The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1905-06-06
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PO|SONS

The Examiner says: 1t has been
definitely decided to the satisfaction
| of the executors of the estate of Mrs.
Jane Lathrop Stanford that the phi
lanthrOpist died of natural causes.
This report of the experts who for
weeks have been engaged in analyzing
the internal organs of the body brought
here for that purpose, will within a
few days be submitted to the attorney
for the executors. 1t bears out the
theory first advanced by President
David Starr Jordan of Stanford Uni
versity, who soon after his arrival at
Honolulu, where he went to take
charge of the body, announced that
Mrs. Stanford was not murdered, but
died natural death after having had
days outing, during which she ate
food which caused Indigestion and
heart failure.
Under the circumstances there will
be no necessity for further induce
ments for the apprehension of any per-
son for the murder of the late lament
ed benefactress as offered by Welton
Stanford of Schenectady, N. Y, and
published in yesterdays Examiner.
The attempt made on Mrs. Stan
ford's life on January IA by placing
strychnine crystals in the Poland
water has entirely been lost from
sight Unless the individual shall be
considerate enough some day to step
to the captain IS office and declare him
self as the poisoner the matter will
go aown into history as another un-
solved police problem.
The internal organs of Mrs. Stan
ford's body have been in the labora-
tory at Stanford University, where
the chemists have carefully examined
them. No poison of any character has
been found. The result is especially
satisfactory to all those interested in
the estate. There will be no further
use now for private detectives or 9th
erwise. The case from that stand
point is closed.
The report of the detective agency
has been submitted. 1t contains a
statement made by Mrs. Stanford TAX
en- shortly after she received Chemist
Falkenberg's deduction of his analysis
of the poisoned Poland water. In it
she named the person whom she sus=
pected and gave her reasons for her
suspicious. She stood by Miss Berner
her private secretary, toward whom n
Chinese had attempted to direct sus-
picion.
Albert Beverly, who had been in Mrs
Stanford's employ for years as but
ler is now in New York attending the
races Miss Richmond, the former
maid, is in San Mateo and Miss Ber-
ner in Palo Alto.
To TAKE UP INQUIRY.
SCHENECTADY IN. ~, May 25.-
Welton Stanford, a wealthy retired
hardware merchant of this city,
nephew of the late Senator Stanford,
who offers a reward of $1,000 for in
formation leading to the arrest and
conviction of the persons responsible
for the death of Mrs. Jane Lathrop
Stanford, was a beneficiary under the
will of Senator Stanford to the extent
of 100000. Mr.. Stanford is summer
Ing at Lake George. Seen there he
said:
"I offered reward of $1,000 for in
formation that will lead to the arrest
and conviction of those responsible for
the death of my aunt I have the re-
port of the physicians who made a post
mortem examination in Honolulu. They
say there was poison in the capsules
she took.
II have also a report of physicians
who were by when she died. They say
her last moments were those of per-
son dying from poisoning. I believe
my aunt had been poisoned and I am
murderers. If money will do it. I can
not understand the inaction of the Cali
fornia authorities and shall seek per-
sonally for an explanation
Mr.. Stanford says he is going to Cal
ifornia himself to take up the investi-
cation.