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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.