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==Arrest and death==

She was finally arrested Nov 1954 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She pled innocent, her public defenders told the court she was mentally incompetent and tried to get her committed to a mental hospital. [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51583&iid=News-TE-KI_NE-1954_12_16-0018&rc=83,2929,191,2954;207,2929,238,2954;253,2929,346,2954&fn=&ln=Record+Richard+L+Morton&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500580370 This article] states that in mid-December she was "...ordered placed under psychiatric examination to determine her sanity." She was committed to the Eastern State Hospital in Vinita, Oklahoma for 90 days.

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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>

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.

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 ==Arrest and death==
 She was finally arrested Nov 1954 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  She pled innocent, her public defenders told the court she was mentally incompetent and tried to get her committed to a mental hospital. [http://content.ancestry.com/iexec/?htx=view&dbid=51583&iid=News-TE-KI_NE-1954_12_16-0018&rc=83,2929,191,2954;207,2929,238,2954;253,2929,346,2954&fn=&ln=Record+Richard+L+Morton&st=d&ssrc=&pid=500580370 This article] states that in mid-December she was "...ordered placed under psychiatric examination to determine her sanity."  She was committed to the Eastern State Hospital in Vinita, Oklahoma for 90 days.
+[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.