Newspaper Page Text
Will M. Cressy wilt describe his 3,000 mite auto trip, which began at Tia Juana and ended at Tahoe, in The Sunday Call. VOLUME OVIIL— NO. 45. BANKS BEGIN TO PURCHASE GEARY BONDS Hibernia Makes Tender for All That Are Left of Pres ent Issue Quick Sale Pleases Officials of City So Much That They Will Offer More $240,000 Worth of Securities to Be Placed on Market Early in September WITH a bid yesterday morning from the Hibernia bank for "all the bonds that are left." the full %?(.fi.onfi r>f thr Grary sttWt issue has been subscribed. Th^ city authorities are fo well pleased with the rale that they are planning to put an additional 13(0,400 of the same securities on the market \u2666"arly in September. This will bring an rven JpO^.OOO with which to Initiate work on the line. After the subscription list had be«n completed offers tverc received for 15 more of the $1,000 bonds. The labor unions were prepared to bid for an .. amount that would have carried the oversubscription to $100,000. There have been many rumors of various sorts to explain why the banks : held aloof from the bonds. There had been some suggestion of a united senti ': ment to discourapre the public owner ship of such a utility. It became ap parent, however, that if the banks did rot bid their clients would withdraw their deposits and invest in the bonds. \u25a0The highest rate paid by the local sav ings banks is 4 per cent. The bonds carry 4'^ per rent. "When the city government opened for business yesterday morning $40,000 'worth of the bonds remained to be dis posed of. Individual investors applied ' -In 'the sum of $7,000. leaving $33,000 on , Jinnd. This was the situation at 10 •.X-o'e.lock yesterday morning. At that ; ->our sn official of the Hibernia bank ". -.'..telephoned to CJerk Hagerty of the \u25a0;. v.board cf super'.'ieors. stating that the ..'.-. institution desired all the bonds that; . wnere leit. A bid. was later submitted! : ' nl par. Bonds Bring Premium When the totals are compiled it will \u25a0-Xc shown that the bonds have brought a premium of some. ?2^o. ...•• .'We are very well pleased with the : Bale," said H. A. Mason, the bond ex- Ifpc'rt of the board of supervisors. "Those '• pro'plc who have bought the bonds have '. Irna-d" a good investment. The issue will .'•Jccrtafnly bring a premium. Every per \u25a0i-son who has purchased will be able to r . cr,ll at a profit if he desires." :•"• -During the day a conference v.-as-held between the finance committee, the pub • ]Vc utilities committee, the city engineer .and a representative of the city attor fy n«?y*« office. Present were Supervisors '; Kelly. MoLaughlin, Fugh. I^oughery, City Engineer Manson and Assistant \u25a0.City Attorney Nourse. The discussion ' turned on the next move and the senti meht prevailed that; active work should be begun at the earliest moment. Man son recommended that the power house V;te.!= be purchased without delay. ?Cout?e assured the supervisors that the city attorney's office would safeguard every step with proper legal provisions. It was proposed that, as a temporary expedient, an overhead trolley be used. It wss o-xplained that if this were done temporary poles could be erected and wires strung at sruall expense. The pars, it was stated, could be operated ..for a time on the present tracks. The rails of the existing line are seven feet .apart. In the new roid there will be II feet between tlie rails. The sugges tion was advanced that construction could- proceed on the wider gauge while the cars were being operated over the prcsfnt road. Povfcy Undetermined Xo definite policy will be outlined, however, until a second conference, at Etrhich Mayor McCarthy will be present. "I : his conference will be held Saturday • afternoon in the mayor's office. . ' Mayor McCarthy expressed his satis faction at the sale of the bonds. He KtfLted that the rest of the issue would be placed on the market as soon as possible. He continued: • The entire bond issue of $2,000,000 .'will be sold and the Geary street road .