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THE CHINA MATE, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, - 1960,

Crippen case woman

ETHE

THEL Le Neve who, disguised as a boy, was with Dr Crippen, the mur- derer, when he was arrested aboard the Montrose 60 years ago, is still alive, She is, according to the man responsible for the capture of Crippen, living quietly in Kent.

That man is Captain Henry George Kendall. He ordered the radio message that sent Crippen

back

in England

ROME OLYMPIC

HE PIONEERED THE FOUR-MINUTE MILE

DRIVER Patrick Hayden had seen the man sway

fall. He had automatically jammed on

-says the man who caught the murderer his brakes.

to the gallows. Captain Kendall Kendall, "I was convinced from made history that day because what I saw of her on that jours it was the first time radio had ney that she knew nothing of

been used to catch a criminal.

HE LOOKS BACK Captain Kendall told me the other day: "Few people know it, but living somewhere in Kent is a lady of 71. She has sons and grandchildren but only her hus- band knows her secret. She is

the crime,"

Miss Le Neve left England soon after the trial and lived under an assumed name in Australia. Nothing has been heard of her since.

"Within six months of the Crippen Case B00 ships were fitted up, and within 18 months radio was required by law on all ships. It was the making Marconi."

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Scotland Yard men watched passengers embarking on the Montrose at Antwerp and falled to recognise "Mr Robinson and his son," as Dr Crippen and hi guised as a boy.

By the time his Coney Island underground train had halted in the New York open air subway. station, two coaches had passed over the body of the fallen man.

the former Miss Ethel Le Neve, the Brighton Convalescent Home Sweethesti, Miss Le Neve dis- verdict of accidental death and this slim, nine-stoner when he

the girl of 27 who dressed as a boy and fled with Crippen.

"She is a very happy. old lady today and I wouldn't tell any- one where she lives."

Miss Le Neve was quitted of complicity in the murder of Crippen's wife. Says Captain

I talked to Captain Kendall, 52 years at sea in safling ves sela, aleamers and warships, at for officers. He looked back a years to tell me how he caught Crippen.

CLEAN SHAVEN Captain Kendall said: "There were only 60 ships in the world carrying wireless in 1910. My Montrose was one of them.

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"With that model you can always tell which way the wind is blowing."

Fate had finally overtaken Df That same year he ran for John Edward Lovelock, former New Zealand in the Los Angeles world and Olympic champion Olympics (finishing seventh in rummer, the peer of the four- the 1,500 motres) and won his

Blue as a lightweight boxer. mirate mile,

The Inquest

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Little attention was paid to revealed that the world-famous athlete suffered from bad eye. returned to the United States in But one day Captain Kendall Sight, heart trouble and harden, 1933 with the Oxford-Cambridge saw them standing on deck, anding of the arteries.

He had also been with in- noticed they squeezed hands.

fluenza. But he had insisted on "All the newspaper photo continuing with his work graphs showed Crippen with ahead of the physiotherapy de large moustache and glasses. Mr partment of a Robinson was clean shaven, and hospital. wore no spectacles," said the Captain.

"put a newspaper photo- graph on the drawing board and I worked off the moustache and glasses with chalk. I looked at Mr Robinson sitting outside my cabin in a deck chair and decided that's Crippen."

"I WAS THE LAW'

Captain Kendall swore his wireless operator to secrecy and ordered him to send a message to the headquarters of his line in Liverpool.

Now

FEARLESS

York

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That was typical of Lovelock. Throughout his life he was fearless fighter, a man of tron whose determination and up plication put him far ahead of all middle-distance runners of his time,

athletics team.

But at Princeton, New Jersey, he astounded the athletics world by setting a new world mile re- cord of 4 mla 7.8. secs,

Some experts. had thought that the speed limit for the mile had already been reached. Lovelock not only proved them wrong but argued that much faster times were possible.

He even talked of the day an athlete would run a four-minute mile. People laughed at him.

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At. Oxford, and later as medical student at St. Mary's Hospital, London, Lovelock was to pave the way for the break- ing of the four-minute barrier, he feat finally achieved in 1954 by Roger Bannister another St

As a rugby player, Lovelock broke a leg. As a boxer, he had his nose put out of joint As an athlete, he underwent Mary's man. stricus knee operation and bad

cartilage removed.

