Don your Scotland Yard hat for this challenge.
Cora Crippen (a.k.a. Belle) has been found dead by poisoning in 1910. The prime suspect is her husband, Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen. The bad doctor and his mistress, Ethel Le Neve, are rumored to have fled London and have boarded a ship from Antwerp to Quebec, traveling under the names John Philo Robinson and John George Robinson (Miss Le Neve is disguised as a boy).
Border Crossings
Probate Record
In order to overtake them and apprehend the dastardly duo, you need to figure out exactly where they are.
What is the name of the ship they are aboard?
Answer: The SS Montrose
Search under the aliases in the immigration and travel collection and you’ll find both a passenger list and a wonderfully detailed manifest in Border Crossings: from Canada to U.S. You don’t have to read far to see you’ve found your men, er, man and woman.
As any good inspector knows, there is more to the story, and if you dig a little further you’ll find it. If you search our death collections, including probate records, you will find Dr. Crippen was returned to England, and died in Pentonville prison, Middlesex on November 23rd, 1910. He left his remaining possessions to his mistress, Ethel Clara Le Neve.