Crippen野蛮的人；不修边幅的人

【使用地区】：英国

【释义】：

Any man wild and unkempt in appearance，but more commonly a doctormurderer，of whom there have been too many．Dr．Hawley Harvey Crippen，murderer，killed his wife，Cora，and was hanged for his crime on November 23，1910．Dr．Crippen，born in the United States，received his medical education in London and settled there with his wife，who had previously appeared unsuccessfully in opera and on the music hall stage．Crippen fell in love with his secretary and on New Year’s Eve 1909 poisoned his wife，dissected the body，and，after destroying what he could by fire，interred the remains in his cellar．He and Ethel le Neve，who disguised herself as a boy，eventually fled England，but in the English Channel the boat captain recognized them from their pictures and wired Scotland Yard to come aboard．

指野蛮的，外表不整洁的人，但在更多的情况下指杀人的医生；医生杀人的事例不胜枚举。杀人犯Hawley Harvey Crippen医生因杀害其妻Cora而于1910年11月23日被处绞刑。Crippen医生出生于美国，在伦敦接受医学教育，并和妻子在那里定居。婚前，其妻在戏剧、音乐方面发展不利。Crippen后来爱上了他的女秘书，于1909年的新年前夕毒死了妻子，并解体分尸。他纵火毁掉了罪证后，把尸体埋入地窖。最后，他和假扮成男孩的Ethel le Neve一起逃离英国。可是在英吉利海峡，船长从照片上认出了他们，打电报给伦敦警方，让他们上船逮捕了他们。