"SIMPLE LIFE” SANATORIUM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 5, 22 August 1911, Page 8

"SIMPLE LIFE” SANATORIUM.

AND ITS LADY DOCTOR. Some strange doings at a sanatorium in Wills, Kitsap County, Washington, are just now being investigated by the police authorities. The “sanatorium,” as the two rudely-constructed cabins that 1 composed the establishment were styled, was one where the “simple life” was supposed to bo 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 woman, Dr. Linda Hazzard, as she called herself, and strange stories are told of what happened to the wealthy patients who committed themselves to her mercies. Some of them are 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 wore young women from England, Claire and Dorothea Williamson, both spiutevs. One died in rather mysterious circumstances, and the other became insane. “Dr.” Hazzard told their relative's “how it all happened,” and the latter wore disposed to believe a story, 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. Miss Conway, who only recently arrived in Tacoma from Australia, knew the Williamson sisters well, and was deeply attached to the girls, both of whom she had nursed iu childhood. The inquiries made as a result of the suspicions communicated to tlie Consul by Miss Conway, revealed that “Dr.”’ Hazzard bad possessed herself of the diamond jewellery and other property belonging to the Misses Williamson. The police soon got on to the fair Linda’s trades, and .arrested the lady just as she was making preparations for a hasty flight to Hongkong.