After a trial at the Old Bailey which lasted for
nearly five days, Dr. Crippen was convicted last Saturday of murdering his wife, and condemned to death by the Lord Chief Justice. In spite of a most ingenious defence, the result of the trial can have surprised scarcely any one, for the evidence, although it was entirely circumstantial, was conclusive. The only question upon which the proceedings shed no light was the psychology of the prisoner, who remained inscrutable and apparently callous throughout his long cross-examination, and even while the sentence was being pronounced. On Tuesday Miss Le Neve was tried on the charge of being an accessory after the fact to the murder, and was acquitted. All thinking men must regret the sensational publicity accorded to this sordid and commonplace murder. No doubt the thought of "capture by wireless ". excited people's imaginations, but the results were none the less deplorable.
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