The Cambrian

— 9 SWANSEA LUPUS CASE. — "iLAY GOD BI.ESS YOU. GENTLEMEN." A sad case of an applicant suffering from lupus oame before the Swansea. Guardians en Thursday. It was stated the applicant would not go into the wo.rklKHi>*€ for treat- ment. It was dooided to allow 4s. per week for eurht weeks. .Applicant: May God blese you, gentlemen.

FOUND DEAD ON THE COMMON LLAXGYFELACH MAN WHO WAS SUBJECT TO FITS. A sad fatality was brought to light at Llaivgyfelach on Friday, when Daniel John Hughes (25) > Penygroee. Liangyteiach, Wall found dead near a well on Llaiigyfeiacb, Common. It seems that deceased in the af. ternoon had been sent for a bucket of water, but did not return. About, tea-time his sister went to look for him, but could only- find the bucket 0{ water and she imagined that he bad gone into the village. At 11 o'clock, however, alarm was felt, and a search was made, but with no result until 10 o'clock on Friday morning, when he was found dead near the well on tihe common. He had been, it seems, subject to fits for some time. An inquest is to be heid on Fri- day evening at the Church Hall, Llangy- feiLach. ■ ■ ■

CRIPPEN TO DIE. VERDICT: GUILTY. THE DEATH SENTENCE. A PAINFUL SCENE. I DOOMED MAN'S T COLLAPSE. London, Friday.—The knowledge that with the opening of the court this mornmg Kawley Harvey Crippen, who is fighting for his life, would again appear in the witness- box, stimulated public interest to fever heat. Although they knew that the chance of gain- ing admission to the court was hopeless, a number of the curious found some satisfac- tion in crowding about the entrance to the building, in warning their way into the cor ridors, and thus succeeding in just catching a passing glimpse of some of the chief actors in the drama of real life. Again tins morn- ing there was a. human transformation scene within the court itself. An entirely fresh array of faces confronts the judge and jury, though probably they were too much ab- sorbed to notice the complete change in the personnel ol the audience. The names oi the jury were slowly called over by the Clerk of Arraigns. The usher brought in, piece Dy piece, the much-handled articles on which the police have to so large a degree relied to build up their case. These included articles oi feminine clothing and gruesome looking substances m glass jars, the latter being placed near the witness-box. Crippen made his entry into court by means of the stair- case leading to the dock. He took his seat in the latter as if all unaware that his place to-day, for a time at any rate, would be the witness-box, and that he had to confront the ordeal of cross-examination. At a signal, a few seconds later a warder touched him on the shoulder. He rose with alacrity, and taking in what was required of him crossed the crowded court. The spectators, who in- eluded to-day many fashionably dressed ac- tresses, watched him with intense interest, M, assuming his attitude of yesterday, he leaned forward and crossed his white, deli- cately manicured lingers. It was now the 4turn of Mr. Muir to start the cross-examin- ation for the Treasury, but the Crown coun- sel did not at once begin as he noticed that t.he learned judge was reading a letter. The nature of its contents soon became apparent. JURY AND THE MICROSCOPE. The authors of the communication were the jury. "Gentlemen," said the Judge, "I quite understand what you say, and I think it is a very important matter. Indeed, the {suggestion has already occurred to me. I 'v.-ill make the necessary arrangements." Then his lordship announced to counsel that the jury wished to see more quietly, and at a closer position than was possible in the box, the pieces of skin within the micro- scopic slides, and also the pieceAf flesh. He would arrange for this to be done in his room, in his presence, and with a counsel on each side, and a doctor on each side also present. Mr. Muir now turned to Crippen, who stood apparently interested but not much concerned in the spectacle of this crowded and breathless court. CRIPPEN UNDER FIRE AGAIN. Mr. Muir's first question was On the morning of February 1st you were left alone in your house with your wife? Crippen nodded assent. Counsel: Do you know any person in the ;world who has seen your wife since?—I do not. Crippen wa.s here asked to raise his voice, and, putting his hands to his throat, he com- plained of hoarseness, whereupon his lordship remarked that he did not want anything un- reasonable. Do you know, Mr. Muir continued, of any person in the world who has ever had a let ier from her since? Crippen I do not. Do you know of any person in the world )/ho could show that she ever left that house alive?—I told Mr. Dew exactly all fTHE NIGHT OF TKE PARTY. At what hour did you la.st see her on ihe 1st February?—It would be between two and three, when we retired. That would be the last I saw of her. His Lordship That would be after the party?—Yes; I could not say exactly what time. Answering further questions put by Mr. Muir, Crippen said he prepared his own breakfast us usual on February 1st, and left home about 9.30 for his business. His wife very seldom came down to breakfast, as they were generally so late in retiring. Once in a great while he would take his wife op a cup of coffee, which she would take on an empty stomach He returned home, sa far as he could remember, that evening at his usual time—about 7.30. Mr Muir: Do you know on that mo- mentous night what time you came home ?—- It was somewhere near 7.30. Will you kindly attend closely to my question ? On that. most important night in your life do not you recollect at what time Jou came home? His Lordship I think he had answered it. Mr. Muir: Did you tell Inspector Dew that you came home between five and six?— If I said that to him that is probably right. ,1 cannot trace it back, Crippen adt^ed smil- ey. \vhere did you think your wife had gone? I supposed, as she-had always been talk- ing of Bruce Miller, that she had gone to him to America. 0 Crippen further said that after he had found his wife gone he made no inquiries of any kind with a view to finding her where- abouts, neither before nor after his arrest. Mr. Muir: Did your wife take any of her boxes with her?—I believe there was one missing. There were a lot of boxes and trunks in the house, and I don't know how many there were, as she bought some more last fall. His Lordship: This is a very important question. Did she take 'any boxes with her?—I am not certain. Continuing, he said he had made no inquiiies as to whether his wife took away a box in a cab or whether the neighbours had seen a. box leave the house. Ho did not know whether his wife would walk away from the house on her voyage to America, as she was a very impulsive woman. The milkman came to the house two or three times a week with bread, but he had not asked the man whether he had seen her on the morning ot the 1st February. Mr. Muir: Do you realise that it is most important for your detente if any person can be found who saw your wife after the Mar- Jinettis had teen her?—I do. And you made no enquiries at all?—No. You have been consulted on your defence and you made no suggestion that enquiries should be made?—I aid not. THE JUDGE: "YOU MUST ANSWER THIS QUESTION." Hi £ Lordship: You must answer this ques- tion. Have you made any suggestion as to enquiries being made Any where?