Crippen ordered 2 Single Stone Diamond Rings to be delivered to Albion House for examination. Le Neve selected one priced 50 shillings and Crippen settled the bill. Evidently, this was Le Neve's 'Engagement Ring' because, around Christmas, she would tell her friend, Lydia Rose, that she had 'got engaged'.

It may have also been a Consolation Prize for Le Neve who had suffered a miscarriage around this time.

Crippen loses his lucrative position as Manager of Munyon's Remedies, where he had been earning £3 per week, the current equivalent of £60,000 p.a.

Cora Crippen gives the required 12 months' notice to the Charing Cross Bank for the withdrawal of £600 that she and her husband have on deposit: £330 in her own name as Belle Elmore and £270 in their joint names as Belle Elmore and H.H. Crippen.

These savings had been accumulating since 15th March 1906 and were earning an extremely attractive 7% p.a.

The current equivalent of £600 is £240,000.

Crippen orders 5 grains of Hyoscine from Lewis & Barrows, chemists, of 109 New Oxford Street. Crippen had been their customer for 3 years.

Crippen collects his order of Hyoscine and signs the Poisons Book:

'Name of Purchaser, Munyons, per H.H. Crippen.'

Later at Crippen's Trial: Marion Louisa Curnow - the Manageress of Munyon's Remedies - would testify that she knew nothing about the purchase of Hyoscine on that date, no cash was paid out for such purpose, nor is there any entry in any book.

The Crippens entertain their friends Paul and Clara Martinetti at their home, 39 Hilldrop Crescent. Paul complains of feeling unwell.

At around 1:30 am, Cora Crippen is last seen alive by any of her friends when she exchanges 'Goodnights' with Paul and Clara Martinetti.

Later that day, Crippen calls on Clara Martinetti and enquires about her husband.

Crippen pawns rings and earrings for £80.

The Music Hall Ladies' Guild is handed a letter ostensibly from Belle Elmore, in which she resigns her position as Treasurer.

The letter, which was in Crippen's hand, was signed 'Belle Elmore, pp. H.H.C.'

Crippen pawns a brooch and rings for £115.

Crippen and Le Neve attend the Dinner and Ball of the Benevolent Fund.

This was held at The Criterion, a high class London Restaurant that still exists. Crippen and Le Neve sat at the same table as John Nash and his wife (known professionally as Lil Hawthorne). Nash considered it decidedly odd that Crippen should have taken Le Neve to this event - less than 3 weeks after Belle's sudden disappearance - and that Le Neve should have been wearing a diamond brooch that belonged to Belle.

Crippen 'marries' Le Neve!

According to Le Neve's friend - Lydia Rose (who had given a Deposition to this effect - see TNA: CRIM 1/117) - Le Neve had sent her a typewritten letter giving her the news. She had signed the letter 'Eth Crippen'.

That same day, Le Neve gives up her job and takes up residence at 39 Hilldrop Crescent.

Crippen gives the requisite 3 months' Notice to his Landlord that he will be leaving 39 Hilldrop Crescent at the end of June.

The probability is that, after having just got 'married', he and Le Neve simply wanted to move to a new home.

Around March/April, Crippen also invested £200 in 'The Yale Tooth Specialists' which suggests that, at that time, he had no plans for making a getaway.

Crippen sends a telegram to Clara Martinetti from Victoria Station announcing his wife's death.

Crippen and Le Neve leave London's Victoria Station for an Easter Break in Dieppe.

An Obituary Notice appears in The Era, a stage paper:

ELMORE - March 22 In California U.S.A., Miss Belle Elmore (Mrs H.H. Crippen)

Crippen had paid for the insertion.

Easter Sunday

(An approximate date) Crippen and Le Neve return to London from their Easter Break.

Le Neve makes her first withdrawal from Belle Elmore's Post Office Savings Account.

Whit Sunday

Some time later Crippen and Le Neve return from Boulogne where they have spent their Whitsun Break.

During their break, Crippen hired a 17-year-old French woman - Valentine Lecoq - as a maid and with the intention that she should also teach French to Le Neve.

Le Neve makes her eighth and final withdrawal from Belle Elmore's Post Office Savings Account. The Account has now been emptied with Le Neve having obtained £196 overall.

A Change of Plan: Crippen arranges with his landlord to stay on at Hilldrop Crescent until the 29th of September.

John Nash (the husband and manager of Lil Hawthorne, a music hall performer and member of the Music Hall Ladies' Guild) questions Crippen about his wife's remains.