•• -Brill be built. The people have decided that they want the road. They have ' voted the bonds, and we will see that they, are ss3d. We will carry out the • popular will and give to this city in . Geary street as good a line as can be • constructed. -'\u25a0\u25a0. .'The Geary street bonds are a fine . investment. They carry a good rate : of interest and they are fortified' by the very best security — In fact, they . -"are the best in the world. \u25a0•I am glad to hear that the Hibernia ; bank has subscribed for the remaining bonds. 1 congratulate the management of that institution on its purchase. The investment will prove not only, bene ficial to its depositors, but to the insti b^tution as well. .\u25a0- "If I were the president of a bank with, many depositors such &» indus "trial, business and fraternal bodies it Continued on Vagc 2, Column 7 The San Francisco Call. Woman's Goodby Loses an Audience For Suffragettes [Special Dhpaich to The Call] AURORA, 111.. July . 14.— A woman's way of saying "GooJ by." lost an audience of 3,000 workers today at Elgin, 111., when Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout and her suffragists' delegation miF^ed their chance to talk to employes of an 'Klgin rompany. The party, finally arriving late, induced the Jaft 200 to listen, to them. Wlvn the women visting at the residence of Mrs. A. H. l.ow ria heard the town bell ring five they recollected' suddenly that they were due to address the employes three blocks away. Five minutes were lost in effect ing a getaway. At the works Mrs. Marion Fos ter Washburn and tnree other women applied lo t Policeman Breen to stop the flying multi tude, but all were swept aside by the rush. MARY MANNERING TO MARRY AGAIN Friends Declare Divorced Act= ress Is Engaged to Detroit , Millionaire [Special Dispatch to The Call] NEW YORK, July 14.— Friends of Mary Mannering, former wife of James K. Hackett, are waiting for her to come east to congratulate her person ally upon her engagement to, Freder ick W. Wadsworth, millionaire, of De troit. Unless Miss Mannering returns east soon, they say, congratulations may have to be extended upon her marriage rather than upon her en gagement. That Miss Mannering was to be married again has been a great secret and only a few of her most In timate friends knew it. Wadsworth's wife was granted a. divorce and the custody of their daughter at Kalamazoo last Monday. The charges brought against Wads worth was that he was grouchy and morose and frequently humiliated the wife by saying she "did not have the brains of a pinhead." • Miss Mannering's marital troubles were cleared January 10, when the court, granted her : a 'divorce from Hackett. Miss Mannering is now in Chicago. A dispatch from there quotes her as saying the announcement of her en gagement is a "little premature." JAPANESE MARRIES WHITE GIRL IN EAST Stanford Graduate and Chicago Maid Are Wedded [Special Dhpaich io The Call] OMAHA, July 14. — Miss Dorothy Miller, daughter of Mrs. Ida Miller of East Thirty-eighth street, Chicago, was married here today to Matsuzo Shofu, •a. Japanese traveling man of New York city. The bridegroom is a graduate of Leland Stanford university. The couple met here by appointment and, after securing a license, went to ' a, number of Catholic clergymen, each of whom refused to perform a marriage ceremony. Later they appeared before a justice of the peace, who married them. ' . Mrs. Shofu says she first met her husband at her mother's home a year ago. where they were introduced by a Japanese servant. It was a case of love at first sight. TEXAS CATTLE INFECTED WITH DREAD CHARBON