The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-09-09
CRIPPEN CASE
IS F&,,!eSIIMfD
DEFENSE GIVES INK u. OF ITS
PLAN OF eAr1%
CLAIM 1T WAS ANoTHER's BODY

Friend Of Dead Belle Gilmore Testifies
to Hair and Clothing Found on Dead
Woman in CeIlar-Crippen Given a
Chance to Whisper to Leneve Girl.
London, Sept, Sat the resump-
ton today of the trial of Dr. Hawley
II. Crippen and Ethel Claire Leneve
for the murder of the formers wife.
Public Prosecutor Humphreys intro
duced evidence to establish the claim
| of the crown that the parts of the
| mutilated body found in the Crippen
home once formed a part of the per-
son of Belle Gilmore, the missing wife,
and to strengthen what has been pop
| ularly regarded as the missing link in
| the chain of circumstantial evidence
against the accused.
The first witness called was Mrs.
Adeline Harrison, whose acquaintance
with Belle Gilmore had extended over
q period of twelve years. Mrs. Har-
rison was asked to examine strands
of hair found when the dismembered
| body was uncovered and, having done
| so, she swore that she recognized the
| exhibit as similar to that worn by
| Belle Elmore.
A torn bit of feminine underwear
also discovered by the searchers in
the cellar was next introduced and the
witness declared that she had seen
Belle Gilmore clothed in undergar-
| had been offered before, showing that
| the lower part of the body bore a scar,
| the result of an operation. Mrs. Har-
rison testified she had seen a similar
scar on the body of her friend.
crppen Whispers to Leneve Girl.
The accused were seated in the dock
within whispering distance and the
doctor was given the opportunity to
speak to the girl Miss Leneve pre-
scented woebegone appearance and
did not seem anxious to converse.
| Crippen, to whom his spectacles had
| been returned for the first time since
| his arrest, appeared as the Crippen of
| early photographs. He spoke to the
| girl anXiously and she replied in mono
| syllables.
In his cross-eXamination OF Mrs.
Harrison, Arthur Newton representing
| Crippen, detracted somewhat from the
strength of the evidence and inciden-
| tally indicated what is believed to be
the line of defense.
| In reply to Newton's question the
witness assented to the suggestion
that the hair, the portion of woman's
vest and the curling iron found in the
Crippen cellar were not only similar
to those worn or used by the missing
woman, but also "resembled thou
sands of Others"
| When Mrs. Harrison left the stand,
the prosecution called the chemist
who claims that he sold hyoscine, a
deadly poison, to Crippen. The wit
ness testified that the doctor pur-
chased the drug on January l saying
that he required the poison for homeo-
pathic use. AS is required of purchas-
ers of poisons, he signed the registry
book of the store, making this inscrip-
ton:
MUNYON'S per Crippen."
Inspector Dew, who arrested the fu-
| gitives and brought them back from
Quebec, re-entered the witness box to.
day and read lengthy statement
signed by Crippen when the police
first asked him to make an explana-
ton of his disappearance from London
after suspicion had been directed
against him. The gist of the state
ment had already been covered by
Humphreys in his opening address.
Inspector Dew also testified regard
ing the search of Crippen's house and
told of finding there a revolver and a
box of cartridges.