Hawley Hervey Crippen 1862-1910:

UXORICIDE: Killing one's Wife.

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H. H. Crippen

Mrs. Crippen (Belle Elmore)

The Lord Chief Justice of England. Richard Everard Webster the 1st Viscount Alverstone.

Belle Elmore

Ethel Le Neve

Belle Elmore

Ethel Le Neve

Name: Hawley Hervey Crippen
Date & Place  of Birth: 11th September 1862, at Coldwater, Michigan in the U.S.A.
Parents: Myron Augustus Crippen a merchant and Andresse Skinner.
Siblings: Ella Sophia born in 1857, died in childhood.
Spouse: Corinne K Turner.
Date & Place  of Marriage: 1st September 1892 at Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey, America.
Children: None.
Date & Place of Trial: 18th - 21st October 1910, at the Old Bailey in London. All the evidence against him was circumstantial, he never once admitted his guilt, and pleaded his innocence to the end.
Judge: The Lord Chief Justice of England: Richard Everard Webster.
Date & Place of Execution: 23rd November 1910, at Pentonville Prison in North London. Assisted by William Willis
Notes: Crippen's first job was working in a canning factory. He went to the Michigan or Cleveland's Homeopathic Medical School, and graduated in 1884.
 On the 13th of December 1887 at Detroit, Wayne in Michigan, he married Charlotte Bell, who was born in Ireland in 1858, the daughter of Arthur Bell and Susan Madden. A son Hawley Otto Crippen was born on the 19th August 1889, at San Diego, California. Charlotte died suddenly in January 1892 of a stroke.
 After the death of Charlotte, young Hawley went to live with his grandparents Myron and Andresse Crippen.
 Crippen, went to New York, and met 19 year old Cora Turner a music hall singer, who's stage name was Belle Elmore, she was born Kunigunde Mackamotzki, in 1873 at Brooklyn in New York. Crippen married Corinne K Turner, on the 1st September 1892 at Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey. He took a job as a consultant for Munyon's Homeopathic Remedies (a homeopathic mail-order company.)
 In 1897 Crippen was given the opportunity to open the first overseas offices in London, of Munyon's Homeopathic Remedies.
 In 1901 Crippen found a job at a homeopathic clinic and met 18 year old secretary Ethel Le Neve, it would be five years before Hawley and Ethel made love. Crippen had gone home one afternoon in 1906 and found his wife in bed with one of the lodger's. He went to Ethel for comfort.
 In 1905 the Crippen's move to 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Holloway North London.
Cora Crippen / Belle Elmore was last seen at 1.30 a.m, in the early morning of the 1st of February 1910.

Reported in The Era Newspapers, dated 26th March 1910, under Deaths: Elmore- March 23, in California, U.S.A., Miss Belle Elmore (Mrs H. H. Crippen).

 On Tuesday the 19th July 1910, Scotland Yard offered a reward of £250 for information that will lead to the arrest of Dr. Crippen and Miss le Neve
 20th July 1910, Crippen and Le Neve, who was disguised as a boy, took passage from Antwerp to Montreal, on broad the ship Montrose. Captain Kendall, had read the description of the two fugitives, and thought he identified in Mr and Master Robinson, the two people who were wanted by the police.
22nd July 1910, Wireless telegraphy was used for the first time in the science of criminal detection.
23rd July 1910, Chief Inspector Dew, departs from Liverpool, on board Laurentic.
27th July 1910, the Laurentic overtakes the Montrose.
31st July 1910, Crippen and Le Neve, are arrested at Father Point in Canadian Waters, by Chief Inspector Dew, both are jailed in Montreal pending extradition proceedings.
28th August 1910, Dew, Crippen and Le Neve, arrive at Liverpool.
18th October 1910, Crippen's trial begins at the Old Bailey, London.
21st October 1910, Found Guilty and sentenced to death.
27th October 1910, Ethel Le Neve, acquittal.

Victims Name: Cora Turner a music hall singer, who's stage name was Belle Elmore,
Date & Place  of Birth: Born Kunigunde Mackamotzki, in 1873 at Brooklyn in New York, Amercia.
Spouse: Hawley Hervey Crippen
Date & Place of Marriage: 1st September 1892 at Jersey City, Hudson, New Jersey, America.
Children: None.
Relationship to Killer: Wife
Date & Place of Murder: February 1910, at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Holloway in North London.
Method of Killing: Poisoned his wife with hyoscin, dismembered her remains, hid her head no one knows where, and buried the torso under the floor of the cellar, at 39 Hilldrop Crescent North London.