Doctor Crippen: The Infamous London Cellar Murder of 1910 (36 page)

3
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 11.

4
.
Answers
, 27 August 1910.

5
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., 12.

6
.
Ibid
., p. 15.

7
.
Ibid
., pp. 13–4.

8
.
Ibid
., p. 14.

9
.
Ibid
., p. 19.

10
.
Ibid
.

11
.
Ibid
., p. 20.

12
.
Ibid
., pp. 20–1.

3. The Cellar

1
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 23.

2
.
Ibid
., p. 22.

3
.
Ibid
., p. 25.

4
.
Daily Mail
, 19 July 1910.

5
.
Daily Chronicle
, 18 July 1910.

6
.
Answers
, 27 August 1910.

7
.
Ibid
.

8
.
Ibid
., 3 September 1910.

9
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 26.

10
.
Ibid
., p. 27.

11
.
Daily Express
, 23 November 1926.

12
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 27.

13
.
Ibid
., pp. 27–8.

14
.
Ibid
., p. 28.

15
. Macnaghten,
Days of My Years
, p. 195.

16
. Adam,
CID: Behind the Scenes at Scotland Yard
, p. 20.

17
. Macnaghten,
op
.
cit
., p. 195.

18
.
The Times
, 14 July 1910.

19
.
Islington Daily Gazette
, 15 July 1910.

20
. Gooch later became a chief inspector and head of the Flying Squad. He died in a car crash in 1936.

21
.
Pall Mall Gazette
, 15 July 1910.

22
.
Ibid
., 14 July 1910.

23
.
The People
, 17 July 1910.

24
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 11.

25
.
Liverpool Daily Post
, 6 August 1910. The lodger was probably Richard Erlich, whose interview in the
Petit Parisien
appeared in many English newspapers at that time.

26
.
New York Times
, 15 July 1910.

27
.
Los Angeles Herald
, 15 July 1910.

28
.
The Times
, 19 July 1910.

29
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 30.

4. The Fugitives

1
. Yates,
As Berry and I Were Saying
, p. 250.

2
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., pp. 31–2.

3
.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, 16 July 1910.

4
.
San Francisco Chronicle
, 17 July 1910.

5
. Wood,
op
.
cit
., p. 264.

6
.
Ibid
., pp. 266–7.

7
.
The Times
, 19 July 1910.

8
.
Ibid
., 21 July 1910.

9
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 25.

10
.
Ibid
., pp. 33–4.

11
.
The Times
, 20 July 1910.

12
.
Ibid
., 22 July 1910.

13
. A photocopy of the page from the visitors’ book is kept at Camden Local Studies and Archives.

14
.
Daily Mail
, 20 July 1910.

15
.
The Times
, 22 July 1910.

16
.
Islington Daily Gazette
, 21 July 1910.

17
. Gibbs,
Adventures in Journalism
, p. 73.

18
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., 79.

19
. The controversy over Crippen’s title was later discussed in the letters column of
The
Times
on 2 November 1938 and 5 November 1938.

20
.
The British Medical Journal
, 29 October 1910.

21
.
Western Mail
, 26 September 1898.

22
.
Ibid
.

23
.
The American Homeopathic Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
, 1885, p. 242.

24
.
Ibid
., p. 102.

5. The Inquisitive Sea Captain

1
. Kendall,
Adventures on the High Seas
, p. 160.

2
. In his memoirs, Kendall wrote that he could see Crippen’s teeth were not false and Scotland Yard had been mistaken in their description (Kendall,
op
.
cit
., p. 162).

3
.
Ibid
., p. 150.

4
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 37.

5
. Macnaghten,
op
.
cit
., p. 197.

6
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 39.

7
. Macnaghten,
op
.
cit
., p. 199–200.

8
.
Durban Daily News
, 12 November 1938.

9
.
Liverpool Courier
, 25 July 1910.

10
.
Montreal Daily Star
, 30 July 1910.

11
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 40.

12
. Kendall,
op
.
cit
., p. 169.

13
.
The Umpire
, 27 July 1910.

14
. Kendall,
op
.
cit
., p. 171.

15
.
The Times
, 29 July 1910.

16
.
Montreal Daily Star
, 30 July 1910.

17
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 49.

18
.
Montreal Daily Star
, 30 July 1910.

19
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 41.

6. The Arrest

1
.
Daily Mail
, 12 August 1910.

2
. When interviewed decades later Kendall claimed Dew did not immediately recognise Crippen saying, ‘My God, captain, that isn’t Crippen!’ Kendall said he replied, ‘That’s Crippen all right – and if you won’t arrest him I will’ (
News of the World
, 3 February 1952).

3
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 43.

4
.
Ibid
., p. 44.

5
. Macnaghten,
op
.
cit
., p. 189.

6
. Kendall,
op
.
cit
., p. 187.

7
.
Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper
, 7 August 1910.

8
.
The Times
, 1 August.1910.

9
.
Ibid
., 2 August 1910.

10
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., pp. 50–1.

11
.
Islington Daily Gazette
, 4 August 1910.

12
.
Daily Chronicle
, 8 August 1910.

13
.
The Times
, 9 August 1910.

14
.
San Francisco Chronicle
, 9 August 1910.

15
.
The Times
, 5 August 1910.

