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Most of The Scalpel of Scotland Yard is about the trials at which Spilsbury gave evidence, including such famous shockers as the Crippen Case and the Brides in the Baths.* The rest of it is a polite autopsy on Spilsbury himself, an attempted reconstruction of a life that was devoted almost exclusively to death...
...George Joseph Smith drowned three successive brides in their tubs, having been willed the estate of the first and having insured the other two; Spilsbury proved that they could not have died from fits or faints while bathing. Dr. Crippen poisoned his wife, carved up her remains and buried them in the cellar. Spilsbury identified her by a bit of abdominal skin with the scar of an old operation...
Until a year ago, Milwaukee Contractor Ralph H. Kroening raced his string of trotters mostly around Midwestern state fairs. Then he sent his driver-trainer, Guy Crippen, to look over a handsome two-year-old colt named Mainliner. Crippen liked what he saw. Kroening got on the phone and bought the dark brown horse for $25,000, sight unseen. He forthwith found himself too busy with defense work to watch his new trotter in competition (ten wins in 23 starts last year, one out of 13 this season). But last week, Contractor Kroening took a few days off, went...
Coming into the homestretch, grizzled, canny Driver Crippen, 59, let Mainliner go all out for the first time. The colt shot ahead, sailed past the leaders and took the heat by two lengths...
...Hawley Harvey Crippen, a London dentist, was hanged (1910) for poisoning his wife, chopping up her remains and burying them in his cellar. Henri Desire (Bluebeard) Landru was guillotined (1922) in Versailles, France, for butchering ten women...