The Lost Casebooks Of Sherlock Holmes - Plot & Excerpts
Marshall Hall’s view of the Crippen case is given in Edward Marjoribanks, The Life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall, Victor Gollancz, 1929, pp.277-84. Marshall Hall believed that, had the defence been entrusted to him, ‘Crippen would have been convicted of manslaughter or of administering a noxious poison so as to endanger human life.’ Such a course, however, might have imperilled Ethel Le Neve’s defence. ‘Crippen loved Miss Le Neve so tenderly and wholeheartedly that he wished her to escape all the legal consequences of his association with her. He had, indeed, brought the tragedy upon her, but to ensure her complete scathelessness he was willing to die for her.’ Marshall Hall’s great rival, F. E. Smith, Lord Birkenhead, wrote of Crippen, ‘He was, at least, a brave man, and a true lover.’ ii. Both George Lewis and Oscar Wilde’s friend Robert Ross considered that a prosecution of Lord Queensberry for a criminal libel on the playwright was ill-advised. Lewis’s view was that Wilde should tear up the insulting card and forget about it.
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