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Show WKELESS IS jCTIVE SteamcrMayHave Crip-pen Crip-pen and His Typist Aboard Montreal. July 2S The White Star liner Laurent ic passed Belle Island at 2 o'clock this morning. She had on board Inspector Pew of Scotland Yard In the Crlppen case. The night off the coast of eastern 1 Canada was full of wireless communications communi-cations flashed seaward, but no reply came to reveal the whereabouts of Dr. Hawioy Crlppen, who ls wanted In London In connection with the disappearance disap-pearance pf his actress wife. Belle i:i-more, i:i-more, and the doctor's former typist, Etbel Clara Leneve. Nor did any Incoming word reveal the Identity of the two passengers j who went aboard the Canadian steam er Montrose at Antwerp, as John Robinson Rob-inson and John Robinson, Jr., and are-reported are-reported under suspicion as possibly being Crippen and his typist. Inspector In-spector Dew of Scotland Yard, aboard tho rapidly Incoming Lanrentic of the White Star line, also had sent no word. Throughout the night the Mentrose was supposed to be rapidly nearlng a zone of wireless communication with the station at Belle Isle. With the, Meamer's tjpe of apparatus, this' would be within IjO miles of the coast. At a dozen other stations the wireless never ceased their calls. The Dominion officers look for messages mes-sages telling . what. If anything, Dew learned from the Montrose by wireless wire-less when the two steamers, according accord-ing fo calculations, wore In close prox-lmt prox-lmt to each other yesterday at noon Chief Constable Gnavreau's instructions instruc-tions Trom Commissioner Sherwood at Ottawa are to board the Montrose when she pauses at Father Point for a pilot and to arrest Dr. Crlppen and I his typist if they are found. The attorney general's department at Quebec Is also represented. It sent out Chief McCarthy and another officer offi-cer with authority to arrest. On Board Steamship Laurentlc. via Marconi wireless to Belle Isle, N. F, July 2S. Replying to inquiries as to plans of Inspector Dew of Scotland Yard In tracing those suspected of being Dr. Crlppen and companion, no one by the name of Dew is shown on the passenger list. The above message Is the first word received from the steamer Laurenlic since It came in touch with the Amer-; Amer-; lean side. London reports have I stated definitely that Inspector Dew was aboard. It is probable he Is concealing con-cealing his identity under au assumed j name. |