The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1905-03-09
MRS. STANFORD :
IS POISONED
WIDOW OF MILLIONAIRE DIES
UNDER SUSPICIOUS clRcuM-
STANCES.
SECOND ATTEMPT IS FATAL
FIRST ATTEMPT WAS MADE in
SAN FRANCISCO IN JAN
uARY.
FLED 70 ESCAPE MURDERER
ON PHYSICIANS ADVICE SHE
STARTED ON TRIP TO JAPAN
AND CHINA. :,

throp Stanford of San Francisco, wild
ow of United States Senator Leland
Stanford, died at 11:4O o'clock Tues.
day night, forty minutes after she a
taken i'll, at the Moana hotel here,
under suspicious circumstances, point
ing. in the opinion of the physician
who attended her in her dying hour,
and seemingly in that of the others,
to poisoning by the administration of
strychnine in a phial of b~icarbonate of
soda.
Mrs. Stanford, herself, when found
by a guest of the hotel, who had heard
her grooming in her agony and suffer-
ing from commissions. declared:
II Have Been Poisoned"
and her last words were: This is a
horrible death to die"
The physicians say that between
commissions Mrs. Stanford repeated
the assertion that she had been poi
soned, and said it was the second time
the attempt had been made. the first
time being in January at her San
Francisco home, and that it was this
attempt that caused her to come to
Honolulu.
An autopsy on the remains showed
the cause of death was tetanus of the
respiratory organs, but how this was
brought about will lot be known until
after an. examination of the contents
Of the stomach.
Sorrow and Horror.
San Francisco, March 2.-The news
of the death of Mrs. Jane L. Stanford
was received here yesterday with sur
prise and sorrow, to which was added
horror when it was learned that prob
ably she had been poisoned. Her
brother, Charles G.. Lathrop, who is
the secretary of the Stanford univer-
sity, refused to believe her death was
due to vsther than natural causes, and
her attorney, Mountford S. Wilson,
positively declined to discuss the re-
port that a previous attempt to poison
her had been made in this city.
Mr.. Wilson preferred waiting adj
vices from Honolulu officials before
Taking Any Step
regarding the business affairs of Mrs.
Stanford, which were intimately con
nected with the great university which
she and her husband founded at Palo
Alto. This institution has already
been endowed with $4,000, 900 in prop
erty and coin, to which may be aided
about $40, 600, 900 from Mrs. Stanford's
personal estate. She took deep per.
sonal interest in the university, and to
her wisdom and business sagacity is
due much of it's success, a fact which
is testified to by it's president and the
students. nearly all of whom knew her
and loved her.
The university was closed yesterday
and it is not expected to reopen until
after
Mrs. Stanford's Remains
have been placed beside those of her
husband and son in their mausoleum
hear the college campus.
In respect II her memory the state
legislature adjourned yesterday and
flags were placed at half-mast through
out the city and state.
The story of an attempt to poison
Mrs. Stanford in this city was first
made public on the 18th of last month,
when it was declared that strychnine
had been found in a bottle of mineral
water from which she had taken sew
eral drinks. She was
Made Violently III,
and an analysis shovel the presence
of the deadly drug in the bottle.
To DR.. Boerck, WHO attended her,
Mrs. Stanford told the story of what
she believed to be an attempt upon
her life. She suspected no one. and on
the physicians advice sooh went to
the country. Returning here in ap-
parently improved health; she sailed
for China %andsJapan by way of Homo,
lulu on the steamer Korea Feb. Is, ar
irving at the Hawaiian port five days
later.
The alleged attempt to poison her
was investigated by a detective
agency but no results were obtained
and the matter apparently was
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