—The point did hot occur to me, so I have not made any suggestions. Mr. Mtur: Did you know any such en- quiry would be fruitless?—I did not know anything of the kind. .Crippen went on to say that if his wife had written for her furs and jewels he would not have sent them, as she had left him. Be did not allow her any special aJio'W&noe, ) but gave her money with a free hand. in When she asked him, lie used to give her sums of £ 2, £ 3 and £ 4, and once he gave her £ 25 to buy furs. His commissions in January, 1910, paid him pretty nearly as well as the work he was previously doing. Mr. Muir: Did you tell Inspector Dew that the commissions did not pay?—They did not pay me for the trouble they gave i me. Where did you suppose your wife would get the money from to pay her passage to America.?—She always had plenty of money. I did not give her any. I asked her if she wanted any money whan she said she would leave me, and ehe said: "No, I want no- thing. Sns threatened to leave you several times? -I œ. Did you always ask her whether she wanted any money on these occasions?—No, as she did not carry it out to such an extent. The money he obtained from pawning his wile's jewels Crippen said he used for ad- vertising a new scheme of his, and for pur- chasing new dental instruments. Mr. M«ir: Why wew you in such a hurry to pawn your wife's orooch and marquise ring ?—As scon a.s I had made my iimJ ar- rangements for the scheme I put the money in at once. I had had the scheme in my mind for at iea*vfc two months. l could have got the money irom the bank or from my other business. And yet on the 2nd February you pawned your wile's jewellerd-That is so. Did you tell Inspector Dew that you had never pawned or sold anything belonging to your wife before or after she left?—I did, but I did not consider it her property, and considered myself justified in answering so. Mr. Muir then elicited from the prisoner j that he changed the bank notes, which he obta-ined from the pawnbroker, with Miss Ctu'iiow, and the money was used in con- nection with his dental business. Mr. Muir: Did you intond the Inspector to b&iieve that you had accounted for the whole of your wife's jewellery?—Yes. And you said nothing about the two pieces you had pawned? His Lordship That is a matter of com- ment, Mr. Muir. Mr. Muir (to Crippen) The complaint, that your wife made on the night <y tii^ dinner party was a most unreasoaa »:e com- plaint —I considered it was co. For you that was sufficient to cause your wife to leave you?—I think it had evidently been pending for a long time. i -le any other cause for leaving you? —No other cause that I know of. When your wife left you, you set to think how vou could cover up the scandal;—Yes. And it involved you in a great deal of trouble?—That has already been acknow- j ledged. HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH LE NEVE. Counsel then handed to Orippeii a letter which he had written on the 20th March from Hilldrop-creseent, and remarked, at that time Ethel Le Neve Avas living with you at Hilldrop-crescent?—I could not be sure whetheraho was living with me at that time or not, but she had off and on. She came to live with me shortly be- fore Easter. The Judge We had better fix these dates now. Crippen: The first time she came there was on the 2nd of February. From that time on she was with me probably two or three nights, perhaps more, in the week, When she came to stay permanently I would not like to say, excepting that I knew it was shortly before Easter. M-r. Muir: Mrs. Jaokson fcaid that on the 12th March Le Neve ceased living at her house. i .] Crippen: I won't dispute that date On the night, of February 2nd did Le Neve sleep at Hilldrop-crescent? Crippen She did. The Judge: You must press him on that for a reason. Counsel: You are sure of that? Crippen: Yes. Mr. Muir then read the letter addressed to the Martinettls by Crippen, and written on the 20th March, when Le Neve was with him, in which he said that Mrs. Crippen was dangerously ill with pluro pneumonia, and that was why he had not been to see them. Counsel: At the time you wrote tnat, letter had you arranged to go to Dieppe with Le Neve for Easter?—(Aftar a pause): Yes, I had, I believe. Did you want to wipe your wife off the slate before you left—There was no ques- tion of that kind. As I have already ex- plained in my statement, it was necessary to say something to stop all the enquiries. Did you want to announce your wile s death before starting your holiday with Le ]yeve? I do not think that foJlows as a logical sequeaice. • Crippen was questioned as to his wiie s intimate friends, Mis. Martinetti, Mr. Strat- ton, etc., and he was taxed whether he bad thought of the pain that would be caused by the announcement d Mrs. Crippen's death in the "Era," to which lie replied that he did not consider them at all. Counsel: Then, on March 30th you had returned from Dieppe, and Mrs. Martinetti and Mrs. Smytheson came to see you? Crippen: Yets. Were vou in mourning?—I could not say. Think Y-I did put mourning clothes on afterwards, but I could not say whether at that time I had mournin-g clothes on or not. I had afterwards. The Judge: When? Cnppen: Very soon after I returned from Dieppe. Tfie Judge: You had to play the part ot the bereaved husband? Crippen: Yes. Did you do it well? Crippen (smiJing): I could not tell ycu. Your wife's friends were with you con- doling with you on the loss of your wife. Did you play the part well? Crippen: That is a question you should ask them; I can't say. Counsel called his attention to a. letter written to Dr. Burrows, on blackooge-d paper. "In keeping with your mourning, remarked Mr. Muir, with your role of be- reaved husband. It was dated April 5th, and in it he said that he was nearly out of his mind owing to poor Belle's death. THAT SAID COUNSEL WAS SHEER HYPOCRISY. Crippen It is already admitted, sir. Counsel (repeating) Sheer hypocrisy. Crippen Already admitted. t Counsel quoted further from Cnppen s letter, in which he said the cable announc- ing his wife's death had come to him as a most avvlul shock. Crippen (smiling, almost laughing) 1 do not see why you should keep on questioning me as to this. I am willing to admit i I have to'd you that they are lies. The TudVe (rather sharply) That may be br Crippen, but it is a very serious part of the case, and you must really answer the question, lies or no lies. Mr. Muir: I want you to realise the nature of the lies. The awful shock to which you refer was pure^imagination. Crippen It was entirely. How did you know that your wife might not write to the Burrows?—I did not believe she would write to anybody, because she I told me to cover up any scandal there was. I did not know it positively. I only lll- ferred she would not write from what she Counsel Do you ask the jury to believe that, not knowing your wife might write to these people, the Martinettis and the Bur- rows. you told them that she was dead? Crippen Yes. Where did you think she w3<81-1 thought she had gone to Chicago with Bruce Miller. Counsel then called attention to letters which Crippen had written to a relative in America sneaking of his wife's death, and asked how, if he thought she had gone to America, he did not know that his wife, if alive, 'would not call on these people, who were her relatives. Crippen replied that if she had gone off with some other man he did not think that she would face them. Mr. Muir: This was a very elaborate series of misrepresentations to a number of persons. For whose sake were you going through this elaborate process? Crippen For the sake of both of us. What did it matter?