Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-11
DOES NOT ACCEPT MURDER
THEORY IN STANFORD CASE

san Francisco, March tO.--Mountford
Wilson. legal representative OF the
Stanford estate. In an interview with
the Associated Press. has authorized
the following
Although the ooroners jury at
Honolulu concluded that Mrs. Stan
ford was the victim OF a murder we are
rs YET unprepared TO accept this judg.
ment as mail | DO not know as yet
nor do the police or detectives lnveF'
tigating the case, but what Mrs. Stan-
ford died from natural causes. We
have the opinion OF half dozen phys.
clans TO the effect that the symptoms
attendant jlst previous TO the death OF
Mrs stanford would indicate that size
died OF angina pectoris, disease Of the
heart, causing the mot acute agony.
This however, has IN no way Influenced
us i'm the lines OF investigation pursued
In the hopes OF solving the mystery
"In this we first proceeded on the the
DRY that Mrs. Stanford was the victim
Of criminal. With great elaboration
and thoroughnese We took UP this line
OF reasoning. questioning and reques-
tioning every person who had relations
remote OF intimate with Mrs, stanford
for the last few months preceding her
death, but thus far we have obtained
absolutely nothing that would JUSTIFY
us I'm making arrests We then took
up the proposition that Mrs. Stanford
was accidentally poisoned, but this
proved untenable. The suggestion that
Mrs StanfoFds death might have been
the result OF drug clerks mistake
failed To- Justify itself after research,
Last mint we worked along the line
that perhaps some one without the
household Who had grievance
against Mrs Stanford, might have
hrlbed one OF the servants 10 admins
tor fatal dose. but like all Of the pre-
ceding speCulations Il ended In nothing.
Neither Miss Berner nor Miss Hunt
Is under arrest In Honolulu nor win
they be escorted back to this country
by the detectives They viii come as
freely as any of the other passengers,
They win probably return on the
steamer Alameda upon which the re-
mains viii be shipped and which is due
here about March 90 They viii UNI
doubtedly be subjected TO a rigid quiz
2lng here Just rs the other members
OF the household have been
I'VE want TO see all the documentary
evidence adduced in Honolulu before
we proceed TO do definite things here,
and these will arrive by the Alameda.
We are no nearer to solution Of the
mystery now than we were on the day
Of her death"
MISS BERNER INTERVIEWED,
Honolulu, March i0,--Detective Har-
rs Reyonlds OF the san Francisco po-
lice department and Capt. Jules Call
lundan Of Morse's agency, had two in
tervews today with Miss Bemer In
connection with the death Of Mrs. Jane
L. Stanford Miss Berner was appar-
entity greatly shocked by the san Fran
cisco newspaper statements that sus-
picion, to a certain extent, had been di-
rected against her, Detectives Reynolds
and Callundan have taken charge OF
the case here and High Sheriff Henry
has declared that he IL no longer con-
Quoting the inquiry, The results of the
Investigations OF the visiting detectives
viii be reported to the authorities at
San Francisco and IT Is probable that
very little OF the information secured
by them will be given out here. They
will return on the steamer Alameda
| and President Jordan, Timothy Hop
kns and Miss Berner will accompany
them, having I'm their care the body OF
| Mrs. Stanford.
President Jordan Is disposed to OPP
pose any theory that Miss Berner had
| In any way any connection with the
| death OF Mr.. Stanford. He says that
| she had no motive TO wish for the
| death OF her benfactress and that she
has lost a position more valuable than
her legacy Of $4,000 Will be to her