The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-21
DOCTOR ELOPED
WITH PATIENT
UNDER INFLUENCE OF DRUGS.
DIR. A. H. CRAWFORD AND MRS.
HERBERT L. SCOTT. NET HERE

And Sailed for New York Together
On the Kansas City in June-Mr.
Scott, Husband of the Woman in
the Case, Charges That DIR. Crnw-
ford Used Drugs to Get Mrs. scott
Under His Observation-Disclosures Has
Had Lot of Circulars Printed
With the Hope of Locating the
Runaway Pair.
Every effort is being made to locate
DR.. A. II. Crawford and Mrs. Her
bert L. Scott, both of Abbeville, Ga.
who are alleged to have eloped together
from Savannah on June 10. last.
The husband of Mrs. Scott. in a cir
cular which he has had issued, in the
hope of locating the pair, charges that
DR.. Crawford. who was employed to
attend Mrs. Scott, while she was ILL.,
got her under his influence by the use
of drugs.
1t is a rather remarkable story from
the very beginning. DR.. Crawford is
about 81 or 58 years of age, while Mrs.
Scott is only about 30. She became i'll
last October and DR.. Crawford was
employed by her husband to attend her.
Early in June Mrs. Scott went to
Charleston to visit her father. and a
few days later came to Savannah to
see her sister.
While here DR.. Crawford met her
and the elopement took place. The
pair sailed on the Kansas City for New
York on June 10, occupying state room
is. Both DR.. Crawford and the in
iured husband belong to a number of
secret orders and it is to the members
of these that Mr.. Scott has mainly
addressed the circular, which he has
issued.
''He Cannot Escape Me-"
A part of the circular. which the
husband has issued, which gives some
of the details of the elopement, is as
follows:
4 employed DR.. Crawford to at
tend her. He was very attentive and
seemed to be doing everything in his
power for her but she got no better.
l had all faith in the world in him as
physician and friend, and would
have given up my very life for him, he
being a member of the different Ma
sonic lodges / was, up to and includ-
ing the commandery, and of the same
Knight of Pythias Lodge, having taken
the same obligations and VOWS.
Il trusted him as only one can know
ing how serious and solemn they are.
But Notwithstanding all this, in the
guise of a physician, friend and broth
er, he entered my home and, forgetting
all this, he planned and has succeeded
in running what had been a happy
home for over thirteen years. Not only
causing sorrow and gloom to rest upon
his own pure wife, children and grand
children, leaving them in a worse con-
dition than if he were dead, but caus-
ing. through his hellish influence, I'M
doubtedly assisted by drugs (some of
which ! am having analyzed,) one who
had always had the love and respect
of all who knew her, and against whom
there Had never been breathed a SIM
gle word of SANDER or reproach, to
become an Outcast from home and all
decent society forever wrecking that
once happy life. She knew not what
she was doing, or what she will have
to suffer by listening to his evil ton
que. When he tires of her no doubt
he will kill her, thinking he can do so
without being found out. being physi-
clan. But he is wrong. He cannot
escape me.
Transferred His Property.
He had been keeping her under the
influence of some drug similar to NOR
phine for about three months, admin
istered hyperdermically in the hip and
arm. and when on the steamer kept
her in the same condition all the way
to New York, she not leaving the state
room until the last meal before getting
off the boat there.
He transferred all his property to
his family just before leaving here,
saying he was going to Chicago to
take course in a hospital there, then
going to the Worlds Fair, and would
be gone for three, or maybe four,
months. l paid him a sum of money
on the morning of the 18th of June,
as he was to leave for Chicago at
noon. Instead, he left for Savannah
at p. m, registering at the Screven
House as ]. II. Crawford of Atlanta"
The circular then tells of his wife's
leaving for Charleston and coming to
Savannah. where the two met. at
shall be the sole object of my life"
Mr.. Scott saws Ito hunt them down
and punish him for the ruin he has
wrought. and to place them beyond the
pale of decent peoples notice, as well
as to cause all the orders of which he
is a member to spurn him as they
would q reptile"
Mr.. Scott has been to Savannah in
stituting a search and is now in New
Work. looking for his wife