The man known as Dr. Crippen and Miss Le Neve
were arrested last Sunday in the St. Lawrence on board the steamer `Montrose' on the charge of murdering and mutilating Mrs. Crippen. Mr. Dew, the Scotland Yard detective, who had left England for Canada in a fast ship some time after the Montrose ' had started, went on board the `Montrose' disguised as a pilot directly she arrived. He quickly identified Crippen and Miss Le Neve (who was dressed as a boy) and arrested them. More attention has been turned on this murder case than on any for a long time. It would be interesting to determine the reasons which cause one murder to become an almost exclusive subject of conversation, while another, not very different, passes nearly unnoticed. In this case there are perhaps two chief reasons for the excessive notoriety, which are very reasonably selected in a leading article in the Tines,—one is the fact that the police took all the newspapers into their confidence, using publicity as the chief instrument of search for the fugitives ; the other is the extraordinarily dramatic use made of wireless telegraphy.
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