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That the Home Office has, in bland, knowing Sir Bernard Spilsbury a Sherlock Holmes who never fails, is a settled Empire conviction. Did he not send Crippen to the gallows, Crippen the first murderer ever apprehended by wireless? (see p. 40). Then there was Smith, "the Brides-of-the-Bath Bluebeard." To prove how easy it was for Smith to drown his brides in his tub without a struggle, did not Sir Bernard Spilsbury all but perform that feat himself?* Ever since the discovery last summer of Brighton Trunk Murder No. 1 (TIME, July 2) and Brighton Trunk Murder...
...Distant Shore (by Donald Blackwell & Theodore St. John; Dwight Deere Wiman, producer.) In 1910 a U. S. patent medicine salesman and unlicensed dentist named Hawley Harvey Crippen gave his wife, a music hall wench, an overdose of hyoscine, chopped up her remains, buried them in the coal cellar of their London home. He then took his secretary into the house to live with him, fled to Montreal on the S.S. Montrose when his late wife's friends infected Scotland Yard with their suspicions. The only elements in the Crippen case which might possibly raise it above the low level...
...Nijinsky beat time from the wings. A Londoner was so outraged that he wrote a letter to the Times calling Le Sacre "a threat against the foundations of our tonal institutions . . . [standing for] all the unnameable horrors of revolution, murder and rapine. ... It should have been dedicated to Dr. Crippen, the dentist who murdered seven wives in their baths...
...outraged Londoner was confused. Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen murdered one wife. He poisoned her, then cut her in pieces and hid her in the cellar...
...memorial service to the late Gum Man William Wrigley Jr. in Chicago's smart St. Chrysostom's last month was graced with ushers from Wrigley Baseball Field and a carillonneur who sweetly ding-donged Aloha Oe, the gum man's favorite tune. Rev. John Crippen Evans, associate rector of fashionable St. Chrysostom's, eulogized Mr. Wrigley thus: "He was a boy at 70, and that is a real achievement. It is in that sort of attainment that the Christian pulpit is primarily interested, because the message of the pulpit is wholly concerned with life-life that...