Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-03-13
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NOTICE.
HAWAIIAN TRIBE No. I, l. o. r. N

soda being too small to produce death.
Mrs. Stanford was undoubtedly poi
soned," said the High Sheriff. 1T
has been said that the strychnine was
mixed with the jicarbonate as well as
pestle and mortar could mix It, This
IL wrong. On the contrary the evidence
of the chemists shows that they took
two samples containing equal amounts
from the bottle. In one sample they
found 1900 of grain, in the other
100. In other words there was al
most twice as much strychnine In the
first sample as there was In the sec.
ond. The person who put the strych.
nine In the bicarbonate of soda was
not chemist. 1t was probably put
right on top and was only poorly mix.
cd"
Even II II had been mixed rather
WELL" said Rawlins, 1T Is evident that
the strychnine was present in far
larger proportion In the top of the
battle than 1t was at the bottom. You
can make a very simple experiment,
which will show you why. Take some
bicarbonate of soda and some ordinary
sugar and mix them in glass or bot
tie. Then move the bottle with gen.
tie, rocking motion. The sugar gra.
mules are larger than those of the BIZ
carbonate of soda and you will find
that the latter sink to the bottom, while
the former, on account of their larger
volume, will gather on top. Now the
strychnine granules are larger than
those of sugar and much larger than
bi.carbonte of soda. 1t is evident that
II the strychnine was placed In the
hottie at San Francisco and even II 1t
was mixed as well as a person not q
chemist could do 1t, the rocking mo-
ton Of the steamer and the shaking
UP which the baggage invariably re-
ceives on travels. would cause the
strychnine to gather on top Of the BIZ
carbonate Of soda In the manner which
have described.
"Now 1t has also been said that II
there had been much strychnine pres
ent in the dose Of bicarbonato Of soda,
which Mrs. Stanford took, she would
probably have detected its bitter taste,
as soon as 1t entered her mouth. and
would promptly have spat IL out. 1t
is argued that che would he sure to
do SO, especially as she had become
well acquainted with the taste of
strychnine from the occasion when she
tasted it in her Poland water in San
Francisco. Now, bicarbonate OF soda Is
one of the most unpleasant things to
take one can imagine. Mrs. Stanford
would not sip the stuff gently as she
would a pleasant beverage. She sure
~ took the whole dose in gulp to
get through with 1t as quickly as pos
sible. She undoubtedly discovered the
presence Of the strychnine immediate
~, but too late as she had already
swallowed the stuff. That she discov-
cred It right away is shown by the
fact that when | arrived on the scene
the bicarbonate had not as yet begun to
flake on the glass.
"A great deal OF criticism has been
directed on the way the coroner jury's
verdict was arrived at" continued the
Deputy Sheriff. 81 can only say that
every man on that jury was satisfied
with the evidence, and, as matter of
fact, the jury stated that it did not care
to hear any more evidence"
zone thing which the jury wanted
to do" said Sheriff Henry, was to
eXonerate Miss Berner from all blame
IN their verdict. This, however, we
could not permit the jury to do. We ex-
planned to them that the time had not
arrived when we could exonerate any
person whatever from blame, so such
a recommendation was excluded from
the verdict"