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HUSBAND'S DEATH CHARGED TO WIFE Mrs. Mary Bdle Crawford is Arrested in Atlanta?Died Four Years Ago One of Dead Man's Heirs-in- i law Has a Warrant Issued for 1 Woman's Arrest. I Atlanta, July 13.?Four years af- 1 ter the alleged crime was committed, < Mrs. Mary Belle Crawford, 60 years < old, was arrested here early today on 1 the charge of having murdered her wealthy husband, Joshua B. Craw- i ford, by giving him morphine and < opium. She is held a prisoner without bail in the county jail. i The accused woman returned to ] Atlanta Tnnlrn* r?? ""?? * ** v?? x uvnvi } VJa.j TTUCIV one had gone on a business trip, at 2 1 o'clock this morning, after learned 1 that Charles Z. Crawford, one of the i heirs-at-law of the dead capitalist, 1 ' A fr g ?* g" ?! <? n55 c ? & 155 " 3 3 o i 2 7 O 1? ^ ? SE vQ *0 ? ?L ^ IT 5^'H ^ <td g g, ?. =f O s 5"'?*? O ? ? SJ* ?> S?" O- ^ L?| 3 I Ofiy s L3 2 ? 3.S ? 2! fT ? ? ? B ? e *1 en ? 3 si^ a s rt-SCTftiCftfD 2 ftdq S b-S'1? g. _| ^ C? fl> <3 S3 c ? ?L ? 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The en- i tate has been in dispute since shortly ' after Crawford's death in March, '09. 1 Mrs. Crawford was married to the < dead capitalist in February, 1909, at 1 Jacksonville, Fla., where he had gone on account of ill health. The mar- ' riage followed a courtship of less 1 than a month. Crawford roomed and i took his meals at the home of the de- i fendant. The acquaintanceship thus 1 begun culminated in the marriage. 1 r^rr 3 a )?> ? N-a * i. & i^ i 5? c? 3 Hb_i I <K> ~ W ? 3 ?. ?- S2 * e? >* W crq : =r 3 s a- 9: <*> W . ==- Sf 3 a c? - a otq c/5 ex. a : =5 15 g ; * g-&? ^ <5* < -< ^ O f& C ^ ?X) MM J 5 I 5.. 3 CD g- n * 5 to wi CD GO i CD ^ I ao g 5^ ^ I fid qs s:=e =5' I i| CD i Sg a % ^ cr H I I > ^ n |B? ?*|B ;ir iHl "go f*9 sis -i? Fi .7 ?1L fg1* The couple returned to the city and and one month later Crawford died. He was 75 years old at the time, more than 25 years older than his wife. Dr. J. W. Hart of this cit>, who attended Crawford during his last illness, today issued a statement in which he said that he had given Crawford medicine containing morphine and meuconic acid. "I gave Mr. Crawford morphine to alleviate his suffering," said Dr. Hurt ; "I also gave him a cough mixture ' that will well account for the r.res. 1 Biice of meuconic acid. I have never ( testified anything else. 1 "I am not surprised to hear *hat 1 Dr. Harris reported finding: traces of these drugs in the stomach, but I am surprised to hear that he says the 1 man did not die of pneumonia. I 1 treated him and signed the death ce*-- ' tificate. 1 ( ? 1 T 1 T 1 f 1 HHH 4 t - A C^5 i _ ? 1 Z hubsbb t I i j I? f i ? Y <y>j I I ; ZT ' T ' Y ' i , C/5 ^ Y1 f; T I' I T it I % m. . " SANTUC NEWS LETTER. Rains are still partial in our section, and streams are running low; some creeks drying up in the day time, especially west of here. Corn, especially old com, is poor, being ravaged by worms yet. Some cotton is showing squares in the top, and blooms are very near the top. Farmers know what that indicates. All cotton is small for the season, onrl cIaap ?* l * ...? ?wo uvv m:u iurui mucn ior optimism, as I see it, despite the fact that the condition is reported as high as 84 per cent, and that it has had no set back. What about the cold weather in June and grass? When I reported the near head-on collision between passenger train, No. 4, and a freight train, one mile ibove here about two weeks ago, I ?aid that the railroad authorities would try to fix the responsibility. Since then the agent, Mr. Ellis, has seen discharged, also the boy telegraph student, Carlisle Myrick. It s talked that Mr. Ellis was fond of i crowd of friends in the office, and his may have sometimes caused iome forgetfulness, or carelessness >n his part. It is reported too, that ;he girls, or some, were very fond of lim, would go to see about some ex>ress matter and would "while" iway a pleasant half hour or so with lim, and on this particular day some jirls were at the office whom he was alking with, and when the train :rew of this freight train went into he office and asked if he had any rders for that train, and extra, he :aid, "No," and then young Myrick Cave them a clearance card, and the rain moved on. After it had got en ucyona nearing, Mr. Kills remem>ered, and said, "I have given the vrong orders, and those trains are foing to meet." Then it was the jeople around proposed to telephone ilong the railroad for some one to jo and flag down the first train, but hey met, and the collision was avert:d by prompt and quick work by the sngineers, I guess. Young Mr. Myick, it