Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1910-08-24
RUNS HIS NECK
into 4 MOOSE
CTlppen Nearly Falls Overheard
In OminOus Accident
GIRL COlLAPSES ON DECK

GIRL COLLAPSES ON DECK
Dew Leaves Quebec With Prisoners
Charged With Murder of Belle Ell
more-Inspector and His Assistants
Under Assumed Names-Race With
Reporters In Effort 70 smuggIe
crippen and Miss Leneve Away
Quebec, Aug. 22.-Hawley H. Grip
pen and Ethel C. Leneve have sailed
for England, on board the White Star
liner Megantic, due at Liverpool at
noon next Saturday. BY Saturday
night they will probably be lodged in
a London jail to await trial for the
murder of woman supposed to be
Crippen's wife, Belle Elmore.
An extraordinary accident occurred
as Crippen crossed the gangplank II
carried an omen that might we'll de-
press man in the shadow of the
hangman's rope. Crippen came hur-
rying across the plank handcuffed,
his hat pulled low over his eyes and
his chin buried in his collar, trying
apparently to dodge the photograph
ers
In his haste he ran squarely into
rope that held the gangway steady.
The rope caught him under the chin
and jerked him backward, and had
not Inspector Dew, who was close be-
hind, caught him, Crippen would have
fallen and possibly pitched into the
water. The next instant Dew had
set him on his feet, and the pair ais
appeared on the steamer.
Miss Leneve, who had left the Jail
with every evidence of willingness,
had to be supported as she crossed
the gangplank. AS she reached the
deck of the Megantic she tainted and
had to be carried to her cabin 1t was
half an hour before she revived.
Inspector Dew managed the depart
ure of the pair in a manner that fur
nished a fitting climax to their sensa-
tional capture. He entered his name
on the passenger list as ''Silas P.
Doyle" This in spite of the fact that
Dew was probably the best known
man aboard and that among his 900
fellow-passenge fully 600 had met
him in Quebec.
Consistently he registered his as
sistant, Sergeant Mitchell of Scotland
Yard, as IN. F. G. Johnston" Mrs.
Stone, one Of the wardresses, brought
from London to look after Miss Lee
neve, appeared ON the passenger list
as Mary Byrne," and Miss Foster,
her companion, as Miss Ogilvie."
After making secret arrangements
to board this steamer Dew conducted
his prisoners with an air of mystery
that set the city in an urproar and
brought every reporter and photo
grapher in Quebec upon his heels. He
smuggled them from the local Jail with
three hacks and five provincial de-
tectives to help his own Scotland Yard
force. Then, by circuitous routes he
drove to the river at Sillery, viii
lage only a mile from the jail in a
straight line, but measured seven
miles over the road he chose.
In an automobile the reporters
reached Sillery in time to see the tug
Queen putting UP the river with Dew
on deck wearing triumphant smile.
Thus the British detectives escaped
the photographers on shore, but the
Queen had to lie Off Cape Rouge for
nearly three hours until the liner ar
rived.
Alert photographers had thus all
the chance in the world to charter a
tug in Quebec and steam up the river.
And they took it. The Queen was
overhauled just as the Megantic hove
in sight.
Finding his task impossible, Dew
finally had the Queen dashed to the
steamers side, and put Crippen and
Miss Leneve aboard under camera
fire partly masked by the efforts of
the two prisoners to hide their faces.
While the prisoners were being
transferred from the Queen to the
Megantic, passengers on the latter
were barred from the shelted deck by
which the pair entered. There was a
heavy fire of small cameras, how