MODERN RORGIA IN ORLEANS ?
Rolle? Suspect Woman of Several
(V?mes-Held for Sister's Death.
New Orleans, Sept. 27.-A young
woman of French-American extrac
tions, under arrest for the murder of
a younger sister, whose life was In
sured In her favor, to-night admitted
to the district attorney that she had
administered morphine to the girl,
but had done so by mistake. If the
law succeeds In enmeshing her in the
network of circumstantial evidence
it is attempting to cnBt about her,
this woman, Annie Crawford, aged
29, may have to answer not only
for the death of her sister, Elise, a
pretty stenographer, but also for the
poisoning of three other members of
her family who have doid mysteri
ously within the past 15 months, all
carrying life insurance in her favor.
Tho woman, who is alleged to be
a drug fiend, was arrested late to-day
following a report from a chemist,
who analyzed the sister's stomach
after her death last Saturday, to the
effect that he had found traces of
morphine. She declared to-night af
ter hours of questioning that she had
Intended to give her sister calomel
and soda. She said she took mor
phine from the Presbyterian hospital,
where she was formerly In charge of
the drug department. After discov
ering her mistake she was afraid to
call In the doctor and decided lo say
nothing about lt. She admitted that
she und hoi sister were not on good
terms, asserting that Elise had not
treated her right. Miss Crawford
also admitted to-night that she had
been addicted to tho use of morphine
for five years with the exception of a
brief period and that she had not had
any since last Saturday morning. She
said she was accustomed to getting
the morphine at the hospital.
The bodies of the woman's father,
mother and another sister will be ex
humed to ascertain whether they re
ally died from the effects of poison
ing.
Elise Crawford died suddenly last
Saturday, and under circumstances
so suspicious that the coroner liad
the contonts of the stomach analyzed
by an expert chemist. The Unding
of traces of morphine was followed
by the arrest of the sister. The au
thorities Indicated that the bodies
of three other members of the family
would be exhumed for a similar ex
amination.
District A i ?erin \Phill.
Slr, AI'?II?H, o isl riet attorney j dc-1
dined to state to-night whether be j
contemplated charging Anni.- orn-vv'-'j
i ivlth cc murder of nil four
members of the family, but he dic
tated the following statement to the
Associated Press:
"lt was established to-day that An
ile Crawford is a drug fiend, and
probably is addicted to morphine, it
s also established that Annie Craw
ord had access during the past three
.veeks to morphine and was in a posi
lion to obtain lt in practically any
liantlty during that period. During
he indisposition of Elise Crawford
ie bitterly complained that her food
nd drink were doped. I have charg
1 Annie Crawford with the murder
' her sister Elise."
Maintains Innocence.
For five hours to-day thc Crawford
jinan w:<s under examination by
e police. She stoutly maintained
r innocence, and appeared cool
d unconcerned throughout. She ls
eged to have made numerous con
ulictory statements, and when con
mted with the evidence tending to
li rlminate her she would declare
again and again, " 'Tisn't so."
Annie Crawford also holds an in
surance policy on the life of her
youngest sister, Gertrude, who told |
the district attorney to-day that she
was afraid of her sister.
In one-fifth of a cupful of the con
tents of Elise Crawford's stomach
Dr. A. lt. Metz, the city chemist,
found '??/<? grains of morphine, sulli
clent to kill two persons.
^ The First Death.
The first of the Crawford house
bold to die was Mary Agnes Craw
ford, sister of the prisoner. Her
death occurred .lune 25, I IMO, sud
denly, supposedly of acute meningi
tis. Three .weeks later, July 15,
HMO, her father died, uremic poison
ing being given as the cause. After
an interval of two weeks, or on July
2?I, 1910, her mother died. In lief
case uremic poisoning was also given
as tho causo.
Annie Crawford hold Insurance
polities on the lives of the deceased
In the following sums:
Waller C. Crawford, fal lier, $800;
Mrs. Crawford, mother, $400; Mary
Agnes Crawford, sister, $300; Elise
('lawford, sister, $250. She collected
the Insurance in each case except
. thal Of her sister. Elise, payment of
which was withheld pending receipt
Of the certif?cale of death. On Mon
day morning following her sister's
death, Annie made demand on the
Insurance company for the money.
On thal day she also went to tho of
fice, where her sister lind been em
ployed as stenographer, and collect
ed $45 due the deceased.
Dan F. Mouney, assistant chief of
lilLLF.H SELF IN LOIX3H ROOM?
T. Ii. Farrow Ends His Life Hefore
Masonic Alloc.
Winston-Salem, N. C., Sop? 27.
