Show CRIPPEN PAYS PENALTY PENAL TV Of HI M B S C RIM E Hanged in Pentonville Prison Prison Pris Pris- on London at Nine This Morning ALMOST COLLAPSES WHEN FACING DEATH MaKes MaRes No Confession Ethel L Leneve Sails for the United States LONDON Nov Nor 23 23 Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen today paid the penalty penalty pen i alty for the murder of his wife Belle Boll i Elmore the actress within a few minutes minutes min min- utes of the tho stroke of 9 the tho morning mornIn hour fiX fixed d for for the execution Tho hanging was in prison where the prisoner had been confined since his return to this coun coun- I try following his arr arrest st in in Canada The condemned man who throughout his bis trial and oven even until Home Secretary Secre Secre- tary Churchill had refused a petition for his liia re reprieve had hd maintained an imper imper- imperturbable calmness presented a pitiable appearance as he lie was led lod rl through the short corridor from his cell to thes the s scaffold His Ills mental nn anguish had been too eat to be covered up by bravado and it was a broken man tho the warders were obliged to assist up tho the steps to the drop droy upon which once reached the shrinking 1 figure ure all but collapsed Lost All AU Fortitude The first report that Crippen had met his fate calmly camy was wag aR contradicted by persons who were present in the tho prison during the mans man's last hours hour The doomed man passed a restless ni night ht and appeared haggard and arid worn when whim awakened awakened awak awak- ened enod from his fitful slumbers Ho lie seemed to lose oso all fortitude as the end approached A A. breakfast was brought to S him hun but he be did dH not touch it H lff Si 8 s es a g SIW r. r gruesome V r was f-was dono The black rap cap was quickly drawn over oyer the face the face the adjusted and nd the tho bolt drawn rawn Crippen who weighed HO I was given a drop arop or of seven icet Death was instantaneous I From rom the time that thO thor reprieve was refused the physicians physician s 's condition has been one of mental prostration He Ho would see only Ethel Clare Leneve Jov love I for whom the crown asserted assorted was the I compelling motive in tho murder of his wife Solicitor Newton who had made a game gamo fight for his client cHent and Father Carey to whose ministrations he be paid respectful attention Iu In State of ot Collapse The final interview with Miss Len Leneve eve yesterday was most painful and already in tho shadow of the death the tho convicted con con- v murderer made no effort to sup sup- p press ress his emotion upon parting with the g girl irl During the remainder of the day he was in a state of complete completo nervous collapse c retiring to hi his bed utterly de do- s 1 T S 1 s. s 2 V I- I Ii i iS S Public Executioner Ellis ElUs of ot Rochdale who hanged a wife mur murderer at Liverpool yesterday morning arrived In r London ondon on the evening train The scaffold was erected erected erect erect- ed today A few tenements overlook the prison yard and to bar the tenants from a glimpse of tho the tragedy a big canvass screen was put up before the tho gallows allows The hoisting hoisting- of ot a grim black fla flag which was seen Keen as it shot to its place through a rift in the tog fog announced to the crowd in the streets that Dr Crippen was dead Some time after aftel the tho crowd ha had dis- dis p t a notice was posted on the prison prates gates ates announcing announcing- that judgment of I death has baa this day bec been executed e on H. H H. H Crippen In the presence of tho the governor gov gov- of the prison the under sheriff and I Father ather C Carey rey The Tho physicians physician's certificate of death was also displayed 6 An n e evening paper created a A. sensation b by flooding the city with placards that Crippen c had made mado a written confession Every one In a position to know denied dented this y Ethel Leneve saUl said I J 1 was ras one of at tho the last persons persons to see Dr Crippen before he taken faken his cell cel was from So far ns as my knowledge extends ho lie did not make such a a statement I Ethel Leneve has booked bookel PR passage aste on the steamer Majestic which sails from Southampton for tor New York tomorrow Story atory of ot Crippens Crippen's Crime Tho The execution of Dr Hawley Rawley lawley H. H Crippen Crip Crip- pen In London today completed the crim inal rec records of one of or the most sensational sensa sensa- of recent cases The Thea brutality of the crime c committed by a a. who had b been man en known as of at