THE STARVATION DOCTOR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 70, 31 March 1913, Page 6

THE STARVATION DOCTOR.

ANOTHER PATIENT’S DEATH. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) Seattle, March 30. Mrs Linda Haggard, the starvation doctor, who was liberated under an appeal after the sentence passed on her for causing the death of Claire Williamson, a wealthy Australian, who was undergoing the cure, has been again arrested charged with causing the death of an American woman under similar circumstances. The jury’s verdict was that death was due to starvation. The evidence showed that many patients had been attracted to the cure, as a result, of the publicity given to the Williamson case.

Pathetic interest attaches to a will which. was recently filed in the Victorian probate office for sealing puis poses. It is that of Miss Claire Williamson, who, it is alleged, while undergoing w’hat iS: known as the starvation cure at Olalla, near Washington, America, died on May 19th last. At the time of her death Miss Williamson was at a sanitarium kept by Mrs Haggard at Olalla, and in consequence of what transpired after Miss Williamson’s death Mrs Haggard was arrested and subsequently convicted on a charge of the manslaughter of Miss Williamson. Mrs Haggard appealed against the finding of the jury, and the appeal is now pending. Miss Wiliianison, who executed her will on April 6th, 1910, left estate in America and personal property in Victoria valued at £15,994, the bulk of which she bequeathed to her sister, Evelyn Dorothea Williamson.