THE CRIPPEN TRIAL.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 13870, 22 October 1910, Page 9

THE CRIPPEN TRIAL.

CABLE NEWS.

CASE FOR PROSECUTION CLOSED. EVIDENCE BY ACCUSED. United Presj Association—By Electrio Telesraph—Copyright. LONDON, October 20. The prosecution in the Crippea case has closed. Medical evidence Trent to show the ab;;eneo of sebaceous glands, and that a star found on the remains, was the mark of an old operation. Mr Tobin, in opening the defence, incidentally referring to the cards found on Crippen, indicating that he contemplated suicide, explained that they were part of a plot with tho quartermaster to enable Crinpen to escape on reaching Quebec. Mr Tobin will call eminent doctors to controvert the evidence in regard to the time tho body had beeu buried and the presence of hyoscine. Mr Tobin said that the prosecution must prove that tho remains were those of Bello Elmore. He discredited the suggestions that Crippen murdered the woman for her money, and in order to marry bis mistress. Neither sugcosHon was borne out by the facte.

Crippen, giving evidence, said that be had never made a post mortem. Ho was a specialist in eye, ear, nose, and throat diseases. His wife, the night before her flight, got into a rage over some triviality, and said that she would leave him. He sought to cover up the scandal in tho best way, and therefore lied to her friends. The story ho told Inspector Dew was true. He admitted purchasing hyoscine, which he dispensed in minute doses to patients suffering from spasmodic asthma and nerve cases. Crippen recounted his arrangements with the quartermaster on tho Montrose as counsel had mentioned them.