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Show GRIPPEN BEGINS OEFEJSEMS Alleged Murderer's Solicitor in London Gets Busy Soon After Taking Case. CLAIM INSUFFICIENT IDENTIFICATION OF BODY Various Rumors That the Prisoner Pris-oner Has Confessed Are Officially Denied. QUEBEC, Auj;. 4. Those mysterious London friends of Dr. Hawloy llarvev C'rippeu. who havo retained counsel to defond him on a charge- of wife murder, proffered further assistance by cable today. to-day. Two messages were delivered to the dentist 111 his coll. Tho first asked if hp needed funds; the second inquired about tho rumors to tho effect that he had confessed. Crippon replied by cable that he would appreciate sumo monov. and he reassured his friends he had made- no admission that would hurt his case. It was said that a local attornoy, whoso name rho authorities declined to divulge, sent word today to Miss Lcnove, offering to represent her in any Icgal proceedings. She declined his scr-vices. scr-vices. In her answer the young typist showed that tho fifty-vear-old dentist with tho palo face and fishy eyes still exorts a strong influence over her. She sent back word that her case was Dr Crippon 's, and that she would return to Lnglnnd to make her tight with him. And she has lot fall no word likely to incriminate M10 man. Solicitor Newton, who has bcon retained re-tained to defond Dr. C'rippen, mudo his first, move- today when he filed .a formal application asking tho authoritcos to permit an independent phvsician to examine ex-amine tho bits of human flesh found in tho Crippon collar. It is undertsood that Nowton will contend con-tend that they cannot bo identified as having belonged to tho body of Bollo Elmore. Scotland Yard is kept busy'donying all sorts of rumors concorning Crippon and Miss Louovo, thu most recent do-scribing do-scribing an allogod confession by tho doctor, emanating from Quobcc. Superintendent Forest trcatod tho ro-port ro-port lightly, intimating that Juspector Dew would not bo Iikoly to givo out information in-formation in Quebec which ho had not first cabled to headquarters hero. Tho superintendent pointed out also (that had Crippcn confessed it would have been unnecessary to send Sergeant Mitchell to Quebec with depositions taken ta-ken in London in order to gain the extradition of tho prisonous. Extradition Preparations. Mitchell, accompanied by two wardresses, ward-resses, who will tako chargo of Miss Lcnevo, sailed this morning on tho steamer Luko Manitoba for Quubec. Tho question whether Oripp'on and his companion havo been marriod has boon revived, because of its bearing on tho status of tho woman as a possible witness against Crippon. Tt is known thnt tho police arc hoping Miss Lcnovo will make a witness for tho crown, but if it is proven that shu is tho wife of tho doctor, she 111113' refuse absolutely to lake tho stand against hor husband. Discussing this fenturo, of the enso, Superintendent Forest said an exhaustive! exhaus-tive! official investigation had failed to produce any ovidonco of such a marriage. NO PROBABILITY THAT CEIPPEN HAS CONFESSED QUEBEC, Aug. '1. Tho Qncboc provincial pro-vincial authorities wore insistent today to-day that Dr. Crippcn had not inndo a confession'. They maintained this attitude atti-tude in tho face of persistent rumors Continued on Pago Two. .CRIPPEN BEGINS DEFENSE PLANS Continued from Pago One. that some sort of a statement had been obtained from tho prisoner. This much is known: Inspector Dew and the Canadian detectives have not visited Crippen's coll or had any direct di-rect communication with him since yes torday morniiiL'. Dow breakfasted early today, at his boarding houso and disappeared, whether ho left town could not bo determined, but members of tho provincial police expressed tho belief that he had sought seclusion in order to avoid the annoj'unco of being obliged to Ideny frequently erroneous statements state-ments attributed to him. Crippen .has changed much in facial expression einco he arrived hero Monday. Mon-day. He is not allowod to shave and a four days' growt'h of beard gives him quite .a different look. The i'Ail governor gov-ernor 'said the precautions against an attempt at self destruction wero so strict that the prisoner neither would bo allowod to havo n razor nor be trusted in the hands of tho iail barber. Rumors From Outside. The rumors of statements made by Crippen as to tho crimo with which ho is jointly charged with Miss Lonove-havo Lonove-havo reached hero usually from Montreal, Mon-treal, New York and London. In each instance thoy sent tho correspondents scurrying from ono provincial officer to another. Nothing in confirmation could bo learned. It has been variously reported that Crippen admitted of a scuffle with his wife, aftor which she was seized with a fatal illness and also tliat tho prisoner explained that the death of his wife was accidental. Tho time set by lav for the detention of the pair on Canadian soil will expire at midnight August 35. The first English En-glish steamer from this port sailing after af-ter that date will leave on August 18, t but a faster bont will leave on tho 10th land the deportation of Crippen and Miss ! Lenevo may await the later date. They havo been remanded until August Au-gust 8, but on dint date it is proposed to again remand them until the loth and on that, date to once more romand thorn until tho day on which the vessel decided on sails. |