—I did not wish my friends to think he had treated her badly, and that therefore she had left me. Is that flght? Going about as vou were with Le Neve and letting. her wear your wife's furs and jewels? 1 Crippen: No one would know the differ- ence.. What were you to save yourself by telling these lies?—The scandal of my acquaint- ances Counsel: What scandal? The separation from your wife, when you were living in open adultery with Ethel Le Nev-e? Crippen: it was not so open as you seem to imagine. "I CANNOT EXPLAIN IT IN ANY OTHER WAY." The Judge: That ir a matter for com- ment. You had treated your wife well; given her money, furs, and jewels? Crippen: Yes. For four years you had ceased to cohabit with her?—Yes Then she treated you with ingratitude and went away and left vou?- Y cs. Why did you seek to cover up the scandal of such a wife as that leaving you?—I can- not explain it in any other way than I have done. CRIPPEN AND THE HILLDROP CELLAR. Counsel then paseed on to the cellar of the Hilldrop-crescent house-where remains were found. Grippen said he had been the tenant of the house for five and a half years, but lie did not know whether during that time the floor had been disturbed. Sunday wai about the only time he was at home, whilst his wife would go out in the morning and sometimes not return till one and two the next moiiiing. He had been in the cellar. Counsel: You know, of course, that these remains were found in the cellar?—I was told bv my solicitor when I returned to England. As far as yon know they oouid not, have been put there while you were there?—Not that I know of. You say that was unpoasiMe?—I won't say it was impossible, because there were times when we were away During my ab- sence in the day time my wife was also away. CLOSE QUESTION FROM THE JUDGE. The Judge Do you really ask the jury to understand that without your knowledge or your wife's knowledge, sometime during the past five years those remains could have been put there? Crippen: 1 don't say it is probable, but it is possible. Crippen was next confronted with the py- jamas which have played so important a part in the case. He was shown two suits fjurlv new, which were placed in front of him on the witness-box ledge. He said they were his, and he thought he bought them a year ago last September twelve months at Jones Bros. Shown another pair 01 pyjamas trousers not so new, he said it was part of a suit that he had bough1.' previously. Mr. Muir Tins is very important. Don't answer hurriedly. Crippen said he could not say when he bought the suit of pyjamas, of which the trousers remained, but it was shortly after he went to HiUdrop-creacent—in 1905 or 1906. Counsel: What became of the jacket? Crippen; I could not tell you—worn out, proioaoiy. Did not your wife buy those pyjamas lor you at Jones Brothers, in January, 1909. The Juuge: Listen, because it is very im- portant to youiself. Crippen: I would not sky that she did not buy some. She might have bought some and I some. The Judge: Did not your wife buy three sets of pyjamas at Jones Bros. sale in Jan- j uary, 1909.—1 won t say she did. Will you say she did not?—JL won't. Mr. Muir: Did not your wife buy you these suits?—One of them minus a jacket. On January 15th, 1909 ?—She bought some. I d-ohf know whether these are Jones' or not. The Judge: Two minutes ago you said your wife never bought you pyjamas but you always bought them yourself. Now you have said your wife did buy some. Which is true? Crippen: I should not have been so posi- tive, but should have said she might b.ci.ve bought some. ANOTHER DRAMATIC INCIDENT. Crippen was now confronted with tne piece of pyjama jacket found with the reaiacis, and he was asked to compare it with the pattern of the trousers referred to. Isn't the same ? asked counsel. Crippen replied that it was Similar." The Judge: Is it the same? Crippen It is similar. The Judge: The jury can judge for themselves. The trousers and the ^kce of jacket were then closely examined by the jury, to whom a lens was passed meantime. A subdued hum of conversation arcse in court. The Judge intimated that the jury would be able to most closely scrutinize the ma- terial in thei rown room later. Mr. Muir: If those trousers were not part of the sets that your wife bought in 1909, when were they bought? Crippen: Almost at every sale that pyjamas were bought by me or her it would be impossible to say. Now I am going to put this question to you so that you may have an opportunity of altering your answers if you desire to do so. It is that these three suits before you—one of them incomplete-were manu- factured in November, 1938, and that the cloth of which they were made never came into existence before November, 1908. It is still possible to call evidence on this point, and I want you to have that in your mind before you give your final answer ,that the cloth before you was made in November, 1908. ANOTHER SEVERE MOMENT MR. TOBIN INTERVENES. Crippen I can only say 1 do not think it is possible. Mr. Muir: If my lord thinks it right it fis possible to call the evidence of the maker. Crippen: It may be possible, but to my mind it does not seem possible. Mr. Muir The cloth of which all these three things before you was made in Novem- ber, 1908 and the jacket in that jar is part of the same cloth sold by Jones, Bros. If that is right that pyjama jacket must have got in beside those remains since Novem- ber, 1908. Mr. Tobin (for the defence) rose appar- ently to take objection. The Judge: I do not think Mr. Muir has gone too far, but I do not think it is neces- sary to do more than he has done. This is not the time for argument. Mr. Muir: Do you wish to alter any an- swer? Crippen: No. Counsel next led Crippen to his departure from London. He said that h emade up his mind to go away on the 9th July, the morn- ing Inspector Dew called. He thought that there were suspicions against him, as the result of which he might have to be in gaol for months till his wife was found. Mr Muir: You really thought you would be arrested ?—Yes. „ Counsel: Upon wliat ch arge ?—Suspicion. What crime did you anticipate you would be kept in prison for? Orippen: I do not understand law enough to say. I have heard.of people baing arrested on 6U3pi-rion of being concerned in the dis- appearance of other poople. Mr Muir: reappearance of other people? Crippen: I cannot put it in a legal phrase for you. His Lordship; Nobody Wiaaots the lgal phrase. Crippen: I thought I should be held until the woman was found. If I could not pro- duce the woman Mr Dew told me I should be in serious trouble. I knew also it would put Miss Le Neve in a serious position and the only idea I could think of was to ta.ke her out of the country. Mr Muir (to prisoner): When you said to Miss Curnow: "If anything should happen to me give the enveùopoee to Miss Le Neve." had you made up yooir mind then? Orippen: No. Afer that you went into the cellar with Inspector Dew and stood there. Was it after that you made up your mind? Orippen: It wa6 the next morning after I had studied the whole matter ovor and after I had consulted Miss Le Neve what she would like to do. You thought you were in danger of ar- rest ?