The Washington times., 1925-04-13
INHERITED
Disc. ASE
IS GIVEN
BL A|V|E
kin Resented lmputation on
Father and Started Tale,
Daughter Claims
BY SONIA LEE,
International News Service.


GARY, Ind, April 49, Unequiv-
ocalIy declaring the innocencs Of
her naOther, Anna Cunningham,
who Is ii the Cook county hos
pital as result Of the vigorous
cues tioning which she hal under
gone relative 70 the death ~ her
husband I'D four children, Lac
Cunningham igItesn, today vas
to take her place st the bedside
Of the woman for whom she claims
immunity from guilt.
With none Of the counterpo points
Of grief, with only the practical
ity Of the Unconditional, she sat In
leather rocker in the loW-ceil-
inged parlor Of the house on
Buchanan street and cited chapter
and verse Of the experiences Of
the Cunningham family, which
would perhaps dispel the doubt
surrounding the death Of five of
its members.
Bames Relatives.
Relatives she begins, ARE 20
blame for starting suspicion and
for the present condition Of my
mother.
"I was too little to know just
exactly what was the matter with
my father when he died. We were
living on the farm then, and mother
and father cared a great deal for
each other. They didn't visit
around at the neighbors a lot, be-
cause when they had a little time
they'd go to Valparaiso.
Here, then, began the first
In the country, If one doesn't visit
one is queer. When father died
we moved to Gary-that was six
years ago. Two years later my
sister, Isabel, twenty, died after an
illness of about three weeks. She
and Walter, ten, who died last, and
David, who is now sick at the
Columbus Hospital. suffered from
the same disease.
Disease Hereditary.
ACy 4AoA SO11l6 O4 u UOu0
disease which the doctor treated by
injections in the spine. The attend.
ing physician, DR.. Watts, who had
been the family doctor for four
years, said that the disease was
hereditary and that it came from
my fathers side.
MY fathers sister, Mrs. Robert
Arnold, resented this, and she al
ways talked about it. She knows
what was the matter with Isabel
and Walter and what's the matter
with David. She knows that my
mother isn't to blame. But she has
always made things hard for US.
After every death, when mother
was in mourning, she'd come and
wonder II they couldn't have been
saved II more had been done for
them.
at used to drive my mother half
crazy. Right after Isabels death
mother began having spells, due to
an upset system. She became
little odd, and when she had spells
she didn't know any one but me.
But whoever says that she was
dangerous lies.
Tells Of Many Lies.
People have been telling SO
many lies. 4ney Soy lHaC 1hOSheE
didn't want David to go to the
hospital. AS a matter Of fact, she
insisted for a whole week that he
do so, but he's so bashful that he
objected until the pain became too
severe.
"Others have accused mother OF
not calling q doctor. Why, we never
had SO much as G. sick headache
without mother calling in the doc
tor.
Mother poison her children?
That's foolish. When she was sick
I was with her every minute.
And when she was well she
wouldn't have done q thing like
that. I know-she's my mother.
At might as well be accused OF
murder" she continued her tale in
that nat monotone Of hopelessnesa