Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1911 — NURSE BREAKS SILENCE [ARTICLE]

NURSE BREAKS SILENCE

Mabel Sexsmith Makes Denials in Webster Case. Says that Most of Things Said About Her by Chicago Papers Are Untrue. Oregon, 111., Oct. 13. —Attorneys for Dr. H. E. Webster, under arrest, on a charge of murdering Bessie Kent Webster, held consultations with several persons, who they expect will aid in the fight to free the physician. Mabel Sexsmith, a nurse, who was employed by Dr. Webs’ter at one time as a detective to watch Bessie Kent Webster, was one of the persons with whom Attorney James Callahan talked over developments in the case. Miss Sexsmith wrote out a statement on a typewriter and declared it was the only one she had authorized. She said: "I never said that I loved Dr. Webster and could not love any other man I know him only as a friend and am very sorry he is In rhis terrible trouble. I said nothing of the character of Bessie Kent Webster and I have every reason to believe that Bessie Kent Webster was a good woman. I also most emphatically deny the report that I sent any money to Dr. Webster to help him. "I did not at any time make any statements in favor of or against Zoe Varney Webster, inasmuch as I did not know her. “I never was in Oregon, 111., or Dixon, 111., in my life, and certainly knew nothing of the death of Mrs. Bessie Kent Webster until a reporter called upon me Saturday evening before Dr. Webster’s arrest”