The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-20
WILLIAMSON GIRL IS
PICTURE OF HEALTH
One oltl9e Alleged Victims OF
Mrs. Linda Burfeld Haz-
zafd Tells Her Story.
isEEs ADVERTISEMENT.
Sister and Herself Try the
Fast.ssc and the Sister
Staryes to Death.
& ADVERTISEMENT

y gEArTIE~ Wash, Jan. 19.-Miss
porothea Williamson. joint heir TO $500
oonjSRith her younger sister. Claire who
IS s3IeSed to have been starved 10 death
by Atrs2 Linda BurficId Hs2zard. took
thes3tand at Port Orchard today and be-
gan Jier story of the events that cu,-
mlnat ed In the death of her sister at
i,ns9laIia sauitariurn. May 10, 1911 Mrs.
l5szgsrd is ACCUSED in the l<itsap county
sunfIior cBAsrt-iof murder in the first de-
WIicn hsf name was called Miss Will
hanson walked forward with a flrm
stefs, looking the picture OF health, WIN
ros3sacheeks and bright blue eyes. Eight
rnofftlls ago she was removed from Mrs.
tIaekardss Olala institution d living
skeleton and her life was despaired OF
Mss Williamson said she was born in
soutkcrn India thirty-eisht years ago
ap4elhat Claire was four. years her
iurfor. Her father. an officer III the
British army. died when she was years
ia5ss S.Sssena her mother died sixteen years
on Tour of the World.
In ntiaio tho Williamson sisters were
on u tour OF The world and saw an ad-
yer1jeenient OF Mrs. Ha2zards starvation
, cuipf IN Il Seattle paper. While IN VIC
iorta, x. C.. in October OF that year.
poyo;hea suffered an attack Of rhcuma-
tis9i sand Claire wrote to Mrs Hazard.
whh hssefrt a copy OF her book on the faSt
i aud a pamphlet telling of the beau
iie$ OF the Hazard ssnitariunl at Olalla
Itle sisters came TO Seattle i'm Feb
i'pSiS. 1911. and arranged TO pay Mrs.
IraF2ard $40 "A month each for treat
No esvsntcd Mrs Tlazaard TO examine
as the witness testified, "but she said
. q physical examination could not be
s4nfe pntil the fasting had proceeded M for
sor4e tIme. She gave us q treatment tho
drF day. She pounded Us ON the back
and hammered us about the head with
1tlie' greater part of the day was taken
Iiafbef.t OF Portland. Or, uncle OF the
Wiufamsons II was brought out that
Mr.Herbert was not shown Claire WI,
liza body until after the funeral and
rllat Sarhcu hc saw Ii nc told Mrs. IiaZ-
Sari5 that IL id not look like Claire,
Uncle Had Doubts.
''loi6- you ,uaan tIlat you doubted that
-tles body in tic coffin was that OF Claire
AiiAiasnsop% be was asked
Ile.foel't. cit did not look like Claire.
rhcilisir was n sishtcr brown than hers
siIj Jiec face aud bands wcre cmpsed
AIr!1JiSrberi said that nc spoke to Mrs.
away. from tho coffin He said that
5tilefs who saw the body agreed with
hin,A DIat the dead woman did not look
ikdSSlaire.
Wien asked why ne did not begin an
inv9etjgation 10 ascertain IL the body
had ybcen replaced with another. Mr.
iIeglsrt said.
;7rHis was a funeral service held in
nc ilofy and i'm honor Of my niece, |
Snekxs she vas dead. and whether the
hoGf,sin the coffin Was hers or another
was itnnaterial at that time. I was too
Iisttesscd TO think OF any investigation
. md al that time ] had 10 suspicion that
NV iilccc had met with anything like
.our play.
Mr; Herbert said that when he re-
lu1ped TO Seattle in July 10 remove
Dofot|Iea from Oalla he found that Mrs.
lIa gard had been appointed guardian
FOR Iins niece. Mrs, Hazard told him
lo Zee John Arthur. an attorney. Ar
lujt told him that lie must make IL set
IeHent viii, Mrs Hazard before re-
noIiIlg TIorothea