The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-04
Involved in the Famous Case
of Miss Thompson.
FIANCE OF Mr.. TURNER
He Is Now EnrOnte From
Perry to Investigate Case.

or Miss May thompson while under the
care OF ''Dr." E. Wesley johnson, on
Thursday, deepens as the police delve
into the case. Lieutenant O'Eara is con-
| hdently counting on the clews William
| Turner, the young woman's fiance, will
be able 10 give. Mr. Turner has wired
that he is on his way from Oklahoma.
It is expected that he will give an ex-
| PLANTATION Of the three warnings voiced in
letters 70 his sweetheart about "a wo-
mans jealousy" George Murdoch, in
whose home Miss Thompson lived for
| three years, said today:
| CT cannot understand why Miss Thomp-
1 son told my wife and me when she left
4 our house that she intended to live with
friends, and then, when she moved 10
6S2 West Monroe street, she knew no one
In the house.
| 1T is impossible for me to understand
! why the parlor of the house to which
she moved was vacated by the family
and especially prepared for her. They
| admitted that this was so, however. and
| also admitted that they had not known
Miss Thompson before she came.
Before my identity was known at Miss
Thompson,s last boarding place 1 learned
from several women there what makes
me believe that Dr. johnson was not a
total stranger 10 her."
Mr.. Murdoch declared that in all her
three years residence at his house Miss
| Thompson never mentioned William Tur-
ner. her Oklahoma fiance. Another very
strange development today was that all
the letters she received from him were
mailed on a train. Her brother. Oscar
Thompson, admitted. today that the fam
| ily had never heard of AIr. Turner.
Lawyer Benjamin Stauffon, counsel for
DR. Johnson, is preparing habeas cor
pus proceedings by which he hopes to
set his client at liberty today He said:
I'VE Will force the police to give suffi-
cient reason for holding him. admit him
to bail or turn him loose today
Johnson in his cell at the Desplaines
street station today reiterated his inno-
cence.
NO poisonous lotion was used on the
face OF the girl he said Il used oil of
mustard, a standard preparation used by
masseurs. 1 gave her nothing internally.
neither did 1 advise her to take any
thing"
A partly touched breakfast brought in
from a nearby restaurant and the gen.
eral nervousness of Johnsons actions
revealed the strain under which he was
laboring.
Lieutenant OHara said that no mo-
tive other than that hinted at in the let
ters from Miss Thompson's sweetheart
had been adduced. The police are con-
vipced of Mrs. Johnson's innocence.
-
CIarkson Court, said today that he had
treated Miss Thompson since last Sep
tember, but had discontinued his treat
ment two weeks ago.
The Kew York Journal has the follow
ing about beauty masks:
Many beauty masks are sold in New
York to women for use in beautifying
the complexion and are worn with plas-
ter Of Paris. Strychnine is sometimes
introduced into the composition under
meath the mask.
Local physicians disagree as to Just
how the beauty mask caused the death
of the Chicago girl. Some think that
strychnine or other poison may have been
placed in the composition under the
mask and thus absorbed into the system
while others hold that the contraction of
the plaster OF Paris might have created
a pressure upon the muscular system and
caused a shock that brought on death.
The beauty mask is OF white rubber
smooth and elastic. 1t is shaped TO the
general lines il the face and its elasticity
makes It fit snug and close. At the bot
tom, sides and top are bands which
fasten about the back and top of the
head and hold it securely IN place.
Before the application Of the rubber
mask a coating Of plaster OF Paris is
spread upon the face. irresponsible face
doctors have been known to mix strych-
nine in the composition. A harmless but
somewhat painful composition is made
By the addition of essential oils. Expert
meuters in face besutifying make eompo-
sitious in various ways.
When the coating Of plaster OF Paris
has been applied TO the face the rubber
mask Is adjusted. The plaster smooths
the skin and tends to obliteTate wrinkles
The strychnine and other drugs are sup
posed to work upon the skin softening,
invigorating and bleaching It
The hardening OF the composition is
in some cases attended with great pain.
Many doctors have treated persons suf-
fering from faces badly burned by drugs
ignorsntly mixed in the plaster of Paris
composition.
Dr. r S. Koue OF Tweaty-third street.
a prominent expert in facial treatment.
made the following statement in regard
to the case Of the Chicago girl
Il have known OF cases where strych-
nine and other drugs have been mixed IN
the composition under the mask with
serious results Strychnine would pro
6uoe commissions such as marked the case
OF the young girl who recently died from
strychnine poisoning az the Fifth Avenue
hotel"
Chicago. June She case against Dr.. -
z. Wesley Johnson. who was arrested n
connection with the death q Kiss Nay
Thompson, which tock place after BE-
ing treated by "T1rt' Johnson. has been
dismissed before Justice Eherhardt-
Johnson vas charged with Involuntary
mans!aurhter Miss Thompson had been
wearing -sb-auty rsssk and was M
ssrgoinx treatment 70 improve her ap-
pearance. frurn which she died. TIE Do
lice d.a rot have witnesses and Trey
sought 4 continuance
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