-That is so. And so you fled the country ?—Yes. In a false name3—Yes. Shaved off your moustache?—Yes. left 011 wearing your glasses in ptiblicp- Yea. ( Took Miss Le Neve with you?—Yes. I In a false name passing as your son?-, Yes. You went to Antwerp and staved in a hotel there—stayed indoors all day?—Oh, no, we went about in the gardens. d b Enjoyed yourselves?—Yes, certainly. And you signed the register in a false name?—I do not remember signing a bock in Antwerp. I fcigned a book in Bi-ussels. A copy of the register of the hotel in Brussels, where. Crippen and Miss Lo Neve stayed, was here produced, and his lordship said that it was signed John Robinson, and stated that he was a merchant, aged 55, had come from Vienna on the 19th July, had come from Vienna on the 19th July, and was returning to Vienna. Crippen's companion was described as George Robin- son, son, without profession, 16 years old, residing at Quebec. I His lyordship (tc the prisoner) Is the second description that of Miss Le Neve? j Crippen Yes. Mr. Muir then questioned Crippen upon the circumstances surrounding his arrest by Inspector Dew on board the Montrose. Crippen said he was very surprised to see Inspector Dew at Father Point. He did not recognised him at first, as he was dreased as a pilot up to that time. He had not thought of what charge could be made against him, and when Inspector Dew spoke to him he did not pay much at- tention, as he was so confused at the time. He could not say for that reason whether Inspector Dew told him theiV that he would be arrested for the murder and mutilation of his wife, Cora Crippen. Subsequently, he went on, he was cautioned by a Cana- dian poiiea othcer, and charged wit:i tiiv crime. Mr. Muir Up to that time did you be- lieve i er to be alive? Crippen: I aid. Did you put any question to Inspector Dew as to whether your wife had been found':—I put no questions at all, and 1 made no reply to the charge. As you left the captain's cabin, did you say to"Inspector Dew* "I am not sorry; the anxiety has been too much.—Yes. ¡ Anxiety for what —Thinking I might be oursued from Do-ndon. For what ?—lor the same reason as that for which I ran away. That was the anxiety that was too much for you ?-¥ e.s. To be arrested on some charge, the na- ture of which, you did not understand?— YES. When Inspector Dew said he must put the handcuffs upon you, as you bad intimated that you might jump overboord, did you say "I am more than satisfied, the anxiety has j been too awful"?—Yes. What anxiety ? The same as I have al- ready explained. Did you say, when you were being searched, that it was only fair to sty that Miss Le Neve knew nothing about it?—Yes. That meant Miss L»e Neve?—-Yes. Did you know she had been arrested?—It said so in the warrant. And was it fair to say that she knew nothing about it-that is of the murder of your wife?—I do not say any tiling of the circumstances; I have already given you mv answer. I His Lordship: You had toM her that your wife had run away and that she had died. Why did you mean by "Iti" Crippen: I referred to the disappearance and the lies which I had told which I knew would throw me under suspicion from what Mr Dew told me. I told her nothing else. beyond the facts that my wife had dis- appeared, and that she was dead. 9 Mr. Muir And that is what you meant? v-That is what I referred to when I said it. You said nothing about suspicious circum- stances to her? How did you persuade her to cut her hair and dress herself as a boy I —Have I not just explained to you? I ex- plained to her that the statement involved her, in describing as it did that she had j lived with me, and that there would be a scandal about it, and her folks would turn against her. I also told her that Mr. Dew had said tha.t there would be trouble for me if I did not produce Mis. Crip,pen. and the only was to go to another place where we could be alone and could start a new life. That is all I told her. Referring to the card, upon which Crip- pen had written that it was his intention to jump overboard, and which Crippen stated Avas part of a plot to deceive the police at Quebec,, Crippen replied that the quarter- master suggested to him that he must leave behind something showing that he was going to jump overboard. The language ot it was entirely his (Grippen's). I Continuing, Crippen said the quarter- master spoke to hnn on July 30th, just be- hind the captain's cabin, and in the after- noon he handed him a letter in the wheel- house, in Avhich he said that tne captain knew who he (Crippen) was, and that the police would arrest him at Quebec. If he; liked, however, lie would stow him away and smuggle him ashore at Montreal. The letter was not signed, and the quarter- master took it away from him directly he had read it. He seemed afraid to trust me with it. He added he did not know the quartermaster's name, but he could identify him if he saw him. I Mr. Muir: And you intended the cards to be found by the police officers—I arranged that it should be found the next morning, so that Miss Le Neve could say she found it and could leave it to the police. What did you mean by the "horrors" you mentioned?—I was not going through any horrors. What horrors did you mean the ponce to understand that you were going through every night?—The dread of arrest. Had you arranged the matter with Miss Le Neve?—Yes, she was to remain on board, and carry on the pretence. -e Now, that card looks as if you were con- fussing your guilt of some offence? I shou d not have put that interpretation on it. j Probably veu do. (Laughter.) His Lordship Answer Mr. Muir's ques- tion? „ Criaopon: I do not know how I could ans- wer it very well. Mr. Muir: You have given your explana- tion of that card in the witness box for the first time. I Crippen (interrupting) I could not give it before, as I was not in the witness-box. Answering further questions, Crippen said he saAV his solicitor on the day follow- ing his arrival in London, and he did not o-Tvp, evidence af the police court becase he did not know that he could have done so had he wished. He left the whole question of! his defence in the hands of his solicitors, and so far as he knew no effort, had been made to find the quartermaster. Mr. Muir Of course, you understand that if your wife is alive there is no foundation for this charge at all?—Yes. And if she can be found you would be at Ofnoe acquitted?—Oh, rather. What steps have been taken to find your wife ?