The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-16
CRAWFORD TRIAL
 IS SENSATIONAL Aunt and Sister of Woman
 on the Stand A DOCTOR TESTIFIES Both Aunt and Sister Say Woman Gave Elise Something Just Be- fore She Died-The Prisoner
 Shows Emotion
A DOCTOR TESTIFIES

l New Orleans. March 15.-From the 1 lips of her aunt and sister, physicians and embalmers. the state began to- day to forge the links of the chain of circumstantisl evidence by which 1t I hopes to prove to the satisfaction of the jury trying the case that Annie Crawford murdered her sister, Elise, by administering poison while nursing her.
 This, the fourth day of the trial was sensational from the very moment that Mrs. Robert Crawford, sunt of the de- fendant, took the witness stand. She related the circumstances which pre- ceded Elise Crawford's death, and told of her suspicious being directed against Annie
 Gertrude Crawford on Stand
 When Mrs. Crawford concluded her testimony, Gertrude Crawford, 19 years old, golden haired, the youngest of the Crawford family, which lost four mem bers by sudden and mysterious deaths, took the witness stand. Biting her lips to control her emotion, she told of An nie's strange actions preceding and just after Elise Crawford's death. In the main the details corresponded with the testimony given by Mrs. Crawford. However, she said she had seen Annie give Elise something in a glass" the night before she died. This portion of her testimony was extremely dramatic
 T was undressing when Annie went up to Elise. She had a glass in her hand She gave her the contents of  spoon"
 Both the aunt and the sister of the defendant testified that Annie displayed not the slightest trace of emotion when Elise died.
 Following Gertrude Crawford, pr. J. H. McGuire, who attended Elise Craw- ford in her last illness, took the stand. Speaking of his last visit, the night before Elise died, he described her condition as presenting every appear ance of being due to opium poisoning.
 Doctors Testimony
 ''The pupils of her eyes were contract CT to mere pin points," he said. "Her respiration was very slow, at the rate of one or two 8 minute. I considered her condition grave and ordered that she be sent to the charity hospital"
 During this portion of his testimony jars containing portions of Elise Craw ford's liver, kidney and stomach were brought into the court rom. Annie Craw- ford looked at these exhibits without signs of emotion Later, however, she became nervous, bit her lips, trembled, shifted from side to side in her chair and showed other signs of emotion. The undertakers who embalmed Elise Ora wfOrd's x body. two ambulance students and attaches of the coroner's office were then called. Court adjourned until 10 a. m. tomorrow, Judge Chreten warning the jurors not to discuss the case in any manner.
 Mrs. Crawfords Testimony Mrs. Robert Crawford, a middle aged woman. related the circumstances sur rounding the death of her niece, Elise Ora wford, and how her suspicious were aroused against the Crawford girls, par ticularly Annie, when she administered morphine to her sister.
 Step by step Mrs. Crawford traced Elise's last illness to the court and jury. She sobbed during the recital. "As she lay dead" said Mrs. Craw- ford "I turned to Annie and said, Did you do this?' She turned and said. Aunt Mary, have you gone crazy? A few min utes afterward she brought me a glass with something in it. Take this she said, it will be good for your nerves I dashed the tumbler from her hand. The doctor pronounced Elise dead"