Ikying on his hack at tho foo., of an
altar in a lodge room in the Masonic
Temple, the body of T. L. Farrow,
aged 54, with a pistol beside lt, wus
found yesterday afternoon by a ne
gro janit?r. On the altar a Bible
was opened at the 18th Psalm, the
pages being held down by a square
and compass. A note was left by
the dead man giving instruction for
the disposition of his body, and stat
ing that he "did not see any use in
trying to fight lt out."
It is believed Mr. Farrow killed
himself while kneeling at the altar.
He was prominent in the Masonic
fraternity and for many years was
city tax collector. Ill health is be
lieved to have led him to seek death.
A Wide Step.
"(Greenville Piedmont.)
The announcement from Washing
ton that the United States govern
ment is planning 'o begin an active
fight against the - treaded pellagra ls
most gratifying. It is surprising that
this ste:) has not been taken sooner,
since this disease, many months ago,
became a scourge.
This disease, which is compara
tively new in this country, has Hms
far completely baffled the physicians,
the exact cause having never been
ascertained. Gradually the diseases
which atti let mankind have been sub
dued by medical science and sooner
or later pellagra will bo mastered.
There should not be, however, any
more delay than is absolutely neces
sary, for each week has seen the
number of victims of the dreaded dis
ease Increase.
There must be a cause for pellag
ra and lt has evidently come into
existence In this section within the
past six or seven years, for prior to
that time the disease was not heard
of. If the government health offi
cials begin a rigid search for this
cause we believe that they will dis
cover lt. Pellagra Is much more to
be dreaded than the hookworm, yet
greater efforts have been expended to
stamp out the latter than tho former.
detectives, got the first tip when he
heard that the prisoner had recently
purchased oxalic acid. \
Served in Hospital.
F?f severa, years Annie Crawford
tia vi charge pf the drugs depart mont j
.>f : .. prc tel ie ?i hospital. She l
lost her position there m ne than a j
jv.... agu, alleged, _.i..^ _
disappearance of a quantity of drugs.
Recently she had made several visits
to the hospital.
Annie Crawford is pale and frail
and of small stature. She looks more
like a prim and self-conscious school
teacher than a person with criminal
Inclinations. A wealth of dark sandy
hair, arranged in an elderly fashion,
causes Inn1 to look older than her 10
years. Her pale blue eyes are mag
n i fled by eye glasses of large thick
lenses, lier nose ls rather small and
short, and her mouth Is large with
full lips.
Miss Crawford's Defense.
New Orleans, Sept. 28.-Insanity
from the excessive use of drugs will
be the defense, It is reported, of
Miss Annie Crawford, (dunged with
poisoning IHM- mother, father and
two sisters, in order to acquire their
insu rance.
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MA UK TWAIN AN EASY MAKK.
How Hie Humorist's Monoy Came and
Went-and (/arno Again.
Mark Twain's Impecunlosity when
he was a reporter In Virginia City,
Nevada, and . when he was private
secretary to Senator "Jim" Nye, of
that State, in Washington, in the lat
ter sixties, served to provide an in
teresting background for the pros
perity which came to him as soon as
"Innocents Abroad" was published.
He came to Hartford, says the Hart
ford Times, to have his books put on
tho market, and he was as poor when
he first arrived here as he was rich
very soon thereafter. His marriage
to Miss Langdon, of Elmira, allied
him with a well-to-do family, and he
was in very comfortable circum
stances ever afterward, in spite of the
impression to tho contrary which was
allowed to prevail for a time after
\ho failure of his book publishing en
terprise-for business rensons.
The eminent humorist built his
home In Hartford in the early seven
ties, and he has told In hl8 reminis
cences how he started out with the
idea of spending $25,000, and ended
by putting six or seven times asi
much into the Farmington avenue,
establishment, now owned by Mr. |
nissell, of the Hartford Fire Insur-i
ance Company. Nothing very beg
garly about that. It may be well to j
add a few facts about his subsequent \
financial experiences, since there is '
SO much carelessness 111 dealing with j
tho subject in some of the newspaper j
offices.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars j
came to Mark Twain in the yeai's he j
spent in Hartford-say from 1 872 :
until 1890. His friend, the late.
Henry C. Robinson, was fond of tell-j
ing of o game of billiards he played ;
in Mark Twain's house with the
owner of it. During the game a vis
itor was announced^ The servant
was told to show him Into the bil
liard room. Mr. Clemens talked with
him without delaying a shot on the
billiard table. Tho errand of the
visitor, who was a publisher's agent,
was to offer him $80,000 for a series
of short stories which could be |
brought out In a single volume, after
being published serially. The amount
of material asked for was compara
tively small. Clemens rejected tho
offer quickly-almost abruptly. Mr.