—I have not taken any steps. I have left myself entirely in my solicitor's hands. Continuing, Crippen said he did not ask any of his wife's friends in America to help find his wife for him. When he saw Mr. and Mrs. Nash, who had just arrived from America, and spoke about the disappearance of his wife he wa.s not "sobbing bitterly." Crippen was then closely q uestionoo as to his knowledge of hyoscin. He first com- menced prescribing hyoscin for patients in London in the early part of January of this year for nervous diseases, coughs, and asth- matic troubles. Mr. Muir: Is there any pharmacopoeia) which advises the administration of hyoscin through the mouth '1 think you will find it in Hempell and Arnt's dictionary of homeo- j pathic medicines. I have not seen it for years. Hie Lordship directed that a copy of the book should be sent for. Crippen went, on to say that he had used one-third of the hyoscin he purchased on January 19. and the other two-thirds he had left in his office, but it could not now be found. He wanted the hyoscin for a per- fectly legitimate purpose. The preparations containing hyoscin were sent out as soon as they were made up. Re-examined by Mr. Tobin, Crippen said he purchased the hyoscin on January 19, as he wished to prepare some medicines for obstinate cases. His Lordship When you returned heme on February 1, did you ascertain that night whether any trunk or any quantity of I clothes had been taken from the house? Crippen No, I did not miss anything, j You took no steps until the 8th July to j trace your wife?-No. j You did not expect any charge at all?— No. S I Except through what you. describe as a j series of wicked lies, you had nothing to disturb your mind at ail?—Nothing at ali. Do you represent to the jury that the fact j that a woman went wrong and left was any- thing extraordinary?—I do not think it is anything uncommon. What was the charge you thought might be brought against you:—I did not think there was any specific charge, but 1 thought I might be arrested and held on suspicion until my wife was found. I do not know the law, bnt I have been reading romances and I thought that would be the case. Why did you not send the advertisement you drew up with Inspector Dew to the newspapers?—I left it behind when I went away. I did not trouble any further. I did not think they would bother about, me if I got out of England. I did not think the case of sufficient importance. Why did you go by Antwerp?—I thought I could get a cheap trip. I have been via Antwerp before. CRIPPEN LEAVES THE BOX. Crippen then left the witnees-box. which he occupied for four hours, and took his usual seat in tiie dock. Mr. Herbert Maitland Tumbun. director of the Pathological Institute of the London Hospital, was then cailcd. and after ex- amining the piece of skin on which the Crown contends there is a scar, gave it as his opinion that mark could not be a scar because of certain structures which he had found "within its area. There were two groups of hair fol- holes, and tliere Avere two smaiil sebracsious glands.. The courc then adjourned for luncheon. PROCEEDINGS IN THE AFTERNOON. Cn the resumption of the proceedings, Dr. Tumbuli again had before him on a dinner-plate the much-discussed skin and flesh taken from the remains. As be turned them over and ever with a medical forceps under the gaze of .-t court full of fashionably dressed Avomen, he expressed the view that they might have come from some otlxr part of a body than the abdomen, and said he did not see any marks of an incision con- neeted with an osperaijon. Re-examined, he said he had never wavered in his opinion that the mark in question was not a scar. THE CLOSING DAY. I London, Saturday.—With the expectation j of the verdict of the jury interest in the Crippen trial was quite intense this morn- ing. Ticket-holders commenced to assemble in the public gallery and elsewhere nearly an hour before the resumption of the pro- 10 ceedings, and when the Lord Chief Justice arrived he found a full court awaiting him. The jury were in their places before ten o'clock, aiisAvenng to their names as called over by the Clerk of Arraigns. Crippen was as carefully dressed as usual. As soon as he entered the dock a warder handed him a chair, and he carefu'ly arranged his over- coat on the back of it, after Avhich he took his seat and faced the judge. JUDGE AND THE "EVENING NEWS." The Lord Chief Justice, addressing the jury, said: Gentlemen, I am obbged to ask you if you have seen the "Evening News'' of Jast evening. One of the jury: No, my lord. The Judge: Then I shall not refer to the matter any more. Now I wish an order of the couit made for the attendance before me in the course of the day of the editor 7 of the Evening C^ews." Let that order be served at once if you please that he may attend at once in this court. (Sensation.) THE JURY'S QUESTION. Addressing Mr. Muir his lordship said he had received a great many communications, some of them entitled to respect. With re- spect to a question put by one of the jury quite properly, he thought it was fair to Dr. Crippvn that he should be asked a question about it. Dr. Crippen then once more crossed the court and went into the witness-box. He seemed quite composed, but was apparently more anxious than vesterday. His Lordship remarked that Dr. Crippen said yesterday, in reply to a question put by counsel, that he got information about hyos- cine being used in homeopathic medicines from Hempel and Arndt's dictionary. Now. asked his lordship, had you mentioned that book to your a.d visers1 Crippen, IN A SUBDUED, LOW TONE; 1 bad not, my lord. You never mentioned it till yesterday?— No. His Lordship: I want to ask you a ques- tion in consequence of some information I have received. You said in your evidence in chief that you had known hyoscine ad- ministered at some Lunatic Asylum? Ci ippen The Royal Bethlehem. The Judge What, here? Crinripri • YPK How did you come to be there?—I was there three months taking an extra. course studying insanity. The Judge There is a difficulty about in- sane people swallowing? Crippen Yes, and it is always given in insanity hypoderniically. The Judge That is the answer I required. In mania, oases it is always administered hypodermicaily and in small dos.es?- Y eGo I gather from what you have said that you treated most of your patients by corres- j pondence. You seldom saw people?—Very seldom. Replying further to the Lord Chief Jus- lice Crippen said, that his principal prac- tice was in the eye, the ear, the. throat, and he also studied nerve 6 es. He had had i cases of locomotor ataxy. His Lordship remarked that the gentle- man whose name Dr. Crippen had mentioned —Mr. C. Sweeney—had written from Bran- don. Co. Cork. Had Dr. Crippen ever seen him? Crippen replied that he had not. I The Lord Chief Justice: He speaks of having seen your home remedy book. Did you publish one? Crippen He refers to Munvon's. He wa £ suffering from nervous debility. Answering other questions, Crippen said that in some cases, such as cerebral excite- ment, hyoscine was administered by hypo- dermic injections, and in cases of nervous debility and nervous irritation it was ad- ministered in very minute doses for reliev- ing the irritable condition of the nerves. His Lordship remarked that this question of administration by the mouth or hypo- dermicaily did not appear to be eo import- ant. Mr. Tobin had handed him a book. which showed that. minute doses of hyoscine were known to be given, by the mouth or su bcutaneously. MR. MUIR',s" REPLY FOR THE CROWN. Mr. Muir then rose to reply on behalf of the Crown. He would not himself, he said, have thought it necessary for anyone Avho had observed the demeanour of the jury during the progress of the trial, to address words to them seeking to enforce upon them the gravity of the task Avhich they had undertaken. But his learned friend had thought it right to drag out of the limbo in which it had rested for many years the old forensic phrase in order to eug-gest to their minds. as if such a suggestion were