TRIAL OF CRIPPEN FOO
WIFE MURDER BEGINS
Freshly-Groomed Doctor Appears Be
fore Judgment Bar and Pleads “Not
Guilty" After Denunciation.
MISS LENEVE TO BE TRIED LATER
fprcial pispatch.
London, Oct. 18.—“ Not guilty,
my lord!’’
With these words spoken in a
tense, low voice by Dr. H. H,
Crippen, the American physician,
charged with the murder of his
wile, Mrs. Belle Elmore Crippen,
the American Music hall artist,
the internationally famous trial
was started in Old Bailey court
today. Crowds thronged the
streets before the ancient seat of
justice and within were scores of
fashionably dressed women who
were frank in their expressions
of disappointment because Miss
Ethel Leneve, charged with being
an accessory after the fact, was
not present. She will be arraign*
cd later.
Bruce Miller of Chicago was the
Mar witness for the crown in this,
the first day's proceedings in the trial
of Dr. H. H. Crippen on the charge
Of murdering his wife, the former
music hall performer. Belle Elmore.
L'rippen had charged that Miller and
his wife had been unduly intimate. In
answer to the direct question from
Chief Justice Alverstone, Miller de
hied that his relations with Mrs. Crip
pen had ever exceeded the bounds
of propriety.
'’Her husband was in America when
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DIL HAWLEY H. CRIPPEN.
I first met her in London in 1899.”
Miller admitted, but he instantly add
ed, “while I visited her very often
and thought a great deal of her, I
always respected her as a married
woman."
Miller testified that he last saw her
in .April. 1904. and declared that the
only subsequent communication ne
had with her had been in the ex
change of Christmas and New Year
greetings. He was excused immedi
ately after his testimony to enable
him to return to America to attend
to pressing business matters.
Prosecutor Muir spoke upwards of
two hours without notes before con
cluding his arraignment and before
witnesses were called.
"The Hilldrop Crescent was occu
pied by the Crippens since 1905 and
by no one else," said he.
"With this fact established I ask
the gentlemen of the jury to say that
the remains found in the cellar there
were those of Mrs. Crippen or Belle
Elmore, as she was known on the
stage, and to say that only Crippen
could have put them there.”
Passing on to the flight and ar
rest of Dr. Crippen and Miss Leneve
Prosecutor Muir gave a graphic de
serintion of the man and the girl, be
lieving themselves safe upon the
steamer Montrose, upon which they
fled to Canada, whereas the world
knew every move of their doings,
through the agency of the wireless
telegraph.
“Dr. Crippen never explained his
flight and now we demand this," ex
claimed the prosecutor with flashing
eves. Then the calling of witnesies
began.
Wm. Long, former assistant in the
office of Hr. Crippen, admitted tier it
was he who. had purchased the suit
of bov’s clothes which Miss Leneve
wore on her trip with Dr. Crippen.
The of the 1 lilldrop Crescent
house was next called and then Dr
T. H. Burrows, a close friend of'Criu
uen. They repeated their testimony at
the inquest.
Mis. Paul Martinotti testified that
Dr. fhnppen had sent her a message
telling her of his wife's death in
America.
A dramatic scene with the back
ground set in a mass of humanity. The
crown's prosecution caused a sensa
tion.
“We charge that this man willfully
murdered his wife,in order to get her
money and remove her as the ob
stacle which prevented his marriage to
Ethel Leneve. his typist,” thundered
the king's counsel.
There was a flutter among the
women present. Gold mounted lorg
nettes were raised and the Im
perturbable Crippen scanned with
fresh interest.
Crippen was brought to Old Bailey
in the prison van along with other
prisoners. He apparently- felt no fear
for he calmly gazed about him dur
ing the ride from Broxton to the
court house.
There was an imposing array upon
the bench. Lord Chief Justice Alver
stone presided in person. Lord Mayor
Knill and Lord Mayor Strong-Elect sat
with the judge. The recorder sat be
hind the coiem peruked chief justice.
Thore was a shade of anxiety which
passed over the face of the diminu
tive prisoner as. daintily attired in a
frock coat and gray trousers, he took
his seat.
Crippen might have been attired for
a gay social function. He was groom
ed in strict taste without being
flashy.
Always a place of utmost solemnity,
the scone presented in the crowded
court chamber today was almost sep
ulchral. Tlte chief justice, attired in
his black gown and his great towering
wig of white, gazed solemnly over the
room.
When Crippen was called to the bar
a hush Coll over the court room. Even
the swish of fans in the hands of the I
women was stilled. No one seemed to !
breathe.
Crippen from his position between
his counsel. Barristers A. A. Tobin.
Huntley Jenkins and Arthur Newton. '
arose and walked before the chief
justice, who had decided to preside
because of the importance of the case.
His plea in. ho returned to his seat
and cast a quick glance about the j
room, while the king's counsel began
the speech upon which depends in
great part, the life or death of the lit
tle doctor.
It was evident that the bulk of
the work for the defense would fall
unon Solicitors Jenkins and Tobin, as
Mr. Newton sat back and seemed to
be noting in an advisory capacity.
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formality. Crinpen's counsel chai- j
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wore ronlaeed hf others.
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dramatic manner for the conviction
of the prisoner. Tn a booming voice
he pointed out that the tragedy of
the Crippens was caused by a false
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First Uncensored Dispatch
From Portuguese Capital
Tells of Persecutions.
BRAGA IS ONLY FIGUREHEAD
(By Courier to Badajos, Spanish Fron
tier.)
Special Dispatch.