16
.
Montreal Daily Star
, 15 August 1910.

7. The Return Voyage

1
.
Liverpool Daily Post
, 22 August 1910.

2
. Grant,
To The Four Corners
, p. 45.

3
.
The Times
, 29 August 1910.

4
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 50.

5
. PRO BT26/422. Mitchell’s name was wrongly recorded as Charles.

6
.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
, 22 August 1910.

7
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., pp. 53–6.

8
.
Ibid
., p. 56.

9
.
Lloyd’s Weekly News
, 13 November 1910.

10
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., pp. 56–7.

11
. Yates,
op
.
cit
., p. 243.

12
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 7.

13
.
Ibid
., p. 57.

14
. Yates,
op
.
cit
., pp. 255–6.

15
. Grant,
op
.
cit
., p. 46.

16
.
Ibid
., p. 45.

17
.
Answers
, 17 September 1910.

18
.
Daily Mail
,
29 August 1910.

19
.
Liverpool Courier
,
29 August 1910.

20
.
Reynolds’s Weekly Newspaper
,
28 August 1910.

21
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 60.

22
. Adam,
op
.
cit
., p. 158.

23
. Macnaghten,
op
.
cit
., p. 193.

8. The Crooked Solicitor

1
. Humphreys,
A Book of Trials
, p. 162.

2
. Humphreys,
Criminal Days
, p. 112.

3
.
Sunday Express
, 31 December 1923. Crippen said he remembered Newton from a 1898 case when they were on opposing sides.

4
. Cullen,
Crippen: The Mild Murderer
, p. 146.

5
. Yates,
op
.
cit
., pp. 159–60.

6
.
The People
, 23 April 1933.

7
.
Sunday Express
, 6 January 1924.

8
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 60.

9
. Dilnot,
Adventures of a Newspaper Man
, pp. 130–1.

10
.
Thomson’s Weekly News
, 6 November 1920. The cell Crippen occupied at Bow Street had other notorious residents. Forger John Hurley hanged himself in it just hours before he was due to stand trial in 1923 (
Daily Express
, 26 September 1923). It was later occupied by William Joyce, otherwise known as ‘Lord Haw Haw’, who was executed for treason in 1946 (
Daily
Mail
, 18 June 1945).

11
. Macnaghten,
op
.
cit
., p. 189.

12
.
The Times
, 1 August 1910.

13
. Morland,
Hangman’s Clutch
, p. 146.

14
.
The New Statesman
, 16 November 1940.

15
. Dew,
op
.
cit
., p. 7.

16
.
Daily Mail
, 2 August 1910.

17
. Dilnot,
Great Detectives
, pp. 44–5.

18
. Yates,
op
.
cit
., pp. 254–5.

19
.
The Times
, 7 September 1910.

20
.
Ibid
., 15 September 1910.

21
.
Ibid
., 17 September 1910.

22
.
The Globe
, 21 September 1910.

23
.
Ibid
., 19 September 1910.

9. Pre-Trial Proceedings

1
.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
. Newton had briefed Marshall Hall in his first ever case in 1894 (Marjoribanks,
The Life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall
, p. 87).

2
. Bowker,
A Lifetime With the Law
, pp. 23–4.

3
. Marjoribanks,
op
.
cit
., pp. 281–2.

4
.
Ibid
., p. 283. Travers Humphreys denied this was the case. He wrote that Marshall Hall ‘declined to accept it for reasons which seemed good to him and which had nothing to do with the suggested defence of manslaughter’ (
Book of Trials
, pp. 62–3).

5
. Crippen said he ‘wrote an account (12 foolscap pages finely written) of my experiences of seven weeks, and my solicitor has this,
yet unpublished
.’ (Ellis,
Black Fame
, p. 312). Apparently the first instalment was published in the
Sunday Budget
, a London newspaper owned by American press baron William Randolph Hearst and staffed by American journalists. A court injunction quickly ended the series (Buchanan-Taylor,
op
.
cit
., p. 97).

6
.
The People
, 23 April 1933.

7
.
The Times
, 27 September 1910.

8
. Croall,
Fourteen Minutes: The Last Voyage of the Empress of Ireland
, p. 25.

9
.
Sotheby’s Auction Catalogue
, 24 February 1976. This letter was auctioned along with other Crippen ephemera including letters written by Cora and a signed photograph of her. They once belonged to Dr John Burroughs, who had died in 1940 (
Evening News
, 30 January 1976).

10
. Meaney,
Scribble Street
, p. 59.

10. Rex v. Crippen Part One: Prosecutors and Defenders

1
.
Dictionary of National Biography
.

2
.
Pall Mall Magazine
, August 1913. Cecil Mercer described Alverstone as ‘a splendid chief and a splendid Judge. So far as I ever saw, he had only one fault. And that was that he was impatient. But he couldn’t fairly be blamed, for he had a lightning brain.’ (Yates,
op. cit.
, p. 96)

3
. Alverstone,
Recollections of Bar and Bench
, p. 274.

4
.
The Saturday Post
, 17 February 1917.

5
. Browne and Tullett,
Bernard Spilsbury: His Life and Cases
, p. 48.

6
. Oddie,
Inquest
, p. 74.

7
. Yates,
op
.
cit
., p. 179.