The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-10-23
JURY QUICKLY
|. RETURNS VERDICT
IN CR|PPEN CASE
AMERICAN DENTIST MUST PAY
DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER
OF HIS WIFE.
He Is Sentenced to Hang on Nov. Is.
Room-Ethei Leneve Is to Be Tried
During the Coming Week.

London, Oct. 22.-Dr. Hawley Fl.
Crippen the American dentist, was
today found guilty of numbering his
wife, whose stage name was Belle
EImore, and he was Immediately SEN
fenced to pay the death penalty for
the jury shortly after 2 o'clock and
within 80 minutes the verdict which
seals Crippen's doom was rendered.
1t was announced later in the after
noon that Crippen would be hanged
Nov Is.
Knowing that the celebrated case
would end today, an immense crowd
clamored for entrance to the court
room long before court convened. The
proceedings were very brief, Lord
Chief Justice AlverstOne asked Grip
pen several questions about hyoscin
poison, with which he was alleged to
have poisoned his wife, and then
Richard Muir made a speech for the
prosecution, which lasted one hour.
Lord AIverstone's Speech.
Lord Alverstone then summed the
case up briefly and the jury rendered
the verdict as above stated. In his
speech, Muir declared the crown had
proved beyond reasonable doubt that
the body found in the cellar of the
Crippen home was that of Belle Ell
more, and that no person other than
CTippen had a chance to commit the
n1rder and bury the body in the Gel
lar
Lord Alverstone described Crippen
as an extraordinary man, guilty or
annocent. If guilty, he had covered
the ghastly crime in CHASTITY way;
if innocent, it was impossible to faith
ON his mind, as he was Indifferent
to the charge of murder and had tax
en no step to prove his innocence.
He then charged the jury that they
must be convinced beyond all reason
able doubt that the parts of the body
found in the cellar were those of
Belle Elmore.
Crippen's Crime.
The crime for which Crippen will
hang was one of the most sensation
al and CHASTITY of Great Britain's GRIM
inal history. 1t was committed on or
about the night of Jan. 81, when DR.
C1ippen and his actress wife quarrel
ed after which Belle Elmore was nev-
er seen again, nor was anVi!'ing
Known of her fate until her mutilated
remains were found in the cellar.
The crime was committed shortly
after Porter Charlton, another Amer
lean, murdered his wife, Mary Scot
harrison. and threw her remains into
Lake Como Italy. This crime added
to the interest of the Crippen-Elm :; e
tragedy.
Detectives Make investigation.
Theatrical friends Of Mrs Crippen,
mystified at her sudden disappear
ance had Scotland yard detectives
make an iuvesti@ation CYinren stat
&c that his wife had sone-to Les An
geles to settle an estate, he having
been unable to make T. q trip. and
then wrote Mrs C.ippen's American
relatives that size had died in the
United States. Inspector Drew who
was detailed as the principal detec-
tive on. the case. secured Crippen's
promise not to leave until the niys-
terry was solved in spite of which
Crippen. with his sweetheart typist,
Ethel Clara Leneve, over whom he
exercised wonderful influence, made
a desperate attempt to escape. He
was being sought by detectives of two
continents when it was learned that
ne, travelling under the name of Rob
inon. was on steamship en- route
to Canada. Ethel Leneve, disguised
as 10y. was with him. Inspector
Drew boarded another vessel at once.
reached the Canadian coast first and
took Crippen and Ethel Len(ve in
custody before they could land.
Friends in England then provided
funds for Crippens defense, and he
returned to England without eXtradi
tion.
Ethel Leneve to Be Tried.
Ethel Leneve was held as an acces.
sorry after the fact, for which she
will be tried Public belief has been
that the girl did not know of Grip
pens crime, however, and her con
viction is doubtful Owing to the in
huence held over her by Crippen,
sympathy is felt for the girl in all
classes. although she was hooted
while her carriage passed through
the streets when he preliminary trial
was held.
Declares His Innocence.
In the charge of the jury the court