The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-01-21
CALLS MRS. HAZARD
CRUEL AND INHUMAN
Suicide Frequently Mentioned
to the Surviving Girl; Vic
tim Induced TO Sign
Checks; Jewelry Taken.

Hazard said: Would YOU like
1 treatment. Claire7' and. put
ting her hand on MY sister s ab'
domen, she pressed down hard. Claire
gave q cry and became unconscious.
said, is it all Overt and Mrs. Hazard
replied yes.
Thus Miss Dorothea Williamson told
Jury in the Kitsap county superior
court at Port Orchard today. of the
Last time she saw her sister Clnire. the
wealthy English spinstcr whom Mrs
Linda Burheld Hazard is accused or
numbering at her starvation santa
rium.'' Miss Williamson said she re-
turned at once to her room. which was
beneath that occupied by her sister.
i She heard persons. walking about the
room all night. and wondered what
they were doing. 81 didn't know
Claire was still alive. but was told Ia
ter that she did not die until clock
on the morning of Friday, May 10,
/; several hours after they led me from the
ieathbeJ, q she said
Suicide Meusiened;
IT. Witness testified that AIRS. Haz-
I'M frequently talked to her about
the possibility of committing suicide
for $500 drawn by Lieutenant Hazard
,+S1f never once thought of SUCH
thine,'' said the. witness And
told AIRS. Hazard that she ought not
10 suggest suifide to anyone who was
in my condition and whose sister had
Just died.,
The witness said that Mrs. Hazard
told her that she was an imbecile and
probably would be one for life. 81
asked her, for food, and she would not
give it to me- said Miss Williamson.
al asked her for book TO read. and
she said I couldn Il read because my
brain was affected. After Claire died,
Mrs. Hazard came to me and said 1T
was my sisters wish that j remain at
OIalla the rest of my life. Mrs. Haz'
zard said I was an imbecile, and must
stay at OlaIa always. l said that
did not want TO stay there, and that |
knew my sister would not want me to
stay against my will ! wanted to go
hack TO Australia.
Induced to Sign Checks.
Witness said that after Claire's
death, she was induced to give to Mrs
Hazard p husband, Samuel G. Hazard,
formerly adiutant of West Point Mill
tary academy. a power of attorney,
authorizing him to look after some sf~
fairs in Vancouver, 3. c. She had
$3.50 deposited in bank there, and
rold Mr.. Hazard TO send $500 TO her
uncle living in Toronto. Two checks
for $500 drawn by Lieutenant Hazard
against the Vancouver bank account
we're introduced as evidence. The state
will attempt to show that this money
was not disposed of according to the
instructions given by Miss Williamson,
who was still on the stand when court
adjourned.
Dorothca told Of her diet while she
and Claire were patients Of Mrs. Haz.
Yard in Seattle. She said she was given
NO meals day, each consisting of n
sup of water in which asparagus or
tomato had been boiled. Sometimes
orange juice was substituted Mrs, Haz.
zard told her that she and her sister
would become perfectly well "all of a
,uddcn ''--as soon as the meagre diet
,ad driven the poison from their sys-
ems.
After two weeks of treatment
Dorothes was unable to walk. and ex.
perienced delirum and fainting spells.
Mrs Hazard told her. Dorothea testi.
fled, that her brain was affected.
Soon Bedfast.
Soon she and Claire We're unable to
leave their beds. The patients were
kept in separate rooms and not permit.
ted TO see each other. A single nurse
looked after them day. and night.
Dorotbea asked that another nurse be
provided. to alternate with the first.
Mrs. Hazard forbade such an ar
rangement.
" A new nurse might give you some
thing to eat.' she said.
One day Mrs. Hazard came into the
room with travellers checks for $50
which Dorothea had placed in
satchel and demanded that Doyothes
Endorse them. which she did: Later, on
the arrival Of 500 Indian pension
draft by mail, Mrs. Hazard induced
Dorothea TO sign papers for its collec-
ton from Ottawa. The money was
never paid to the witness. shc testi~
fled On April 22, wnen Dorothea was
very sick, she and her sister were
placed in separate ambulances. con-
veyed 20 the wharf and embarked for
the Hazard .sanitarium.
Her Jewelry Telsp,
Mrs. Hazard. - testified, called
upon her three tin.s3 she Olalls sani
taYium and uuesti " Ter closely con,