The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, July 18, 1913, Page PAGE 3, Image 3
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.
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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
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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
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had sworn put a warrant in which
she was charged with the murder.
She went immediately to the county
jail, surrendered herself to Sheriff C.
W. Mangum, and was placed in a
cell. Her preliminary hearing will
be held Wednesday before Justice C.
H. Girardeau. <
Heirs-at-law of the dead man, who
have civil suits pending in the local
courts to have his will set aside, recently
had the body exhumed from
the family burying grounds at Carrollton,
Ga., and an examination
made by Dr. H. F. Harris, secretary
of the State board of health. Dr.
Harris testified last week in the civil
suit that he found traces of morphine
and neuconic acid, an element
of opium, in -the stomach of Craw
tora. tie asserted that he did not believe
death resulted from pneumonia,
as was given out at the time of
the demise.
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**Of course I deny the whole story,"
said Mrs. Crawford tonight. "It is
just one thing piled on another to
make me spend my money in lawyer's
fees and to humilate and hound
me because heirs-at-law of my husband
want more than their share of
the estate and hate me."
The estate of the dead man is valued
at $260,000. Much of it is real
estate in this city. His widow, un- ]
der the terms of his will, is the chief
beneficiary of the DroDertv. 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
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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*-- '
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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?
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t CALOMEL IS UNSAFE.
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If your liver is not working just
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