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Show 1 crippen mna Suicide Note Is Explained as Part of a Ruse to Allow Crippen to Escape From the Steamer at Quebec-Why Crippen Departed From London to land him in the night time at Quebec. Que-bec. The Incriminating card suggesting sug-gesting suicide, which Inspector Dew found In Crlppen's cabin, was declared by his counsel to hae been deliberately delib-erately left there bv the fugitive with the objective of giving the finder the Impression that he had taken his life nnd so causing anyone who must be ; looking for him to abandon further j search of the vessel. I ooooooooooooooo, IJ O FACES HIS ACCUSERS. O 0 London. Oct 2o Dr. II. H. O j 0 Crippen faced his accusers fiom O ; O the witness box today. It was O O a dramatic moment when the dl O ' 0 inlnutive figure of tlie American Oi 0 emerged Ir' in tue comparative O I q Isolation of the dock and took a O C position w hero ho was stnred at O 0 with Interest by tho throng that o C filled the new Bailey courtroom. O j 0 Br. Crippen was ypale but step- o j 0 ipiickly into the box, and, holding O O the bible In his hand, teok the O I O oath calmly. O O O ooooooooooooooo Imdon. Oct. L'O. It was decided today to place Dr. Hawley H. Crippen on the witness stand and let him tell his own story of tho disappearance of his wife, Hello Elmore, the actress, with whop murder he Is charged. There had been much speculation as to whether Crippen would testify for hlnuelf, ajid. the decision of his coun-rel coun-rel wiiH not made known until Just before be-fore the resumption of the trial this morning. Drs. Marshall and Spll.shury, medical medi-cal expeits who examined the human parts unearthed In tho cellar of the Crippen home In Hilldrop Crescent, repeated tho evidence Uiey had given ia the lower court. This "was in con-, firniation of tho testimony given yesterday yes-terday by Ir Pepper, who swore the rneinbera were human, but he could not determine anatomically the sex. The croisexaniinntlon of the experts, ex-perts, in which Chief Justice Alver-stone, Alver-stone, who Is presiding, joined, centered cen-tered en the alleged scur on the body whhh tho defense declares was only a fold "in tho ekJn. Alfred AKpinall Tobin, chief counsel for Crippen. plied the doet.Ts, S,lls-bjrv S,lls-bjrv and Marshall, with Inquiries, but the" medical men were not bhnken from their assertion that the mark hud been left from the wound of an operai Ion. Crlppeu. paler than at any time before, be-fore, followed the evidence with strained Intonseness. Dr. William II Wilcox, the scientific analyst to the Home olllco, testified to having discovered discov-ered In the body a poison which he was satisfied had been tnken through the month and was the cause of death. This poison, he said, was not used by homeopathlcs, as was suggested sug-gested by the defense. The medical evidence closed tho c.'iHf- for the prosecution and the stir !:i the court room ns Mr. Tobln rose to address the court showed the Interest In-terest with which the announcement of the line of defense was awaited. This Interest was whetted by Ihe first sentence nf the counsel, who conflrned his earlier statement that Crippen would enter the witness stand immediately when his attorney had concluded his aodresH The defense. It is now known, will attempt to prove that the body found in Crlppen's home was not that of his wife, Mr. Tobln contended that the prose-cii.loii's prose-cii.loii's claim, that a de-Ire for money t nd the w ish to marry Kthel Clare lv iieve formed a moUvo for the murder ' untenable. Crippen. he said. ' owd nothing and l.e hail not mar- I rled Ml .s lv-ene since the disap-j disap-j penrance of hir. wife, although he had bad a chance Io do so. No purchase of llnie, hi which tho parts had been 1 :rled, had been traced to Crippen, - nor had a we-ap'-n with which the deed eojld bo committed, wus lo be found Counsel s a 1 1 1 that th prisoner's dnllv demeanor, since February 1, ihe dale of bis w ife's dUappearuni e, nnd the absence of an appearance of ! '.ny motive disproved the theory that .' ho was a murderer. Mr. Tobln said that Belle Elmore 'K ' ad threatened frequently to leave j her himband, and at last carried out I her threat. Who knew, be a.iked, ! whether Belle Elmore was alive or ,: dead. The Jury, however, must know before n C0U(, ctiiidonni a man to death. .1 The defense insisted that It was perfectly natural that Crlpi en should , have taken flight In the oompunv of , -M,SK "-eneve. und both In dl: guise, "(; when h realised tbnl the ll-s which -j bad been told to cover up Ihe scan- j dal of bis wlfes departure bad served only lo create a mountain . f prelu- dice against him. 'j Mr. Tobln then mnd the sui-prls-;j lnK statement that Crippen. two davs -M Nfore his arrest on the sieam'er "ilontp se, arranged with the gunner-? gunner-? blaster to hide him n the cargo and ''I |