The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-11-22

| WIFI Lub apparent NdAlihtoB luul CHAR |
acterized him throughout the trial, !
which, intact, has been noticeable !
from the moment of his arrest. He |
appeared rather nervous during the |
Judges summing up, which was !
strongly against him. AS Lord Alver- |
stone mercilessly portrayed his char |
scter as developed during the trial,
Crippen twirled his thumbs, crossed |
and recrossed his legs, and occasional !
| ly shifted his feet. However, as soon
as the charge had been concluded the
prisoner seemed to pull himself to-
gether. As the jury moved out Of the
room he appeared to be not quite sure
what to do with himself, and for a
moment he stood in the center Of The
dock with his elbows resting on the
railing and watched the men IN whose
hands his fate rested as they fled past
him.
During the halt-hour that the jury
was out the courtroom filled up and
when an officer returned with the eX-
| hibits in the case, for which the fore
man had asked, and inCimated that a
verdict had been reached, every foot
of space in the room was occupied.
The silence was broken by the
clerks formal question: Prisoner at
the bar, have you anything to gay why
sentence of the Court should not he
passed against your
For a fraction of a second Cripren
hesitated, then replied, betraying his
emotion by only the slightest autter
of the voice:
81 still protest my innocence
The Chief Justice then donned the
black cap that had rested near him
throughout the trial and pronounced
the sentence of death Addressing the
condemned man, Lord Alyerstone
said:
you have been convicted on evil
dence which can leave no doubt in the
mind of any reasonable man that you
cruelty murdered your wife and then
mutilated ner body. | advise you to
entertain no hope that you win escape
the consequence of your crime. I'M
plore you to make your peace with
Almighty Cod"
AS the Lord Chief Justice concluded
policeman stepped forward and in
the hush that had fallen over the court
room, led Crippen from the dock.
AS Lord Alyerstone pronounced the
sentence of death, the warders held
out their arms to support the prison
er. He ignored their proffered assist
ance and turning, walked firmly from
the room, stopping only once and then
for a briet moment to take a last
look at the courtroom within which he
had fought for his life.
cRIPPEN's CRIME AND
A WORLDWIDE SEARCH
The body of Belle Gilmore was dis
covered beneath the cement flooring
of her husbands home at 80 Hill Drop
Crescent, London, on July 18th. In
vestigation indicated that the crime
was attended with extraordinary bru-
tality and callousness. Scotland Yard
at once requested the police of both
continents to search for DR.. Crippen,
the husband of the missing woman.
DR.. Crippen disappeared on July 9th.
Belle Gilmore was last seen by her
friends on February I'd. 1t was COM
mon knowledge that she was disturbed
by the continued employment by her
husband OF Ethel Glare Leneve, a type
| writer, who disappeared on the same
day as DR.. Crippen.
o Miss Leneve had been in Dr. Grip
, pens employ for about ten years, and
when the subject of the wOmans dis
charge was made an issue, last .Janu-
airy, DR.. Crippen refused to grant his
. wife's demands.
j Early in February a letter signed
}. Belle Gilmore" was received by the
3 Vaudeville Artists Guild, declaring
= the writer had left for America on
business.
r Lies Told by Doctor.
Shortly after this an advertisement
d appeared in a London paper announc-
r. ing that Belle Gilmore had died in Los
Il Angeles. An investigation was begun
and this was found to be untrue.
T. When DR.. Crippen was confronted with
this he told a plausible story of his
wifes death in San Francisco, where,
- he said, she had eloped, Not until he
failed to produce a mortuary urn con-
tanning her ashes did he admit to the
= detectives that this too, was untrue.
The doctor had SAID previously that
he had received the urn from San
Francisco. When challenged by the
detectives, he said he had concocted
the cremation story because he did
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