Affected District Quarantined by Sanitary Commission HOUSTON*, Tex., July 14. — In south east Texas and southwest Louisiana charbon is denuding that section of livestock. Livestock insurance. compa nies today announced the cancellation of all policies in that section. Governor Campbell has been asked to submit the matter to the special ses sion of the legislature, which will con vene on Tuesday, with a view to creat ing an infected zone and placing men in charge. The Texas livestock sanitary com mission has already quarantined against the affected district. CAMPERS WILL PRESENT DRAMA UNDER TREES "Alabama" to Be Played in Homestead Valley Under spreading redwood .trees at Camp 'Tamalpais, Homestead valley, Marln county, an open air performance of the southern drama, "Alabama," will be given tomorrow night by players taken from the summer visitors at the grove. Tha proceeds will be devoted to the erection of a clubhouse for tho asso ciated camps, the organization that presents the show, j Norbert M. Cills is stage director. Those in the cast are: C. A. t^uglilan lUeb'crd Monks . , ' 9*. B. Kaltbroff Mi*s Altld«. Kroner ' Joseph Hajreo Mr*. Sarah Jcanette : N. M. Maynard Haypn . . ftehert Ool»mati Ml«*-Anna Knn»ccr ' Bodie Smith |Mrs. Musla Cills . Willace Mcl-Jiehlan .. j .... FALLING WALLS KILL— «rsod Island. < Neb.. July 14. ; — Collapf'iojf walls of the bJirned Mrallrt-, me of the Nebraska' mercantile eonipaur.lapt * nitht killed two workmen, aod ' several 'persons had narrow .eerapee. •\u25a0'•'*. * '.'\u25a0\u25a0"\u25a0?? '\u25a0 SAN; O^ANGISCQ, . EJ^ffiMn JR^^ls, 1910. PITY 'TIS WHAT DASHING LAD TO T. R. JR. DID Young Newhall, Madly Gallop* ing Along Rural Highways, Mistaken for Roosevelt Really, He Did Things That Bridegroom in Cottage Shouldn't Ever Do .. It is a vast joke on*somo:one — -just whom'it is hard to say. Either on" the Santa Barbarans, who were not around at his arrival, or on young " Teddy Roosevelt himself or on young William Mayo Newhall Jr. For there has been a grand mixup' somewhere and admir ing people who have stopped in the street' and stared, gaping and wide ej'ed, after young Roosevelt would feel their idol had fallen -from his high es tate did they know it wasn't really he at all, but!merefy young Newhall with his smile that won't come off. \u25a0 The resemblance between; the two young men is not so marked butr that one can be readily distinguished from the other, but there is a dash and a daring about young NewhalFs' appear ance and doings and flights of fancy that remind one of Teddy Sr. at the height of his career. • '\u25a0 Santa Barbara's mistake, which has now assumed laughable and grotesque proportions, began the day after young Roosevelt and his bride arrived. The Newhall girls and Miss Helenelrwin with "her fiance andonc or~two others had been out motoring and on their way back to the Potter, gossamerly veiled, were joined by young Newhall on horseback. Alarm Sounded The latter is a sunny, good naturcd looking kid, who'll be out of coliege in two years or more. He is never more at home than when indulging in ath letic pastimes and he certainly is . at his best and jauntiest on a horse. His favorite stunt, likewise, is to gal lpp at breakneck speed albng\the v country roads, withouta hat, with his'hair wind tousled, his bpe'nVat: the. throat and hia omnipresent smile light ing: up his face. As he dashed" along the .streets of rural, outlying. "Santa Barbara somebody /spread the ' alarm, "There, goes young Teddy Roosevelt," and. Immediately all the townsfolks flocked to their doors and called tftcir children, as for a second- comet,, and gazed long and ardently after the son of a. real live jungle animal hunter. \u0084-.' Time to Awaken Young Newhall is quite unconscious of the fact, and. so is young Roosevelt, but when the latter learns that all