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Chief Inspector Walter Dew of Scotland Yard (in the dark bowler hat) escorts Dr. Crippen down the gangway following his arrest. Huge crowds greeted their arrival back in England.

Dr. Crippen and Cora were American citizens who lived in England at 39 Hilldrop Crescent in North London. He worked as a patent medicine salesman, while she was trying to make her way as a music hall singer under the name of Belle Elmore. Their marriage was not a happy one. The flamboyant Cora took lovers, and Dr. Crippen began an affair with his assistant, Ethel le Neve. Soon, Dr. Crippen had more bad news for Cora’s friends. He said that she had died while still in the United States. Cora’s friends noticed, however, that his period of mourning was short; it had not taken long for Ethel to move in with him. And soon after that she was even seen wearing some of Cora’s jewelry and furs.

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