San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-21
WOMAN WEEPS
rs STORY is
UNF0LDED
'Fiance' Testfies He Knew
Pretty Coed Married
to Dodge.
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house about a year after her sup,
posed marriage but could find no
record of her wedding. she testified.
Il was only 49," she said in a
low voice, which nevertheless pene-
trated to every corner of the hushed
courtroom. THE ceremony was held
in Crawford's filling station.
THOUGHT is GENUINE.
Il thought it was n genuine mar
riage ceremony" she added.
She told the court that she lived
with Crawford for four years before
she could induce him to legally wed
Ter.
The pretty coed broke down Oh
the stand and wcpt as she talked.
1t was only with great difficulty
that her counsel was able to get her
to continue with her story.
She told the court that she had first
met Crawford in Houston in August,
1875. At that time she was but Il
girl Of 15.
One evening the following Novem-
Der, Crawford brought her to the office
in his filling station, she said.
I'VE are going to be married." she
said he told her.
Two men were there, she said. We
then went through what appeared to
be legal marriage, she told the jury
through her tears.
After this mock ceremony he took
me to his home and we lived there
with his mother and sister, she testi-
fled.
Four months later. becoming suspi-
cious the defendant declared she inves-
tigated her marriage. She was unable
to find any record of license having
been granted, she said.
She told Crawford about it. she said.
He seized her. choked her and threat
ened her with serious injury if she
dared repeat what she had discovered,
she declared between sobs.
Four years after the fake wedding,
Crawford agreed to legal ceremony
and this was performed, she said.
At 7 o'clock, two hours before the
fourth day Of the trial was underway,
the courtroom was packed. Again wo-
men were in the majority. BY this
time the trial fans were more or less
at least, and chatted briskly while
they waited for action.
When Judge W. W. McCrory en-
tered he ordered the doors leading
TO the courtroom locked and no more
spectators admitted.
Suzanne caused her usual stir
when she entered the courtroom. She
was dressed in blue silk and wore a
black velvet hat, black slippers and
gunmetal stockings. About her neck
she wore red fox fur and string
OF pearl beads.
CARRIED GUN.
Mrs. c. F. Dunlap of Austin was
the first defense witness to take the
stand. She testified that the defend
ant boarded at her home for three
months, when she attended the Uni
versity of Texas. She declared that
Suzanne was in tine habit of carry
ing n pistol when she went out at
night.
Mrs. A. II. Dashiel also Of Austin
testified that the former coed board
ed at her home from September, 1924,
to June, 1925. She also said that
Suzanne habitually carried a pistol at
night. On croes-examination she de-
clared that the defendant had once in
PRODUCED her divorced husband to her
as her (Suzanne's) uncle.
Prentice NJ. Henley, "fiance" of the
comely coed, was next called by the
defense. He declared he had known
Suzanne for four and one-half years.
He testified that he first saw Craw-
ford on the afternoon of the shooting.
He said that while he and Suzanne
were driving they passed Crawford in
an automobile with woman. He said
they then returned, met and stopped
the car in which Crawford was rid