Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-16

The search revealed no trace however
OF the American physician. In whose
house in London the body of woman
believed to be that of his wife, Belle Ell
more. the music hall singer, was recently
discovered, and who was believed to have
fed to America in company with Ethel
Clare Leneve, his stenographer
The police continued their watch on
other incoming liners, in the hope of OBJ
tanning trace of the supposed fugitive
DR.. Crippen was not a passenger on any
transatlantic liner that reached New
York yesterday.
May Be in France.
Inspector Russell of the detective
bureau was inclined to agree with Scot
land Yard that DR.. Crippen and his
companion. Ethel Glare Leneve, are
hidden either in London or in France
The Scotland Yard trailers are ransack-
ing London for the pair, and the French
police are searching every town and
village of their country where it would
be likely that Crippen and Miss Leneve
might have gone.
Hall Artists Guild of London, was wait
ing at the Cunard pier with her husband
Frederick. when the Lusitania docked
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert H. Mills. the latter
half-sister of Belle Elmore, were with
Nine. Ginnett. They were placed at the
gangplank, where they had an oppor-
tunity to scrutinize every passenger who
came off the Lusitania.
The Hoboken detectives were on the
lookout for Crippen when the German
boats docked on their side Of the river.
Detective Sergeants Schaeffer and Wein-
ho nf ho
Hamburg-American line and the Fried
rich der Crosse of the North German
Lloyd line. The search in both cases
was fruitless.
Search Will Be Kept UP.
THE search will be kept up said
Inspector Russell today, land every in
coming steamship will be examined
carefully, but think 1t unlikely that
Crippen and the young woman would be
SO stupid as to come to the United
States at this time.
''Of course. no one thought that Porter
Charlton would fly straight into the
hands Of those who were waiting for
him at the pier. and Crippen might do
the same thing. l believe, though, that
with his knowledge of French he would
be more apt to hide in France. or
somewhere on the continent of Europe.
slip through the net we have spread
for him.
Nine Ginnett, vaudeville performer
who, as president of the Music Hall Ar
lists Guild of London, was an intimate
friend of Belle Elmore, and who has been
more persistent than a professional de-
tective in her efforts to find Crippen, has
told some things about. the doctor that
threw light on his character. William f.
Scott, an advertising man, had some in
teresting facts.
Nine. Ginnett was positive that the Grip
pens had invariably displayed affection for
each other. Mr.. Scott, however, recalled
that the doctor was in France. near Bou-
logne- sur Mer, with Ethel Clare Leneve
in 1907, and that even then the pair were
living together in an inn feW miles
from Boulogne.
Scott knew that the doctor. as he put it.
was a devil amorg the women,' often
Dragging of his conquests.
Nine. Ginnett's Impressions.
Everybody who called on the Grip
pens at their home in Hiildrop Crescent
remarked upon their loving ways toward
each other" said Nine. Ginnett. 1.-The
doctor seemed to think that Belle was the
cleverest, prettiest woman in the world.
1t was always Cora this and Cora that,
and certainly Belle was always talking
a bout what a lovely man the doctor was.
He never showed the least jealousy of
her. In fact. he ran errands for her like
a shopboy, and the two were often seen
on the streets, Belle beautifully gowned.
the doctor trotting along behind her with
his arms loaded with parcels. He liked
to see her well dressed, and she never
lacked for money with which to buy
clothes.
Il left Belle last October. when l came
to the United States with my company
for a years tour. We corresponded regu-
larly until last February. Suddenly
Bellies letters stopped.
Il was angry and tore up her letters,
and 1 said / never would write to her
again. Poor girl. 1 believe now that it
was about that time that she was muir
dered.
"Only little while after I ceased to
get letters from Belle. Anna Stratton, the
wife of Eugene Stratton, an artist, wrote
to me that the girls were much worried
over Bellies disappearance.
Mrs. Stratton said there was a gay
dinner party at the Crippens house on
the night Of Tuesday. March %. and that
the party didn't break up until 2 o'clock
in the morning. Anna Stratton went to
the house next morning to call on Belle,
but Crippen met Mrs. Station at the
door and told her that Belle had left
for America early in the morning.
have gone away without leaving some
word for her friends, but the doctor In
sisted that she had no time for fare
we'll messages. 1t was necessary for her
to get to Los Angeles, Cal. as soon as
she could, he said, In order to see sick
relative. There was something said
about legacy which Belle was to claim
for DR.. Crippen.
At Dance With Leneve Woman.
well, you can imagine the astonish-
men Of all of our friends when DR..
appeared at the dinner-dance
of the Vaudeville Artists Benevolent
Fund. three nights later. with this Le-
neve woman. Belle had bought the tick
sts for the doctor and herself.
.'The Leneve girl was dressed in one
Of Bellies gowns that all the girls rec
,gnized. More than that. she was wear
ng Bellies jewels. rings and pins and a
necklace worth at least gf.0OO.
Everybody there asked the doctor
about Bell. He said she had gone to
America by way OF Havre to claim an
state.
THAT same night. after he had had a
ut to drink, he told Melinda May.
"a eyillo actress that ha ard Reiie