The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-16
FIRST POSITIVE TESTIMONY
 IN DR. GRIFFIN MURDER CASE
 THAT POISON CAUSED DEATH
Especial from United Press)

Especial from United Press.)
 London, Sept. 16-"The person be- Iieved to have been Mrs. Belle FL more Crippen met death through the administration of a dose of hyoscin. This dose while somewhat more than the amount required to produce death was near enough to the exact amount required for fatal results to indicate expert judgment in preparing the dose.'t
 This was the testimony today of pr. office, and was the first definite state ment of the cause of death~@ yet brought out at the hearing of Dr. H. H. Crippen, supposed wife murderer
 Under question from Travers Hum phreys, representing the Crown, Will cox said the poison, was administered ton and that the amount taken bare ly exceeded half a grain
 "I do not, findZany other cause of death except this poison" Wilcox then said. T am satisfied that death fol- lowed within an hour of the adminis- tering of the poison
 willcox examined five jars of the re-
 mains of the body found under the cellar floor of pr. Crippen's home, in which he discovered approximateiy 2-7 of a grain of hyoscin- The whole clared, undoubtedly exceeded half a grain.
 Two more of the governments wit nesses admitted on the stand today definitely the sex of the body sup posed to be that of Belle Fillmore
 Dr. w. H. Wilcox, testified that the character and position of the organs submitted to him proved that they were from a human body and that probably the body was that of
 B. H. Salisbury, one of the leading pathologists of London, would not go even this far, frankly admitting that he was unable to determine the sex from a microscopical study of the remains. .,
 The testimony of these experts was considered another big boost for the defense of Crippen and taken in con nection with the collapse of the tes- ti1nony of Dr. Pepper on last Wednes- governments inability to prove to the satisfaction of any jury that the body found in the cellar of Dr. Crippen's home n thw was that at t5 Of boST oman ia So hard to determine, how can the prosecu- ton hope to prove the far more diff ficult proposition that it was that or Crippen's wife, is the question that is being asked by th9usands of per sons who are following the develop ments in the case with more eager ness than ever before shown Tn a London murder mystery.
 The effort of the prosecution to prove that the scar found on the re- mains was similar to a scar on Mrs. Crippen is meeting with constant ob- stacles. Dr. Salisbury said today that the mark in question was undoubtedly scar but that the white line char acteristic of most scars was unoe- servable, probably due to the fact that the remains were badly decayed. Abdominal operations such as would have produced this scar, Spnsbury4 said, were common to both sexes. In his opinion the scar had been stretch ed.
 Dr. wilcox said he had made careful examination of five jars or the remains, and that, while he believed them those of a woman, he could not swear to this.
 Crippen and Miss Ethel Clare Le- neve. who is accused of being an ac- of Mrs. Crippen, plainly showed their satisfaction at the testimony of SpdIs- bury and Wilcox. Crippen was even more buoyant than on Wednesday,. ana Miss Leneve seemed to have rid her self of the fearful depression that she | in her previous appear ance.
 The prisoners sat close together but 1 were not allowed to converse.
 Wilcox testified that he analysed specimens of the soil where the body | was found and also the carbo1ic pow fer and sanitary fluid used by the norgue keeper on the remains. He applied the recognized tests for prus1c acid. arsenic and mineral poisons but ,ound nothing but arsenic and hyos- ein. The presence of arsenic, he said. was due to the carbolic pow fer used, as it contained arsenic.
 Wilcox made another point in favor # the defense when he said it was to determine how long the ,ody had lain under the cellar noor |