars OF the English
Jail. After he had been imprisoned
Crippen was not allowed to talk to
anyone save in the presence OF two
warders. who sat between the prisoner
and his interviewer and overheard
every word that passed between
them. Had Crippen confessed in jail,