“SIMPLE LIFE” SANATORIUM.
AND ITS LADY DOCTOR. PATIENTS WHO WERE STARVED. . Some strange doings at a sanatorium in Wills, Kitsap County,. Washintgon, are just now being investigated by the police authorities. The “sanatorium,” as tlie two rudelyconstructed cabins that composed the establishment were styled, was one where the “simple life” was supposed to be followed. Until the .police have probed the mystery a little further it is difficult to say exactly what sort of life was followed there. •:
The place was under the management of a womanj Dr. Linda Hazzard,. as she called herself, and strange stories are told of what happened to the wealthy Eatients who committed themselves to er mercies.
Some of them art declared to have been starved, and apparently all who went to the sanatorium had nothing more substantial to live on than huckleberries and the beautiful scenery. Two of the lady doctor’s victims were young women from England. Claire and Dorothea Williamson, both ‘Spinsters. One died in rather mysterious circumstances, and the other became insane. “Dr.” Hazzard told their relatives “how it all happened,” and the latter were disposed to believe the 6toiy, until a Miss Margaret Conway, a friend of the two sisters, put in an opportune appearance and made certain disclosures to Mr. Agassiz, British Vice-Consul at Tacoma, which . prompted that official to lose no time in getting into touch with the police. d Miss Conway, who recently arrived in Tacoma from Australia, knew the Williamson sisters well, and was deeply attached to the girls, both of whom she had nursed in childhood.
The inquiries made as a result of the suspicions communicated to the Consul by Miss Conway revealed that “Dr.” Hazzard had possessed herself of the diamond jewellery and other property k longing to the Misses Williamson. The police soon got on to the fair Linda’s tracks, and arrested 1 the lady just as she was making preparations for a hasty flight to Hongkong.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3303, 23 August 1911, Page 8
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323“SIMPLE LIFE” SANATORIUM. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3303, 23 August 1911, Page 8
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