of the deeds of the former, as well as his own, are laid at his door, what will he do about it? Because it is beginning to amount to practically the same as if he were leading a dual personality, of his being in two places at once and of doing all sorts of things unbecoming to a young bridegroom on, his honey moon, but the Santa Barbarans not in cluded in the haut monde continue 'to be blissfully unconscious. of their mis take and the comedy of errors it is likely to arouse. And since , they are having such fun out of it all, doesn't it really seem too bad to wake them up? SCHWAB T S NIECE ELOPES FROM SCHOOL TO MARRY M iss Gene vie ye. M ock Forsakes Career for \ Pittsburger ! [Special DUpalch to The Call] . PITTSBURG, July 14.— Miss Gene vieve Mock, not. yet out of; her teens and the favorite niece of Charles SL Schwab, and Titus;'de Bobula, a known Pittsburger, eloped one month ago and are now in Europe on a honey moon. The story has just leaked out through. their friends. Schwab is said to have been greatly voxed over his niece's marriage, which occurred wthout his knowledge, .as he liad planned. a brilliant career for her. •, Miss Mock was, finishing her educa tion at a fashionable Mryn JVlawr school. She left Bryn Mawr in an auto mobile with her future husband May 30, supposedly for a short drive, but they went to New York and were mar ried. De Bobula is about twice "as old as his handsome young, wife. . ' INNOCENT MAN SHOT TO AVENGE ACCIDENT KENTDALLVILLE,: In'J., July 14.—Al bert Lehr was shot and'killed by mem bers of a section gang i; of ' foreigners while standing- on •< the platform of the Lake Shore depot here early today. The shooting is thought to~have beenlthe outcome of the accidental v kiliingV of oneof the foreigners'by a Lake, Shore freight train . three weeks ago. "The foreigners/ blamed the engineer and threatened vengeance against him. Lehr was probably mistaken for the engineer. SNELL ARE AIGHMENT CONTESTED— The ar rnlKnment" or Charles.P.;, Snell. reeontlr >in dieted by the federal^^rand jurj for pprJntV •in the trial ' of . Dr. • A. > B> Perrin for timber land frauds, n-as continued; „' in United . -.States district court yesterday: until 10 o'clock -' next ' Tuesday, tnornlnsr. : ;•-. ' \u25a0, •.. \u25a0_.» , YOUTH SENT, TO JAIL FOR YEAR— Jam** M. Dawnon; 19 j-earß.of :«g<s;recentljrirronr Ret»f>. . \t«k: eoivrlctert of; stpalinjj ' from i rooms ~i in! the '': American ; lintel -h.r, Police Judge * l>pasy yertrr \u25a0& da j;[ and s w«B > sent? to !: the ; county s jails for $ iix months.on.each charge. -;\u25a0.- :.. -•-.;.\u25a0 NOVELIST] WRITING A PLAY MRS. FISKE WILL STAGE IT Gertrude A therton, California novelist, who is writing \u25a0: her k * first bla\3. r MRS. ATHERTON FINISHING DRAMA Richly Talented Local Writer \u25a0 M Preparing Scenario Based l l on Modern Woman ; Mrs.- Gertrude Atherton is preparing a - play for Mrs. Fiske. ; The idea has been, outlined '-and- submitted to the actregs, . and now Mrs. Atiierton : has planned to : forego a summer of idling in Europe and devote herself in "San Franicsco to the completion- of. the drama. As the. present; plans go, it will be produced by. Mrs. Fiske in' Chicago in October. next. .; y . . . . , ..It is to be a .play, on' woman. Women's suffrage will 'enter into the theme, but not too obtrusively.! , • \u25a0 : "It- s will ;treat of subject, 'from -a | newpoinfof yiew,"said Mrs: Atherton last evening, "and in ! such ai way . that it would, not, be\f air to say that it .will be a woman's suffrage play. "Ibsen wrote of; women and expressed their conflicts and problems as he saw them.. But "since,, his time of writing there has been; a'steady advance in the development '^of^ women. .It will < be . : of these new conditions arid- advancements; that I shall write. > r V . ./; "In a sense- it »may,'be said that'l favor women's suffrage, but as that is not the'primelissue:Jof-the play it does not apply." ; '/„.'