The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-02-27
NEWS FROM THE LIVE WIRES
NEleHeoRs TELL OF
QUEER HAPPENINGS
Theory that DR.. e e. Richardson and
Edna Nelson Were Murdered
New Light Being Shed Upon the

Hutchinson, Kas., Feb. 25.-Tha
the DR.. e. Il. Richardson, devote,
OF Spiritualism and Orientslism, wbt
died three weeks ago, and that pref
ty Edna Nelson, his supposed daugh
ter, found shot dead early this week
we're murdered by a secret society
of which they we're members, is the
belief OF DR.. B. f. Slusher, who told
today OF attending the rich physician
They believed in a strange relig
ion," DR.. Slusher said: 1T was a
mixture of Orientalism and Spiritual
ism and queer strangers visited them
No one knows the secrets of the
strange household and the stranger
partnership Of two old men and two
young women.
Il want the body of DR.. Richardson
exhumed and a post mortem examinu
ton held. remember his face after
death was puffed and fiery red"
DR.. Richardson was stricken IN
his office three weeks ago. DR.. Pitzer
his partner, gave him restoratives,
called q cab and took him home. Ten
minutes later he was dead.
Six years ago M. j. Nelson, a farm.
er, died, leaving a widow and eleven
children, eight Of whom were girls.
DR.. Richardson had met the Nelson
family. He proposed that Edna come
to his home as his daughter.
Girl Leaves Home
He was rich and when he died she
would inherit all. Still the mother oh.
jected, but the girl went with him in
to his cottage at Hutchinson. He new
err even provided for her in his will
as was supposed.
Effie Nelson, II years old, used
to. visit DR.. Richardson in Hutchinson
and there she met DIR. Pitzer, the
whitehaired, gold-toothed partner of
DR.. RICHARDSON, and soon she came 10
Hutchinson to live with her sister.
the mother yet protesting.
DR.. Pitzer slept in rooms behind his
office. Effie Nelson was his office
girl, but she lived with DR.. Richard.
son and her sister in the cottage.
The two old doctors soon convert
ed the sisters to their queer religious
beliefs and in the dead of night the
neighbors used to be awakended by
noises like the slapping of bare hands
upon the Richardson cottage. Some
times closed carriage woul drive
up to the Richardson house ami
cracks Of light would flare out
around the curtained windows
the rappings would sound until dawn.
Robbed by Mediums
One night in November a carriage
stopped and two men, who later pro.
ed to be mediums got out and
went into the Richardson home Some
time after midnight, the two men ran
out with great clatter and slam.
ming of doors, followed by the two
old doctors and the two young Mel.
son sisters, screaming stop thief"
They had made the two old doc.
tors believe they had the power to
make money grow and multiply itself
Each of the old doctors had drawn
$1,000 in 800 bills from the bank and
Dut tho nnnnay In a caolad anyaInn,
DR., Richardson had heard noise in
the next room like mans knee
striking chair. He struck match
and in the dim light saw one of the
men coming out of the bedroom with
the envelope. The mediums were ar
rested in Denver, one escaped from
the sheriff. The other was acquitted
on his plea that his partner had got
the money and fooled him too The
money never was recovered.
This occurance did not shake the
faith of the two old doctors and the
two young women. They kept up their
seances, talking to the spirits of In.
dian chiefs, And strange men and
women, in closed carriages, mediums
from distant cities, used to come and
go mysteriously.
Death Foretold
At seance at DIR. Richardson's
home last fall some communication
was had with the spirit world which
caused DR., Richardson to believe his
end was near.
When the doctor died, Edna griey.
ed until neighbors tried to console
her. One spoke of new hat,
Il won't need any more hats; | am
going to die" said Edna. Il am
doomed"
A few days later the stranger ap-
peared when the girl was alone in the
house