The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-22
spirit CALLS Me-
Ward of Dead Doctor Believed
He Needed Her.
Edna Nelson Thought Bene-
factor Lonely.

Hutchinson, Kan, Feb. 22.-Investiga-
ton of the mysterious death of Miss
Edna Nelson, ward of the late Dr.
+. E. Richardson, took on a new color
today when the fact that the girl was a
Spiritualist, was advanced in support
of the theory that she was d suicide.
Miss Mels-n MS body, shot through the
head was found in the home of her
wealthy guardian last Saturday. T.
was a strange infatuation, the police
say, that bound the 25-year- old girl to
the white haired man of 70. When he
died of heart disease three weeks ago
Miss Nelson threw herself upon the
body crying.
20, my darling. speak to me-" and
never ceased to mourn him until her
own death.
What have to live for. / loved him
and can never love another" she old
Mrs. w. c. Hutchins, according to tes-
timony at the inquest. ours were
twin spirits. If mine is so lonely with
his spirit wandering alone in that
strange other world, calling me to
come over
To another neighbor she said:
He is calling me, l want to go to
him. His spirit is reckoning mine"
Suicide Is Impossible.
OF her sister who found her body
and called the police she requested that
she be buried by the side of her guar
dian. The wish was carried out. The
day before her death she made her
will.
Against the theory of suicide Coroner
Williams has advanced the fact the bull
let entered the left side of the head
above the ear. The girl was right
handed, the coroner said she could no.
have fired the bullet which took for
ward course and came out at the front
of the head There were no powder
burns upon the body.
The weapon used was revolver from
the dresser drawer in the girls room.
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physicians has caused authorities to re-
ject the suicide theory advanced by
relatives and neighbors. Search was
continued today for a strange man VINO
son home an hour before the girl was
found dead.
The house in which Enie and Edna
Nelson lived alone together since tire
death of DR.. Richardson, their benefactor
six months ago, is on the south side OF
the street; directly opposite it on the
P. Basket Saturday afternoon Mrs.
Pearl Morse. her two daughters, Lulu. Is.
and Clara, 16 years old,and W, w Pat
terson a relative from Langdon, Kan,
went to the Basket home
Il had always fancied that house, it
was such a pretty little cottage" said
like to live in house like that At that
moment we saw a man entering the gate
Of the DR.. Richardson house Clara, my
daughter, said:
why. mamma there goes a man in
there nowr I looked at the man. lie
was short. fleshy and wore no overcoat. /
his back was to me. We all went into
my mothers yard but they were not {
home After trying the doors VIC sat
Gown on the porch. In this position we
were exactly opposite the Dr. Richardson
house and had a full view OF II. We had l
scarcely sat down when we heard a shot /
fired in the Richardson house and re-
marked:
why. there's pistol shot in that
house now
IN just about two minutes we heard
another shot, but it was muffled and did
not sound so loud as the first shot. in
fact it was so muffled that 1 doubted
that it was a shot and I spoke of it and /
said. 4 guess that wasn't a shot after /
all. it must have been some one threw a 4
rock at that house
we did not see the man after he en-
tered the gate. We paid little attention 4
to it at the time but when we heard OF /
the girl being found dead in the house it /
all came back to us