Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-12
WIDOW SOUGHT
BY SHERIFF IN
POISON CASE
Mrs. Crawford Bitter Against
Husbands Relatives Because
of Staying Warrant.
Continued From Page I.

property and filed shit Since then
| he has fought me- The closer rela-
tives have never been anything but
my best friends"
Sheriff Mangum will select the
Justice Court for the hearing instead
of the attorneys. 1t is more than
likely it will start in the forenoon,
and 1T is not improbable it will be
necessary to conclude Monday.
Widows Side of Case.
Attorney Arnold, for Mrs. Crawford,
issued the following Statement Friday
afternoon:
There is nothing whatever new In
the recent developments of the Craw-
ford case.
-Four years after Crawford's death
some Of the collateral kinpeople of ].
B. Crawford and his first wife, who
are seeking to recover this estate,
worth perhaps S1OO,OOO from the wild
ow and legatees under Crawford's
will, went to Carroll County with
their lawyer, ]. S. James, and Dr.
H. F. Harris. and on some kind of
showing which we know nothing Of
persuaded the Coroner to exhume the
body and allow the doctor employed
by thees relatives to make a post
norton examination. Neither the wild
ow nor any of the other legatees who
are defendants had any notice and
were not present
Claims Lungs ShriVeeld.
THE doctor for these people took
various parts of the body of Craw-
ford and made a test for morphine
He claims to have found a trace of
morphine by applying the color test.
He would not swear to any quantity
OF morphine or meconic acid and
could not swear as to any quantity
which the deceased took in his life
time,
This doctor also looked at the
lungs of ]. B. Crawford and swore
that they had shriveled up about one
third of their size.
THE presence of the morphine and
meconic acid, DIR. Harris (who was
employed by these collateral kim
said. indicated that large quantity
had been taken by the deceased in
his life, but how much more he could
not say. Harris could not swear that
he found more than one-fiftieth of
grain, and said he made no test for
quantity.
Tempest in Teapot.
THE whole thing is a tempest IN
a teapot, an effort to make noun
tain out of a molehill.
DIR. OHM W. Hurt. who treated
Crawford for pneumonia in his last
illness. and the trained expert nurse
who attended him show that Crawford
died of pneumonia. To ease Craw-
lords severe pain DR.. Hurt had given
him several injections of morphine.
and no secret was made of the fact.
To ease Crawford's coughing DR.. Hurt
had given him a cough medicine
which contained opium, which was
taken into the stomach.
This administration Of these drugs
by Dr. Hurt, who is a safe and con-
sentative physician, would account for
vastly more than the trace of NOR
phine found in Crawford's body by
Harris.
Calls Charge Illegal.
AS to DR.. Harris opinion that DR..
Hurt was wrong in diagnosing the
case as pneumonia we will be able to
show by various experts that DR., Har-
ris' opinion, based on the examination
he made on these shriveled lungs four
years after death is worthless as COM
pared with the opinion of DR. Hurt
and the trained nurse.
we propose to try this case in
court in this county and will be salts
fed with the judgment that the court
renders; but in justice to our client we
is nothing in these charges,
state these facts to show that there
The Coroner of Carroll County had
no right to make any investigation or
recommendation as Mrs. Crawford
The matter is entirely out of his ju-
IF anybody wants to make any
risdiction.
sworn charge that Mrs. Crawford poi
| soned ]. B. Crawford she will well
come any such investigation and will
show 1t utterly groundless."
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