The San Francisco call., 1910-11-23
SCAFFOLD READY
TO Hang CRIPPEN
Wife Slayer Will Be Executed
This Morning and Buried
in Quicklime

! LONDON, Nov. 22.-AlI preparations
have been made for the hanging of DR..
Hawley H Crippen tomorrow morning
at s o'clock within the gloomy walls of
Pentonville prison, which stands in one
of the most dismal locations of London.
1t is probable the execution will take
place between and 3 o'clock.
Public Executor Ellis of Rochdale,
who hanged wife murderer at Liver
pool this morning arrived in London on
the evening train. The scaffold was
erected today. A few tenements over
look the prison yard. and to bar the
tenants from glimpse of the tragedy a
big canvass cover has been psf up over
the gallows.
Only a small group of officials will at
tend and every effort has been made to
prevent morbid crowds from gathering
in the neighborhood. Even the custom
ary of1cial announcemeEt of the hang
ing is not likely to be posted urtil
evening. The body probably win be
buried in quick lime in the prison yard.
This is the custom at Pentonville, al
though not in all English prisons.
Father Carey, who has visited Grip
pen frequently. entered the prison at
o'clock this evening to spend the night
with the condemned man. He Will ac-
company Crippen to the scaffold.
An evening paper caused a sensation
by flooding the city with placards that
Crippen had made a written confess
sion. Every one in a position to know
denied this.
Ethel Leneve said. when asked about
the rumored confessions:
.I was the last person to see Doctor
Crippen. So far as my knowledge ex-
tends. he has not made such state
ment."
It was also reported that Crippen to-
day wrote a statement for Sunday
paper, which bought previous story OF
his. The paper, however, denied that
it has his confession.
An evening newspaper republished
the report current that Doctor Grip
pen had confessed. Scotland yard Of
hcials persist in declaring that they
know nothing of such confession.
Solicitor Newton Of Crippen's coun-
report is untrue
This announcement Of the time of the
execution was made today and with ii
passed any hope that the condemned
man might have had of, an eleventh
hour delay. From the time that his
wife. Belle Gilmore, the actress, disap-
peared, up to the day of his convic-
ton, public sentiment against Crippen
grew stronger but in his last hours the
American is not without sympathy.
Clare Ethel Leneve. the woman for
whom, the crown alleged, Crippen
killed his wife has continued to be a
visitor to the prisoners cell. Miss
Leneve, at the request of the prisoner
paid a farewell visit. TO Crippen this
afternoon She reached the place in
closed cab and was accompanied by an
elderly man, who remained outside.
Miss Leneve remained for a half hour
in the visitors room with the doctor.
During her stay the wardens watched
the condemned man closely. She has
booked passage on the steamship Ma
jestic which sails from Southampton
for New York tomorrow.
Cilppen slept well last night and this
morning ate a hearty breakfast.
Will Not Talk of Father
LOS ANGELES. Nov 22.-Local in
terest in the Crippen case was accen-
tuated by the fact that Los Angeles
was the home Of the father and son
OF DR.. H. H. Crippen.
The attitude of the two toward the
condemned man was so opposite as to
cause comment. Myron Crippen, more
than so years DID, believing implicitly
in the innocence of the physician, was
so deeply grieved that he died last
Friday Of a broken heart.
Young Crippen. who is in the en-
ploy OF a telephone company, has from
the first refused to discuss the affair
OF his father.