The San Francisco call., 1908-09-18
BODY IS EXHUMFD::
. STOMACH ANALYzFD
Investigation Ordered Upon
Charges Made by Mrs. G. Oh
sen Against c. G. Lander
Nurse Is Accused of Numbering
Husband to Secure Cancel
latiOn of Debt


sen that c. G. Lander, a professional
nurse studying at the College of Physi-
cions and Surgeons, murdered her hus-
band, Nels Olsen, by poison, the dis
trict attorneys office ordered the body
of Olsen exhumed yesterday Olsen
was widely known as head salesman
for the Whitaker-Ray book company.
He died July at his home, $40 Liberty
street, after an attack of la grippe fol-
lowed by relapse of chronic heart
trouble. Lander, who had attended
him, is said by Mrs. Olsen to have been
heavily in his debt. Lander was not
arrested pending the results of a chem
ical analysis of the stomach.
Lander and DR.. Bertram Stone, the
physician in the case, say that heart
disease killed Olsen. H. P. Peterson,
the undertaken who had charge of the
funeral, said that there was nothing
his suspicious. Yesterday the body
was exhumed from the Mt. Olivet ceme-
terry and the stomach removed for
analysis by the city chemist, whose re-
port Will probably be given tomorrow.
LANDER OWED OLSEN MONEY
Mrs. Olsen made the following state
ment yesterday: Lander came to our
house because of my husbands kind
ness. He had told Mr.. Olsen that he
was penniless. A short time before
Mr.. Olsens death last summer he told
me that Lander was $1,000 in his debt
and he cautioned me to collect that
money should anything happen to him.
When Mr.. Olsen was sick / was in the
east. When I-came back Lander took
me downstairs, where he showed me
my husbands account book Through
an entry accounting for Lander's debt
there was line drawn In pencil. See
what your husband has done for me,
Lander said. 1 was thunderstruck
Later my suspicious grew and / asked
Lander TO leave our home July II. He
did so.''
short time after Lander left the
Olsen home he was summoned to the
office of District Attorney Langdon.
who asked him about the death of Oh
sen, but took no further action on the
case.
NURSED MAN FAITHFULLY
Lander, at his room at 10 Dia-
mond street said II was with Mr..
Olsen and nursed him faithfully be-
cause he was my friend. He died from
heart trouble. 1 have clinical sheet to
show the medicines / administered.
They were prescribed by Dr. Stone.
They were heart stimulants and in
cluded strychnine and aconite. 1 did
not owe Olsen $1,000. I had paid him
some board during my first year there.
and more a little later. He had told
me that l need not consider myself in
his debt l did find the accounting of
which Mrs. Olsen speaks, but we were
looking over the books with a view to
learning about the dead mans affairs
and 1 ran across the cancellation"
DIR. Bertram Stone stated his belief
that heart trouble was caused by a
fright. The man. said DR.. Stone,
had chronic heart trouble and was not
in good shape. But his grip was not
serious. A treatment by ordinary
tonics was bringing him along nicely
when a man whom am told had been
insane came into the house and fright
ened him. Then the heart trouble be-
came bad. Five days later death came,
to all appearances from this cause.
From everything I saw Lander was a
very faithful nurse
INSANE MAN WAS FRIEND
The man who frightened Olsen, ac-
cording to the physicians story, turns
out to be j. A Hammerlind, whom
Lander says Olsen got out from the
Stockton insane asylum number of
years ago.
"Hammerlind came into the house."
said Lander. "and told Olsen that the
doctors at the college were trying to kill
him. The mans behavior was strange
and that night the heart trouble fol-
lowed it."
Since she ordered Lander away from
the house Mrs. Olsen has been in con-
sultation with friends of her husband,
among others NJ. H Mitchell, who had
known Olsen for q number of years
What these friends told her Of the
behavior of Lander seems to have
been the cause of her suspicious. Ian
ders has not been arrested. In fact
he knew nothing of the turn. affairs
had taken until he was back at his
room from his studies at the medical
college.