The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-03-04
POISON MYSTERY
 AS DEEP AS EVER
DRUGGIST AT PALO ALTO HAS BEEN FOUND WHO SOLD BI- CARBONATE OF SODA TO MRS. STANFORD.

San Francisco, March 3.-Although every effort is being made to solve the mystery of the alleged poisoning of Mrs Jane L.. Stanford in Honolulu there were few new developments in the case today. The autopsy in Honolulu has not been com pleted, and it has not been proved that ! death did not result from natural causes! A cable message from Honolulu inti- mates that an acute attack of indigestion ! may have caused the fatal illness of Mrs. Stanford, who before dying, recalled the previous stories of an attempt on her life and exclaimed that she had been pols- oned.
 As yet no arrests have been made and the detectives engaged in Investigating the matter have made no direct accusation though the various members of the Stan ford household are understood to be close ly watched.
 With reference to those suspected by the authorities Captain Callundan of d de- teective agency, today said:
 At present we have positively no proof that would hold any one for the poisoning of Mrs Stanford. We do not suspect An Wing, the Chinese cook and he is not under greater surveillance than the others in the Stanford mansion today.
 We cannot take any action until the report of the autopsy reaches us from Honolulu"
 It has been learned that w. E. Jackson, head pharmacist at the Stanford phar- macy in Palo Alto. sold Mrs. Stanford package of bi-carbonate of soda on Feb ruary 6. Mrs. Stanford and her secretary, Miss Berner, had just returned from the Hotel Vendome at San Jose, and came directly from the train to the drugstore.
 They purchased several drugs and toilet articles, among them being ten cents worth of bl-carbonate of soda. The pack age was wrapped up, labelled and given to Miss Berner with the other articles. MT. Jackson has placed the remainder of the bottle of bl-carbonate of soda from which the package was sold in the hands of his attorney, Walter Rogers, and refuses to be interviewed.
 The report of the San Francisco chemist who analysed the mineral water of which Mrs Stanford drank on January 1i, made public today, declared that there was strychnine in the water submitted to him for examination.
 Honolulu. March 3.-The chemists who are examining the contents of the stom- ach of Mrs. Jane Lathrope Stanford. Who died under suspicious circumstances Tuesday night say they will not be able to complete their reports today
 Miss Bertha Berner. who was Mrs. Standford's secretary, told the corres- pondent of the Associated Press that there was absolutely no truth in the dispatch from this city published at San Francisco, attrbuting to her q statement to the effect that she suspected An Wing. a cook employed for many years at Mrs. Stanford's mansion at San Francisco of having placed t.e strychnine in the bot tie of bi-carbonate of soda, q dose of which Mrs. Stanford tool. before her death.
 Miss Berner says that she has made no statement whatever except that to the Associated Press sent in these dis patches Wednesday. She says that. act ing on the advice of the police author ities, and her attorney. she will not make any further statement.