necess- ary, that they had to be cautious and cer- tain before, in a case of life and death, they found a verdict of guilty. There were in the books, his learned friend said, which showed that men had been tried for murder, convicted and hanged, and then their sup- poeed victims bad turned up alive. There were such cases in the book. Sir Matthew Hale, who died in 1676. mentioned two such cases, which were old cases in his time. The world had contracted since then for the purpose of finding missing persons. Steam- ship and railway trains, electric telegraphs and newspapers had made a great difference to the administration of justice since Sir Matthew Hale's time, but his learned friend had found it necessary to flutter before the eyes of the jury that ancient bogie, as if they were afraid to go home in the dark because of the consciousness that they had returned a true verdict, to be cautious as men could be, careful as men could he. cer- tain as in the affairs of this life they couid be. no caution was necessary, and he would have that an attempt to frighten the jury would have been out of place. They could do their duty according to the ancient cus- > torn of the law, which resolved all doubtful questions in favour oi the prisoner on his trial. If doubt there was the prisoner was entitled to be acquitted. His learned friend had said that the newspapers in publishing reports of the case. had published one side only. Why did they publish one side only I' Because the prisoner choose to keep his mouth closed: because he did not choose to go before the coroner; because h" did Dot choose to go into the witness-box before the magistrate because he choose to pre- serve those precious medical Avitnesses un- til the trial; witnesses Avho Avould, if they had gone into the witness-box at the police court, have sworn to something totally dif- ferent to that to which they bad sworn at that triaL And that being the fact, his learned friend had thought it right to com- plain, on behalf of the prisoner, that the newsnapers had only published one side of the case. Proceeding, counsel said the jury were also asked to discard the plain facts because the prisoner was too kind-hearted a man to have done the desd of which he was accused. Let them examine the foundation for that theory. The prisoner had admitted that over a long series of months he had led a life of studied hypocrisy, utterly reck- less of the pain that the lies that be was tell- ing and acting would inflict upon a friend or sister of his wife's. What man mocked the feelings of his wife's dearest friends, who thought they were sympathising him when they wished to by a la.{, •waken of love on the grave of their dead friend. He said a wreath was of no use: she was being cremated. The remains would soon be over here, and then, with his tongue in his cheek, he said they might have their little ceremony, and the jury were asked to say that he was too kind-hearted a man to do the deed; that the man who had mock-d the mourners had not sufficient control over his nerves to conceal the fact that he had done it in his office hours. All the hypocrisy, all the lies they were told were to cover up a scandal. For whose Sftko? For the sake of the wife who had beftrayed him, who put on a fajr face to the world and made her most intimate friends believe she was a happy-natured woman but to him was indifferent, bad tempered, ex- travagant—a parson having no affection to- wards him? A living he. as the prisoner would have the jury believe his wife was. He said he believed that her love was fixed upon Bruce Miller that she was uniaitlafui to him. Bruce Miller had travelled across the ocean to contradict that statement, and was it likely that if Bruce Miller was a liar he would have admitted. "It was said that no adequate motive had been shown for the murder, cqronsel went on. "When wae an adequate motive shown for any murder?' His learned friend had said tha-t the only motive put forward by the Crown was the motive to obtain the £ cOG from the bank and the mati ve to marry Ethel Le Neve. Neither of those motives was suggested by LL _le rum m his opening statement as the inJDe- diz-,te cause of the murder. The motive that was suggested was the establishment of ciivser relations with Ethel Le Neve to sub- stitute ior these clandestine meetings in the day time, the permanent cohabitation of the two. What did he care if lie married Le Neve? What was Lhe necessity for it? The man who within a fortnight of the aruiounce- ment- of bis wife's death pretended to his paltrier that he had married another wile, was no stickler for ceremonv. THE MOTIVE WAS LOVE, if they dignihed it by tha.t name, lust if they called it by its more correct appella- tion, tiie most powerful of all motives, and money to gratify that, lust immediately. They had it upon Crippen's unsuppported statement that Le Neve staved all night at liiildrop-crescent on February 2nd. If that were true there was plenty of time from the morning of February 1st to the night of the 2nd for him to have got rid of the remains of his wife. Dweiiuig upon the question of identity, counsel went Ion to say that the Crown asked the jury to say that the remains were those of Belle Elmore from the fact that on February 1st, at 1.30, the prisoner and his wife were left together alone in their house, and through ali the months down to July 15th, when the remains were found buried in the prisoner's cellar, mixed up with the prisoner's pyjama jacket, nothing had been heard of her. The date of the purchase of the pyjamas, a por- tion cf which was found with the remains, showed that the latter could not have been put theie later than December, 1S08. Who m that period could have been buried in the hcu&c? Nobody, but Belie Elmore. In reply to the view that, Crippen had not the skill to dissect the body, counsel pointed to that person's medical qualifications. Some- one in Crippen's house, while he was the tenant carved up the body, which had been proved to be the body of Belle Elmore. Who could do this thing if not the man on his trial? What became of her? No one ever saw her alive after the supper with tne Mar- tinetti's on Ferbuary let. Where was she: Buried W » IN CRIPPEN'S CELLAR BY CRIPPEN'S HAND. It was asking the jury to believe, like children, in tiie nursery, listening to a fairy tale, to suggest that they would believe the story that Belle Elmore had gone abroad, and was now alive. BELLE ELMORE WAS DEAD, and Crippen knew that he was sale in be- decking Ethel Le Neve with his dead wile's furs and jewels. She died of the hyoscine found in the remains. It was absurd to suggest that Dr. Wilcox, of the Home Office, Avould declare a substance to be hvcs- suie if It was not. Dr. Winter BJyth, who ha,d been called in thi.6 subject by the de- fence, had presented a sorry spectacle in the witness box. In conclusion the learned counsel saiid: Do not act upon any tiling against the prisoner unless you are satisrioo, as reasonable men, beyond all doubt, but you mu?t nut let this murder—if it be one— go unpunished because of any bogey iiutter- 00 in your face. Citizens of London, you are here to do your duty. I am, gentlemen, sure you wul nave the courage to perform it, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE SUMS UP. The Lord Chief Justice, after retiring for a few minutes, returned