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Show MESSES DEKY STATE'SJHARGES SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 29 Testimony Testi-mony denying every charge mado by tho prosecution in tho trial of Mrs. Linda Burfleld Hazzard, charged with causing the death by starvation of Miss Claire Williamson, a wealthy English woman, was obtainod from six witnesses called by tho defenso at Port Orchard today. Tho direct testimony for tho defenso de-fenso wa3 largely given today oy Watson Webb and Frank Llllcy. Webb's namo was brought into tho case in tho testimony of Dorothea Williamson, sister of tho woman alleged al-leged to have been murdered, and who also was a patient at Mrs. Haz-zard's Haz-zard's "starvation sanitarium." He was said to have been authorized author-ized to aid. In nursing the Williamson sisters, and It was brought out by the prosecution that when a protest was made, Mrs. Hazzard replied-. "He's all right. HeB only a pure-minded pure-minded youth," Wobb declared on the stand that his calls on tho Williamson sisters were nt tholr own rcqueBt, Frank. Lllley, a choreman about the sanitarium, who had been accused by Miss Dorothea Williamson of having been used in tho establishments In giving her baths and other Improper services, directly contradicted such charges. |