The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-04
STANFORD POISONING
NO NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE
 MYSTERIOUS CASE.
omcials Have Not Yet Secured InfOr- nation Which Would Warrant Them in Holding Any
 one for Crime.

San Francisco. March 3.-Although every effort is being made to solve the mystery of the alleged poisoning of Mrs. Stanford in Honolulu. there were few developments today. The autopsy of Honolulu has not been completed and it has not been proved that death did not result from natural causes.
 A cable message from Honolulu inti- mates an acute attack of indigestion may have caused the fatal illness of Mrs. Stanford, who before dying re- called the previous stories of an at- tempt on her life and exclaimed that she had been poisoned.
 As yet no arrests have been made and the detectives engaged in investi- gattng the matter have made no direct accusations. though the various mem- bers of the Stanford household are un- derstood to be closely watched. With reference to those suspected by the authorities the head of a detective 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 Stan ford pharmacy in Palo Alto, sold Mrs. Stanford package of bicarbonate of soda on February 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 drug store. They pur- chased several drugs and toilet articles among them being 10 cents worth of nicarbonate of soda. The package was wrapped up. labeled. and given to Miss Berner, with the other articles. Mr. Jackson has placed the remainder of the bottle of bicarbonate of soda, from which the package was sold, in the keeping 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 N. made public today, declared that there was strychnine in the water sub- uitted to him for examination.
 Acting Chief of Police Spillane, paptain of Detectives Murnett and Cap lain Callunden of a private detective agency. are all working in harmony, snd diligently in pursuit of the sup posed criminal or criminals, and are alleged to have several people under surveillance. It is a fact that the de- tectives are keeping their eyes on AL bert Beverly, former butler and Eliz- Rbeth Richmond, the former maid of Mrs. Stanford, and upon the six or eight employees, mostly Chinese in the Stanford house in this city, which no pne Is permitted to enter or leave with out permission of the authorities. A careful analysis made public today by Attorney Mountford Wilson of the min eral water from the drinking of which Mrs. Stanford narrowly escaped death at her residence in this city, January l, shows that an attempt upon her life was made at that time. In his anal ysis chemist Louis Foulkenan an nounces that a water glass full of the mineral water would contain four-fifths | of a grain of strychnine, half a grain being the ordinary dose
 According to acting Chief of Police Spillane, there have been no develop ments in the Stanford case.
 The Bulletin says that the police and Detective Captain Callulian. acting for the Sanford interests are awaiting only the result of the autopsy at Honolulu before taking into custody at least two persons.
 Miss. Elizabeth Richmond, formerly Mrs Stanford's maid said
 Tt seems as though suspicion would naturally narrow down to two or three in the house. There was a little feel ing of discontinue in the house the week after the attempt was made to poison Mrs. Stanford, and it affected Miss Berner, An Wing and Yeng"
 A. Beverely formerly Mrs. Stanford's butler. said that if any charge was made against him he was willing to surrender himself at once to the po- lice. Miss Berner. Mrs. Stanford's sec retary who is now in Honolulu, the police here declare, is not suspected They also say there Is no reason to sus-. pect An Wing. the Chinese cook.