This sweet girl was the daughter of Louisa Belle Lister Krauss and William Roland Krauss. Her mother died very young and after ten years her father re-married, but after three months of marriage the woman he married, Rae M. Anderson, decided that Crystal was a threat to her inheritance should the father die. She gave Crystal strychnine in a capsule and killed her. The step mother pled guilty to the crime, and went to prison. Eventually William, her father was granted a divorce from the woman and he re-married in 1913.
This sweet girl was the daughter of Louisa Belle Lister Krauss and William Roland Krauss. Her mother died very young and after ten years her father re-married, but after three months of marriage the woman he married, Rae M. Anderson, decided that Crystal was a threat to her inheritance should the father die. She gave Crystal strychnine in a capsule and killed her. The step mother pled guilty to the crime, and went to prison. Eventually William, her father was granted a divorce from the woman and he re-married in 1913.
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