The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-03-03

one of the reasons she left California.
She had drunk then from a bottle of
Poland mineral water and became very
Ill, and it was alleged that strychnine
had been found in the water Miss Ber-
ner said Mrs. Stanford was conscious
to the last moment OF her life, and the
latter had strongly asserted that she
had been poisoned.
! As to the movements of the entire
party on Tuesday, Miss Berner said
Mrs. Stanford, Miss Hunt. herseIf and
a driver went over the Pail to Koolau
on picnic trip. The lunch consisted
of three kinds of sandwiches made of
Graham bread. with tongue, Swiss
cheese and lettuce between the bread
layers There were also hard-boiled
eggs, pepper. salt. fresh loaf of gin
gerbread, cold coffee, oranges, choc-
olate. candy, and sugar. The par.
i ~ had an enjoyable trip and return
ed to the Moana Hotel about D. m.
Mrs. Stanford ate heartily of the lunch,
and on returning to town said she had
had an enjoyable outing. She did not
touch the eggs.
! AT $3.50 Mrs. Stanford. after dressing
: with care, went down to dinner. and
about $3.50 returned to her room and re-
tired. Mrs. Stanford asked for some
soda Miss Berner went to a trunk
and procured it, but said she had no.
spoon. The maid, who was comb,ng.
Mrs. Stanford's hair, gave her a spoon.
The bicarbonate of soda was in a small
glass bottle and was in bulk She took
out half spoonful and laid it on the.
table. Mrs. Stanford asked Miss Ber-
ner to take some of it, but she replied
she would take a cascaret capsule. and
one of these was also laid out for
Mrs. Stanford. The latter did not take.
the soda at once but said she would
wait and take drink of water with it.
Miss Berner then retired and Miss Hunt
LETT her mistress about O'clock Mrs.
stanford, 1t appears, fell asleep then
but later awoke aud took the medicine
Later in the night Miss Berner was.
startled by hearing Mrs. Stanford cry
out, "Bertha!" and then "May!" the.
name of the maid. Both sprang up and
saw Mrs. Stanford leaning against the
side of the door, which she had appar-
emily opened.
"Oh, Bertha, get doctor right away.
am suffering terribly here" was Mrs
Stanford's first statement, at the same
time running her hand up and down
her stomach. Miss Berner went at once-
for help, and a gentleman in the hotel
went for a doctor. Miss Berner, fear
ing that Mrs. Stanford had been poison
ed, gave her hot water to drink and did
everything to get her to vomit. She
could not vomit. Mrs. Stanford stated
she had a convulsion which threw her
out of bed. Her jaws finally became
rigid, but she remained conscious to the.
end. Miss Berner cannot say where the
bicarbonate of soda came from. She.
thought the bottle had been purchased
several years ago at Adelaide, Austria
liza. Mrs. Stanford had had the bottle
long time. She did not know whether
Mrs. Stanford was in the habit of
sending the bottle out to be refilled or
not.
The capsules had been purchased
from Wakelees drug store at San Fran
cisco just before leaving. The prescrip-
tion was procured from DIR. Hillman.
Miss Berner has been with Mrs. STAN.
ford for nearly score of years, but
Miss Hunt was engaged only on Febru-
airy .. although she had been in her SER.
vice many years before.
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