The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-19

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been repeatedly denied by DR.. Jordan
| Nevertheless, DR.. Shoreys report as
to the quantity of strychnine is en-
tirely correct and vouchered. All the
persons who witnessed Mrs. Stanford s
death testified before the Coroner
jury The jury was entirely satisfied
that the strychnine taken with the
soda by Mrs. Stanford induced her sud
den and premature death. The Coro-
ner's verdict is still official.
ABOUT JORDAN's SPECIAL
PLEADERS."
It has been claimed by the special
pIeaders of natural cause" that the
| muscular contortion of Mrs. Stanford's
| body did not conform to their theories
| pertaining to persons in the death
agony resulting from strychnine pois-
oning. It is quite probable that their
standard of muscular contortion is
based upon what might occur in the
case of a young or middle-aged man
of athletic development. It must be
borne in mind that Mrs. Stanford,
though muscular for a woman, was 76
years of age, and her muscles could
not be brought by any condition into
state of contortion to meet the re-
Quirements of the special pleaders. 1t
must be further remembered that the
special pleaders had no opportunity of
making a personal study of Mrs. Stan
fords muscles. The pleaders, employ
ed to prove the Jordan invention. ar
que that there could not have been
any strychnine, since they did not find
any-therefore, by their theory, Mrs
Stanford could not have died as the
result of strychnine poisoning.
These men have shown themselves
about as expert on evidence as was
the famous Judge of Ballingary. The |
defendant in a case before his honor ,
was charged with stealing a goose. :
The prosecution had three witnesses
who swore that they saw him steal
the goose. The defense thereupon pro-
duced six witnesses who swore that
they did not see him steal the goose /
The defendant was discharged without
stain upon his character
By the Interpolation of the divert
ing processes the findings of the Coro-
ners jury have been obscured
FACTS AGAINST JORDAN.
Almost as soon as the public was
informed of the attempt incident" Il
DIR. Jordan commenced to talk. He
talks on every occasion, and after
every occasion he talks again, and
loudly proclaims that he has been mis-
quoted. AS soon as the world was no.
titled of Mrs. Stanford's death, as the
result of poisoning, he shouted natural
cause" and upon his return he issued
his ipse diXit.
DR.. Jordan's claims are not support
ed by facts or vouchers. The profess
sional men, who have worked on the
case officially, have not subscribed to
his perverted understanding of evil
dence.
When the private commission took
the case out of the hands of the police
the latter announced very sullenly that
they had washed their hands of the
affair From the short time they were
permitted to handle the case their
hands should not have become very
much soiled. They probably washed
their hands through force of habit. 4
The informed press has repeatedly
given the public assurances that dill
gent detective work was being prose-
cuted. These assurances are a joke
They are as substantial as the vague
vaporings of the much misguided Jor-
dan. 1t is my opinion that if the de-
tect1VeS are given a free hand not only
VIII the murderer of Mrs. Stanford be
discovered. but the motives that have
preston will be revealed