The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-06-03
No New Light ON the Demise
Of Miss May Thompson.
ACCUSATION OF JEALOUSY.
Sisully Denied By The VIII, Of The Beauty
Doctor Who Applied The Mask Strange
Letters 10 fianca.

Chicago. June s.-"Beauty" DR.. E. w.
Johnson will face charge OF manslaugh-
ter In the matter OF the death OF Miss
May Thompson.
With the mystery OF her death still un-
solved. the body OF the woman was taxi
en- yesterday to -Belden, Wis. for inter-
ment The vital organs are undergoing
analysis. A letter from Miss Thompson
received by her fance. William Turner.
tn Perry, Okla, the day she died told OF
the jealousy OF the mysterious woman"
but threw no light on the case.
In this letter Miss Thompson spoke of
expert who was giving her the beauty
treatment" She wrote:
IL got the whole history from the doc
tor yesterday morning. / met him In the
train going downtown. He said that he
had been waiting to explain some things
To me for a long time. but could not
get a chance
II hated to have him tell me all those
things. but he thought that full ex-
planation was due to me-"
Before that Miss Thompson had writ
ten me that the woman had threatened
TO take her life. | advised her 10 give
up the treatment rather than run the
risk OF scandal or OF a greater danger.
We were 10 have been married in Perry
on June "a"
Inspector Shea attached Importance to
the iinding In Miss Thompson's room OF
a bottle marked Poison" and nlled with
solution thought 10 oe ether and q
compound OF sulphur. This solution was
said TO be a bleach tor the lace. but
such solution, the inspector said, was
too strong for the skin 10 endure.
The poison was obtained upon pre-
scripuon by 'Dr, Johnson. The latter
had stated that he never prescribed for
Il never talked with Miss Thompson
at any time about jealousy or told her
She must have imagined the things she
wrote about me and my wife 10 her
Oklahoma sweetheart. My wife never
reason TO be jealous OF her. and she
never was Jealous OF her.
Il think Miss Thompson must have been
subject To hallucinations. have read
in the newspapers that she left the place
where she had lived for several years to
go 10 the Monroe street boarding house,
because she thought the wife vess Jeal-
Gus OF her. The latter said Miss Thomp-
son was mistaken. The case OF myself
and my wife is Identical. She thought
Mrs, johnson was jealous OF her. She was
Mrs. Johnson said The woman Is dead
and cannot confront me. but II she wrote
an absolute falsshood. l never threat
ened her. Beesides. the dispatch says
she took magnetic treatments, and we do
not give magnetic but electric treatments.
II cannot understand why Miss Thomp-
son wrote to Mr.. Turner that I was In
sancly Jealous, and can only account for
II as the hallucinations OF a diseased
mind. I understand she imagined that
people were jealous OF her.
AT any rate | have nothing to fear.
II she was killed by drugs ] certainly
can show that / had nothing 10 do with
tt."
DIR. Joseph Springer. the coroner's ply
sician. who made the post-mortem exam-
nation. said:
"I discovered congestion OF the lungs
which would account for the choking
sensation experienced by Miss Thompson
before her death. This may have been
produced by the application OF the
beauty mask
while there seems to be slight irri-
tation OF the stomach. there were no Wis
ible signs OF poison: In fact. the use or
oxygen as restorative would remove
every trace Of II. and oxygen was used.