The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-03-01
MRS. STANFORD WAS POISONED

worn out by her trip and continued I'm
excellent spirits. She went to her
room after reaching the hotel and laid
down for short time and then began
to dress for dinner. She took parti-
cular pains about her toilet and at 6:3O
she and I went down stairs to dinner.
We had both agreed that we would not
eat heartily of dinner as we had eaten
so literally Of the luncheon. Mrs.
Stanford took plate of soup. | think
it was a beef broth with some vege-
tables. We did not take anything else
and went out to the porch and sat
down until about $3.50 o'clock when we
came up stairs to retire. The maid
and l occupy the room just across the
hall from Mrs. Stanfords room.
after leaving Mrs. Stanford at her
door l went to my room and then to
her room again and was present i'm the
room for "a while as Mrs. Stanford was
preparing to retire She asked me to
get her some soda. l went to the
steamer trunk to get the medicine for
her and remarked that l did not have
was combing Mrs. Stanfords hair gave
me spoon. The bicarbonate of soda
was i'm a small glass bottle. This soda
was i'm bulk i'm the bottle and l got
about half a teaspoonful of it and
laid it in the spoon out on the table.
Mrs. Stanford said that | had better
take some of it but l said that was
going to take a cascaret capsule and
one of these was also laid out by the
spoon containing the soda for Mrs.
Stanford. She did not take the me-
dicine Immediately for she said that she
would wait and take her drink of wa
ter. Mrs Stanford was always i'm the
habit of drinking a glass of mineral
water at night. She had some Bart
lett water i'm her room and I think had
been drinking that since she had been
here. l left the room and went to bed.
Miss Hunt left Mrs. Stanford about 9
o'clock.
"It seems that Mrs. Stanford did not
take her medicine at once for she got
into bed and l think fell asleep and
awoke and got up and took the me-
dicine. Later in the night I was
awakened by hearing her cry Bertha
and then May the name of the maid.
We both sprang up and opening the
door saw Mrs Stanford leaning against
the side of hcr door which she had
apparently opened. Mrs. Stanford
said oh Bertha get a doctor right away
1 am suffering so terribly here placing
her hand upon her stomach. | ran down
4 l.. Ill. Too. I.,l1
while a gentleman who had also been
aroused by Mrs. Stanford's calls, went
down stairs, after doctor, | called to
him not to waste a minute but to get
a doctor.
II feared at once that Mrs. STAN
ford had been poisoned and | began to
give her hot water to drink. Miss Hunt
helped to put her feet into hot water
and rub her. We did everything we
could to get Mrs. Stanford to vomit
AS soon as the doctor arrived Mrs.
Stanford said to him that she believed
that she had been poisoned and for
him to get a stomach pump. He sent
for one but it did not arrive. He
at once began to give her things to try
and get her to vomit. / asked her if
I should rub her spine and she said no
not there it was i'm her stomach. She
said that she could not vomit she fear
ed she could not vomit She also
stated that she had had a conVulsion
that had thrown her out of bed. This
was just before she called for me and
Miss Hunt. Mrs. Stanford was suf-
fering great agony and her legs and
arms became rigid. Finally she said
Bertha. my jaws are getting rigid,
can not swallow any more She was
conscious until the last convulsion
came when she died.
"I cannot say anything about where
the bicarbonate of soda was purchased,