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Show I ' CMPPEIi ID Oil . OFffl LONDON III Charge of Officers, Sail From I Quebec to Face Charge J of Murder. ' By Associated Press. , , ( QUEBEC. Ails. 20. Hawlcy Harvey j Crlppeji iind Ethel Clare Lenevo sailed J , for England on the Whlto Star liner I Mogantic at 7 o'clock tonight and are i due at Liverpool at noon next Saturday. By Saturday night they will probably be i lodged in a London Jail to await trial for the murder of a woman supposed lo bo Crlppon's wife. Bello Elmore. ' j An extraordinary accident occurred as Crlppen crossed tho gang plank. It car- i ried an omen that might well depress a man In tho shadow of tho gallows. Crlp-, Crlp-, i pen came hurrying across the plank hand-j hand-j cuffed, his hat pulled low over his eyes I I and his chin buried In his collar; trying , i apparently to dodgo the photographers. IJ . In his haste ho ran squarely Into a j ' rope that held tho gangway steady. Tho v , ropo caught him undor tho chin, and j jerked him backwards and had not In spector Dew caught him, Crlppen would have fallen and possibly pitched between the two vessels into the water, . Notwithstanding tho fears of the Brit- i isli police that the dentist might commit ) i suicide, tho occurrence was too palpably ) an accident for Its nature to be mistaken. mis-taken. Girl Glad to Go. Miss Lcneve, who had left tho jail with j every evidence of willingness, had to be supported as she crossed the gang plank. As she reached tho dock. of. tho Mcgantlc she fainted and had to be carried to her cabin. It was half an hour before sho revived. The girl never has recovered completely from her collapse at llrst. although al-though her condition has caused her jailer jail-er no anxiety. Neither learned they would sail today until 6 o'clock this morning, when both were awakened. Crippen hastily packed the little satchel Jailer Morln had bought him with clean linen and several novels. Miss Lenovc carried her scant effects in a paper parcel. She woro a neat blue suit bought hero with her own money, j and a large hat that sat jauntily on top I of the light brown wig the matron had A granted to hide her short hair. Both prisoners seemed glad to go. They thanked the Jailer for his kindness and Crlppen made him a present of ono of i the second-hand novels he had bought to road In his cell. On the llylcaf he wrote with a pencil" i "A. M. L. Morln. governor Quebec pris- 1 on I trust vou will do ino the great 1 honor to accept this as a small appreciat ion as the gratitude and many kindnesses vou have shown during my sojourn hero J, In Quebec. DR. II. H. CRIPPEN." |