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Show Ethel Lcnevc Told ol Her Jealousy of Mrs. Crippen Ixmdon. Sept. 9. Something of what Ethel Claire Leneve suffered us she awa.tcd the fulfillment of Dr. llawley II. Crippen's proniis to make her his wife was revealed at today s session of the Inquest into the death of Belle Elmore, with the murder of wheni the doctor aud his typist aro Jointly charged. In her distress. Miss Leneve confided con-fided In her landlady, Mrs. Jackson, and the story that the latter told on the witness stand rivaled the most Honsational evidence Introduced at the pielimlnnry trial. Mrs Jaeksnn said that the accused girl gave up the ronrn which sho had occupied at the homo of the witness on March 12th, explaining that she wrs leaving to be married to Dr. Crippen. Crip-pen. Until the first woek In Februnry. Miss Lencvc had slept regularly at Mrs. Jackson's borne. After that she stopped at the house only occasionally. occasion-ally. She said she spent the other nights at tho homo of friends. On one occasion occa-sion Miss Leneve mentioned haxing been at the IM'drop Crescent homo of the Crippens, early in February, to help the doctor In a search for a ;bauk iviok, which showed nn account of Jl.ono. She added that a diamond tiara and rings had been found in the house, and that the doctor had raised $S;0 on these. About the middle of February, the witness said, Miss Leneve appeared miserable and depressed. Such was her state that Mrs. Jackson followed the girl to her room to learn the source of her trouble Miss Leneve, tne witness said, was in a terrifying i state of agitation. Her eyes seemed ' to be suiting out of her head. The landlady insisted on an explanation. Veiling the girl sho must have something some-thing awful on her mind to be in such a condition. The witness said that the other replied: "Yould you be surprised if I told you that. It was the doctor and Miss Elmore? He was the cause of my trouble when you first knew me. She Js his wife and when 1 see them go away, the girl makes me realize. my position as to what she is and what 1 am." Mrs. Jackson asked: "What Is the use of you worrying about another woman's husband?" To this Miss Leneve answered: "Miss Elmore has been threatening to go away with another man. Dr. Crippen has been waiting for her to do so, when he would divorce her." Solicitor Newton, who Is looking out for the Interests of Crippen and Mi9 Lence, closely cross examined Mrs. Jackson, suggesting that her lodger's excitement was due to the landlady having resurrected a trouble which the glr! experienced during her early association with Crippen, but the witness maintained the corrector correct-or her evidence as given. Professor Pepper, tne pathologist, repeated the testimony which he hud given at the trial In the Dow street court In response to the questions I by the coronor, he said-I said-I "I can form no definite opinion as to whether the parts found were those of a male or a female. "There was a cuggestlon that they were from the body of a female. I have a very strong opinion. If I take ' the hair discovered Into consideration, considera-tion, there is a stronc presumption, almost conclusive evidence, that the parts were those of n woman." A juror was steadily anxious to know why a Scotland Yard man had allowed the doctor to get away once he had fallen under suspicion. Dew responded that he had a perfect answer an-swer to the attacks that had been made upon him and be would like to reply to the question, hut the coronor cor-onor would not penult him to do so, declaring that the subject of Crippen's Crip-pen's flight was "outside the scopo I of the present Inquiry. ' The Inquest was then adjourned until un-til Sept. 22. |