THE CAMDEN TRAGEDY

Evening Star, Issue 14420, 16 July 1910, Page 5

THE CAMDEN TRAGEDY

CRIPPEN STILL MISSING. HIS SUPPOSED*COMPANION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, July 15. The police suppose that a girl named Ethel Dcnve, who was typist to Crippen (whoso wife’s body was found under a cellar in Camden Town), is with him, disguis'A as a boy. Crippen purchased a boy’s suit on Saturday. He represented Munyon’s remedies in London before starting the practice of dentistry. The newspapers publish forged letters in connection with his wife’s disappearance. FATHER AND SON. ~LONDON, July 15. (Received July 16, at 8.5 a.m.) Oippen’s son, who is employed by a telephone company in Los Angeles (California), states that his father wrote to him in April notifying his wife’s death in San Francisco, where he had gone to settle some real estate business. A BELATED WITNESS. PIECING THE STORY TOGETHER, LONDON, July 15. (Received July 16, at 9.40 a.m.)

A resident near the Crippens now says that he heard shots in the garden, and later cries in the basement of “ Oh, don’t!”

The body was buried in quicklime.' The finding of the revolver in the cellar suggests shooting prior to cutting the bodyup. It is believed that the couple had not much money.

All the neighbors are agreed that the couple appeared to live happily together.