CRIPPEN MURDER.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 168, 18 July 1910, Page 5

CRIPPEN MURDER.

*■ » THE BODY DISSECTED. SEARCH FOR THE TYFISTE. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) LONDON, July 16. Professor Pepper, surgeon at St. Mary's Hospital, has examined the remains of Airs. Crippen, an actress, found in a cellar under her residence. The autopsy showed that the head and limbs had been carefully removed, also every bone from that part of the body discovered in the cellar. A portion of the woman's undervest and a necklet remained. Whoever dissected the limbs had a full knowledge of anatomy. Crippen was a dentist, and at one time represented an American patent medicine firm. In February Crippen removed some boxes from the house. The police are now digging in the cellar for the head and leg 3. The girl Leneve, or Neve, who was Crippen's typiste, and is supposed to have disappeared with him, was seen last week in boy's clothes. She called at her father's house on Saturday, in a hurry, and promised to write. She left in a taxi-cab.

Crippen's assistant, on the same night as the girl disappeared, received a letter from Crippen, asking him to take charge of the house, sell the furniture, and pay the tradesmen and the rent. Mr. Leneve and the assistant found the bouse in charge of a French maid, whom Crippen had brought from France at Easter. The house contained plenty of furniture and some handsome dresses. On Monday the police interrogated Leneve and the assistant. The case is creating immense interest in London. HIS FIRST 'WXFE. (Received 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 17. I Crippen's first wife died at Salt Lake in 1892, the cause of death being stated as paralysis and apoplexy.