WHERE IS DR. CRIPPEN ?

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 204, 29 August 1910, Page 6

WHERE IS DR. CRIPPEN ?

C-SSAT HUE AND GKIT AFTER j -'"' WANTED MAN. 4 , l.i INQUEST REVELATIONS. r THE MYSTERY OF HILLDROP in CRESCENT. di (From Our Special Correspondent.) al 'I* LONDON, July 22. rl w Where is Dr. Crippen? AH England is n t'-bsorbecl in tlie London murder mystery !j now. and indeed the search has become world-wide. Rγ. rrippen fled with his typist. Miss tC Le X';ve. from their house in Ililldrop- V , crescent, in North London, four days ' ; before the police dug up from the cellar I of the house the mutilated remains of a human being. The remains are believed to be those of Mrs. Cora Crippcu, or -^ [Belle Elmore, who was Crippen's second j r wife, and Crippen is now wanted for the 1 i nmrder. ™ At the inquest on the remains on Mon- ■ day the narrative of Mrs. Crippen's dis- ! appearance (she was last seen alive at a {card party in her house about \ a.m. on ] February 1), of Crippen's version of her * I death in California., of the suspicions of 1 her friends culminating in an appeal to I Scotland Yard, was vividly told. Then n j Inspector Dew, of Scotland Yard, de- c j scribed his examination of Crippen, last- ° ing almost all the day before he fled.- s When on Monday of liist week the in- s spector heard of the. night lie began ox- <= fimination of the house, in which he first c found a loaded revolver, and then on I I Wednesday tlie remains in the cellar. <1 Medical'evidence showed that the mur- ii derer. with anatomical knowledge, had destroyed al! evidence first of identity, s and second of sex. But the belief is that p the remains are those of n. woman. The h inquest was adjourned for examination t of the cause of death and for the police t to prosecute the search for the wanted ? couple. I FINDING THE REMAINS. * Inspector Dew described at the inquest the finding of the remains in the cellar at Hilldrop-crescent. On Wednesday (said the Inspector), ■when examining the floor in the passage leading to the cellar I said, "We -will have a more minute examination of this cellar." Sergeant Mitchell and I cleared all the dust oft" the cellar floor, which was brick. We -were probing about, when I found that one or two of the bricks appeared to be somewhat looser then the ] others. I determined to have the floor < up. I took several of the bricks up. > The Coroner: Did you see sign 3 of 1 blood on the lurfaee?—None at all. After i taking about four shovelsful out I dug h up what appeared to be a piece of human c flesh. On digging further we came across 1 another portion! I sent for the divi- i sional surgeon, and let him see them. -\ I procured other officers from Kentish Town, and caused a hole to be dug right round. We found a large quantity of human flesh. Did you find the head? —No, no head. Among" the things we put on one side was a Hinde's hair curler, and in this was a piece of hair, -which appeared to be in two colours (Miss Elmore is said to have bleached her naturally dark hair). There was a small piece of hair in a portion of a man's handkerchief, two of the corners of which were tied in a kind of reef knot. There were also two small pieces of cloth. We found no trace of the head. The largest piece of flesh was not bigger than that bag (the witness pointed to a small handbag on the coroners table). Someone had simply carved the fiesh off the bones and buried it there. There were no bones whatever. What about the feet? —There was no 1 sign of them. DESTROYING IDENTITY. 5 The hands ?—Nothing at all. There ' was a quantity of quicklime along with 1 the mould and clay. I drew the dedue--1 tion that the idea was to destroy the 3 identity of the person murdered, t The bones would take longer to dee stroy? —Yea. The quicklime mixed with f a quantity of water was put in under - the impression that in a short time noe thing would be left. Tlie bones might 5, have been burnt or dropped in the river. f There are a thousand ways of getting rid r of them. I found also a portion of a g female's undervest, encrusted with hard i- cement-like material. There was a piece c of coarse string, loin long, with, attached c to it, a piece of cement, another piece llin long, two small pieces of cloth, a c piece of light brown paper with bloodr- stains on it, and a small piece of string c about Sin long. d The clothing found consisted of a porn tion of a lady's woollen undervest, a pori- tibn of what*l would describe as woollen ■a combinations, and a portion of what I p- think must be a tab on which is the id name "Jones Bros., Holloway-road." In is a Box upstairs in the bedroom I dis•e covered a suit of pyjamas somewhat of similar to that found with the body, and r. also an odd pair of pyjama trousers, it very much worn. But I could not find is the jacket of the odd pair, though the n jacket found among the remains might Q ' be it. The string and the handkerchief might )0 well have been used for the purpose of ,c strangulation or for dragging portions 0 of the body along. We cannot tell. Fron the very moment this matter was placed on our hands we have not lost one : minute. We have circulated a description and photograph of the man throughout the whole world, and every watch is being kept for him. We have other inquiries on hand which we are pursuing as quickly as possible. *.' ORIPPEN AS A BUSINESS MAN. Ie Mr. G. W. Rylance, an Auckland le (N.Z.) dentist, practising at Albion x- House, New Oxford-street, informed the 30 'Tall Mall Gazette" tl»t Crippen was his ig advertising and business agent, a. "A more humble, unassuming little jo man I have never met. and to mc it n. seems unthinkable that he would have id committed so daetardly a crime. I first m met him in Munyon's rooms, in this as building, on the occasion of the Kaisers visit to London. He invited mc ci to look out of his window at the Royal m Procession. For many months after:e. wards he pestered mc to allow him to ye be my business agent, and eventually I •-1- agreed. In my judgment, .he was a id smart man and a wonderful organiser, ye very exact, with fine ■business methods: ut in "fact, one could not have desired a straighter representative. he "Of late, I have observed that he had it, looked worried. He had, of course, his ie bright moments, but generally he appearis- ed to be distressed and perturbed by ■Is something or other, and I came to the ie conclusion that it was due to financial id troubles. is. 'Tlis wife was a woman of charming le manners. I frequently saw her here. it What passes my understanding is how m Crippen could have thrown her over in 18. favour of his typist. It was a. strange id infatuation.- She had little to recomie mend her as far as I noticed. The t- typist was a delicate woman. She was always ailing,-and was jocularly known

