Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1910 — POLICE ARREST CRIPPEN [ARTICLE]

POLICE ARREST CRIPPEN

Doctor and Miss Le Neve Admit Their Identity. Dr. Hawley Crippen and Miss Ethel Le Neve are in the hands of Scotland Yard. At 8 o’clock Sunday morning, Inspector Dew boarded the ship off Fathers Point with the pilots and in » few minutes the handcuffs were on the man for whom the police of the world have been searching for the past three weeks. As for Miss Le Neve, when arrested she fainted in her cabin still dressed in boy’s clothing. Crippen was taken to a cell In Quebec and later was arraigned In the little court room of Justice Punet Angers for the murder of his wife. At the same time Ethel Le Neve was charged with being an accessory. Crippen was calm and defiant and protested his innocence.

Later friends came to his aid. Arthur Newton, well known London criminal lawyer was asked, to take up the defense of Crippen. From the altitude of Inspector Dew and others concerned in the case it is thought that Crippen has confessed.