The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23
WOULD KILL HIM
IN THIS STATE
SAID INJURED HUSBAND.
SCOTT PUT CRAWFORD on NOTICE
NOT TO Return To GEORGIA.

Detailed story of AbbeviIIe, Ga.
Builder Finding His Wife in New
York With DR.. Crawford, Whom
J Husband Charges Lured Her Away
from HOme-Mr. Scott Alleges His
Wife Was Either Under Hypnotic
spell or Under influence of Drug.
Herbert L. Scott. the Abbeville, Ga,
man, who has located his runaway wife
! in New York. says that she was either
under some hypnotic influence, or else
was under the influence of drugs when
| she eloped with DR.. A. H. Crawford.
| the man with whom she was found. Mr..
| Scott made every effort to have Craw-
ford arrested, and said afterwards that
he would shoot the physician on sight,
if he ever came back TO Georgia.
In the New York World the follow
ing interview was published with Mr.
| Scott:
1t is my firm belief that my wife
mas all the time been under some
strange influence" said Scott. IF she
was not in hypnotic state she must
have been drugged, for she does not
appear to be in responsible state, al
though she has recovered her compo-
sure somewhat under my care since
yesterday. But she cannot explain how
it was that she ran away with this
man. He began treating her for an all
ment of the spine last October and
| never a day since that time has she
been quite herself.
My wife admits to me now that she
never cared anything about DIR. Craw-
| ford but says that for some inexplic-
| able reason she could not help but go
away with him when he asked her to
do so.
settle Another Way.
Il shall take my wife back to the
South and place her in a sanitarium
in the hope of restoring her health
If there is any justice to be had this
| man who is responsible for her plight
shall be made to suffer for it. but
If he escapes the law there is an
| other way of settling this affair." and
I shall follow that if ne ever has the
audacity to show his face in the state
| of Georgia outside of prison walls"
The same paper also gives the fol-
! lowing account of the husbands search
| for the pair and the final location
of them in New York:
The deserted husband spent weeks
in searching for some clue to the miss
! ing pair. He went TO Chicago and
visited all of the hospitals in the
! hope of finding DIR. Crawford, for he
was not long in making the discovery
! that the family physician had met his
| wife at Savannah. But he found that
| DR.. Crawford had not been register
/ ed at any of the Chicago hospitals.
! Scott then returned to Georgia and
! took uD the trail once more. He was
! I'll - Sill
| sonic order of which both he and
! the runaway physician were members.
! The discovery was finally made that
! DR.. Crawford and Mrs. Scott had met
at Savannah and there taken passage
| for New York on the coast liner Kan
sas City without delay. They occu-
| pied stateroom No. 10.
The husband al once started for
New York to continue his search. He
| arrived here on Thursday, and the
| following day he made the discovery
| that DR.. Crawford was registered as
a student at the Post Graduate Hos
pital, Twentieth street and Second
avenue. Armed with this Informal
ton he went to a nearby barber shop
and had his mustache shaved off so
that he could not be readily recognized.
Runs His Man to Earth.
Scott then took up his vigil in the
|
waited there for hours before he was
at last rewarded. DR.. Crawford came
out of the hospital and started down
| toward Nineteenth street. Scott fol-
lowed a hundred PAGES behind. The
| physician went directly to the house at
No. 235 East Nineteenth street and
the wronged husband waited outside.
A half hour later DR. Crawford left
| the house alone. A few minutes later
| Scott rang the hell and aSked to SEQ
| Mrs era wford."
He was taken up to the room occu-
pied by the woman and her supposed
husband and there he found his wife.
She appeared to be half dazed and was
not herself. A half hour later DR..
Crawford returned to confront the hus-
band of the woman with whom he had
fled. Scott denounced the physician
and said afterward that the latter
made no attempt to defend his course.
Scott warned him that if he ever re-
turned to their native state his life
would pay the penalty of his misdeed.
He declared that he would shoot him
on sight.
The contractor then took his wife to
the Glen Island Hotel, a Raines law
resort at Cortlandt and West streets.
He explained afterward that he select
ed this obscure place lest DIR. Craw-
ford might follow them, and in his alb
sence lure his wife away again. He
had been at police headquarters on
Friday and left there large package
of circulars. giving the details of the
disappearance of his wife with DR..
Crawford. The circular also contained
reproductions of their photographs.
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