CRIPPEN MURDER CASE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14478, 19 September 1910, Page 7

CRIPPEN MURDER CASE.

WIFE KILLED BY POISON.

By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. London, September 16. At the trial of Hawley Crippen for the murder of his wife, Mr. Willcox, analyst of the Home Office, stated that the cause of death was hyoscine poisoning. The victim had probably lived an hour after its administration. Fragments of the flannelette pyjama jacket found with the remains have been identified by the arrangement of green lines as the same material in the pyjama trousers in Crippen's box. CP.IPPEXS FIRST AVIFE'S DEATH. Mr. Bell, of New York, brother of Crippen's first wife, has declared that his sister's death presents extraordinary 'circumstances. He says that Crippen went with her to Salt Lake City, after he had been compelled to leave New York. "My sister wrote to me from Salt Lake City," Mr. Bell continued, "telling me that her husband was forcing her to undergo an operation, although she knew that no operation was necessary. I "was furious, and thought of going west to kill this man, who was maltreating my sister, but I restrained myself. Then came the worst letter of all ' My sister wrote that her husband was about to force her to undergo a second operation. She said she felt that this would be the last time she would write to me. and she wanted her relatives to know that if she died it would be her husband's fault. She died under a third operation. I went to Sail Lake City, but Crippen had vanished, and I never heard of him until this affair. I sent the last letter from my sister to my brother, L. Bell, who was living in England, soon after her death. He probably still has it. The authorities at Salt Lake City say that they do not intend to take any action. The death of the first wife is stated in the death certificate to have been caused by apoplexy and paralysis."