The wireless telegraph was given spectacular publicity in 1910 when it led to the arrest at sea of Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, a U.S. physician who had been practising in London, murdered his wife, buried her in the cellar of their home, and fled the country with his secretary aboard the liner Montrose . The secretary was dressed as a boy, and the pair travelled as Mr. Robinson and son. Captain George Kendall of the Montrose became suspicious of the Robinsons, having read in the English papers about the Crippen case. The Montrose was one of the few ships then equipped with Marconi’s wireless. Binding his wireless operator to secrecy, Captain Kendall sent a message to Scotland Yard, and the Yard sent Inspector Dews on a faster liner to race the Montrose across the Atlantic. Inspector Dews, dressed as a pilot, boarded the Montrose before it reached port, and arrested Crippen.