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Show AGED FATHER' STILL HOLDS SON INNOCENT LOS ANGELES. Oct. U2. "My son la Innocent, even though he stands con-ictcd. con-ictcd. and I (Irmly, ucllcvc his wife, Jicllc Elmore, Is living somewhere in the United Slates." With tears streaming down his face. Myron A, Crippen, tho father of the physician sentenced today in London to he hanged, made this statement when the news was bulletined to 'him hero. While confldenco In tho son Ib expressed, It is ovldcnt that the aged man has no hope of the course of the law being changed. In his hour of eoitow, however, he referred with prldo to the early lifo of his son and that as a child he had an unusual mind that his desire for music conquered when his parents would not permit him to Indulge his artistic taste, by making his own violin; also how at an early age he had entered the office of a physician at San Jose, Cal., and received the rudiments of a medical education edu-cation and which was completed at Ann Arbor, Mich. Mr. Crippen Is practically penniless. |