Robinson ventured, when the visitor
tn express his surprise that
the humorist could "turn down"!
want seemed ?Ike a prddtgloua sum j
for ? small amoput of "copy.'.' liol {
M.uk To ?In dismissed the incident,
nonchalantly.
He had the narrowest kind of es
cape from becoming a multimillion
aire. He missed his chance to win
a great fortune when he "put his
money on tho wrong horse" by back
ing the Paige typesetting machine
against tho linotype machine. He
was besought by the men who Invest
ed altogther $300,000 in developing
the linotype idea between 1875 and
1S90 to come Into that enterprise.
But ho thought his judgment was
better than theirs, and he sank $225,
000 In the Paige apparatus for set
ting up movable types. The machine
was not a success. With the same
money he could have had a controll
ing Interest. In the linotype company,
and the Investment would have left
as large an estate when he died as j
that of his friend, Henry,H. Rogers.
The Paige Illusion was only one of
the "good things" in Hartford that
caught him for round sums. Proba
bly he sank half a million in that
way altogether. Then came the Grant
book-a brilliant idea-and the pub
lishing firm of Webster & Co., whose
Ann] failure, together with his other
heavy losses, took all he had and In
volved him temporarily tn debt. But
the books which he wrote and pub
lished between 1890 and 1900 and
the lectures he delivered brought him
another fortune, out of which tho ob
ligations of Webster & Co. were eas
ily taken care of.
That, in spite or the loss of for
tune after fortune in business ven
tures, be actually left accumulations
Of over $000.000. all gained from
his books, and the copyrights which
will long bring a handsome annual
income to his daughter, shows what
a literary genius he was. If ho bad
been a cunning Investor he would
have been the richest writer the
world has ever produced.
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Common colds, severe and fre
quent, lay the foundation of chronic
diseased conditions of the nose and
throat, and may develop Into bron
chitis, pneumonia and consumption.
For all coughs and colds in child rmi
and In grown persons, take Foley's
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J. w. Bell.
The office of thc Canadian Ex
press Company at Hamilton, Ont.,
was robbed of $10,000 last Friday
NOW ts THE TIMI TO SEMDT YOUR MATER
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Stoves with confidence; they ar? th? beal
mode. You bare perfect control over the fire
at all tlrnea, thua the coal doe? not wanto
away and you don't bare to klndl* a Are In
the morning a? with other atovca. This truly
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for you whi rou wi nh lt put ap. \j> (B13),
"ADVISER" PADGETT INDICTED, j
Georgia Gruna Jury Pays Slight At
tention to His Claims.
Atlanta, Sept. 28.-Tho Fulton
couti tv grrnd Jury paid little atten
tion to thc "spiritual advisement" of
Rev. B. L. Padgett, "holiness"
preacher, yesterday, but Indicted him
on two counts.
Slxtcen-year-old Carrie Stockton,
of King's Mountain, N. C., was the
principal witness in the case against
Pndgett, and it was chiefly on her
story that the Indictments were re
.turned. The preacher and the girl
were arrested together at the Palace
Hotel, In this city, several months
ago. At the hotel they were regis
tered as uncle and niece.
N. F. McMillan, attorney for the
girl's father, whose homo is in King's
Mountain, was bitter in speaking of
Padgett, saying that he had not only
run away with the Stockton girl, but
had also disrupted lils Hock In King's
Mountain by affairs with other
women.
According to tho story told by thc
girl, Padgett forced her to leave
home, threatening her with death if
she revealed anything, and made a
tour of South Carolina, finally com
ing to Atlanta, where they were Anal
ly arrested after residing at three
hotels in six days.
Padgett ls well known throughout
the Piedmont section of South Caro
lina.
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Navy Kills 70,000 Chickens.
Norfolk, Va., Sept. 21.-According
to the reports from Cape Charles
and other sections of the Eastern
Shore, about half the chickens on
that side of the bay were killed dur
ing the recent bombardment of the
battleship San Marcos by the battle
ship Delaware and other warships.
Seventy thousand chickens ls the
total number of those estimated to
have been killed as a result bf shock
following tho dlschargeg of the big
12-lnch tuns on the warships.
T> nrn*'"o Freeman 8tntr mr :
CnlleeU-i. Ju.-?, back 'rom the Kast
or II Shotf!. reports thal he saw grow ii
rooster.--, u.-I ru i ting around M I thou t
tli ' and l?nfhcd thai, ronny
o? . i. nut biu'vivted were rob
bed nf their coverings by the con
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Twenty Caught, I III plicated Forty
Others hi Confession.
