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THE LANDLADY'S STORY

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THE LANDLADY'S STORY ■Aiitx deliberating1 for twenty minutes the »t the Old Bailey on Tuesday returned a vtwdict of "Mot Guilty" against Ethel k Mote* iJft renpect of the charg-e of "receh-ing, harbour jbtgf assisting and maintaining one ll;awley jBArrey Crippen when slie knew he had colli- (..ítf,foll the murder of Cora Crippen, otherwise mie Elmore." The case was heard by the Lord Chief Jus- and lasted only five hours. Mr. Muir, opening the ease for the proseou- :!tion, sa,id it was clear that Le Neve was the ,jnotive, of the murder. Counsel laid stress on -the evidence of Mrs. Jackson, Lc Neve's land- Wj, JB Camden Town. Mrs. Jackson said that ..ibwtt January. HilO, Le Neve looked ill and trcuMed, and on one night, at the end of Janu- ■:MJ or the beginning of February, she came very ill, and her appearance, according ,U Mrs. Jaekseri, was of somebody stricken with rJaottùr at something that had happened. Was Mot the explanation knowledge that Crit jjen had jBsttrdered his wife? Was it likely that she ■*ed that Mrs. Crippen had gone to America id join some other man, and had left all her ^tetlies and all her jewels, and furs behind her, to be worn by any woman to whom Crippen JKH £ ht choose to give them Various witnesses then gave evidence, similar 40 that which thev had previously given at the ""1.1 Bailey. Mr*. Jackson described Le Neve's fit of dis- "1'. mentioned by Mr. Muir. She added that '« K«ve came home about a week after tlu'inci- jtent looking quite happy, and said: "Some- iJfetody has gone away at last." At the close of the eaae for the |>rosAeutioi> Mr. 1R. Smith, K.C., said he proposed to call no Jftridence, and Mr. Muir addressed the jury ^briefly. SPEECH FOR THE DEFENCE. Mr. Smith then addressed the jury for the Jfcfenee. Lt Neve, he said, had the supreme fBiftfortirae to come across the ptth, at the age treve-nteen, of one of the most dangerous and fem&rkahlc men who have lived in thifJ cen- -f-ury. He was the doctor and she was the -typewriter. For seven years she was under 'Jtiiat influence. Dealing with the evidence, Mr. sJSnuth »aid it was utterly inconceivable that, lira ea.se of that magnitude they should attach ,,jgti,v confidence to the evidence of Mrs. .JtWfcson. Tiwre were two ways, and two only, by *biclr Le Neve could know of the murder. The way would be that she found out somc- -Iu)w. The second would be that Crippen told tfF. ow could she hare found out? The .#tiggewt'ion was that an innocent girl dis- (jorCTed, either intuitively or by something on the premises, that this murder" had been com- ;mitted. There was no vestige of evidence on -■that point. It was suggested that the man, -ht had covered up every trace which might and betray his hideous secret, told this yvmug, nervous woman that he had committed "the murder. They were asked to believe that •jWr put his life on the chance that in a fit of in her sleep, in fr'ght, to a friend, aghast at sheer horror of it, she might jfcl&ve told something of the dark and terrible which kept for himself, and for feiUKtlf alone, it was utterly incredible that [■'if the Had been. or could have been, a party to •fliin ««r«t that: she would have gone about dis- ~4riita1»ng the clothes and the jewellery ol this ,-WtmuR, NOT GUI LIT. T'h Lord Chief Juhtice, summing, up, said tilt. aUtrmative evidence on which Mr. Muir 4iJ«j>fnded, consisted entirely of the "Jackson" incident. The murder was committed on JPYbruary 1. Ethel Le Neve, in her statement .-to lin»pe>ctor Dew, said that in the early part M February Crippen pave her two notes, ing that Mrs. Crippen had gone to America, and they were fortunately aide to ■■■fix that as being on February 2. Mrs. Jackson amid that it was about a week after Le Neve fro* so in that tine said someone, meaning Mrs. .•Crippeu, had gone to America. If they came jfco the conclusion that on the evidence there War nothing against her except her agitation a period, at best, a week before the 2nd of February, there warn au end to that part of the M) far as the Crown was concerned, and be wa* bound to tell them that they were not jo convict this woman, or, in fact, anybody ,¡.t1. on suspicion alone. What reason had ihey to doubt that Crippen was telling Ethel LeNeve the same story that he was telling .,«thf-re. The jary were absent twenty minuter, and iMttB returned a verdict of not guilty, and Mies rjU wafc discharged.

THE MORNING AFTER. ;--.----

OLB AGE PENSION FRAUD.

CLOSING SCENES OF THE TRIAL.

-----GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGE.

MURDERED HIS FATHER.

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