The Sentinel=record., 1911-09-28
SISTER HELD
 FOR MURDER
NEW ORLEANS GIRL ADMITS SHE GAVE HER SISTER A DOSE
 OF MORPHINE.
Authorities Believe She Also Killed Three Other Members of Fam fly to Secure the Life
 Insurance.

New Orleans. Sept. 2Z-In the ar rest here late this afternoon of An nie Crawford, an alleged drug fiend on the charge of poisoning her young CT sister, Elise, a pretty stenograph- CT the police took their first step in an avowed effort to reveal the woman as a modern Lucretia Dor, ga.
 Three other members of the Craw- ford family have Cied under mys- terioui circumstances within the past fifteen months and Annie Craw ford is said 10 have been the bene- ticiary named in the insurance poli- cies on the life of each.
 Miss Crawford tonight admitted to the district attorney that she did give her histcr, Elise. morphine, but did it by mistake as she intended to give her ca omel anu soda; that she stole the morlfhine from the Presby terian Hospital and after giving a portion to her sister. had about two dozen tablets left which she threw away. She said she was afraid to call in line doctor after she had dis covered her mistake.
 She admitted also that she and her sister did not get along well to sether, not speaking for weeks at a time; that she did not like her sis ter as she (Elise), had not treated her right,
 Her confession was written out and signed by the prisoner and fol
 owed period of constant grilling and questioning by the police since
 yestsrday afternoon Nothing was said in the confession concerning the death of the mother and father and another sister.
 Elise Crawford died suddenly last Saturday and under circumstances so suspicious that the coroner had the contents of the stomach analysed by an expert chemist The finding of traces of morphine was followed by he arrest of the sister. The author ities indicated that the bodies of the three other members of the family would be exhumed for similar ex animation.
 District Attorney Adams declined to state tonight whether he ,con- templated charging Annie Crawford with the murder of all four members of the family.
 For five hours today the Crawford woman was under examination by the police. She stoutly maintained her innocence and appeared cool and nnconcerned throughout. She is al 'eged to have made numerous con radictory statements and when con- rented with evidence tending to in
 crimnate her, she would declare again and again "T'isn't so. {"
 In one fifth of a cupful of the contents of Elise Crawofrd's stom ach Dr. A. L. Metz. the city chemist, found 1-2 grains of morphine, sui
 fcient to kin two persons. The first of the Crawford househol
 to die was Miss Mary Agnes Craw-
 ford, sister of the prisoner. Her death occurred June 25 1910, sud denly, supposedly of acute menin- girls. Three weeks later, July l5 1910, her father died. uremic poison 1 ing being given as the cause. After an interval of two weeks or,
 on July %, 1910. her mother died.
 In her case uremic poisoning was
 also given as the cause
 Annie Crawford. the prisoner held
 insurance policies on the lives of the
 deceased in the following sums
 Walter c. Crawford, father. sso1.
 Mrs. Crawford. mother, s4Oo; Mary
 Agnes Crawford, sister, $500; Elsie
 crawtrd sister $25O.
 She collected the insurance in eacd case except that of her sister Elise. payment of which was withheld
 pending receipt of the certificate of
 death.
 On Monday morning following her sisters death, Annie made demand
 on the insurance company for the
 money. On that day she also went
 to the railroad office where her sis ter had been employed as stenogra-
 pher and collected $45 due the de-
 ceased
 The prisoner also holds an insur-