Like Bannister, Lovelock brought selentific application to

He was also a constant suf- the business of miling-more so than any man before him, He come to the view that an athlete could reach his peak only once

HUSHED

"Crippen was standing on ferer from insomnia and claus- deck as the message crackled out | trophobia. from the wireless room. Hel looked up and said 'Isn't that But nothing could keep Love- wireless telegraphy wonderful lock out of the sporting head- a season. The message that was going off lines for long. Nor did his to England was the message that handicaps prevent hirm serving hanged him."

in the Army throughout the war-though in 1940 he had Unlike Bannister, who raced broken hig collar bone in to his own schedule, Lovelock hunting accident, and had had varied his tactics in accordance his vision permanently affected, with the opposition. By such by a blow on the head.

means he ran the greatest race of his life in the giant Olympic Jack Lovelock was born in Stadium i Berlin, New Zealand, in January, 1910,

When detectives came aboard off the Canadian coast it was Captain Kendall who read the warrant for Crippen's arrest. "The ship was outside territorial waters und 1 was the law," he said.

Captain Kendall, upright and active at 87, will return to his Hat in Burnt Ash Hill, Lewis- ham, after a few weeks Brighton.

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The date was August 6, 1936. and after studying at Otago Uni- A crowd of more than 100,000 versity he went to Oxford in including Adolf Hitler, watched 1931 as a Rhodes scholar, The in hushed anticipation as the 12 following year he burst on to finalists came to the starting line 1,500 the athletics scene by setting a for the long-awaited new Britain mile record of 4 metres final. min. 12 secs.

TODAY THE MAIL EXAMINES FIRST-HAND

THE REVELATION THAT EVERY YEAR MANY

UNSUSPECTED

murder.

To round off the Mail's inquiry, 24 astonishing interview with Dr John Havard, whose new book "The Detection of Secret Homicide" (Macmillan, 35s.) declares that all too often murder will NOT out. ...

I ASKED

MURDERS GO UNSUSPECTED

So I asked

the doctor to

kill

me...

by

Dr John MERRICK WINN

Havard: "Could you

murder me and get away

with it?" and he said: "Is, and the fewer people and has nearly got away think I could.”

with who know about it the better. murder: but not quite, because He bad not "There would be no bruising he all has me. He looked me over, sipped and possibly nothing to show at overlooked this. his tea, and added: "I would an autopsy," said throttle you."

This is the man, notably whose important book, "The Detection of Secret Homicide," is waking up many people who have been asleep about der.

-Mar-

Breath-taking

Dr Havard. "Not, of course, that I'd rink an Butopsy.

Tricky

"I'd want to get you certifed dead from artural causes

And

as the law now stands I'd have a good chance of doing that."

He would indeed. More than 100.000 people are certified dead Murderers, says Dr Havard, in Britain every year without

So much for my murder, noll clever or likely to lead to a memorable trial -but just as Dr Havard meant it to be. The sort that does the job, and goes untelected.

Chapman Pincher estimated Last week that for every

murderer brought to

trial

dozens rust go unsuspected, and Dr Harvard told me "I see no reason to doubt this."

So easy

He also said: "It's the old "I wouldn't have you cremated because the cremation regula- people, in the way, and the new- os are adequate, though I'm born babies I'm really concern- ed about. These are the ones sorry to see undertakers are now trying to get them relaxed, it's easy to kill.

"When I was in practice: I then

of could have you buried: had my suspicions more there would be nothing to show once. So does any family dec F'd prefer to get rid of you al- even if you were ethumed. But for,"

together,

"I think the de You're 盛 sailing man and this helps.

How must the law be changed? Two of Dr Havard's · reforms would be these

Every dead person should be

"I'd weight you with concrete examined by a doctor whe

are not mostly caught as We their doctors seeing them after like to believe. Most get away. death-one death in three. Not because they gre perfect This legal. A doctor can and bury you according to your would state, the cause deinitely murderers, bus because of our ortity death solely on the last wishes at sea, but within and not, is now. "to the best This of my belief.". This is already

far-from-perfect laws,

evidence of the last lineses for the three-mile would be legal."