a gentle and kindly nature the murderers murderer's spectacular flight ht to his native o land and the fact at that the case s the doctor was purely Circumstantial Combined ned to make the tragedy of ot absorbing interest not only in where the murder was committed but as well ivell in America where both Crippen and his wife were born Crippen slight In fig figure S ro was rast 5 50 years old He ITe was born In Michigan and after studying medicine practiced In the United States and Canada Tn rn 1906 he married Cora of ot J Brooklyn n a vaudeville actress Whose stage name was Belle Bene Elmore They re removed removed removed re- re moved to London where the doctor en engaged engaged en- en engaged in dental manufacture Domestic Infelicity Soon there was domestic Infelicity due due ue CrIppen alleged to the attentions his wife received from other men Then Clara Leneve a prepossessing woman 27 21 years old entered s 's employ as a typist She sympathized with th the doctor doc doc- doctor tor and the two fell tell in love Meantime Crippen and his wife were estranged Nearly a year ago agro Miss Mies Leneve feeling his position keenly became impatient t with the situation About the same time the doctor was in need of money Mrs Crippen disappeared s suddenly last any ary Her husband inserted a n dea death th no notice notice no- no tice In the papers she Rhe hart had succumbed succumbed suc suc- suc- suc to an Illness while t In California Actress friends of ot Mrs Cripp n n persuaded per per- Scotland Yard to make mako an in investigation in- in and the police officials inA in- in A tiA f VT rt n f on r 1 I 0 Y-Y Y nn 1 MA r n LU the police off orf the scent but on the fol tol- following fol- fol lowing day fled from London In company with Miss Leneve- Leneve who was disguised as a boy r Arrests Ar Are Made f Subsequently their presence on board the steamer Montrose was known wn to Scotland Yard through wireless messages message and as the tho Montrose was approaching Quebec Crippen and Miss Miss' were arrested This ThiH was on on July 31 In the meantime the police had visited the Crippen home lionie in lit Hlll Hilldrop Crescent and nd in the collar cellar unearthed parts of a womans woman's bod body The medical experts who ho examined lJ these ese were never ne able an anatomically ana ana- to prove that they were from the bod body of pelle Elmore Nevertheless the jury that heard the Crippen caso cao was satisfied that they were Crippen was Indicted and convicted of ot the murder of his wIe the evidence in including in- in ing t testimony that tha t he hc had bought and had administered poison after atter which he dismembered the body He iTo was son sen to be hanged on November ember S 8 but secured a stay of P. P execution until today An appeal on his b behalf was denied de denied de- de nied by the criminal court of appeals and a petition for a a. reprieve 1 was rejected re re- re by Home Secretary Churchill lIS Lene jent-I was waa Indicted and HUU na naas charged as an accessory after the tho fact tact but was acquitted f 5 SON OF SAYS SATS HE I IS NOT MUCH aH INTERESTED r S O LOS ANGELES Ca Cal Nov No m 23 Local S interest In the Crippen case caso was ao ac aspen en en- by the fact that Los Angeles w was iS the home of the father and son eon of at Dr H. H H. H Crippen The Tho attitude of or the t two o towards s the condemned man was so ro opposite us ts S to cause comment Myron tyron Crippen n. n more than SO 80 years ears old beli believing Implicitly In the Innocence of the physician wa was 30 b o deeply grieved that ho he died last Friday of a a. broken heart Ut TP to th the time of r Continued on page O 10 Ir r I CRIPPEN PAYS PENALTY Continued from page 1 his death he lp would freely speak peak of his Ins son and with pride related how h he over oyer came obstacles in order to attain a a 1 J medical education Dr eark carh education was received d in California Th The father died practically friendless a Dd penniless and his support ba has b bc n n the the tiva soh who up to the time of becoming a al fugitive from justice furnished n him what money he needed ed Young Crippen who is In the employ of a telephone company however ha baa from n the tha first refused to discuss the at af fairs of his father In fut fart ho lie expressed himself as but little interested in th the case cae This he he explained by th the fact that he be did not know his father The mother died when he hp was wal still sti a b babe which Ion Jod 1011 to his being left lef to the ce of ot t 01 otters rs IS I'S and arid rated the f fatherland son were thus thu sepa |