Ethel le neve biography sample

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Ethel le Neve, who was born Ethel Clara Neave (or Clara Ethel) in Norfolk, is famous for being the young lover of Hawley Hawkins Crippen, Dr Crippen who murdered his wife.

I’d heard of Dr Crippen, of course, but had never been much interested until I found the gravestone of Superintendent Froest who led the investigation into the death of Crippen’s wife, and ordered wireless to be used in order to arrest the murderer before he got to the US. Froest died in Weston-super-Mare and is buried in our village of Uphill.

I found the census record for Crippen and his wife Cora (born Corrine Turner) In 1901 they were living on Store street in Finsbury London. Hawley’s age is thirty-eight and he is recorded as a retire doctor born in the USA; Cora is recorded as aged 20, and born in 1881; however she had shaved five years off her life, she was actually born in 1876.

I also found the census record for Ethel; she is living with her family in Hampstead and somehow the family have adopted a ‘le’ in their name and become le Neave, instead of just plain Neave. Her father Walter William is a dairy manager, he was born in 1860 in Norfolk, and her mother Charlotte Anna, née Jones, was born a year earlier, in 1859, also in Norfolk. Ethel is a type-writer –

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My mother loved the study of true crime, especially accounts of notorious murders and the resulting courtroom dramas. She evidently passed this enthusiasm on to me. It is a constant source of surprise how often the cases we discussed, which seemed so permanently rooted in the past, had a protagonist who lived into my lifetime. In fact I only just missed, by three years, centenarian Constance Kent who as long ago as 1865 may, or possibly may not, have committed child murder. Remember this when we reach the story of Miss Ethel le Neve.

Is it ever permissible to feel sorry for a murderer? Well it is surely difficult not to empathise with the mild mannered Harvey Hawley Crippen. He may have gone down in history as ‘Dr Crippen’ but despite my sympathy I’m reluctant to award a title of which I am rather proud to an American homeopath who sold patent medicines. Be that as it may in 1910 Crippen was convicted of the murder of his second wife Cora, who used the stage name Belle Elmore, and he was subsequently hanged. He was notable as the first criminal whose arrest was facilitated by the new Marconi wireless apparatus.

By all accounts, for fifteen years Cora had led Crippen a dog’s life. After they moved to London he was forced to sponsor her entertaining,