As, for instance, in the case which he saw the patient, it of Merrick Winn, journalist, this was in recent montha... murdered inartistically but Suppose I hadn't been under adequately by John David Jayne a doctor's care for MCBAS?! Havard, 30-year-old doctor and

barrister, father of three.

He would, as he held, throttle In your tea...

me. He could do this

Elo is

:

obligatory for cremallon.

Then I asked Dr Hovard how If the doctor" "Could not be he would murder me, despite definite he would call the.

the autopay risks, if he had to comber who would be obliged do it in Loridoks.

yeark

to' dnder an expert autopsy.

KI

He poured me tes, end said? Dr Havid spent five

"I pritd be starting now, I collecting the massive evidence

would and reform, urgers."

serious

6ft. lin. tall, a non-smoker, This makes it trieder," he could put in your tee is repeat for book. He told me I Cambridge blue (athletics). And agreed, your death would ell sto doses a common house canedder the problem he would not, like sme, need have to be reported to the bold commodity which music to mask the high notes of corner and I wouldn't like that cathé ayam botha His those of a murder. He sings bass in the in London London. her the umorily fatal disew Bach Choir.

Yes, he has, in my view proved the agency for many highest autopay rate in Brisies. #1 is rapidly elinated from Slideen newly Born for melly

and all oiler" viellor of-hafe.

So I am throttled. "Nobody ---25 per ori af vil demthe.... the hotly, no virtually undetected people who are in the way, would know, said De Haverd, "I'd trave is mulder run in table "because I'd do it in a special the coutin Hoftunderland, way. Perhaps we ought noe to which the the Sow

sokion this pubļie,”

He described thián aovcink-s

The law trust. Tæt them lyf.

The end

Britain's hope of success had faded the previous day when wiry, bespectacled Sydney Wooderson dropped out through injury. But there was still a fine array of talent:

The swarthy Luigi Boccali of Italy, who held the Olympic

record of 9 min. 51.2 sec; world champion miler Glenn Cunning-

-By-

JOHN COTTRELL

ham of the United States; the yards. This time different tactics which took Lovelock ahead by exciting new American dis- would be needed,

covery,

Archie San Romani: Britain's Olympic silver medal- 1st Jerry Cornes; and the Cana- dian Negro Phil Edwards,

For Jack Lovelock, 20-year- old British Empire mile cham- pion, this was to be the last major race of his career. He was determined to retire in triumph.

a clear ten yards. He pounded after him up the final straight. But it was too late.

Lovelock

had

Cornes and Beccali set the pace at the stars, with Lovelock lying firth. Cunningham ströde

timed his into the lead after the first lap supreme effort perfectly and he with the New Zealander

romped home five yards ahead strategically placed third.

of the American to give. New The muscular world champion. Zealand her first Olymple gold remained in front until the final medal. His time: 3 min. 47.8 second inside the lap. Then, 300 yards from the sec.-one Cunningham. "The Iron Horse finish Lovelock accelerated with world record. of Kansas," was the man he the silky smoothness of a high- ̈* feared most, In their last powered machine. meeting he had beaten the

So flerce was his pace that the next four men Cunningham,

American by holding back his Cunningham was. estonished Beccali, San Romani and Ed-

Olympic record, Some called it the greatest race of all time.

Lovelock, a slight, wiry Agire in the black shorts and vest of New Zealand, seemed fresh and untroubled at the finish. And he felt more' more certain than ever that a four-minute mita was possible.

He told friends: "I have been well under three minutes for the three-quarters and I know that pressed competition, it severely enough, another quar ter could be done in 80 seconds or less,

in

Lovelock

never lived to 100 his prophecy realised. He ran only two more maces after his Olympic triumph. And 13

morning, he met his tragic death years later, on a cold December

in New York.

He was 39.

Tomorrow:

surprise sprint until the final 60 by this fantastic burst of speed wards-all beat the previous The human torpedo

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