San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-15
WEDNESDAY
IS SET FOR
TRIAL
Fiance Stands by Pretty
Widow Accused Of
Husbands Killing.

Wednesday is Suzanne Crawfords
day in court.
The curtain will rise on the greatest
drama of her life and the most dra-
matte act will be on.
All during the weary weeks she has
waited to hear her fate, she has watch
ed the ponderous machinery of the law
grind its grist, against the day when
she should step into the leading part.
Wednesday morning Miss Crawford,
"a, pretty, will be tried for the STAY
ing Of her twice divorced husband,
Charles M. Crawford, who was shot
while the two were driving on the
North Loop the night Of September 10.
More than the fate of a pretty wom-
an hangs in the balance.
There is romance, a romance that
budded and was about to burst into
bloom when grim tragedy stepped in
and turned the purlins stream of life
of two persons into swirling torrent
that threatened to leave them ship
wrecked upon the shoals of despair.
BEAM OF HOPE.
But all through the long weary days
a beam of hope has shone through the
clouds for Suzanne and her fiance,
Prentice NJ. Henley, bank teller, who
stood by Suzanne that first day when
Crawford lay at the point of death
and police held her to answer. Henley
even offered to give his blood for a
TRANSMISSION to have the life of Craw-
ford, the ex-husband of Suzanne, but
he died as preparations were being
made.
Crawford lived in Houston and on
a visit to San Antonio met Suzanne
and Henley riding together. The par
ties Joined and tour was taken of the
missions. When the couples separated
Crawford said that he was coming out
to see his former wife that night.
Henley was there, too, but the
Crawfords left for drive, going out
on the North Loop. Here it was that
Crawford asked his former wife about
the engagement ring and the two talk
ed of the romance that had come into
Suzanne's life.
TELLS OF SHOOTING.
Crawford became angered, accord |
ing to the story Suzanne told police,
and tried to take the ring from her
finger.
The trouble grew worse and finally |
Crawford stopped the car, she said.
when I get through with you to-
night, Henley or no other man will |
want you," she quoted him as threat
ening. Then she said he tried to
pull her from the car. At this point,
her hand came in contact with her |
pistol which lay in the seat and she
shot him during the struggle which |
followed.
Crawford helped to turn the car
around and start back to the city, she
said, and finally they reached the
Burns drug store at Josephine and
Broadway streets, from which place
the wounded man was taken to the
Santa Rosa hospital. Before they
reached there, she later told police,
Crawford told her. Don't tell them
DIES NEXT DAY.
Miss Crawford at first said that
she was Crawford's niece and that he
lad accidentally shot himself, later
changing her story and saying that
was what Crawford had told her to
say.
Crawford died at noon the next
day without speaking and Suzanne
was formally charged with murder.
She was released on bond and then |
began her course of study in the
where she sought to learn |
her part she was to play when her |
case came up.
The district attorneys office prom
ises a vigorous prosecution, but de-
Tense has rallied to the side of the
girl. and in addition to Dave Watson,