The evening world., 1921-03-01
Wouldn't Let Anyone In to See Me, )" She Says
Watched Me Like Cat;' Tied Me to
Bed With a Strap and Struck Me-"

brought me, and never refused. The
medicine she doled out to me was
from a small square-faced bottle. II
was white, and l can't remember how
1t tasted.
1.-TWO years ago when l thought
Alice was trying to have me die |
attempted to commit suicide. asked
her to. give me a pill and end 1t all
but she said NO. and l took the
sheet and tore it into strips, trying
TO make n knot so 1t would choke
me when "A pulled through. Alice
came in before / finished and asked
me what ! was going to do. When I
explained she told me not to be so
fast"
Mrs. Crawford said the nurse
scarcely ever went out Of the house
because she was afraid of Dad" who
is DR.. William d. Towsley. Mrs. Lat
timers father.
HOW MRS. CRAWFORD TRANS
FERRED HER PROPERTY.
Two parcels Of improved Onondaga
real estate, one in the Town OF Van
Buren and the other at No. 307 Emma
street, passed, unencumbered, into the
possession of Mrs. Lattlmer, accused
nurse, from Mrs. Crawford. accord
ing TO the records OF County Clerk
Arthur c. Mead.
A warranty deed, executed Dec. 4,
1919, transferred the Emma Street
house, where Mrs. Crawford is said
to have been held a prisoner, to Mrs
Lattimer for nominal 81 considera-
tion. Stamps attached to the deed,
however, indicate that a $4,000 equity
passed. The deed was recorded the
same day at 2.14 p. NJ. This prop
erty, 1t appears, became a possession
Of nVrTf or
than two years previously, coming
through NJ. NJ. Mara, referee, Dec. 81.
1917.
The deed giving Mrs. Lattimer the
ownership Is absolute and contains
no clause by which Mrs. Crawford is
entitled to life use. The deed was
not signed by Mrs. Crawford, but she
made a cross. IL was made out be-
/ fore Earl r. Ellis, former Camillus
| Supervisor, as notary public, and wit
messed by +. E. Ellis and Robert w.
I Ellis.
! On June 26, 1920, about six months
later, the second deed was made out,
transferring to Mrs Lattimer a quar-
ter of an acre plot OF land in the
/ town of Van Buren, south Of the New
York Central tracks and between the
tracks and the road running from
Amboy 10 Iona. This warranty deed
on this occasion wrote her name out
instead OF signifying her acquiescence
with cross as before.
DR.. William -. Towsley, who has
been brought into the case by the
assertion OF his daughter, Mrs, Lat
timer, that he was responsible for
the medicine containing the choral
hydrate, declared to-day that Mrs
Lattimer had full charge Of Mrs
Crawford.S He said that he never
interfered and that the door of Mrs
Crawfords room was closed even
house.
+ However, when he heard two men hat
called on Mrs. Lattimer and papers
were signed, Dr. Towsley asked his
daughter II she had forced Mrs
Crawford to make over her property
TO her (Mrs. Lattimer). The nurse
did not answer, and her father then
told her IL she had secured contro
of the property he would sue foi
board, room and professional services
A few days after, when the doctor
and his son were away from home
Mrs. Lattmer called an ambulance
and took Mrs. Crawford 10 the Emma
Street house.
DR., Towsley said when he sued e
recover S1,4276O for board, room, ser
Vices and laundry, he had hard time
getting the papers served.
mot until late In July, during tn
absence OF Mrs. Lattimer, were tht
papers served on Ruth by City Mar
shall Steak" said Dr. Towsley, Mrs
Crawford told him she had tunet
over everything to my daughter"
DR., Towsley denies having pre-
scribed for Mrs. Lattimer since a yea
and a half ago. He says he neve
prescribed medicine containing wha
Dr. Ernest ". Pattee of SyTacus
University discovered 10 be chlora
hydrate.
Nurses have made afhdavits 70 tn
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