Doctor Crippen: The Infamous London Cellar Murder Of 1910 - Plot & Excerpts
George Orwell, Decline of the English Murder Captain Kendall seemed to be very much impressed by our interest in anything connected with murder. Ethel Le Neve, Thomson’s Weekly News In 1910 it was not necessary to have a passport to travel much of the world, and Crippen and Le Neve had reached Belgium by 10 July. On that day they had booked into the Hotel des Ardennes in the Rue de Brabant in Brussels. Later enquiries established they stayed there until 18 July. Crippen signed the visitor’s register ‘John Robinson, age 55 Merchant born in Quebec Canada last place of residence, Vienna’. The hotel’s proprietress signed the book on behalf of Le Neve under the name of ‘John Robinson Junior’, for the typist was now masquerading as a boy. The only luggage they brought with them was a small basketwork trunk. To the staff at the hotel they appeared to be two people travelling for pleasure. They spent most of their time in their room, only leaving it for about two hours a day. The story Crippen told the hotel staff was that he was a merchant travelling with his sick son and that his wife had died two months previously.
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