Lisbon, Oct. 18. —Terror prevails in
Lisbon. Individual freedom is gone.
Most of the foreign newspaper cor
respondents have been arrested on
suspicion of being monks. Even pri
vate houses are Invaded by the priest
hunters.
The editor of Seculo arrested with
his own hands Senhor Binto. a leading
lawyer, who had been banished with
out trial, with his whole family. This
is only the beginning of political per
secutions.
Provincial President Braga is a fig
ure head and a dreamer. He holds
levees for 24 hours every day for
Spanish. Italian and Russian anar
chists. to whom he elaborately ex
plains how to abolish their respective
sovereigns.
The presidential interviews arc mer
cilessly censored and therefore none
of his indiscretions get out.
The president says he will start a
republican propaganda in England.
Spain and Italy: that he shall abolish
the foreign legations and save money.
He thinks the ministers spend too
much money on state dinners.
Indeterminate
Sentence Given
for Theft of $2O
Associated Press.
Chicago, 111.. Oct. 18.—Judge Scan
lan, in sentencing Thomas Jackson,
colored, to an indeterminate impris
onment of from one year to life, em
phasized the worth of newspapers to
a community.
“If our newspapers would publish
such sentences, crime would diminish
rapidly.” said Judge Scanlan. “If
robbers learned through the newspa
pers that they were going to get 11M,
imprisonment when they came over
here, neither the robbers nor their
pals would be long in recognizing the
best thing to do.”
A jury found Jackson guilty of
thrusting a revolver in the faces of
several waitresses in a restaurant and
robbing the cash register of $2O.
was the most scatching denunciation
of a prisoner ever heard in a British
court.
"For three years this defendant car
‘ ried on an intrigue with Ethel Leneve
whom he desired to marry,” exclaimed
Barrister Muir.
"There were two obstacles to the
marriage of this man to his mistress,
but both of these would have been
removed by the death of his wife. He i
needed money badly and his designs
were to get this and remove his wife ’
) at the same time.”
The prosecutor accused Crippen of
entering into an elaborate scheme to '
defeat justice.
"This defendant claimed that his
wife was ill in America and then be
fore going to France with the Leneve
girl on March 24. be telegraphed to
Mrs. Paul Murtmetti. telling her that
Belle had died.” continued the prose- i
cutor.
■ While this recital was going on. the [
depper little prisoner swung his shoes
of burnished patent leather and
seemed ill at ease. At other times lie
was apparently self-possessed. He
looked to be In perfect health, having I
been kept in the infirmary at Brix- |
ton. whore elaborate meals were sent I
in from a nearby restaurant. *
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Hutchinson. Kan.. Oct. IS.—The
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will attend the state convention of the
Kansas anti-horse thief association *n
Hutchinson this week began arriving
todav.
C. E. Pile, state president of the as
sociation will be here from Parsons
with others of the state legislative of
fices The convention proper will not
open until Wednesday, but the state
executive committee will hold a ses
sion at the Chalmers hotel.
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Associated Press.
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The animals weigh 800 to 1600 pounds
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the provinces of Chiht and Sang Tung,
there are three grades of mules as
classified for export:
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Associated Tress.
! Managua. Nicaragua. Oct. 18.—The
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! suit against P. W. Chamberlain, an
i American contractor, to recover 320,-
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bogus draft sold to the treasury by
(Chamberlain with the connivance of
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STATUE TO*BLEDSOE
Hero of Mexican and Civil Wars Will
Be Honored By Townsmen.
Special Dispatch.
Pleasant Hill, Mo., Oct. 18 — A
fund has been raised by the citizens
of Pleasant Hill to erect a statue ot
Colonel Hiram Bledsoe, at some uub
lic nlacc in this city.
Colonel Bledsoe was a notable fig
ure in the Mexican and civil wars,
and Bledsoe’s battery was famous for
courage and daring. "Old Sacramen
to” one of the pioneers of his batterv,
was widely known throughout both
the north and the south, during the
civil war.
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Special Dispatch.
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gin and buildings belonging to the 1
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miles south of Snyder, was destroyed
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Broivn Already Married When
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Famous Marriage Has Warm Sequel When Suspicion That
Both Parties Sailed Under False Colors Is Aroused By
a Letter From Mrs. Dilks.
Special Dispatch.
Washington. D. C., Oct. 18.—A sen
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Mrs. Eugenia Adams and Harvey O.
Brown, of this city, who received $2OO
for his complicity in the affair and
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startling resemblance to her missing
husband. H. E. Dilks, formerly ot
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from the paper) I find it bears a
startling resemblance to my husband.
H. E. Dilks as I know him. missing
since August 10. Find photograph
enclosed, taken when a young man.
He has deserted before but has al
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1 bov 15, and a girl 3.
"Very respectfully.
"MRS. H. E. DILKS.”
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valid under the terms of the pre-nup
tlal contract which Brown and nis
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Judge Bunday said today the pic
ture enclosed by Mrs. Dilks was an
I excellent likeness of the man Brown
land that the newspaper picture and
| the earlier photograph were very
: much alike. He is inclined to give
' credence to Mrs. Dilks' suspicions, but
I refused to turn the letter over to the
I police.
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traversty on marriage and talked of a
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Special Dispatch.
New York. Oct. IS.—The long cam
paign for the election of Edgar Allen
I’oe to the hall ot fame seems to have
ended successfully. Next Friday the
senate of New York university will
canvass the votes cast in the quin
qiennial balloting of the electors. Tho
last five votes front the 96 electors
were received today. Fifty-one votes
are required for election.
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