Ethel Le Neve

Ethel Le Neve
Born Ethel Clara Neave
(1883-01-22)22 January 1883
Diss, Norfolk
Died 9 August 1967(1967-08-09) (aged 84)[1]
Croydon, England
Nationality British
Occupation Typist
Known for Mistress of Dr. Crippen
Criminal charge Accessory to murder
Criminal penalty Acquitted
Date apprehended
 31 July 1910
Dr Crippen and Ethel le Neve during a remand hearing in London[2]

Ethel Clara Neave (22 January 1883 – 9 August 1967), known as Ethel Le Neve, was the mistress of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, a homeopath hanged for the murder and mutilation of his wife in 1910.

She was born in Diss, Norfolk, the eldest child of Walter William Neave and Charlotte Anne Neave (née Jones),[3] Ethel was hired as a typist by Crippen in 1900[4] and was his mistress by 1905.

After the murder of Crippen's wife, Cora, they fled the country on the SS Montrose on which the couple aroused the suspicion of the ship's master, who telegraphed their location to Scotland Yard. Scotland Yard sent Chief Inspector Dew to arrest them upon their arrival in Canada. Extradited back to England, she was exonerated of the charge of complicity to murder.

After the trial Le Neve travelled to Toronto, working as a typist there for three years before returning to London under the name "Ethel Harvey". While working at Hampton's furniture store off Trafalgar Square, she met, and in January 1915 married, Stanley Smith, by whom she had two children. They lived in Croydon, where Ethel died in 1967.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Ethel's Death Certificate". drcrippen.co.uk. 2009. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  2. ↑ Hill, Amelia. "Old Bailey opens its unseen files". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 July 2016.
  3. ↑ "Ethel Le Neve alias Mrs Crippen, and Neave". Dr Crippen. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  4. 1 2 Wilkes, Roger (30 January 2002). "Inside story: last refuge for a killer's mistress". The Daily Telegraph. London: TMG. ISSN 0307-1235. OCLC 49632006. Archived from the original on 4 July 2017.

Further reading

  • Bloom, Ursula (1981) [1955]. The Girl Who Loved Crippen. Bath: Chivers Press. ISBN 978-0851197333.
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