Bisbee daily review., 1910-08-31
MRS. DWELL IS \ SKELETON
 IN HOSPITAL
Prof. KrinbiIl Visits Starved Fanatic and Finds Her Nearly Blind, but With Good Memory

Prof Clarence Q. Krinbill returned
 yesterday from Los Angeles, where
 vacation. Before he left for Bisbee
 he has been for a Vaca-
 tion. Before he left for Bisbee
 he saw the O'Neills and talked for
 few minuates with Mrs. O'Nein and
 the young girl, Alice o'NeiL The
 O'Neills are the people who, with a
 man named Butler have attracted gen
 eral attention by their fasting on ac-
 count of religious fanaticism, whlch
 up to this time has caused the deaJh
 of o'Nein and the girl, who died
 Friday night. Mrs. O'Neill and But
 Ter are still alive in the hopial al
 though Mrs. O'Neill is in serious
 condition and is not expected to live.
 When the O'Neills were here and
 O'Nein was the pastor of the Bap-
 tist church. the daughter, Alice, who
 was in reality a neice of Mrs. o'Neui
 and had been taken by her to raise
 took music lessons of Professor Krinbin and he came to know her and
 her family very well.
 While he was in Los Angeles ne saw the accounts in the papers oI the O'Neills and their fasting ana the serious condition in which they had put themselves by their forced l starvation. He went out to the ONeiu home at Arroyo Seco and | there learned that O'Neill had died | and that the woman, wnown as Mrs Boyle. and the girl had been taken but a sort time before his arrival to | the county hospital.
 Krinbiu went to the hospital ana after some argument with the doctor in charge was allowed to see the woman an1 the girl.
 When he went to the bedside ol Alice OGNein she did not recognize him. as the starving had caused a. most total blindness. Alter he had spoken a few words she remembered the voice and called him by name. So c,aar was her mind that she recalled to his memory vase she had given him while in this city.
 Krinbill stated that the girl was sad looking image of her former self. When she lived here she WCs one cf the handsomest of the younger gir.s l in Bisbee. When Krinbin ssw ner she was nothing but a dried skin drawn l tight over skeleton. Her face was were but claws Shesaid litle CT hardly recognizable and her hands were but claws. She said little or nothing to him about her starving, Krinbill learned later that I she went thirty-eight days without i food. C
 She spoke with an effort and it took i her some time to say a sentence of V but few words. Before she had time f to say anything about her life in Les f Angeles and the strange action she S had taken in abstaining from food, the nurse said that she could talk no more, and Krinbill went to see Mrs. ! O'Neill who was not quite so weak as the girl
 Mrs. O-Neill recognized him at once and talked in a labored manner as long as the nurse would allow it. Mrs. O,Neill like the girl, was noth- ing but skin and bones but her mind was clear as to her condition and she remembered her life i1 Bisbee | and many of the people here.
 Mrs. O,Neilll was highly Educated S and had a well developed talent for Il music. She is related to one of the q prominent families of New Fork and a her home, ,< befor she married was a he meeting place of some of tho c most famous musicians in this country t and of those who came from abroad. Il
 Professor Krinbill, while at the k ONeil house in Arroyo Seco was b old by neighbors that the O'Neills lad thrown out all their dishes and n cooking utensils so as not to be tempt 2 d to eat by the sight of those things. 1 f, The windows and COTS were kept t, hut so that no smell of cooking :, ,ould come into the house from the ', leighbors.