BODY IN A CELLAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 166, 15 July 1910, Page 5

BODY IN A CELLAR.

HUSBAND'S DREADFUL CRIME. MUSIC HAT.T. ARTIST HUEDERED. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, July 14. Mrs. Crippen, an American, aged 34, wife of an American dentist, who had secured a music hall engagement on the London stage under the name, of Bella Ellore, has been missing since February, and the police have had reason during the past few days to suspect foul play. 1 Detectives yesterday found the woman's 1 j battered remains under the flagstones of 1 : a coal eeUar in Hilldrop Crescent, Cam-den-road, where she and her husband resided for some years. > : The police are inquiring as to the • ( whereabouts of her husband, 52 years of ' / age, who quitted the house recently. The ""Daily Mail" states that Mrs. j Crippen held an official post in the Music ' i Hall Artists' Guild. Inquirers in February were informed that she had gone to the Continent to recuperate, and some time afterwards an announcement of her death appeared in the theatrical newspapers. The police discovered that no such death had occurred in the town named. SEARCHING FOR CRIPPEN. A COOL CRIMINAL. (Beeeived 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, July 14. Crippen also represented to neighbours i that his wife had gone to America, where she had died and been cremated. Two of her friends informed the police of their suspicious. Inspector Drew interviewed Crippen, who readily answered his questions. He then denied the American story, substituting one that his wife and he had quarrelled, and she had left him. Crippen disappeared on Saturday with a woman passing as his wife, and wearing his wife's jewellery. All ports are being . watched I