is said lost out by trying "to lover up" for Mr. Ellis. Mr. Ellis vas very popular. Often when an igent is sent here he cannot get >oard, and has to leave, but Mr. Ellis vas populal from the start, and two nany chums may have caused him to 'orget. i noucea tne report of the killing >f Mr. Oscar Lancaster, at Union, by i Southern passenger train, in the 'State", and fixed in my mind that leither the train crew nor Mr. Lan:aster was to blame, but the road nanagement, at some place may teve been, and the city ordinances nay have been contributive in a way. Now for instance, those box ;ars as an obstruction to the view >f both Mr. Lancaster and the train :rew. And the city ordinances wont illow the blowing of a locomotive whistle within the corporate limits af the city, I am told, and the engine crew could not give anv warning of its approach?so there is some blame ?but every other kind of steam whistles and all other kinds of noises are aiiowea. Now whether the engineer on that train would have blown the whistle if he had not been restrained by the city laws, depends. I know that some of them are very careless about blowing the whistle at road crossings. They will run over several in a stretch, some around curves and never blow. Just Saturday morning I heard a freight train pass Carlisle and it went out of hearing towards Union and never made a sound of the whistle, not even in passing throngh Santuc, for any mi ng, not even me station signal. I have noticed fast running passenger trains pass over crossings and never whistle. If then those trains would catch somebody crossing and kill or hurt them, every railroad man for miles arolind would swear that they heard the whistle blow. Almost everyone traveling along the line of railroad depends on the whistles to warn them of the approach of a train. A freight train came up be hind my brother and me, in a buggy, in a very narrow place and so frightened the horse, which was not afraid of trains usually, but this time it came right upon him, and above never safe to drive along a railroad after that. There was a crossing just behind us, and we were expect.ng any engine coming to give the warning, and if it had we would not have been caught in that tight place, but would have stopped before going in, or if being in, would have driven above the walk the horse was going, and got out. But some engineers are negligent, and sometimes people are killed or hurt because of this. While I am on this, let me switch off some and say that there ought to be l. mrr u> Lumpen me railroads and counties to cooperate and change all roads, if close to railroads?where possible?move them farther off, and make all square crossings, where possible. There are miles of dirt roads entirely too close to the railroads. Note the U. & G. S. road at the Crawford place four miles below Union and the countv authorlti?? in office then, let the railroad take the public road, and put two crossings almost within each other, and one could have been avoided. Then to change that the county, at its own expense, I guess annuled that road, bought a strip of land, ran the road into a hole, built a bridge over the hole, made a hill to pull going and coming, put the road at one end, just far enough on one side to keep from falling in a gully and breaking your neck, and on the other side just far enough from the end of the crossties to keep off them, and having your life inltoH T* ! J ...w AiaKUICIIVS. 11 IS not. safe to be caught there, for the swing of the cars may hit your team. The county may call this a streak of Rood business, but it is a streak of a very bad and expensive road and dangerous. And some may call it "swapping the witch for the devil." As to the crossings, some of them are so wedged shaped, starting a hundred yards from the crossing, so close to the rails that if one in a vehicle is on that "wedge," and a whistle blows, they can neither turn, nor drive fast enough with some teams or loads to clear the crossing, and they are in a dangerous position. For this condition of railroad and dirt road, both the railroad and counties are to blame, and I am believing they ought to be made to cooperate and improve them. There are too many trains running now to be safe for people under the present condition. Perhaps the railroads ought to be made to improve all the road crossings themselves, or slow down the trains at every one. They are the ones that cut the public roads up?not the public roads cutting up the railroads. Did you ever notice how the old Three C road was graded down towards Hebron church. Suppose it was in operation? Hey Denver. 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