The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1921-09-09
A GIRL S SHORT
ROMANTIC CAREER
RECENT TRAGEDY OF SOUTH DA-
KOTA PEOPLE NEAR BLOOM
iNGTON, I'LL.

| Sioux City, Sept. 9.-There will be
no double funeral for Mr. and Mrs.
c. L. Crawford, married a month,
and killed by a Chicago flyer at a
crossing near Bloomington, Ill, Sum
day.
This was definitely asserted today
by Mrs. Reed, 2S12 Home avenue,
mother of Mrs Crawford, who said
that her daughters body would ar
rive Thursday morning.
Mrs. Reed is heartbroken over her
19-year-old daughters death. Al
though overcome with grief, she told
story of her daughters misplaced
affections and her subsequent reali-
cations of the mistake she made by
marrying against her mothers wish
es
According TO the mothers story,
Crawford &c years old. had a deep
influence over her daughter. On the
day OF the wedding. August 6, Miss
Reed walked a block from her home
to bid goodbye to her sweetheart,
who was in company with Carl
johnson, Miss Theda Keitzman and
Miss Ruth Keitzman, of Albion, la.
Robert Reed, the girls brother. de-
clared that Crawford swept her into
the automobile in which the quartet
was seated, and dashed at high rate
of speed across the North Riverside
bridge and into South Dakota, where
his sister and Crawford and Miss
Theda Keitzman and Carl Johnson
were hurriedly married. A week la
ter Mrs. Reed received a letter from
her daughter which read as follows;
Mother. have been married now
for a week, and it honestly seems TO
be three months. l realize now that
have made a big mistake, but | am
not complaining"
A dispatch received in Sioux CITY
from Bloomington stated that oonds
and securities in the sum of S2Uu.-
600 and a large number OF diamonds
and watches were found in the auto
mobile and on the persons OF the VIC
Tins of the accident. 1t was generally
known, according to Mrs. Reed, tnat
Crawford was a professional gambler
and that he had been implicated In
numerous shady deals. which IN
yolved the handling of bonds and Sc
curities thought TO have been stolen.
johnson. alias T. B. Mcknight, 40
years old, a member OF the party, is
alleged to have had a wife and one
child al the time of his marriage 10
Miss Keitzman, and that he had not
heen granted a decree of divorce
According to the latest report
from Bloomington, the dead are: Mr.
and Mrs. Crawford, Johnson ana
Ruth Keitzman. Mrs. Johnson or Nc
Knight who sustained severe inJur-
les and is lingering at the point OF
death. when questioned regarding
letter found among the effects Oh ner
husband which read, This town Is
too hot for us, we will have to move
10 a smaller place." refused TO COM
ment
wakonda. s. D., Sept. 9.-Charles
L. Crawford lived with his grandpar-
ents ON a farm six miles from here
Friends here say his parents are
dead. He left Wakonda about year
ago and had been living at Sioux
city and South Dakota towns. He
worked as farm hand until he left
here. He never had been in serious
trouble, according TO available rec
ords.
Carl johnson operated hotel here
for two months about year and a.
half ago. He was married then but
his friends say be obtained a divorce
recently. He didn't tend to business.
while here and earned reputation
.r . canb3or and Thigh ro1lero