Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1905-04-15

l. Stanford's death, surrendered by
the local police authorities to the San
Francisco detectives, has been virtual.
ly abandoned This is an extraordina.
~ enforcement Of the views expressed
by Dr. Jordan and MIR. Timothy Hop.
Ens. before their departure for San
Francisco, and il Is directly in the teeth
of the evidence.
have neither time nor inclination
to analyzc the numerous details that
sustain the views | ventured TO eX.
press in the Bulletin of March 21st.
But there are two matters, TO which
public attention should be called, be
cause they prove the inconsistency of
the San Francisco detectives who have
adopted the untenable theory of death
from natural causes, and the eX post
faCto assertions by which that theory
il sought to be supported. The full
statement Of the detectives referred to
Is published in the San Francisco
Call OF March 22nd, 1905.
/. In the first place Captain Jules
Callundan. of Morses Detective Agen.
cy, and Harry Reynolds. of the detec.
tive branch of the San Francisco Pc.
lice Force. undertake at length, and in
contradiction OF the verdict of the coro.
ner's jury in Honolulu. to show that IL
was impossible for Mrs. Stanford to
have died from stryChnine poisoning.
because her feet were submerged in hot
water. a tin dish filed with hot water
was placed on her lap. and she died
while seated in chair.
Then. In immediate connection with
this position, they are guilty of the
absurdity Of saying, that, the strych.
nine In the bicarbonate of soda and
the strychnlne in the Cascarat capsule,
when combined. were sufficient to cause
the death OF a woman of Mrs. Stan.
fOrd's age and in her condition.
In other words, almost in the same
breath. they attribute Mrs. Stanfords
death TO causes purely natural. and
claim that she took strychnire enough
TO kill her.
2. In the second place. the follow
ing question and answer occurred in an
interview with Dr. Jordan, reported in
the same paper
20. Is II true that Miss Berner par.
took of the bicarbonate of soda the
same evening Mrs. Stanford did, as you
set forth in the cablegram you ordered
withheld just before your departure
from Honolulu?
"A. Yes, Miss Berner did take q
dose of bicarbonate from that very
same bottle. She took half the guam.
tlty Mrs. Stanford did. Miss Berner
felt no I'll effects whatever. she says.
She detected no bitter taste and there
could have been no poison in the soda
then"
Quoting still from The Call THE
: President said Miss Berner took her
dose Of bicarbonate short time be.
fore Mrs. Stanford measured out half
: tablespoon"
: Now Miss Berner swore that she, and
not Mrs. Stanford, measured out the
half tea.spoonful not tablespoonful
: that Mrs. Stanford took But the re-
markable feature in the statement is
: that Miss Berner was examined for
hours and hours, on different days, by
High Sheriff Henry, by Chief Deputy
D Rawlins, and by other persons, and was
+ interviewed for all three of the local
D dailies in the most thorough manner
and also testified fully at the coroner's
inquest, and not only was there nc
e such evidence as that she partOok of
the bicarbonate of soda at the Moana
: Hotel on the night of Mrs. Stanford s
: death, but exactly the contrary appear
d ed.
: Let me offer very few quotations to
: substantiate this statement. In an in
: terview published on March list, Miss
5 Berner Is reported to have said:
: ''Yes, II was Mrs. Stanford's belief
last night before she died that she had
Z been poisoned. She was conscious un
8 III THE LAST CONFUSION seized
l. her, and she seemed positive in heI
mind that she had been poisoned
The bicarbonate OF soda
was in a small glass bottle. This soda
was in bulk and | got about half tea
q spoonful OF It and laid 1t in the spoon
n out on the table. MRS. STANFORD
- SOME OF 1T, but ! said that | was
:. going to take a cascaret capsule and
y one of these was also laid out by tn,
spoon containing the soda for Mrs
:, Stanford"
= Referring to the call for help from
the suffering woman, Miss Berner stat
:, ed: II feared at once that Mrs. Stan
ford had been poisoned"
=, Mrs. Stanford was suffering grea
y agony and her legs and arms becam,
rigid. Finally she said; Bertha, my
jaws are getting rigid, ! cannot swal
A low any more"
?. At the coroner's inquest, Miss Der
a ner testified that the last occa ion prior
}. ia the night of her death that Mrs
i Stanford had taken bicarbonate was a
q San Francisco, during the first wecl
y Of last January. when. she, Miss Ber
= ner, also took dose, and experience
q no III consequences.
o In alluslon TO the tragedy Itself, sh,
testified
"On our WAY nm Ia the room she gnII