Los Angeles, Cal., Sept. 27.-A
story reaches here of a young Mexi
can anny officer uncovering a Ma
gonists' revolutionary plot and the
execution of sixty Mexican revolu
tionists of Guana Juata.
The officer shaved off his head and
in front of a priest obtained the con
fessions of twenty Magonists, who,
when told they were about to be shot,
confessed a widespread revolutionary
plot. They ip)plicated forty other
Mexicans of the vicinity. They then
had the Magonists arrested. .
With these who co nf of sod t her? for
ty werf! executed by i<\?doraJ soldiers
last week before a large crowd in
Guana Juata.
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Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
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Farewell to thc Old Holler To well.
(New York Globe.)
The roller towel of the past has bar
kened io the call;
No more it leans its grimy length
against the dusty wall.
Though still it lu found here and
there In isolated spots,
Cultivating festive microbes in heap
ing carload lots.
Tho law has sounded "taps" for it
and it has seen its day,
Some one will bring a pair of tongs
and carry it away.
How well do I remember the old
roller towel of yore,
Out in t'he farmhouse kitchen, just
inside thc outside door!
A basin stood beneath lt and the.
kitchen pump close by,
And when the dinner horn would
blow the hired man would fly.
He'd splash some water on his face
and In his place He'd climb,
And the old towel on the door would
have some added grime.
On lonesome days and homesick days
and days when wo were sad
Where shall we turn for things ol' old
to make our bosoms glad?
Where shall we then discover by
searching far and near
The dear old things we loved of yore,
which now are gone from here?
Where shall we lind a roller towed
to absorb our tears
After It's wiped some gritty necks, .
4 soiled hands and glimy ears?
No Man ts Strong
Than Hts Sfo
A strong man is strong nil over. No
strong who is suffering from wenk stun
consequent indigestion, or from some c
of thc stomach and its associated organ
pairs digestion and nutrition. Por When
is weak or diseased there is n loss of i
contained in food, which is tho source, o
strength. When n man "doesn't feel
when lie doesn't sleep weil, lias an tn
feeling in thc stomach after eating, is la
emt, he is losing thc nutrition needed to
Such a man should uso Di
Discovery. Mt cures diseases
oriana ot dl?estlon and nutr
invigorates the liver, stren?t
the nerves, and so GIVES HE
THE WHOLE ttOiJir.
You can't afford to accept n secret
alcoholic medicine OP KNOWN coMrosrri
may (hereby muke a little bigger profit.
Sought, and which has been.
ias horno tho signature of
is bcou made under his per
iiipervision nineo its infancy*
no ono to deceive you in this?
md "Just-as-good" aro hut
and endanger tho health of
'lenee agalnut Experiment
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cures Diarrhoea and Wind
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o Mother's Friend?
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re Always Bought
/er SO Years
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ROOK HILL MAN Kl IM,S SELF.
Ill Willi Fever, Superintendent Semis
Bullet Through Temple.
West Point, Ala., Sept. 28.-Wil
liam White, superintendent of the
Galllvan Construction Company, of
Oreonvlllo, S. C., who had charge of
building the dam across the Chatta
hoochee river at Langdale, Ala., for
the We&t Point Manufacturing Co.,
Bhot himself yesterday through tho
temple, dying immediately.
He had been sick with fever for
two weeks, and lt ls supposed he
had become despondent, over' his con*
dillon wi., i his nirrae left him ho
secured :< (listel he had hidden and
luci! the fatul R?i?t.
Tuc deceased hue. been ii charge
of soveral largo engineering works,
was well thought of In the commu
nity and highly esteemed by the com
pany.
His remains were taken to his
home in Hork Hill, S. C., for Inter
ment.
in spring and summer, it's
the natural time to store up
health And vitality for the
year.
Scott's Emulsion
is Nature's best and quick?
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Very Serious j
Bj It is a very serious matter to ask I
1 for one medicine and have the fl
I wrong one given you. For this R
I reason we urge you in buying to I
? be careful to get the genuino- '
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B The reputation of this old, .elia? fl
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I others, or it would not be the fa- ?I
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er
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s, which im*
tho stomach
the nutrition
? all physical
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ncomfortable
inguid, nervous, irritable and despond
make strength.
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i of tho stomach and other
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thens the kidneys, nourishes
7?LTII 71ND STRENGTH TO
nostrum as a substituto ior this non
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Ingredients printed on wrapper,