Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-07-30
DR.. CR|PPEN
THOUGH I TO
Be 0 N LINER
DETECTIVES ARE WAITING TO
y ARREST COUPLE ON CANADIAN
STEAMER MoNTRosE; MAN IS
BELIEVED SLAYER.

Canadian-Pacific steamer Montrose
carrying among her passengers two
persons believed by Captain Kendall
to be Dr., Crippen and his typist MISS
Leneve, this morning steamed through
the strait of Belle Isle. 500 miles east
of Father Point. She is expected to
take on pilot here Sunday morning
The White Star liner Laurentlc
aboard which is Chief Inspector Dew
of Scotland Yard, has already entered
the st. Lawrence, and under favorapie
conditions should pass this point late
this afternoon.
It was determined today that the
steamer ,Montrose, which is believed to
have on board DR. Crippen and Miss
Leneve, will not be boarded by officers
probably before Sunday.
The following wireless message was
received here today from the captain
of the Montrose. 1t was addressed
to the colonial government at Ottawa,
and was Immediately forwarded under
the closest secrecy.
On board Steamship Montrose, at
sea, by Marconi Wireless, via Father
Point, Quebec. July 2S-"A Associated
Press, New York:
Suspected persons answering police
description Of Crippen and Miss
Leneve on board. No arrests made.
Other passengers, who are all CONT
nentals, in ignorance of the situation
"Montrose at p. M, Thursday, 15O
miles east of Belle Isle. Weather
foggy.
Z "Llewellyn Jones, Marconi. operator
1t is reported here, apparently on
good authority, that the captain said
he had absolutely nncontrovertible
evidence that the suspects on, board
were DIR. sHawley Harvey Crippen and
Miss Ethel Leneve, and asked for in
structions as the course he was to
pursue in dealing with the alleged
wife murderer and his former stenog-
rapher, who was discovered to be
trave.-ng with him disguised as a boy.
Detectives Keep Up Their Vigil
At this little settlement on the south
bank of the st. Lawrence, 160 miles
east of Quebec three officers of the
provincial police are Literally sitting at
the side OIL wireless receiver waiting
for futher -crd from the Montrose.
The warrant charging Crippen with
the murder of woman still unidenti-
fed is carried by Chief Mccarthy Of
the provincial police OF Quebec
Chief McCerty and his assistants
rely upon Inspector Dew to identify
the suspected passenger Of the
Mont fose, if he really is the man
they seek. Since Dew has no author
ity to make the arrest. however, it is
supposed that he will continue on the
Laurentic to Quebec, leaving to the
Cana lian detectives the task of TAX
ing ttheir prisoners to him for identi-
fication there. His mission also in
addition to identify them is to take
Lrippen ard Ethel Leneve back to
England.
The handful of French Canadians
that live about the lighthouse, the lele
graph stations and the pilots boarding
houses of Father Point are in a state
Of excitement that passes the memory
of the oldest inha bitants. At the old
town of Rimouski. five miles up the
river, the Crippen case is the only
topic of conversation among 1000
villagers, lumbermen, and summer
visitors.
At this point a dozen newspaper men
have gathered ready to go aboard the
Montrose when 1t takes on the pilot.