Show dr crippin was hanged last wednesday brief review of his crime trial and execution the execution of dr hawley H crippen in in london last wednesday completed the criminal records of one of the most sensational sat ional of recent murder cases crippen is reported a man slight in figure and just past the ago age of 50 years he was born in michigan 0 and after studying medicine practiced in he united states and canada in 1906 he married cora mack of brooklyn a vaudeville ac actress treas whose stage name was belle elmore they removed to london where the dr engaged n in dental manufacture soon there was dome domestic stio in filicite tili fili city crippen accusing his wife bif a of receiving attentions from other men and she accusing him of intimacy with his stenographer 0 clara leneve a essing woman of 27 years tho girl sympathized with the dr and the two fell in love after a number of domestic scenes mrs crippen disappeared suddenly last february her husband inserted a death notice in the papers saying she had bad suo dubbed ou imbed to an illness while visiting in california mrs crippen s friends felt suspicious and engaged detectives to make an investigation and the police officials interviewed crippen on july 12 ho he managed manal al to deceive the officers but on oil t the he fol following lowin 9 day fled from Lon london londonia donin in company with miss leneve who was disguised as a boy subsequently their presence on board the montrose becalel known own to scotland yard thru wireless messages and as the montrose was approaching quebec crippen Cripp enand and miss leneve were ari ariestea ested this was on J uly july 31 in the mean time the police had visited the crippen home in I 1 hildrop lil drop crescent Ore scent and in the cellar unearthed unearth od parts of 0 a wom ans body the medical experts who examined those were never able anatomically to prove that they were f from rom the body of belle bell e elmore elm ore nevertheless the jury that heard the Crippin lease was satisfied that they were drippin was indicted rind and convicted of the murder of his wife the evidence including testimony that he be had bought and had administer inister ed poison after he dis the body he was sentenced to be hanged banged on nov 8 but secured a stay of execution until nov 23 an appeal on his behalf was denied by the criminal court of appeals and a petition for a reprieve was rejected by the home secretary 0 curchill hur chill miss leneve was indicated and charged as an accessory ces sory but was acquitted |