INVREF#CL6-10 SPANISH AMERICAN WAR WEST POINT CRIMINAL LT 1st US ARTILLERY DOCUMENT SIGNED '99. Heres an 1899 US Military Document Signed by SAMUEL CHRISMAN HAZZARD SPANISH AMERICAN WAR CRIMINAL WEST POINT MILITARY ACADEMY1stLIEUTENANT IN THE1stUS ARTILLERY WHO DESERTED FROM THE ARMY ON MAY 31, 1900 FOR BIGAMY and STEALING FUNDS & WEST POINT INSTRUCTOR OF MODERN LANGUAGES and ADJUTANT OF THE U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY 1895-1898! Hazzard hailed from Pennsylvania and graduated from the U. S. Military Academy at West Point in 1893 (14thin his class). He ruined a promising military career by misappropriating Army funds. A drunk, lecher, and swindler, he had married twice before, and hadnt bothered to divorce at least one of the wives when he marriedLinda Burfield Hazzard(1867-1938). There was a highly publicized trial for bigamy which ended in a two-year prison sentence for Lt. Hazzard. His 3rdwife Linda B. Hazzardwasan American quack doctor noted for her promotion of fasting as a treatment; she also wound up imprisoned for manslaughter by the State of Washington for a number of deaths resulting from this method of treatment at a sanitarium she operated there in the early 20th century. She was born in 1867 in Carver County, Minnesota, and died during a fast cure on herself in 1938! HERES A SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ERA DOCUMENT SIGNED BY SAMUEL C. HAZZARD ON HEADQUARTERS U. S. MILITARY ACADEMY, WEST POINT, NEW YORKLETTERHEAD DATED FEB. 7, 1899, - SPECIAL ORDERS No. 29 REVOKING THE ORDER GRANTING A LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO CADETS CHARLES LEWIS BAENDER (MISSOURI-BORN 1876-1951) and FERNEY GEORGE LANE (IOWA-BORN 1876-1936), and DISMISSING THEM FROM THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR. [BOTH CADETS WERE ADMITTED TO THE USMA IN1896] THE DOCUMENT IS BEATIFULLY EXECUTED BY HAZZARD SHORTLY BEFORE HE WAS DISMISSED FROM THE ARMY ON BIGAMY CHARGES and WRITING BAD CHECKS. THAT WAS NOTHING, THOUGH, COMPARED TO THE KILLINGS HE AND HIS WIFE WERE INVOLVED INSEE ARTICLE BELOW The document measures 7 x 10, and is in very fine condition. A FINE PIECE OF SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ERA MILITARY & CRIMINAL HISTORY. MILITARY BIOGRAPHY OF LT. HAZZARD FROM CULLUMS REGISTER 3525 (BornPa.) SamuelC. Hazzard (Ap'dPa.) 14 Military History. Cadet at theU.S.M.A., from June15, 1889, to June12, 1893, when he was graduated and promoted in the Army to (Add. Second Lieut. of Artillery, 1stArtillery, June12, 1893) (Second Lieut. of Artillery, 5thArtillery, Sept.10, 1893) (Transferred to 1stArtillery, Oct.27, 1893) He joined the 1stArtillery, Sept.30, and served atFort Hamilton,N.Y.(atFort Columbus,N.Y., July10 to Oct.22, 1894), to Aug.20, 1895; on duty at theU.S.M.A., West Point,N.Y., as Instructor of Modern Languages, Aug.20, 1895 to Oct.19, 1898; as (Adjutant of the U.S.Military

LUNDA BURFIELD HAZZARD was the 1st first doctor in the United States to earn a medical degree as a "fasting specialist." Fasting had heretofore been considered a quack medical cure, popular with "health faddists" of the time. In 1908 she published a book, Fasting For The Cure Of Disease, promoting fasting as a cure for virtually every ailment, including cancer.

There was more bad publicity after she met and married the man of her dreams, Samuel Christman Hazzard, a West Point Graduate who had ruined a promising military career by misappropriating Army funds. A drunk, lecher, and swindler, he had married twice before, and hadn’t bothered to divorce at least one of the wives when he married Linda. There was a highly publicized trial for bigamy which ended in a two-year prison sentence for Hazzard.

After Hazzard finished his sentence in 1906, the couple set out for Washington state to start over. Linda Hazzard began practicing in Seattle, commuting by ferry from a 40-acre spread in the Kitsap County town of Olalla she named Wilderness Heights. She planned to build a big sanitarium there some day.

She created a "sanitarium", Wilderness Heights, in Olalla, Washington, where in-patients fasted for days, weeks or months, with a diet of small amounts of tomato and asparagus soup and little else. While some patients survived and publicly sang her praises, more than 40 patients died under her care, most from starvation. Local residents knew the place as "Starvation Heights."

In 1912 she was convicted of manslaughter for the death of Claire Williamson, a wealthy British woman of 33 years, who weighed less than 50 pounds at the time of her death. At the trial it was proved that Hazzard had forged Williamson's will and stole most of her valuables.

Claire's sister, Dora, also took the treatment, and only survived because a family friend showed up in time to remove her from the compound. She was too weak to leave on her own, weighing less than 60 pounds. She later testified against Claire Hazzard at trial.

After only 2 years in prison, she reopened her sanitarium in 1920. Though it burned to the ground shortly thereafter and was never rebuilt, its legend is still powerful in Olalla, and visitors to the grounds as recently as a decade ago have still found remnants of her presence in trash and debris in the underbrush. Her book continues to influence a small fasting movement to this day, with proponents claiming it as a true cure-all.