.. , . : Mrs.' Atherton is "very; modest :_ab'out having ' her scenario accepted by Mrs. 1 Fiske. ' \u25a0'\u25a0 '.'"':'''. : ".' r ."' ' ' -"-.•; ' ' '; .." "When I sent her the outline of the play I thought •that'she would return -it to melpolitely. and! it' would all be -over 7-then I had: intended 11 . t° turn the : idea into: a book.i Butishe\ was kind .enough to*! 'say that', sh'el'llked; ,' the;' idea and wanted meto . develop^ it for her. 'That I shall do.. '"* „ *\u0084*•• - -.:.• "It is too, early to-tell what'the-play is about. As.it'stands now/it is jusf'a series of. dialogues ! with certain cli maxes..' Mrs. Fiske has : said Vthat the new play -has 'dramatic equalities, and while -ifam riot so; sure. of, -that, I have' asked" her to' make'as many suggestions as are necessary." /:\u25a0 • \u25a0 j . . -. With" all/her. manifold writings Mrs. Atherton rhas. never before attempted to write a dramal although actors, man agers?: and 'theatrical agents v have'im portuned'her to ;tiirn her rich talent to that ' form of literature.'. Her stories are intense and . dramatic in their concep tion and development,; but' Mrs. Athcr-, ton lias stayed b>'. the narrative form of V fiction^ until ;; now, when she \u25a0% has turned to the drama for America's fore most across. .- '\u25a0;, ":"'.. '.-:-,:.' . / ; • • ! BANKER^ ENCOUNTERS A STRIKE- IN ALASKA Schiff Has to Send His Attend ants. Off. of Boat •'.' . JUNEAU,' Alaska i" July 14;i—The'.wait; ers and 'cabin, boys on the .Yukon river 'steamer White ;^ Horse, f.whfchu carried Jacob 'Sehiff,' - the /New ; York> banker," • and^-hlVipar^'Jfrom^,W v hlte!.\Horse''!!to' Dawson a'nd!-.return, : refused \u25a0 to .go on the boat When "they learned that ;thft" financier : ; had- ; brought\ with him T^h is own = cooks -; a nd ; : .; ; a ttenda nt s. -\u0084 fech'i ff ' sen t h{ s em pi oye » ' b a c lc , ? to_Sk a g way; 't o" 'his yaehVllamona \andlthe,; strike 'ended: at once. ",,'"- \'_ : I Mrs. 'Minnie Maddern Tiskeyi^hothas] accepted; scenario for Mrs. Alhcrions [\u0084 "\u25a0"•. ".;.\u25a0'\u25a0\u25a0' -.\V : :Y;, : ..\u25a0' .J - • f "*;". \dramaf lxl* *. 'S:f:^.rS ••'''"- y - : \ ~ \ MRS. FD. FRAZIER MAY GET DIVORCE Son •of Wall Street Millionaire Accused of Making Her Life Miserable I .- j -, . j ... -^. .. .;. \u25a0 ...... [Special .Dispatch \io The Call]' SANTA .'"BARBARA. Sfuly^H.-^Rumors that Mrs.* Frank DufE Frazier ..would .bririgi'suit^for "divoi'ce have been \u25a0 cur rent in the. Montecito colony. for. some days, Vbiit. are not yet confirmed.^.The topic is one that Mrs. Frazier does not care\tovdiscuss arid her friends-declare that if < the : ;suit \u25a0is ; brought -it iwill *be because" there is no" alternative; for f he peace"Of;the'hoiisehold. *'-.'* \u25a0 • r ;.'-. _ ; Mr.; ; and; Mrs." Frazier : arrived '; here early last '< winter' and had at the ; Potter i for \u25a0 some weeks,.! being visited later by Mrs. Frazier's /father, - F." F. Peabody, the- New York - million-, aire.Ja member of the firm- of -P^abo'dy, Clueu"&Vco! \u25a0':\u25a0/ '\u25a0-'-'\u25a0 '\; : \\; \u25a0\u25a0:>' : :y\ Then.the Fraziers took aicottagejn Montecito; where . her . father I is ? " "the owner of a; large", estate which," he!; is improving.-' The' home life .became quite unbearable, it is • said, . for the : - wif e, Ther. husband'-becomlngf attached i to-aVsriiall coterie,"'of.'which the late: Nat ' Moore was.- a member.*. " ' ". ' :J Frazier's", father, F. P. Frazier.'.a.mil lionairelWall street operator,, came, out at -the behest, it , is believed,.: of/! the young ; Mrs.