The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-19
NEW ISSUE IN
CR|PPEN CASE
Doctors Cannot Say Positively
That Body Found Was That
Of Woman.
REMAINS SO BADLY
BURNED AND MUTlLATED
English Detectives Unable to
Find Any Clue to Doctors
Whereabouts.

LONDON. July 1s.-The latest theory
Of the Scotland Yard officials is that Dr.
Hawley Fl. Crippen and Ethel Leneve
which sailed for New York from Dover
at II o'clock on the night Of July 9. the
day the two disappeared The steamer is
due In New York tomorrow.
AT Dover the Kroonland was boarded
py one New York man and number OF
passengers from London.
The inquest into the death Of the wou-
an supposed to be Belle Elmore. Grip
penis wife, whose body was unearthed in
the cellar Of the Crippen home, following
the Doctors disappearance. was opened
today and subsequently adjourned for one
month. II developed nothing at the first
session.
] Interest in the mysterious murder cen
tered today In the Inquest at which 1t
had been hoped the physicians would be
prepared to describe the manner OF death
and possibly make positive the identifica-
ton OF the dismembered body.
However. the formal evidence adduced
added nothing material to what was al
| ready generally known.
Months Delay.
1t was decided to postpone the con-
ciusion OF the inquest for one month in
order to give DR.. Pepper. examiner in
| lege. opportunity to make a complete
examination OF the pieces of flesh. and
the police to continue the search for
Crippen md Miss Leneve.
OetauS OI lnQueSS.
John E Nash. a theatrical manager,
tention Of Scotland Yard on his return
here from the United States. was one OIL
the more important witnesses.
Mr. Nash said that at the request of
friends In America he took up the mat
| ter of the actresses death and inter-
viewed DR.. Crlppen. The doctor, he said,
was unable TO give the exact place in
California where Belle Elmore died, al
though he previously announced that his
wife died in that state. Neither could
Crippen. according 10 the witness, pro-
duce certificate of death, although he
said he had his wife's ashes locked in his
safe.
Inspector Dew of Scotland Yard was
called.
He said he first visited Ethel I.eneve
at the Crippen residence. The woman on
that occasion told him she was Crippen's
housekeeper. Later the inspector went
to Crippen's office and hald a talk with
the doctor.
AT this time. the witness said. the doc
tor admitted that all OF the stories which
he had previously told of his wife's death
were untrue. He said he had quarreled
with Mrs. Crippen on the night of Janu-
ary 81 last and that following the quar-
rel she had left him. saying she intended
to join a man who the doctor said he
believed lived in Chicago.
With the body the witness said he found
piece OF string and mans handker-
chief that might have been used to stran.
gle the victim,
The witness said he had not heard
word from Crippen or Ethel Leneve since
July 9, when they left the Crippen house.
On that day they sent a note TO the SER
want saying:
do not worry. We are going to the
thcater."
Finding of Body.
Questioned In detail as 10 finding of
the body. Inspector Dew said at the first
of his examination OF the house he found
loose bricks In the basement floor. He
removed the bricks and dug into the
earth beneath, At q depth of two feet
he uncovered the mass OF human flesh,
The largest piece was less than twelve
inches long. Not bone was discovereo.
The pieces of flesh seemed to have been
carved off the skeleton. The head. feel
and hands were missing. Quicklime COW
cred the gruesome object.
In one room OF the house he found a
fully loaded flve-chamher revolver,
DR. Thomas Marshall. one OF the sun
geons who performed the post mortem,
testified he had not been able to find a
trace OF the bones and could not swear,
on anatomical grounds, whether the men, |
bers were those Of male OF female.
Were Happy Earlier.
Mrs Paul Martinetti. who. with her
husband, dined with the Crippens on the |
night Of January 81 and later played
cards with them until 80 O'Clock in the |
morning, was another witness. She said |
Dr. Crippen and his wife seemed to be
perfectly happy.
Prof. Pepper, who is the home office eN-
pert, aid not give his testimony as had
been expected. for he Is unable as yet to
state definitely either the cause OF deatn
or the sex OF the victim.
The reports from Dieppe, France, that
the French police notified Scotland Yard
that DR., Crippen and Ethel Leneve ar
rived at Dieppe on July IL and took
train for Paris, are untrue.
superintendent Freest Of Scotland Yard.
who has the case In hand, stated this
evening that he had received absolutely
no clue to the whereabouts OF Crippen
and his companion.