n this building ac the woman who was tlways answering inquiries "with, the same remark: 'Not very well, thank rou.' " Th« "Albion Magazine," published at 13.. Chaticery-lane, in an investigation ,ist October of Crippen's "Aural Semcdies C 0.," of Craven House, reported how the investigator met Crippen n February, 1904. "I remember tlie man very well inleed. mainly on account o£ hd>3 get-up, md incidentally because of the story to ; 'x read in his' face. I think Crippen is ' the only 'physician' I have ever met who wore a frock coat together with * i remarkably 'loud,' fancy shirt, nnd his * diamond' stud would have been worth = a fortune —if real! His face and eyes told the story of a life misspent. Only a fool would trust Crippen or accept J Iris treatment; his connection with the c Drouet Institute speaks for itself." MISS LE XEVE. i TTha-fc of 3riss Le Neve? Could she ' have known hie terrible secret? It is c inconceivable. What woman could have < taken a hand in the dissection of the ) victim's body? What woman could have i shared the home of a man whom she ■ knew had done so foul a deed? The : natural presumption is that Miss Le J Xevc did not know the real reason of ■ Crippen's flight. Her friends say that she is a re- ■ fined, sensitive young woman. '"An ex- ' eeedingly good" girl," is her sister's description of her. When she visited this sister two hours before her flight, her story was that the doctor might be charred with it was rumoured that Belle Elmore was still alive. Emphatically, therefore, there is no evidence to show that she was liereelf fleeing from justice. If iliss Le Xeve did not know his secret on the day of the flight, it is improbable that Dr. Crippen would divulge it to her afterwards. She might refuse to accompany him —might, indeed, betray him to the police. In the circumstances, he would not choose to stay in London, where inevitably great publicity would 'be given to the murder in the event of discovery.