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Show expression winning. There you have the incentive. Fascinated by a face, Dr. Crippen lost interest in his wife, neglected her and finally murdered her. One of the strongest passions of mankind found full play in this tragedy. It is called love, but it might be better described de-scribed as the insanity of an impure mind. All history is filled with crimes prompted by man's weakness in the presence of woman's influence. in-fluence. Men, under the power of a bcguilement such as Dr. Crippen invited, have thrown themselves into the jaws of Death and have accepted eternal damnation. There is no analyzing this peculiar pe-culiar disorder of the mind, except to recognize that naturo, for a purpose, implanted in man a dominant passion which, when con-trolled, con-trolled, serves the highest purpose of the human race, but which, unshackled, destroys. DR. CRIPPEN 'S CAPTURE. : '.ture of Dr. Crippen and his paramour demoiioUates the thoroughness of the detective service of Scotland Yard and the advantages ad-vantages of wireless telegraphy in searching out the fugitive at sea. Dr. Crippen, after the disappearance of his wife had received the attention of the London police, suddenly dropped out of sight. Seemingly, there was no trace left by which to follow the man or his affinity, but Scotland Yard, holding to the theory that the doctor, doc-tor, an American, would endeavor to escape to the United States, had the passenger list of all steamers closely examined for suspects and finally decided that the couple answering to the description of Rev. John Robinson and son, on board the Montrose, sailing from Antwerp for Quebec, on July 20, were Dr. Crippen and his typist, Ethel Levene. A wireless description of the fugitives was sent to the commander command-er of the vessel and this made identity certain. Across the Atlantic, from land stations or ship apparatus, the wireless telegraph continued contin-ued to pry into the affairB of Dr. Crippen and companion, until, when Father Point, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, was reached, all the detective, who raced over from London, had to do was to board the ship, walk up to the murderer and, addressing him as Dr. Crippen, place him under arrest. This is one of the wonderful performances f wireless telegraph, something unknown to us a few years ago. With the officers of the law keeping vigil on high and whispering whis-pering instructions across the ocean, the escape of the criminal is nade almost impossible. We note that when the British officer took Dr. Crippen into custody, there was neither "first" nor "third" degree inflicted on he prisoner. It is against English laws to draw confessions from prisoners. This fair treatment of prisoners should serve as a lesson to American sleuths and criminal chasers. The English way is ' based on absolute justice and this country should follow the example j and thereby do away with an abuse of suspects which, indulged in by unscrupulous officers, often leads to brutality. As to the motive for Dr. Crippen 's heinous crime, that is made evident by the story of the newspaper men who saw Ethel Levene as she wa3 taken into custody. Her face is beautiful. She has locks of brown hair, her eyes are .gray and soulfully large and heavily fringed; her complexion is clear; her face is pleadingly oval and her |