John Nash, not satisfied with Crippen's explanations, reports his concerns to Frank Froest, a personal friend and Superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Department, Metropolitan Police. Froest tasks Chief Inspector Dew to undertake the Investigation.

Chief Inspector Dew and Sergeant Mitchell visit Crippen at Albion House, where they take his Statement [Exhibit 39] in which he admits lying to Cora's friends about her death. The truth was that she had left him for another man.

Le Neve also gives a Statement [Exhibit 40].

The Police Officers then accompany Crippen to 39 Hilldrop Crescent.

Crippen and Le Neve leave London.

Chief Inspector Dew visits 39 Hilldrop Crescent.

A description of Mrs Crippen is circulated.

Descriptions of Crippen and Le Neve circulated by Police.

Search of 39 Hilldrop Crescent continues.

Human Remains found beneath the Cellar at 39 Hilldrop Crescent.

A Police Officer (Charles Pitt) purchases a bottle of Neville's Disinfectant Fluid, which he distils with water and pours round the walls of the Cellar. The hole in the floor was open and the Human Remains had not been moved.

Human Remains placed in 5 glass jars.

Warrant issued for the arrest of Crippen and Le Neve.

Crippen and Le Neve board the SS 'Montrose' which sets sails from Antwerp to Quebec.

Obviously disguised, they are travelling as father and son under the name of Robinson.

Henry Kendall, Captain of the SS 'Montrose', having become increasingly suspicious of the two fugitives, telegraphs his concerns to his Head Office in Liverpool.

Dr William Willcox, the senior Scientific Analyst to the Home Office, receives the 5 glass jars which had been covered and sealed.

Chief Inspector Dew sets sail from Liverpool to Canada in a faster vessel, the S.S. 'Laurentic'.

Dr William Willcox begins examining the human remains for poisons. This would take him 'three or four weeks'.

Chief Inspector Dew arrests Crippen and Le Neve on the St Lawrence River when the SS 'Montrose' reaches Father Point, Rimouski, Canada.

Dr William Willcox is informed of Crippen's purchase of Hyoscine.

Extradition proceedings against Crippen and Le Neve begin in Quebec.

Chief Inspector Dew and his prisoners set sail for England.

(An approximate date) Dr William Willcox forms the opinion that the Human Remains had been poisoned with Hyoscine.

Chief Inspector Dew arrives at Liverpool with his prisoners.

Police charges against Crippen and Le Neve are heard at the Bow Street Magistrates' Court.

Crippen and Le Neve are committed for trial.

A Coroner's Jury concludes that the remains found at 39 Hilldrop Crescent on 13 July are those of Cora Crippen and that she was murdered by her husband by means of a poison called Hyoscine.

Cora Crippen's remains are buried at Finchley Cemetery, courtesy of the Music Hall Ladies' Guild.

Crippen's Trial opens at the Old Bailey.

Edgar Brett, an Assistant Manager of the Charing Cross Bank, testifies regarding the accounts held by Crippen and Belle Elmore which included £600 held on deposit.

However, that very same morning, the Charing Cross Bank suspended payment and had placed its affairs in the hands of The Official Receiver, Carey Street.

Later, when its affairs were wound up, there was a serious deficit of assets relative to liabilities and none of the Bank's depositors saw any of their money again.

Crippen is found guilty and sentenced to death.

Crippen's appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeal is heard and dismissed.

Crippen makes his Will appointing Le Neve as Executrix and Universal Legatee.

Crippen is executed at Pentonville Prison and his remains are buried in the prison grounds.

Le Neve goes to Southampton where she boards the 'Majestic', its destination: New York. She travels Second Class as 'Lillian M Allen', gives her age as 26 and cites a phoney address in Camden.

The 'Majestic' arrives in New York and, for a time, Le Neve drops off our radar before later resurfacing in England as Ethel Clare Harvey (Crippen's middle name).

Theresa Hunn, Cora Crippen's sister acting for herself and also on behalf of her five half-brothers, challenges Crippen's Will, in which he had named Le Neve as Executrix and Universal Legatee.

Cora Crippen's Estate was valued at £175 consisting of Jewelry and Furs.

The Court rules in favour of Theresa Hunn.

The General Post Office reports that £196.11.4 had been withdrawn from Belle Elmore's Savings Account between 8th April and 17th June, 1910 and that the Attorney General had decided that there would be no prosecution.