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Show PROSECUTION IN CR1PPLN CASE FAILS TO IDENTIFY Ttt MUTLATED BODY Mrs. Harrison, Who Knew Belle Elmore, Has Her Testimony Weakened by Cross Examl nationCrippen Purchased a Deadly Poison Under Peculiar Circumstances I medical correspondency for the com- , pany. London. Sept. R At the resumption toe1 ay of tho trial of Dr. Ilawley H. Crippen and Ethel Clair Leneve. for the murder of the former's wife. Pub. lie pnmeeutor Humphreys introduce I evidence to establish the claim of the crown that parts of the mutilated body lound In the Crippen borne otwe f'irln-d a part of the person of Hello Elmore, the missing wife, and t Krcngtheri what had been popularly ' regarded as the missing link In the chain of circumstantial evidence the accused. The first witness called was Mrs. Adenine Harrison, whose acquaintance acquaint-ance with Belle Elmore had extended iiicr a period of twelve years. Mrs. Harrison was usked to examine j strands of hair found when the dismembered dis-membered body was recovered and, having done so, she Bwore that she leongnized the exhibit as similar to j that worn by Belle Elmore. A torn bit of feminine underwear, nl?o discovered by the searchers In the cellar, was next introduced, and the witness declared that she had seen Ltelle Elmore clothed in undergarments undergar-ments of a like texture. Testimony had been offered before showing that tho lower jvart of the Ixidy bore a sear, the result of an operation. op-eration. Mrs. Harrison testified thai t-he had seen a similar scar on tho body of her friend. ! Miss I.eneve presented a woebegone 1 appearance and did not seem anxious to converge. Crippeni to whom bis spectacles had been returned fur the first time since his arrest, appeared as the Crippen of early photographs, i He sKike to the girl anxiously and she replied In ruonosy lables. In tho crosfleXAmlnatlon of Mrs llarr.son, Solicitor Newton, representing represent-ing Crippen, detracted somewhat from the strength of the evidence, and Incidentally Inci-dentally Indicated what Js believed to I e the line of defense. In reply to Newton's questions, the witness as-tented as-tented to the suggestion that the hair, the portion of a woman's vest and the turling Iron found In the Crippen home were not only similar to tho- worn or used by the missing woman, but "also resembled thousands of others." , When Mrs. Harrison left the stand, the prosecution called the chemist who claims that he sold hyoscin. a deadly poison, to Crippen. The witness wit-ness testified that tho doctor purchased pur-chased tlc grains of the drug on January If, explaining that he re-quired re-quired the poison for use !n homeopathic homeo-pathic preparations As Is required of purchasers of pol"n, he slgtu-d tho registry book of the store, making this Inscription : '.Munyons, per H. II. Crippen." Inspector Dew, who arrested the fugitive fu-gitive and brought them back fnun (Jcl.ic, re-entered the witness !i thU morning and read a lengthy statement state-ment rlgned by Crippen when the police Urst asked hlru to make an explanation ex-planation of his disappearance from London after suspicion had been directed di-rected ugalnst him. The gist of the rtiilement hud already been Covered by Humphreys In his opening address. Inspector Ihiw also testified regarding regard-ing the search of CTlppen'8 house and 'old of lludlng there a loaded revolver and a ho- of cartridges. JThe fatetnent which Crippen made to In.spirtor Dow -concluded : "My belief Is that my wife has gone 'o Chicago to JoinTIruco Miller." Cross examining the insp-ctor. Solicitor So-licitor Newton drew out the statement hit throughout the earl'er M.nre of the Investigation of the crime, Crippen appeared perfectly eml and collected nnd was cortoous, affording the polb-ij every facility for searching the house Counsel tried to i-t the witness to ny that the parts found 'night have beet) burled long aprior to the disappearance disap-pearance of Mrs. Crippen. but Dew In-"li In-"li d that, tbouqh portion j were ;-en ;-en te po-ed , other bilH of Hesh remained 'nit" firm, nnd, w-hen cut. appeared a fp'fh. Some pieces had been petrified l-v the action f the lime in which i hey wore bjrlcd. Tho trial was adjourned to Septem- "-r 14. , Not Employed by Crippen. I Philadelphia. Sept. S. The tea'l-' mor.v of a hmdua chemist l the 1 Crippen trial today. In which the wp-ners wp-ners stated that Crippen purchased five grains of hyo9cIn on January P for uo In homeopathic preparations and that Crippen nlgmd "Mutiyon's, per II. II. Crippen," ia the chemist's rcv:ltr book, wa-v shown to J. M Mcnyon of this rl'.y, by whom Crippen Crip-pen h;ol ben employed. ' Mr. Munyou elated that the deadly Minon was never used l.y hirn In his .repartitions and that Crlp;n n'" nev r put up any rf tin-files for blm.is all ll. r work w as done In PliUadc libti. Mr. Munyon further said that t'rl ;-rien ;-rien nevered his connection with 'he Munyon Interests In December. 1 :. Me had been engaged only to answer |