- Frazier, but ;the "\u25a0'. efforts' proved unavailing for the betterriient of the. domestic conditions iWlthin. the' young' people's home. _ « '' Mrs. Frazier has continued A to . oc cupy the cottage, where • she ; has a - sis ter ;as a 'companion. It -is: expected that'her father- will build, a .palatial home on- his Montecito property; within a few months, the landscape.- work be ing about* ; completed, -j .!.= •-' MAYOR OF LYNCHING MB!- BEETOWNjRESIGNS Quits Post in Attempt' to- Avert / ; State' Investigation r'~ • - NEWARK, JO.;' July< 14.— After a .con ferencelasting many: hours Mayor Her bertVAthefton: resigned his. office .today \u25a0irij:*. response, to pressure", exerted iupon him": by.' leaders of .'his party, and -per-* sonal ; £riends.\ l'~ \u25a0 , ; ; • : - L v-j The i rea son ; given .was * that - it ;was hopcd:therebyto ! save; the ;city" the ;disV, "grace of ; an investigation . by ' the : gov^ errior, following the lynching^last'week of an »Anti-Saloon league'; 'detective and fthe*; subsequent"-' suspension .of '< Maj - or 'Atherton '-by i Governor Harmon., '.;i.-.;\ • jt .' was V announced ;,. that ."Newark. i wants to do her own house cleaning." '&: BIG BUCK WANDERS INTO SAN RAFAEL Children Pursue Deer Through Streets Witli Stick and Stone -as Weapons {Special Dispatch to The Call] SAN RAFAEL, July • 11.— While al most every hunter in San .Rafael has shouldered his gun and tramped off to the wilds "of northern. Marin county for the opening of deer season tomorrow, it remained-: for .'little ; Willie and Helen Whitney,; aged 5 and 6 respectively, to pursue. the first J big buck of the year In j. the >very center .of the^ town this morning. Perhaps instinct told the handsome animal that the entire hunt ing- population had armed itself to the teeth and gone .forth in search' of him and others of his kind. While hungry hounds | strained at their leashes to take up., his /trail, and -brave nimrods donned cartridge belts and cleaned their, rifles i preparation for his •slaughter, | th'e'vwise /old 'buck . decided that civilization -offered the best pro tection. " • v •' . / . WitH - the : town alive -.with _ hunting talk his leisurely entrance taused great \ excitement:.- He wandered slowly down ;from .the , tree "grown slopes!:of • Wolfs htll.i crossed -the' railroad track" with out I on"; the^ third rail/and trotted -calmly up Shaver avenue - to Fourth' streeV. '\u25a0 " \u25a0 At 7 o'clock in .the morning there were-few people bn the street, but the; children ; of J.-S. Whitney, manager of a .local ice and a , prominent Spanish-American war veteran, saw the deer iapproachihg from the garden" of their home.' * The old buck walked up to the garden fence and began "nibbling the; choicest leaves of an overhanging rosebush. / • * •• ' ". j £ ; From . aO screen •of " shrubbery little Helen and Willie watched him., at .first with, fear, -but- the. sentiment soon turned tor indignation when the buck continued ; to- chew on -their mother's favorite •- rosebush. v ."Shoo!'.' ;cried Willie.: when he could bear the affront no longer. • \u25a0'.\u25a0•-.. - v" The* big^deerA looked up quickly, and seeing' the little, children took a final bitejat. the. bush. and trotted, away down the Spavement. '\u25a0'-' Helen'and Willie gave pursuij; The .buck led them at an easy goingarot across a- : vacant/ lot; to Fifth avenue and through the grounds of the Mount .-Tamalpais , military academy! The' children ;followed. Willie with a big -stick', and Helen bringing- up : the rear armed =with a \u25a0stoned For ; five 'minutes | he ambled 'along-; as- if to, tease theVchl'dren,^ and -theii,' tiring .of so pea'cefuUa, chasp, jumped^a ; fenc« .and disappeared I in -the direction 'of 'the San Rafael- hills. - - \u25a0 . , f THE WEATHER y£SiiERD AY- -Maximum temperature \ 66; i r fmifiimumy .