The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-10-25
GUILTY SAYS JURY
IN CR|PPEN CASE
Sentenced to be Hanged
on November Is
MAY Be CHANGED TO LIFE
to Death, the Foreman OF the jury
Handed a Note to the Lord Chief
Justice. Which is Viewed as Signifi-
canct, Owing to the Strong Prejudice
Against Executing COnvicts on CHM
ct!mStantiaI Evidence.
(By the Associated Press.


(By the Associated Press.)
London, Oct. 22.-Dr. Hawley Har-
vey Crippen, after a trial extending
over five days, and thirty minutes de-
liberation by the jury, was today
f0und guilty of the murder of his
wife, an American woman known on
the stage as Belle Gilmore. Lord Chief
Justice Alverstone, who presided at
the trial. sentenced Crippen to be
hanged or November Is. There is,
however, the strongest prejudice in
England against executing a man on
purely circumstantiaI evidence, and an
Incident at the close of Crippen'S trial
has caused the impression thai tn.
jury may have recommended a life
sentence. After Crippen was SEN
fenced to death. the foreman Of the
jury handed to the Lord Chief Justice
a note, after looking at which the JUS
tice said:
That shall be forwarded to the
proper quarter"
The proper quarter might mean
me nome secretary, who has jurisdic-
ton in such matters. The jurors re-
fused to discuss the incident.
\ large crowd awaited the depar-
ture OF Crippen from New Bailey.
There were a few "booS" as he drove
away to the Pentonvilie prison, but
no other demonstration.
The jury was out just thirty min
utes. When it returned and announced
that 1t had found the defendant
guilty. Lord Chief Justice Alverstone
asked the physician if he had my
thing to say. Crippen replied in a low
voice:
4 still protest my innocence"
The Chief Justice then donned the
black cap that has rested near hin
throughout the trial, and pronounced
the sentence of death.
Addressing the condemned man
Lord Alverstone said:
You have been convicted on evil
dence which can leave no doubt in
the mind of any reasonable man that
YOU cruelty murdered your wife, and
then mutilated her body.
L advise you to entertain no hope
that you Will escape the consequences
OF your crime. ! imp1ore you to make
your peace with Almighty God"
AS the Lord Chief Justice concluded
a policeman stepped forward and in
the hush that had fallen over the
court room led Crippen from the lock.
The trial of Ethel Clara LeNeve as
an accessory after the fact, in the
murder Of Mrs. Crippen, Will begin on
Tuesday,
The trial lasted less than five days
having begun at 1880 o'clock last
tuesday morning. The jury retired at
80 o'clock this afternoon and return
ed the verdict at PAT o'clock.
p received the death sentence
with the apparent calmneSs that char
acterlzed him throughout the trial.
lie appeared rather rVo during
the Judges summing up, which was
strongly against him. AS Lord Aver
stone mercilessly portrayed his char
acter as developed during the trial,
Crippe tWirled his thumbs, crossed
and re-crOSsed his legs and occasional
ally Shuff1ed his feet. However,, as
soon as the charge had been conclud-
ed' the prisoner seemed to pull him
self together.
When the verdict was announced
Crlppen did not finch.
Richard Muir made the CLOSING
speech for the prosecution. He de-
clared that the crown had proved be- !!
yond a reasonable doubt that the BODY
lound in the cellar of the CriDDeni
nome was that of the doctors wife.
No one else he said, had a chance to
murder the woman and bury the body
as 1t was found to have been buried.
Lord Chief Justice A1verstone i'm
nedlateiy began his summing-up of
the case.
The Justice described Crippen as an
extraordinary man whether guilty or
innocent. If guilty he had covered up
d ghastly crime in a ghasJly way and
lt was believed, in a most brutal and
callouS manner. If he was innocen>
It was impossible to fathom his mind,
as ne was bsolutely Indifferent to the
charge of murder. He had taken no
step whatever to prove his innocence.
Crlppen, the Justice declared, uni
doubtedly was a liar and had lived an
immoral life, but, he added. the iury'