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Montrose is notable for being the ship on which Hawley Harvey Crippen and his lover Ethel Le Neve fled Britain after Crippen murdered his wife in 1910. Montrose was wrecked in the early months of the First World War after she broke her moorings.
Hawley Harvey Crippen (September 11, 1862 – November 23, 1910), colloquially known as Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopath, ear and eye specialist and medicine dispenser who was hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen.
3 de ene. de 2011 · ABSTRACT: Dr. Hawley Crippen was accused and convicted of murdering his wife in London in 1910. Key to the conviction was microscopic analysis of remains found in the Crippen’s coal cellar, which were identified as Cora Crippen based on a scar she was said to have. Dr. Crippen was hanged, always proclaiming his innocence.
SS Montrose was a transatlantic ocean liner for Elder, Dempster & Company and the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company. She is most notable as the vessel on which Hawley Crippen and his lover, Ethel La Neve, fled England after Crippen's wife was murdered.
On Sunday, 31 July, Dew and other officers boarded the Montrose as it sailed up the St Lawrence. The father and son were identified as Crippen and Ethel Le Neve, both were arrested and, after three weeks, were escorted back to England to face trial.
10 de ene. de 2015 · The tale is one of murder, romance, an international manhunt and a ship equipped with the latest 'wireless' technology. It was shortly after the Montrose left the Belgian port of Antwerp that Henry Kendall noticed that two of his passengers, a father and son, were behaving oddly.
Crippen and his love had boarded the Montrose, a 5,500-ton steerage vessel, in Antwerp on July 20. On that day it headed down the River Scheldt to the open sea, bound for Canada. The fugitive couple, who sailed second-class, were two of 280 passengers aboard.
