THE FASTING CURE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 23 January 1912, Page 5

THE FASTING CURE.

CLAIRE WILLIAMSON'S' DEATH

FURTHER DETAILS

BY CABLE—PRESS ABSOCIATION"-COPJIEIGHT.

MELBOURNE, Jan. 22

The Williamsons mentioned in the starvation case are Victorian sisters, slaughters of the late Mr George. Williamson, who left a large fortune.

Dora Williamson, writing bo a Melbourne friend in September, mentioned that a criminal suit was pending in connection with the death of her sister <Jlaire, also civil suits for the recovery of moneys paid to Mrs Hazzard, and added that most people under Mrs Haz-zard's-treatment were English or Australians, including Mr Wakelin, of New .Zealand. Mrs Hazzard stated she had •other patients from Sydney and New itealand.

Claire Williamson's executor recently ■departed for America to manage the affairs of the sisters.

[The extraordinary experiences of the two sisters, Claire and Dora Williamson, •caused a great sensation both in America and Australia when first made public. , Miss Dora Williamson, who narrowly escaped death with her sister j stated that ■they came under the influence of Linda Bui-field Hazard, a woman practising as a physician in Seattle, Washington, whose specialty is fasting for the cure of diseases. It is said that the woman, first having made a careful inquiry into ■the financial means .and comparatively friendless situation of the ladies, agreed that they should take a course of fasting to remedy certain ailments, and, "after treating them to an isolated retreat in -the woods of Olalla, Washington, where lth« treatment was continued until Miss Claire Williamson died on May 11, J9ll. Miss Dora Williamson was reduc-

Ed in weight to 421b., when an old nurse

•of the family named Miss Margaret Con- ', way arrived from Australia and took

•charge of her. While the young women "were under Mr,s Hazzard, she received -rftoney, some of which the courts have since ordered to be returned to Miss Dora Williamson.]