The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-23
CRIPPEN HANGED


 with great solemnity. The priest spent with him.
 The little American talked with great earnestness and though his approach ing death appeared to be constantly on his mind, he did not seem to brood over it. Rather. he seemed to accept 1t as foregone conclusion. Up to the last he was not told of the death of his father, in Los Angeles, last Fri day. and went to his death ignorant of the fact that his aged parent griev- ed himself into the grave.
 Crlppen spent the early morning, un- til he prepared for the march to the gallows. conversing with Father Carey. He professed preparation for death and his confidence in his own hereafter. Miss Leneve, according to Father Carey, was constantly on the doomed mans mind, and he constantly inter rupted other topics of conversation to express solicitude for his companion in his flight across the seas.
 Breakfast was offered Crippen at z o'clock, but he refused to touch a morsel of food and sent the meal from his cell, declaring he had no appetite and wished to spend his few remaining hours with his spiritual adviser.
 Shortly before g o'clock the gover- nor Of the jail appeared and notified Crippen to prepare for the march to the gallows. The governor of the jail had left Crippen and gone to the jail yard, where he stood at the side of the gallows.
 The governor. the sheriff. the prison physician. two wardens and two of- fcial reporters were alone present when the mournful little procession, on it's way to the gallows, appeared from the condemned cell, few yards distance. It consisted of Crippen. his arms pin toned to his side, and his shirt collar open, ready for the moose. At his side were two other wardens, to support him if he became weak and needed as- sistance. Before them walked Father Carey. intoning the prayers for the dying. Behind them came John Ellis. assistant executioner, who took the place of William Pierpont, the official executioner. in dropping the doomed man to death.
 No time was lost. As Crippen step- ped from the warm cell to the prison yard. he shivered slightly, as though he was faint. The wardens seized his arms, expecting him to fall, but he shook them off with a wan smile. and explained that the thinness of his at tire caused him to become chilled in the morning air. He showed absolute ly no fear as he marched. with firm step across the narrow. fog shrouded prison yard, and mounted the steps to the gallows. He was led quickly over the trap door and Ellis adjusted the moose with the knot directly behind the left ear. A black woolen cap was then pulled down over Crippen's head During all this time the American said not a word
 As the great clock in the prison boomed out the hour of g, the Gov ernor raised his hand and let it fall again. It was the death signal. FL lis nervously thrust the lever from him, and the trap fell Crippen was a light man, but the seven foot drop neck There were a few eonvulsive jerks, and the American had paid the penalty for one of the most brutal crimes in modern criminal annals.
 Outside the jail morbid crowd had gathered and groans, misses, even a which was hofsted according to cus- tom, at the moment Crippen was of ficially pronounced dead Later a warden posted, on a notice board on the dead wall of the prison, the of ficial document ordering the hanging, the sher:ff's certificate that it had taken place, according to law, and the physicians certificate of death.
 As is usual in such cases. the corpse will be buried in Quick-line under g within the prison grounds
 Now that Crippen is dead there is mystery in London as t, the alleged t'confession.'' published ir Despite the denia1s of all interested parties, the Times persists that the confession is legitimate. According to the paper, Crippen confessed his guilt to a friend, before he was executed This friend, unable to hold the secret <-s-- The 'confession'' is not in the first person, as having been written or die tated by Crippen himself, but in the third person, as having been written by the man to whom Crippen made 1t.
 The confession relates the unhap- piness of Crippen's married life, due to the alleged unfaithfulness of his wife, 'her Jealousy, her slatternliness her tantrums and her drunkenness"
 These things, Crippen's friend says he confessed, drove Crippen to the point of desperation and he determin- ed to kill her. This determination was not the. result of a sudden passion, during which Crippen made his plans with fiendish carefulness as to detail.
 Crippen, according to the statement. hyoScin, one of the deaIeSt known drugs. under the pretense that he was to use it. in minute quantities upon nervous patients. He began inn digestive tablets, which his wife was taking. with the poison, and a administered doses to her on January 31 and February 1st, of this year. The second tablet given her, on February 1. caused her to fall into a stupor, which was relieved by death, an hour later.
 Death. therefore, is established as occurring on February 1. Crippen left the body in their bedroom until the next day. and on the evening of the second, he began his preparation to