Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-04
cablegram From Honolulu Init
mates that it May Have Been
Acute Indigestion.
NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE.
Miss Beruer Denies That She Ever
Suspected All Wing the Chi.
nese Cook.

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 developments In the
case today. Tho autopsy IN Honolulu
has not been completed, ana II has not
been proven that death did not result
from natural causes. A cablegram
from Honolulu lntimates that an acute
attack Of indigestion may have caused
the fatal Illness Of Mrs. Stanford, who,
before dying recalled the previous sto-
ries of an attempt on her life. and ex-
claimed that she had been poisoned.
As yet no arrests have been made
and the detectives engaged in inystl-
eating the matter have made no direct
accusations though the various MEM
bers OF the Stanford household are I'M
derstood 70 be closely watched.
with reference 10 those suspected by
the authorities Capt Callundan OF the
Morse detective agency said today:
AT the present moment we have
positively no proof that would hold
any one for the poisoning Of Mrs, Stan
ford We do not suspect An Wing, the
Chinese cook. and he Is not under
greater surveillance than the others
IN the Stanford mansion today
I'VE cannot take any action until
the report Of the autopsy reaches us
from Honolulu"
1t has been learned that W. e. Jack
son, head pharmacist at the stanford
pharmacy in Palo Alto, sold Mrs Stan
ford package Of bicarbonate Of soda
on the 9th OF February. 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 drug store, They were
helped from their carriage and entered
the store. They purchased several
drugs and toilet articles, among them
being 10 cents worth Of bcarbonate Of
soda. The package was wrapped no
the other articles Mr.. Jackson has
placed the remainder OF the bottle OF
blcarbonate OF soda, from which the
package was sold, I'm the keeping " his
attorney, Walter Rogers, and refuses to
be interviewed
The report Of the san Francisco
chemist who analysed the mineral wa.
ter of which Mrs, Stanford drank on
Jan, IA, made public today declares
that there was strychnne In the wa
ter submitted to him for examination.
president Jordan OF the Leland STAN
ford, Jr,, university I'm company with
the relatives and friends Of Mrs stan
FORD, was reluctant TO believe that she
was poisoned.
DR.. Jordan and Hlmothy Hopkins, Of
San Francisco, who IS one OF the trus
tees OF the university. viii leave tomor.
row ON the steamer Alameda for Homo
lulu to take charge Of Mrs. Stanford's
body and investigate her death They
VIII return with the body on the steam-
err China
NEVER SUSPECTED All WING.
Honolulu, March S.--Mss Bertha Ber-
ner, who was Mrs. Stanford's secretary,
told the correspondent OF the Associ.
ated Press today that there was abso-
lutely no truth In the dispatch from
this city published IN San Francisco.
attrlbuttng to her statement TO the
effect that she suspected All Wing n
cook employed for many years AT Mrs.
Stantords mansion I'm San Francisco.
OF having placed the strychnine In the
bottle Of bicarbonate Of soda. a dose OF
which Mrs. Stanford took before her
death
Miss Berner says she has made no
statement whatever except that made |
10 the correspondent Of the Associated |
ulNUNttneN
wednesday, She says that acting ON |
the advice OF the police authorities and |
her attorney, she will not make any |
further statement
High Sheriff Henry says he is quite
positive Miss Berner never made such |
statement, and adds that he has had |
several prolonged conversations with
DR. JoRDANs VIEWS.
Stanford University, Cal, March a
President Jordan Of the Stanford mi.
yerslty still has hope that Mrs. STAN
Tord met her death by accident. and
not by wilful poisoning. He asserted 10.
lay that he had absolutely no theory
20 to who could have a motive for
Killing Mrs, Stanford, and that he ana
not believe that any OF the servants
would do the deed.
The poisoned drug must have come
rom the same bottle that poisoned The
mineral water In San Franolsco IN
January. | do not believe that tho
murderer, II there is one, followed Mrs
stanford to Honolulu. When the viii |
9 made public the motive may be re'
'ealed' but at present have no
heory.'
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