into court at five minutes to twelve, and commenced h' sum- ming "p. Gentlemen of the jury, he began, the two last stages of this just and important case have now arrived. The stage oi my discharging my duty by directing you upon the facts and the law. Yours, that of the consideration of what your verdict should be. His Lordship complimented counsel on both sides on the way they had discharged their duty, and expressed the view that tiie jury would decide the case entirely upon the sworn testimony they bad heard. It is one of the unfortunate inci- dents of our present life, this public discus- sion a.nd trial of criminal cases that takes place before hand. It Avas for the Grown, he went on, to make out the ease. and if the jury had any reasonable doubt as to whether the Crown had done this they must give the prisoner the benefit of it. The^r must, not allow the question of whether minor points had been established to influence their judg- ment, if upon the Avhole of the evidence they had no doubt as to the result. Mr. Tobin had used the expression "Certainty. Rightly understood, it was not misleading, but if* by that it was to be supposed that, juries were not to act upon evidence unless it put them in the position of having actually seen the thing done it was of course a misleading b expression, but if they were not satisfied on the evidence that the Crown had made out their case. the prisoner was entitled to be acquitted. Something had been said about Dr. Crippen not having given evidence before either the magistrate or the coroner. His Lordship did not agree with Mr. Tobin (for the defence) that it was a prudent thing for an innocent man in any case to reserve his defence, it was an error into which legal advi?ers had fallen for many years as the result of an old practice, and the sooner it was, recog- nised and the sooner an innocent man gave his evidence and his statement the better for his case. and the less difficulty would there be in dealing with it. But in this case it did not make any material difference as the Crown were iD" possession of Crip- pen's case (apart from the medical a5- pect) owing to Crippen's statement to Inspector DeAv. From the first Mr. Muir hrvrl not wavered from his nosition. There was no question of suggesting that by some other mearw Dr. Crippen caused the death of his wife beyond that he poif^ned her and mutilated the body and buried the remains in the cellar at 391 Hiildrop-cres- | cent. The charge of course involved two questions not realiv Independent, but stili they ought to be considered somewhat «e- parateiy. The first question was Were the remains found the remains cf Cora Crip- pen? If they were not, there was an end of the case. If they were, then the jury had to ask themselves w<.os her death occasioned by the wilful act of Dr. Crippen? If not, then the defendant Avas again entitled t.o be acquitted. Those were two Questions upon which the jury were asked to concentrate their attention. The defendant had not contented himself with saying the Crown had not satisfied the jury that the remains were the remains of Belle Elmore, or t-hat the Crown had not satisfied the jury that Belie Elmore died from hyoscin poisoning, He had said that as far as he kneAv she was not dead. but had left him of her own ac. cord. If that fact Avas made out they need not trouble any more about whose remains thiy were that were found. Whatever might be the jury's views on the case, continued his lordship, they must all t agree that the defendant was an extraor- dinary man. If be was guiltv HE EL41- COMMITTED A GHASTLY CEXKE a.nd he had endeavoured to cover up thai gi,asily crime in a, shastiy way and he had behaved in a most brutal and cailous man- ner. If he was an innocent man it was al- IlX6t im1""JEsih'e to understand his mind, or his character. UtTerly indifferent to the tiuarjre of murder made asainso im, hav- ing. according to him. means to establish his innocece. no steps had been ta.ben br him to establish his innocence, to support, or confirm the case which he hiad made out in the box that Cora Crirr-en had left t1 e house m the morning of the 1st February. In (his lordship's judgment trat was ONE OF THE MOST IMPCE/TAOT PARTS OF THE CHASE. It was an incident which the defend amt had raised and he waa entitled to have that inci- dent eonsiu^red. Of course the jury couid not have set in tiie box long without realis- ing that they con] I not reJy iipoai t1;.e mere statement made by Dr Crippen. Be had on his own confession lied, for his own ■purposes — even when he w&s pur- porting to tell the truth. Certain things were fa!e. and false to his own knowledge. Ifi" lordship then passed on to say that tl-e Court was NOT A COURT OF MORALE. but a court of law, and the jury must not j find against the defendant because be was a liar. or because he was a.n immoral man. What they had to do was to take into oon- sideration those circumstances which bad a: direct bc-arins 'on the case. His lordship commented upon the- fact that Belle Elmore was said by Crippin to have left Hilldrop- crescent. leaA-ing clothes, furs, and jewellery behind. although she was very fond of all three, and said he regarded that fact as a very remarkable incident in the ca,se. He thought it right to question Crippen upon this in the witness-box, and Crippen could only say that wnw he arrived home on t-ie lst_ cf February he fennd one room in confusion, and t-ha-, he believed one ,runk was taken. Ccuid obey believe the storv that Bells Elmore left the house in this way? He was not going through the lying letters. He agreed in some sense with what Dr. Crippen said to Mr. Muir '"What ie the use of your asking me—I admit it." It was the most remarkable set of statements that had ever come to his (his lordship's) no- tice. The importance of it was that this misrepresentation went cn for a period of practical'v six months. If the jury came to the conclusion thif. this game was so enor- mousiv dangerous that Crippen could not have possibly carried it out: if he had thought that his wife might appear again they must ask themselves again if they could believe his story as to her havine: left home. Nearly irine months had passed since this case had arisen. The newspapers in two Continents had bt-en full of it. Now. if Belle Elmore were alive must not all this have come to her knowledge? Does that man in the dock, asked his lordship, suggest THAT THAT WOMAN IS SO ABNOR MALLY WICKED as to allow him to stand on his trial with- out making any sign? The Court then adjourned for luncheon. COUNSEL FOR LE NEVE. In the course of the morning, Mr. F. E. Smith, K.C., M.P., heading counsel for Ethel Le Neve, came into court and took a seat on counsel benches. His Lordship, again taking his seat, dealt with the question of the remains and asked how long they had been in the ground. From September, 1896. the hou-e had been in the occupation of Dr. and Mrs. Crippen, and Crippen had no explanation to offer as to howT the remains got there. Perhaps the most important, thing enabling them to fix the time the remains were in the cellar Was the pyjama jacket. Two witnesses for the Crown had sworn that the piece of pyjama was of the same pattern and contained the same number of threads to the count as the pvjama trousers of Criopin s. It was UNFORTUNATE FOR THE DEFENCE that no