The New York herald., 1921-02-28
NURSE ARRESTED
ON BOAT HERE
in POISON CASE
Mrs. l.attimer of Syracuse
Apprehended on Charge
OF Grand Larceny.
GOT RADIO WARNING
Expected Trouble and At
tributes Plight to Her
Father.
XIV ACCUSATIONS MADE
Women Tell of White Liquid
They Were Told to Give
to Mrs. Crawford.
ElW ACCUSATIONS MADE

Mrs. Alice T. Lattimer, a Syracuse
n,inse. whose arrest was ordered by
the Syracuse Police Department after
poison had been discovered in food
given to her patient, Mrs. Ruth Craw
ford. was arrested last night when
the steamship Arapahoe of the Clyde
Line docked at Pier 81, Hudson River.
on warrant charging grand larceny.
Detectives Lynch of the Syracuse Po-
lice Department and Cavone of the
Charles street station took her TO the
Charles street station, where she was
locked UP. Detective Lynch said she
would be returned to Syracuse early
this morning.
The police took elaborate precautions
to prevent any one talking to Mrs.
Lattimer. and according to Detective
Lynch She had not yet learned, when
she was locked up, the accusations
that have been made against her in
Syracuse that she caused Mrs. Craw-
ford TO be strapped to her bed and
fed her poison in her food. When the
Arapahoe swung against Pier 36 while
being warped into her dock Detectives
Lynch and Cavone climbed over the
stern rail and boarded the vessel. ar
resting Mrs. Lattimer at once. Cavone
took her into the offices of the pier,
where she was held for two hours,
sitter which she was taken in a taxi
cab to the Charles street station.
Warned by Wireless.
Detective Lynch said Mrs. Lattimer
who had been in Daytona, Fla, since De-
cember II, told him that just before the
Arapahoe reached New York she re-
ccived a wireless from friend, saying.
Trouble watch out" She told the de-
tective she thought her father, DR.. Will
Jam d. Towsley Of Syracuse, was trying
10 make trouble for her.
Dispatches from Syracuse last night
said the straps with which Mrs. Craw-
lord was kept fastened to her bed have
b,en taken TO the office of District At
(orney Frank p. Malpass, who will use
them as evidence in presenting the case
TO the Grand Jury. The police said they
have evidence showing Mrs. Crawford
was kept in bed against the orders Of
ler two physicians, Drs. A. C. Abbott
md w. s. Newell. They nave also OBJ
tanned statements from Mrs. Cora Lam
son and Mrs. Luella Shoemaker nurses.
who were left in charge by Mrs. Lat
timer when she went to Florida.
Described as Craving Crazy"
Mrs. Shoemaker sars Mrs. Lattimer
tried TO make out that Mrs. Crawford
was insane. Mrs. Crawford often
begged her for food. but she had
been forbidden TO give II to her by
Mrs. Lattimer. She told of witnessing
the legal papers when Mrs. Crawford
decided over her property to Mrs. Latti-
mer, but did not know the nature of the
documents. Mrs. Lattimer told her
that at times Mrs. Crawford was 'raving
crazy" and that IL was necessary TO
strap her in bed.
She gave me bottle containing
some white liquid Mrs. Shoemaker's
statement continued, with instructions
10 give her a dose Of il in water If she
became unruly. She told me to give her
q second dose il one did not quiet her
and that the second one surely would q"
IN a letter TO Mrs. Shoemaker from
Florida Mrs. Lattimer said she had
noticed Mrs. Shoemaker had not had
70 call Undertaken Drinkwine as yet
the sooner the better" She SAYS she
was instructed by Mrs. Lattimer never
- let any OF Mrs. Crawford's relatives
see her until she was dead and laid out
In the little church in Warner, n Y"