The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-26
LOVED DEAD GIRL,
SAYS MRS. LUNDGREN
Denies Giving Medicine to Pa
tent She Is Accused Of
Poisoning.
RAnRoADED" Is CHARGE
Nurse Declares She Did Not
Steal Articles From Gay
Home.

1,AyrrScr, Mass, June 25,-s-Mrs. Bes-
"a N. skeels Lundsren, the nurse, who
4 on trial for murder because OF the
Hesth OF Miss Florence w. Gay. re-
suned to-day her story. The little
woman, emaciated by q recent illnese.
was carried to her place by court ate
t.ndanta She appeared pale. but her
physician said the only effect Of the
mental strain.
Mrs Lundxren continued a recital Of
the circumstances connected with the ILL
ness and death OF Miss Gay in December,
1917 She testified that instead OF at
tempting to remain with the sick woman
whom, it Is charged, she was dosing with
arsenic, she had sought relief from her
duties in the Gay home several days be-
fore Miss Gay died. She told Mrs.
Edith VI. Luce. a relative of the Gays,
,he said, that she was so tired she could
not stand the strain much longer, and It
was at Mrs. Luce's request that she
stayed on.
she asserted she gave no medical at
tendance Of any kind to Miss Gay for
two days before death. On the day that
Miss Gay died. Mrs. Lundgren said. she
was called into the sick room by Mira
Luce and found the patient unconscious
Then she raised Miss Gays head and
dh everything to make her comfortable,
because she loved her. she asserted.
In June, 1917. when a rash broke out
on her neck after she had worn Miss
Gays raincoat. according to Mrs. Lund-
gren, Miss Gay said II looked like the
rash she had on her own face. Miss Gay
recommended 1t be treated with Fowlers
Solution. The witness said she had
never heard Of the solution before Miss
Gay spoke OF II.
All ia att ~ ~ -
she had stolen Mrs. Lundgren declared
had been given to her by the Gays. but
that she had told Mrs Luce she was
welcome to take any of them II she
wanted to claim them. After Miss Gay
died the witness found q box OF jewelry
and Immediately informed Mrs. Luce
According to Mrs. Lundgren some OF
the goods seen in court had been pur-
chased by her at stores in Lawrence
AS God is my Judge" she exclaimed
when shown articles alleged to have
been stolen from the Abbott Academy
Students. II never saw those things"
The defendant denied having obtained
any insurance money from the deaths
OF her relatives. She sobbed when she
identified coat which she said she had
bought for her mother. She asserted
no opportunity was given by the police
~ AAoAo oi CApidIatiOu ICBdio " TIC
goods and that 1t appeared as II they
were trying to railroad her."
Mrs Lundgren testified that when she
reached New Jersey in response to a
despatch telling of the serious illness of
her brother. Albert ]. Wilkins. for whose
death by poison she Is also charged, she
was told by physicians that he could not
live. She said she would not let him die.
He was treated at a hospital for four
weeks, returning to his home because he
Objected to an operation. She said she
did all possible for him. but could not
save him, adding that she had induced
his divorced wife to visit him with their
Children for the first time in years.
Testifying with regard to her being
found on the floor OF the bathroom after
Ter arrest. witnesses having asserted she
had tried TO commit suicide, Mrs. Lund-
gren said she had tainted and knew
rothing more until she regained con-
sctousness at q hospital. She was then
in pain. she said, and some one was say
ing, You did do It, didn't you?"
She testified that on her return from
New Jersey to Andover to be married
she was told OF rumors connecting her
with Miss Gays death.
81 said would never marry Mr.. Lund-
gren while there was a stain on my
name she testified.