New-York tribune., 1910-08-21
CR|PPEN GOES To LONDON
Accused Murderer and Miss Le-
neve Taken from Quebec.
DEW PLANNED SECRET EXIT
Put Prisoners Aboard in Mid
stream-Miss Leneve tainted
Due in London Saturday

Quebec. Aug. 2O.-Quebec bade fare
well this evening to DR.. Hawley Harvey
Crippen and Miss Ethel Clare Leneve.
At O'Clock they sailed for England on
board the White Star liner Megantic,
Saturday. By Saturday night they will
probably be lodged in London Jail to
await trial for the murder Of a woman
supposed to be Crippen's wife, Belle Ell
more.
An extraordinary accident occurred as
Crippen crossed the gangplank. 1t car
ried an omen that might we'll depress
him. Crippen came hurrying across the
plank, handcuffed. his hat pulled low
over his eyes and his chin buried in his
collar, trying, apparently, to dodge the
photographers. In his haste he ran
squarely into a rope that held the gang
way steady. The rope caught him under
the chin and jerked him backward, and
had not Dew, who was close behind.
caught him. Crippen would have fallen.
and possibly pitched between the two
vessels into the water The next instant
Dew had set him on his feet, and the
pair disappeared into the Megantlc.
Notwithstanding the fears of the Brit
ish police that DR.. Crippen might at
tempt suicide. the occurrence was too
palpably an accident for its nature to
be mistaken.
Miss Leneve, who had left the Jail with
every evidence of willingness, had to be
supported az she crossed the gangplank.
When she reached the deck of the Me-
gantic she tainted, and had to be car
ried to her cabin It was half an hour
before she revived. The girl never has
made a full recovery from her collapse
when arrested, although her condition
has caused her jailer no anxiety.
Sailed on Crowded Steamer.
Inspector Dew manag ged the departure
of the two prisoners in manner that
furnished fitting climax to their SEN
sationaI capture. The fruits of DeW's
deep thought during his twenty days of
solemn silence first became evident at 8
o'clock this morning, but the full beauty
of his scheme did rot appear in all its
elaboration until the hour of sailing.
The finishing touch to a twelve-hour
performance that more than once verged
on opera bouffe, came when the Scotland
Yard inspector climbed the gangplank.
and. with impassive countenance. en-
tered his name on the passenger list rs
"Silas ?. Doyle" This in spite of the
fact that Dew was probably the best
known man aboard, and that among his
nine hundred fellow passengers fully six
hundred had met him here in Quebec.
Consistently, he registered his assistant
Sergeant MITCHELL of Scotland Yard. as
M F. G. Johnston"
Mrs. Stone, one of the Wardresses
brought from London to look after Miss
Leneve, appeared on the passenger list
as Mary Byrne." and Miss Foster, her
companion as Miss Ogilvie.
If Dew's object had been the attain
ment of publicity he could not have
chosen a better ship than the Megantic
She took aboard here $50 members of
the Queens own" a crack Canadian
regiment. bound for England to join the
British army manpuvres. Several Ca
madam newspaper men and photogra-
crowds came from Montreal on the
Megantic this morning to see them off.
Secretly Took Pair from Jail.
After making secret arrangements to
board this steamer. Dew conducted his
prisoners with mystery that set the
city in an uproar and brought every re-
porter and photographer in Quebec upon
his heels He smuggled them from the
local Jail at o'clock with three hacks
and five provincial detectives to help
his own Scotland Yard force. Then. by
circuitous routes, he drove to the river
at Sillery, village only mile from the
1ail in a straight line, but measured
seven miles over the road he chose.
Before the three hacks had reached
the river the whole countryside was
aroused. and when a party of newspaper
men came in pursuit shortly afterWard
they had no trouble in following the
trail In an automobile they reached
Sillery in time to see the tug Queen
putting up the river with Dew on deck,
wearing a triumphant smile Thus the
British detectives escaped the photogra-
piers on shore. but the Megantic. on
her downward voyage from Montreal
was not due until noon, and the queen
had to lie off Cape Rouge for nearly
three hours until the liner arrived.
Put Aboard in Midstream.
Alert photographers-and they were
not wantine-had thus all the chance IN
the world to charter a tug in Quebec and
steam I'D the river. And they took It.
The Queen was overhauled just as the
Megantic hove In sight, and for the next
half hour there followed an exhibition
of marine manoeuvring that would have
delighted the heart of Captain Mahan-
the Queen trying TO reach the Megantlc
in such manner as to put the prisoners
aboard unobserved. the snapshotters on
the tug jockeying for place.
Finding his task impossible, Dew
finally had the Queen lashed to the
steamers side, and put Crippen and Miss
Ieneve aboard under a camera fire,
partly masked by the efforts of the two
prisoners to hide their faces. Crippen
dashed UP the gangplank with his felt
hat pulled low and his face hall buried
In his coat collar, while Miss Leneve had
her features effectually concealed by
heavy blue veil So anxious was the In
spector to foil the photographers that