The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1912-01-20
MISS WILLIAMSON
RELATES STORY
ON STAND
SISTER OF WOMAN STARVED TO
DEATH TELLS OF SANiTAR-
iUM TREATMENT.

seattle, Jan. 13.--Mlss l)Orotnea
Williamson. joint heir to 100000 with
her younger sister, Claire, who Is al
legged to have been starved to death by
Mrs. Linda Burfield Hazard. took the
stand at Port orchard today and be-
gan her story of the events that Gull
minated In the death of her sister at
the Olalla sanitarium, May 19. 1911.
Mrs. Hazard Is accused in the Kitsap
county superior court of murder In the
first degree.
When her name was called Miss
Williamson walked forward with a
firm step, looking the picture of
health, with rosy cheeks and bright
blue eyes. Eight months ago she was
removed from Mrs. Hazards Olalla
institution a living skeleton and her
life was despalred of.
Miss Williamson said she was born
In Southern India 3S years ago ana
that Claire was four years her junior.
Her father, an officer in the British
army, died when she was four years
old and her mother died 16 years later.
The Williamson sisters were on tour
of the world in 1910 and saw an ad-
vertisement OF Mrs. Hazards stnrya :
ton cure In Seattle paper. While
| In Victoria, B. c., in October, of that
year, Dorothea suffered an attack OF
rheumatism and Claire wrote to Mrs
Hazzard, who sent copy of her book
on the fast cure and pamphlet tell
Ing OF the beauties Of the Hazard
sanitarium at Olalla.
| Sisters to Seattle.
The sisters came to Seattle in Feb.
ruary. 1911. and arranged to pay Mrs
Hazard $50 a month each for treat
ment.
I'VE wanted Mrs. Hazard to ex
anime u.s. the witness testified. "bn
she said q physical o-r~+''"ation coult
mot be made until the fasting had pro
lceeded for some time. She gave us
Treatment the first day, She pound
led us on the back and hammered u
about the head with her fists"
The greater part OF the day wa
taken up with the cross-examinatio
OF John Herbert of Portland, Ore
uncle of the Misses Williamson.
was brought out that Mr.. Herbert wa
not shown Claire Williamsons bod
l Until dlttT tIit lhiiSi"i oi'' A'"s VIZ
he saw it he told Mrs. Hazard tina
| II did not look like Claire.
did you mean that you donbte
that the body In the coffin was tina
of Claire williamson" he was asged
IT certainly was In doubt" said M
Herbert ut did not look like Clair
Tho hair was lighter brown tina
hers and her face and hands wei
changed"
MI. Herbert said that he spoke
Mrs. Hazard of this and that she II
him away from the coffin. He sal
Iithat others who saw the body agree
llwi.h him that the dead woman did n,
Hook like Claire.
II When asked why he did not beg
II an investigation to ascertain IL Il
body had been replaced with anothe
Mr.. Herbert said:
"This was at funeral service he
II In memory and In honor Of my nice
II knew she was dead and whether Il
| body in the coffin was hers or a.
| other, was immaterial at that time.
was too distressed to think of any Il
vestigation and at that time / had
suspicion that my niece had met wi
anything like foul play"
Mr.. Herbert said that when he r
turned to Seattle In July to reno
Dorothea from Olalla he found tn
Mrs. Hazard had been appointed qua
dian for his niece. Mrs. Hazza
told him to see John Arthur, an ATTIC
Iney, Arthur told him that he mi
llmake a settlement with Mrs. Hazza
before removing Dorothea.