Nannie Hazle
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[http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=7038&iid=NEWS-NC-ST_DA_RE.1954_12_07_0001&rc=627,2617,780,2663;100,2658,144,2704;166,2658,321,2704&fn=&ln=Record+Richard+L+Morton&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500571137 After her arrest], more bodies were dug up and tested for poison. Among those were "...Mrs Dovie Weaver, her sister..." and "...Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Lanning, one of Mrs Doss' five mothers-in-law."<blockquote>Ernest Harrelson, a brother of the victim, said when the Higgins infant died he asked his brother's wife what was wrong with the baby. "I don't know but that baby toddling around just might have gotten ahold of some rat poison," he quoted Mrs. Doss as saying. She didn't explain, he said, how a two-months-old infant could "toddle around".</blockquote> | [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=7038&iid=NEWS-NC-ST_DA_RE.1954_12_07_0001&rc=627,2617,780,2663;100,2658,144,2704;166,2658,321,2704&fn=&ln=Record+Richard+L+Morton&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500571137 After her arrest], more bodies were dug up and tested for poison. Among those were "...Mrs Dovie Weaver, her sister..." and "...Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Lanning, one of Mrs Doss' five mothers-in-law."<blockquote>Ernest Harrelson, a brother of the victim, said when the Higgins infant died he asked his brother's wife what was wrong with the baby. "I don't know but that baby toddling around just might have gotten ahold of some rat poison," he quoted Mrs. Doss as saying. She didn't explain, he said, how a two-months-old infant could "toddle around".</blockquote> | ||
| − | Her court-appointed attorneys were Gordon Palterson and Quinn Dickason. [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51583&iid=News-TE-KI_NE-1955_03_15-0002&rc=2973,429,3080,454;3095,429,3125,454;3141,429,3248,454&fn=&ln=Record+Richard+L+Morton&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500808706 This article] states that she was declared insane by the psychiatrists after the 90-day period. They recommended that she be committed to Eastern State Hospital for treatment. | + | Her court-appointed attorneys were Gordon Palterson and Quinn Dickason. [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51583&iid=News-TE-KI_NE-1955_03_15-0002&rc=2973,429,3080,454;3095,429,3125,454;3141,429,3248,454&fn=&ln=Record+Richard+L+Morton&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500808706 This article] states that she was declared insane by the psychiatrists after the 90-day period. They recommended that she be committed to Eastern State Hospital for treatment. A sanity trial followed. |
| − | Nannie Doss died in prison in 1965 of leukemia | + | District Judge Elmer Adams [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51047&iid=News-NE-AL_JO-1955_06_03-0024&rc=50,183,225,266;254,183,371,266&fn=&ln=Record+Nannie+Doss&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500894744 sentenced Nannie] to life in prison for the murder by poisoning of Samuel Doss, his only other choice being the electric chair. Nannie Doss died in prison in 1965 of leukemia |
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