The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-09-04
STANFORD .DENIALS.
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of course interesting but then nobody
suggested, so far as L know, that
either Mountford Wilson or Cullandan
did anything of the kind. Wilson was
not here and Cullandan, who was here
had no authority of any kind.
TT is not true that rDr, Wood when
he acted as autopsy surgeon was en-
ployed by the government. 1 employ
ed him myself as representing the fam
lily. If Attorney Mountford Wilson
does not know that DIR. Wood put in
his bill then he ought to know it. The
autopsy surgeon was not acting for the
government in any sense but strictly
for the estate. 1 suggested his en-
ployment inasmucha as L did not think
that the casew as one which should be
done at public expense any more than
if Mrs. Stanford, or any person in her
position were taken suddenly i'll or met
with an accident 1 would send for the
police patrol and have her sent to the
hospital as a charity patient.
Il see that Captain Cullundan says
that Tt is a lie" continued DR.. Hum
phris 81 wonder what he means? If
he says that every legitimate claim has
as he is strong i'm his language. If
dullundan refers to the story publish
ed by the Star to the effect that the
different physicians received an intt-
nation that it would be satisfactory
to the estate if they could revise their
findings and says that that is a lie, L
must decline to discuss the question
with him. Captain Cullundan was not
present at any of the interviews and
cannot know what took place. He is
simply entirely ignorant on the point
The denial which appeared i'm some San
Francisco papers, that the attorneys
of the Stanford estate attempted to in
fiuence the physicians is quite cor
rect, and for a very good reason
there were no attorneys of the estate
here. The only representatives here
were DR.. David Starr Jordan and T.
notify Hopkins and they were not at.
torneys for the estate"
DIR. Humphreys did not deny that a
statement of the physicians on the
case is in course of preparation.
The article published in San Fran
cisco to which DIR, Humphris directs
his statements is as follows:
SAN FRANCISCO, August 24-In a
cable from Honolulu a sensational story
is related about an effort by agents of
the Stanford estate to induce the au-
topsy surgeon and the physicians Who
attended Mrs. Stanford at the time of
her death to odify their first state
ments in regard to strychnine poison
symptoms. which, it was asserted, they
had found. The statement was based
upon the rejection of a claim by DR. C.
B. Wood, who performed the autopsy,
for remuneration. Attorney MOuntforC
S. Wilson and Captain Callundan den!
that any such effort has been made.
The cabegram reads
THE tra~ic death of Mrs. Jane l..
Stanford has been recalled by a sensa-
tional story published here to the effect
that representatives of the Stanford
estate have practically offered none
tary inducements to local physicians to
change their opinion that strychnne
caused the death of Mrs. Stanford.
1T is alleged that the bill of $3.50 of
DR.. c. B. Wood who performed the au-
topsy on the body of Mrs. Stanford,
has been refused payment by the estate
on the ground that the territorial au-
lAAOllllGS SlApulh nave GlLOl llGu tic
autopsy. DR.. Wood declares that he
was employed on behalf of the estate by
Dr. Humphris, and the latter said that
he considered the refusal to pay DR..
Wood to be amazing, as he considered
the employment of a private autopsy
physician to be proper.
1.-The Star I'M its story of the matter,
says that in different interviews rep
resentative of the estate indicated to
the physicians that 1t would be salts
factory to the estate if they could re-
wise their findings of poisoning, and in
such event their bills would not be
questioned and that Drs. Humphris,
Day and Wood would be each paid the
amounts of their claims of $3.50 each.
"All three doctors are preparing a
statement to place their version of the
scientific facts of the case before the
public in final justification of their de-
cision concerning he cause of the death
of Mrs. Stanford"
IT do not know" said Attorney Will
son, that DR.. Wood has made a claim
for remuneration for his services as an
autopsy physician. There was a claim
for Wood & Day who are partners, for
$780, which has been paid. In fact, all
the physicians connected with the last