The San Francisco call., 1905-03-04
ALL SUSPECTS
WITHIN REACH
Burnett Is Ready to Act
When the Evidence
Is Complete.

EVERYBODY we Will want is WlLnln
reach" declared Captain Burnett yes
terday after a visit to the Stanford
mansion and consultation with At
torney Mountford Wilson and Captain
J. ]. Callundan Of the Morse detective
agency.
The California-streetm mansion, where
the first attempt was made upon the
life of Mrs. Jane Stanford, was visited
in the morning by Captain Burnett,
Captain ]. J. Callundan and Detective
Harry Reynolds. A statement from
All Wing, the cook suspected by Miss
Berner, was obtained by Captain Cal
lundan.
The purpose of visiting the house,
Captain Burnett says, was to familiar
ize himself with the rooms. He tried
to question the suspected Chinaman.
but the Oriental sullenly refused to
comprehend the questions put to him
by the captain of detectives.
The three detectives went carefully
over every inch of the mansion. Spe
cial inspection was made of the room
where Mrs. Stanford swallowed the
poisoned Poland water. A minute ex-
animation was made of the quarters
occupied by All Wing.
All three 06leCtlNCS. are TGIlCeHl DIS
to the result of their Investigations. It
was intended to keep the visit to the
mansion secret in accordance with the
plan of yelling all suspicious and evil
dence until the proper time.
Immediately after the consultation
Detective Harry Reynolds was detailed
or the case. The results OF the con-
ference were closely guarded
It is known that details duplicating
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were handed over TO the captain of the
detectives, and the local police are
ready TO act with q rush when the de-
layed result Of the inquest is given
out.
1--WE are waiting results from Hon
olulu," said Captain Burnett Every
body we want is within our reach. We
can arrest them any time we want
them
In reference to the servants held
close prisoners in the Stanford house,
hold, the captain of detectives said:
We are holding no one under close
surveillance do not know that those
people are being held. They are not
imprisoned by my orders"
Though the local police will not
expose their hands until the complete
reports arrive from Honolulu, they are
not lying idle.
On returning from the conference
with Wilson and Callundan, Captain
Burnett held a long consultation with
Acting Chief John Spillane 1t is evil
dent that they are laying plans that
are nearly completed.
It is common gossip and generally
understood that the results of the
analysis are being purposely withheld
in order that the local detective force
may complete the chain of evidence
they seem confident they have OBJ
tanned.
Something may happen any min
ute," admitted Captain Burnett yester-
day afternoon. I'VE are expecting 1t
and we are ready to act at moment g
notice. We are expecting word at any
time.
THE people out of town, Beverley and
Miss Richmond, are where we can
reach them. They are not being
guarded by my men, but we are GER
tain of them if they are wanted"
The entrance to the Stanford man
sion on California street is carefully
guarded. No one is permitted to even
20 near the door of the place where
the first attempt was made on the dead
philanthropist's life.
The inmates are being closely
watched by private detectives. Wheth-
er any evidence regarding the first at
tempt has been found the watchers in
| the mansion will not say.
The entire force of detectives is
watching night and day on the trails
of every possible suspect. The trap is
being laid and the signal for it to be
| sprung will come from Honolulu. When
the results of the chemists analysis