Hazzard to let Dora leave. Her position as a servant hindered her—she often felt too timid to contradict those in a class above her—and Hazzard was known for her terrible power over people. She seemed to hypnotize them with her booming voice and flashing dark eyes. After some haggling, he paid Hazzard nearly a thousand dollars to let Dora leave the property. As Herbert and Agassiz would discover once they started researching the case, Hazzard was connected to the deaths of several other wealthy individuals.
Many had signed large portions of their estates over to her before their deaths. One, former state legislator Lewis E. Rader died in May , after being moved from a hotel near Pike Place Market to an undisclosed location when authorities tried to question him. On August 15, , Kitsap County authorities arrested Linda Hazzard on charges of first-degree murder for starving Claire Williamson to death.
Spectators crowded the building to hear servants and nurses testify about how the sisters had cried out in pain during their treatments, suffered through enemas lasting for hours, and endured baths that scalded at the touch. Other names in the natural health world agreed, and several offered their support during their trial. Henry S. As Hazzard noted in her book, fasting for health and spiritual development is an ancient idea, practiced by both yogis and Jesus Christ.
The ancient Greeks thought demons could enter the mouth during eating, which helped encourage the idea of fasting for purification. When the next morning arrived, only the top 20 feet of her mast were visible. When one of her old skippers, Capt. It is said there is hardly a town or fishing village on the run that cannot boast of at least one girl christened Dora.
In the s, recreational divers located the wreck of the Dora and salvaged her propeller, anchor, some of the portholes and other collectibles. Two decades later, divers returned to the wreck to map out the locations of her anchor chain, furnace and boiler, steam engine, crankshaft, connecting rods and her remaining store of coal. Thwaites photo, perhaps taken near Seward, shows the S. Dora grounded. In near Port Moeller, the S. Dora foreground became stuck in the mud and had to be pulled free by two smaller crafts.
University of Alaska Anchorage archives. This undated John E. Thwaites photo shows both the S. Dora right and the Uncle Sam grounded. University of Washington Libraries photo collection. The first part of a two-part collection of humorous tales gleaned from old newspapers on the central Kenai Peninsula. Keep spooky creatures at bay with garlic-infused shells and pepper sauce. The days are shorter. We are losing nearly six minutes a day. The S. But this wasn't the end of Linda.
Eight years after her sentencing, she returned to Olalla and built her great sanitarium, acting as if nothing had happened. The facility burned to the ground in , and Linda died in while attempting a fasting cure on herself. Washington In Your Inbox spinner.
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