Ethel Le Neve

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.

Ethel Le Neve
Le Neve and Crippen during a remand hearing in 1910.
Born
Ethel Clara Neave

(1883-01-22)22 January 1883
Diss, Norfolk
Died9 August 1967(1967-08-09) (aged 84)[1]
Croydon, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationTypist
Known forMistress of Dr. Crippen
Spouse(s)
Stanley Smith
(
m. 1915)
Criminal chargeAccessory to murder
PenaltyAcquitted
Date apprehended
31 July 1910

She was born in Diss, Norfolk, the eldest child of Walter William Neave and Charlotte Anne Neave (née Jones),[2] Ethel was hired as a typist by Crippen in 1900[3] 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. Returned to England, she was exonerated of the charge of complicity to murder.

After the trial, Le Neve traveled 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, with whom she had two children. They lived in Croydon, where Ethel died in 1967.[3]

References
  1. "Ethel's Death Certificate". drcrippen.co.uk. 2009. Archived from the original on 4 June 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  2. "Ethel Le Neve alias Mrs Crippen, and Neave". Dr Crippen. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  3. 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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