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Show she world. Crippen dipla'cd not the slightest Interest. "Is there anything you wish to uy" persisted the jailor. The accused man answered, "No." "ALL So Far Dr. Crippen Is Silent and Will Not Talk Quebec, Aug. 2. Dr. Crippen and Miss lyneve, the two prisoners who have focused the eyes of the world on this old French city on the St. Lawrence, slept last night the sleep of complete exhaustion following the ordeal of the preceding hours. Crippen and the girl now face two weeks or more of monotonous waiting. wait-ing. There will be no more legal proceedings pro-ceedings In the case tmtl August Sth. when they will have another purely formal appearance in court to give them a last opportunity of demanding a writ of habeas corpus or any other legal relief to which they ma feel entitled. Unless they change their expressed express-ed Intention, neither will apply for writs or interfere in any way with the methods adopted by the police to get them back to England. So far as the Province of Quebec Is concerned, leral proceedings are practically closed. The official documents docu-ments regarding the, arrest of the couple and their interrogation by Judges Langllcr and Angers of the court of special sessions were forwarded for-warded last night to Ottawa for the Rignature of the governor-general. The color !s beginning lo return to Miss Leneve's cheetu and this morning morn-ing the matron at the Jail hospital said fdie looked a trifle less forlorn than when she wa.s taken there yesterday afternoon from the house of Chief of Detectives McCarthy. Miss Ivoneve. who left the Montrose In garments loaned to her by the ship's stewardess, was today supplied with a neat. white dress, which added to the improvement improve-ment in ber appearance. Crippen is Silent. Crippen taciturn and seeming to a considerable extent to have recover ed his composure, has volunteered nvthlng since bis arraign ment yesterday yes-terday which might help the police in solving the mystery surrounding the disappearance of his wife. The detectives would like to gather from the accused some unusual evidence, evi-dence, but unless some present signs fall, they will receive no help in this line from Dr. Crippen. "Crippen Is no fool." said Inspector Dew. and no one questions bis opin TITnT Accordingly it is generally heliev-ed heliev-ed that the police are renting their hopes oi Miss l.eneve. If rhe does not possess the key to the mysiery. i.'iey think she can at least aid thorn alerlally in a reconstruction of the circumstances leaLii. up lei the disappearance dis-appearance of Belle Elmore. U is known that Mrs. Crippen was Jealous Jeal-ous of her husKand's typist and Cue police have no doubt that Miss Le-nee Le-nee was aware of this Jealousy. No Third Degree. They will not use any 'third degree" de-gree" methods in interviewing Mis l.pneve. but more subtle influence already al-ready is at work. The girl prisoner is beinr treated wtlh the greatest consideration. She shoved the effect ef-fect of this today, appearing to be much better in body and in mind than on yesterday when, following tbc collapse after her arrest, she was considered too ill to appear in court. Miss Leneve bas never been placed In a cell here. She has leen kept Iu the room of one of the women employes em-ployes of the provincial jail and has been allowed occasional outdoor exercise. ex-ercise. Inspector Dew has repeatedly said that be believed the girl was Innocent In-nocent of any knowledge of wrongdoing. wrong-doing. She has been visited by women wom-en who have treated her most kindly. kind-ly. At the same time. Miss Leneve is being bombarded . wltb cablegrams from members of her family In London Lon-don urging her to tell all she knows. The pressure of friendliness is being eKcrtfd on her. while there Is no prospr-ct tbat she will come In contact with Dr. Crippen or even see blm for n long time. The purpose In all this is obvious when it is considered that, so far as la jrenerally known, Scotland Yard has been unable to identify the dismembered dismem-bered body found In the cellar of the Crippen home In Londou. The iwlice case is lelleved not to be complete. ..Even the unemotional Dew, the typical English detective, has been Mfected by Miss Leneve's plight. "1 am sorry for her," he tald to-'.iv. to-'.iv. "I don't believp she knew any-ll'lng any-ll'lng about the crime." While the Canadian and Englitdi Ihws strictly prohibit any attempt to obtain a confession, especially the f.ilrd degree. It Is said tin plrl has i-s pressed a desire lo make revelation?. revela-tion?. The police say they will ac-'-cpt her stntpment after she had I'ten warned that anything she said liight be used against her at her iial. Thus far. In moments of ber ex-tru ex-tru shock and weakness, the poire po-ire ansert. Crippen's companion ha" 'mained loyal to him so far as ber Hence Is loyalty. Crippen today was permitted lo revive re-vive the first message that ha. cached him from tho outside slncu tils arrest. The police have denied all requests to see and ppeak with the prisoner ar.d threw up their hands in amazement amaze-ment at the Idea of a newspaper In torvlew Today, however, Juil?e An-tcrs An-tcrs authorized the prison governor Joseph Morcn to visit Crippen and (.'VP him a verbal message, asking li be would make a public Mate-ruent. Mate-ruent. The magistrate Imposed the 'rms ilia' anything Crippen might y must be put by him In writing 'nd sent to the court before It was ;ien out. Moren found the prisoner In the nie silent and morose Mate that lr? i'3T preserved fince bis Itn'-rison-r.-ent. When told that ho had i cLouco to eend some word La th ouv |