->\u25a0&. FOR TODAY— Cloudy, un settled weather; moderate southwest winds. PEICEFIVE CENTS. TWO NATIONS WATCH FOR SLAYER Dr. H. H. Crippen, Alleged Mur* derer of Wife, Said to Be on Way to America POLICE TO SEARCH ALL STEAMERS FROM ENGLAND Former Californian and Woman Companion Dressed as Man Flee From London CRIME IS SIMILAR TO , THE CHARLTON MURDER LONDON, July 12.— A1l the intricate machinery of Scotland Yard has been set in motion to capture Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, the battered body of whose wife, a noted music hall singer, known by the stage name of Belle Elmore, was found buried in the cellar of their home at Hilldrop Cres cent, North London. , Crippen has been missins since Sat urday, when apparently he could no longer offer explanation for the death of his wife, which was alleged by him to 'have occurred months ago in Cali fornia. Then it was that the police, in making a thorough examination of the empty house came upon the body, mutilated and burned beyond recog nition by quicklime that had been thrown upon it. Body Dissected The thick clay by which it was partly surrounded, to some extent retarded the action of the quicklime and. so frustrated the murderer's plan of _ destroying the body. It is said the body had been partly dissected beforo burial and nearly all the bones aro missing. Requests have been sent out broad cast that all incoming steamers be watched. The belief is strong that Crippen sailed on Saturday for New York, but there have been ruomr3 that he was seen in London this morn ing. : The . police today continued their digging operations at the house. Noth ing was found that would throw fur ther light on the mystery, which has become the chief sensation in the Lon don newspapers. The case is strikingly similar to that of the Charlton murder at Lake Como, Italy. . ./;»"-,.'\u25a0 Doctor Crippen, a dentist, 50 years of age, has made his home for some time at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, North London. Some time ago his wife. Belle Elmore, actress and treasurer or the Musical Hall artists* guild, dis appeared and subsequently notice of her death appeared in the local papers. Her. death was generally credited, but there was more or less gossip, j and this finally reached the ears of the police. The latter visited Doctor Crippen and the interview appeared to be satisfactory. Then came the dis covery of the body. Woman Companion -The first thing the police did today was to cable to. the police of American ports asking ttiem to search incoming; steamers for Crippen, who was 'de scribed with the aliases of Peter Grip pen and- Franckel Crippen. The po lice believe, he sailed on Saturday for the United States. They believe that he is accompanied -by Ella Clara Leneve, a French woman, whom he had recently introduced as his wife. This woman . Ts believed tt> be dressed male attire. - • Before leaving Hilldrop Crescent Crippen sent out "for a boy's suit and this, the police surmise, is now belnff won by his companion. The indications point to a coolly planned murder. Early in February last letter signed , "Belle Ellmor*" was received by the Vaudeville Art ists* guild, statins that the writer had gone to America on business. It was this letter, which the police say was intended to cover up a crime, that, as it turned out, furnished an evidence oC criminality. Belle Elmore spelled her name with one "1." The discrepancy was noticed and aroused suspicion among the members -of the guild and largely Influenced them in determining to bring the ..woman's disappearance to. the attention of the authorities. . False Death Report; Then the advertisement appeared an nouncing that Belle Elmore had died in Los Angeles. , An investigation was begun and , the:* advertisement • was found. to' have been untrue. • • -?It ; was- learned today that when the, officers visited Crippen they forced him Ito admit 4 that his "wife had not died la California. He then said, according to V V