THE CRIPPEN TRIAL.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10591, 21 October 1910, Page 4

THE CRIPPEN TRIAL.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright,

(Per Press Association.)

Received October 21, at 9.45 a.m. London, October 20. The prosecution in the Crippen ease has closed. The medical evidence went to show the absence of the sebaceous glands, and proved that the scar 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 the quartermaster to enable Crippen to escape on reaching Quebec. Mr Tobin will call eminent doctors to coutrovert the evidence in regard to the time the body was buried and the presence of h.voscinc, and he will also call Crippen to testify on his own behalf. Received October 21, at 10.30 a.m. London, October 20. Mr Tobin, Tor the defence, said that the prosecution must prove that the remains were those of Hello Elmore's. He discredited the suggestions that Crippen had murdered the woman for her money and in order to marry his mistress. Neither suggestion was borne out by facts. Crippen, jn giving evidence, said he had never made a. post "mortem. He was a specialist in the eye, ear,- nose, and throat diseases. His wife,- the night before her (light, got into a rage over some triviality, and said slic would, leave him. He .sought to cover scandal in the best way, and therefore lied to her friends. The story lie told Inspector Drew was true. Ho admitted purchasing hyoseino, which he dispensed in minute doses to patients .suffering from spasmodic asthma and ucrvc eases. He recounted the. arrangements made with the quartermaster on board the Montrose as counsel had mentioned.