explanation was made about this pyjama jacket being in the grave. The sug- gestion of the Crown was that, wanting something to wrap the remains up, this piece of jacket was used, it being thought that it would never come to light again. He did not think it Avoith whiie calling atten- tion to Crippen's evidence, because in the box he made statements which he had to admit were not, trne. Assuming that the jury were satisfied that the remains had been in the cellar for a time consistent with Belle Elmore's dis- appearance. where they her remains.' Or tnva, were tiiev tne remiams of a woman, and Avas that woman Belie Elmore? That thev were the remains 01 a woman was. not now serious.v disputed. Why, moreover. were they clothed m womans^ garments. If. added his Lordship, they were a man's re- mains, Dr. Crippen is entiUed to walk out of the dock. Passing on, ne recalled and discussed the evidence given as to the re- mauns being those of Beiie Elmore, and then saiu he came to the bottle found in the case and the piece of flash. They had the evidence for the piosecution, and it AVUS not con- tradicted U±at it came from the lower part of the abdomen. Probably Uie jury would come to the opinion that there was not more than one person in the case, and that the answer to the question, "Who killed h-°r answered the question "Who buried fieT.' Could they account for death by any natural causes? The defence had not suggested any other catase of death than poison, and the jury must make up their minds as to whether death was ca-iuStsd by hy«;cin. L thev were going to reject the evidence ot Dr.* Willcox they must have some theory in C,Lus eoil their minds as to wlua, was the c-ause ot death. Crippen had told the jury in the Lliit hc had not box yesterday that he had not taken the trouble to send the advertisement, which he had drafted with Inspector Dew, to find the whereabouts of his wife to the papers. That, his Lordship supposed Avas his idea ou English justice. If the jury were of the opinion that crippen's story of his wife going was true, and they were of the opinion that the Crown had failed to prove that Cora Crippen had been poisoned by hyoscine, they would return a. verdict of -:10t guilty, But they must not hesitate from returning a verdict which they were satisfied upon on the evKienoe withuut: any fear cr suggestions as to what might occur in the future. 1 here had been ample opportunity of setting hold of Cora Crippen if she was alive, and they ccuid not approach the case with the idea that Cora Crippen AV;S alive. This con- cluded his Lordship's summing up, and the jury retired to their private room at 2.15. .Is they wera leaving the box, Crippen stood up. and nervously stroking his moos- tache with his right hand. LOOKED EARNESTLY AT EACH JUROR. lie spoke once er twice to the attendant warder in an undertone, and made a dir- ection towards tho entrance to the door as though asking whether he could go below to the ceils whilst the jury were awav. WHEN THE JURY RETIRED. After the jury had retired the question of the appearance of counsel for the even- ing newspatrer, of which his Lordship had complained, arose. A representative cf the newspaper's solicitor informed the clerk that cou¡"'¡ were on their way there, and this Avas communicated to the judge, who then left the Bench. Crippen had gone be- low, and then there arose a hubbub of conversation. It seemed to be thought "that waiting for the yer, diet" would be Ion? and wearisome, Later, Mr. Montagu Shearman, K.C., j came into court, and the Judge returned to the Bench, when counsel informed him than he appeared for the "Evening News," and Mr. Evans, the editor, was in court. His Lordship asked if counsel wTShed the case to be dealt with now. and he replieu t that he would prefer Mondev. The editor I had not seeii the paragraph in question be- fore it went in. The Judge replied that the matter Avanted exnlaming then. It was a bad ca.&?. A statement Avas made that the I Crown adowed the quartermaster to be in consultation with Mr. Muir. and that the latter knew of his presence. LE NEVE CASE FOR TUESDAY. Ilns Lordship intimated that in the event cf it being necessary to try the Le Neve j case, it would be taken on Tuesdav. TKE JURY CITES THEIR VERDICT. The jury returned into court amid breath- less silence, after an absence of had:" an hour. The Lord Chief Justice resumed the judgment seat. and Crippen w-- brought ( back to Uie dock. He stood up. but his face I was very pale, and he cast an anxious look at the jury. I The Clerk of Arraigns Have you agreed upon your verdict, gentlemen? The Foreman We have. How do you find? Do you find the pris- oner at, the bar guilty or not, guilty? The. Foreman jswniptly) Ouiity of wilful murder. There WBS a prolonged sigh in court, CRIPPEN WEST SUDDENLY PALE, a.nd sank back into his chair. He was as- sisted to liis feet by a couple of warders. I His mouth was twitching, his eves bulged lurther out, zlnd he appeared to be suffering from great nervous excitement. Once more the solemn voice of the Clerk I of Arraigns broke the painful stillness: "Hawley Harvey Crippen, have you any- thing. to say why the sentence it death should not- be passed upon you according to law?" The wretched culprit, who just then was AN ABJECT FIGURE OF WOE. mumbled something which could not be heard. Then he seemed for a moment to put! himself together, and exclaimed, "I still protest my innocence." The Lord Chief Justice then, amid a dead silence, assumed the black cap. and with the impressive figure of his chaplain stand- ing at his side, delivered judgment. In short, sharp tone, he said Hawley Harvey Crippen, you have been convicted on evidence which could leave no doubt on the mind of any reasonable man that you cruelly poisoned your wiie that, to conceal your crime you mutilated her body and disposed piecemeal ot her remains: t-hat you possessed yourself of her property, and that you used it for your own purposes. It is further established that as soon as sus- picion was aroused you fled from justice and took every measure to conceal your flight. On the ghastly and wicked nature of your crime I will not dwell, but you must entertain no expectation or hope that you will escape the consequences of your crime, and I implore you to make voar peace with your Maker. The sentence of th" court is that you be taken to a lawful prison and there hanged by the neck until you are dead. and that your body shall be buried within the precincts of the prison in which you shall last have been confined, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul. As his lordship said the last few dread words Crippen removed his eyes from the judge, and into whose eyes he had been staring, and passed a rapid glance round the court. The Lord Chief Justice's chaplain uttered a loud and solemn Amen as his lordship concluded, and Crippen was instantly re- moved from the dock with A WARDER'S ARM AROUND HIM. His Lordship then announced that he would take the case of Le Neve on Tuesday at 10.50 and left the court, the crowds of spectators filing out eagerly discussing the proceedings. The verdict was awaited by large num- bers of people outside the court in Old Bailey and a large number oT "police were engaged in keeping the thoroughfare clear for traffic.

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