Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-23
DR.. CRIPPEN WILL
Be HANGED NOV. IS
Dentist Sentenced to Death for
Murder of Wife; Jury Out
Thirty Minutes
TYPISTS TRIAL OCTOBER 26
Calmly Hears the BIaCk-Capped
Judge Pronounce Doom and
Protests Innocence
Associated Pressl

ASSOCIATED Press)
LONDON, Oct. 22.--Dr. Hawley H.
Crippen, after trial extending over
five days, was today found guilty OF
the murder of his wife, an American
woman, known on the stage as Belle
Elmore. Lord Chief Justice Alverstone.
who presided at the trial, sentenced
Crippen to be hanged on November 10.
There is, however, the strongest pref
udice in England against executing a
man on purely circumstantial evidence,
and an incident at the close OF Grip
penis trial has caused the impression
that the jury may have recommended
a life sentence.
After Crippen was sentenced the
foreman OF the jury handed to the
Lord Chief Justice a note. After look
ing at the note, the justice said:
"That shall be forwarded to the prop
er quarter"
The proper quarter might mean
the Home Secretary, who has jurisdic-
ton to recommend communication or
the sentence to the king.
The jurors refused to discuss the
incident. A large crowd awaited the
departure of Crippen from New Bailey.
There were a few "boos' as he drove
away to the Pentonville prison, but no
other demonstration.
The jury was out thirty minutes.
When it returned and announced that
1t had found the defendant guilty Lord
Chief Justice AlVerstone asked the ply
sician IL he had anything to say. Grip
nor, ran1tA6 in q 1OyVF 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 Alverstone 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 her body.
81 advise you to entertain no hope
that you will escape the consequences
of your crime. 1 implore you to make
your peace with Almighty Cod
AS the lord chief justice concluded
g. policeman Ste ped forward and, In
the hush that had fallen over the couri
room, led Crippen from the dock.
The trial of Ethel Claire Leneve as
an accessory after the fact in the muir
der of Mrs crippen win be begun next
Tuesday.
WILL HANG NOVEMBER is
Tt was announced late today that
C,rippen would be hanged November 10
IT is the rule in England to allow
three Sundays to intervene between
sentence of death and the execution.
The trial lasted less than five days
having been begun at 10:30 O'Clock last
Tuesday morning.
The Jury retired at 2:17 o'clock this
afternoon and returned With the YER
dict at 2:47 o'clock.
Crippen received the death sentences
with the apparent calmness that char
acterized him throughout the trial
which, in fact. 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 charac-
ter as developed during the trial, Grip.
pen twirled his thumbs, crossed ano
re-crossed his legs, and occasionally
shuffled his feet. However, as soon as
the charge had been concluded tht
prisoner seemed to pull himself to
gether. AS the jury moved out of tht
room, he appeared to be not quite
sure what to do with himself and fol
a moment he stood in the center oi
the dock with his elbows resting on the
railing and watched the men in whose
hands his fate rested file past him.
JURY OUT HALF HOUR
During the half hour that the jury
was out, the court room filed up anC
when an officer returned with the ex-
hibits in the case for which the fore
man had asked and intimated that g
verdict had been reached, every foot
of space in the room was occupied
There was a buzz of conversation
spectators being convinced from the
early return of the jurors that Cripper
had been found guilty.
There was little delay after the Judge
and jury had again taken their seats
in the open court before the prisoner
mounted the stairs and confronted the
Jurors. He walked between two ward
ers to his seat. He was paler than us
ual.
When the verdict was announced, he
did not finch and was in no need OF
the protecting arm which wardel
held out toward him. The silence was
broken by the clerks formal ques-
ton:
Prisoner at the bar, have you any
thing to say why sentence of the court
should not be passed against you?"
For a fraction of a second Cripper
hesitated; then he replied, betraying
his emotion by only the slightest fiut-
ter of the voice:
81 still protest my innocence"
Lord Alverstone pronounced the SEN
tence of death, and the warders agar
held out their arms to support the pris-
oner. He ignored their proffered as
sistance, and, turning, walked firmly
from the room, stopping only once anC
then for a brief moment to take last
look at the court room within which ht
had fought for his life.
CASE SUMMED UP
The case was given to the jury at 2:1'
o'clock, and its deliberations were brief
The jury was out just thirty minutes
When court convened today Richard
Muir made the closing speech for the
prosecution. He declared the crown
had proved beyond a reasonable doub
that the body found in the cellar of the
Crippen home was that of the doctor:
wife. No one else, he said, had chance
to murder the woman and bury th'
body as Twas found.
Lord Chief Justice Alverstone at once
began his summing up OF the case. TIL,
Justice described Crippen as an extra
ordinary man, who was either guilty o.
Innocent If guilty, he had covered III
a chastity crime in a CHASTITY way, and
II was believed, in a most brutal anC
callous manner. If heswas innocent, 1
was impossible to fathom his mind, a!
he was absolutely Indifferent to th'
charge OF murder He had taken M
step whatever to prove his innocence.
Crippen, the justice declared, un
s,h+adI,r xxae q liar and lived an i'm