The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1906-01-19
tempt had been made "a poison.
sTRYCHNINE FOUND AT HOMO
LULU

sTBYCHNiNE FOUND At HOMO
LULU.
! The attempt" Incident IL not gossip
or Islander. but fact Of official rec.
ord and one which no amount Of
sophistry. or latinized technicalitics
can obliteraie. In Honolulu. before the
fatal night. Mrs stanford discussed
this attempt upon her life. on the
night OF her death she took a dose
OF soda-bicarbonate as she was about
to retire. The taking of the soda pro-
duced physical distress and alarmed
her. She summoned her secretary and
maid. She told them that she believ-
ed that her distress was due to pois-
oning. She asked for a physician. DR..
/ Humphris came. He unhesitatingly
pronounced the symptoms those OF
strychnine poisoning. He tasted the
soda, of which she had partaken,
whereupon he exclaimed, in horror,
my God, there is enough strychnine
In this soda to kill a regiment"
The attending physician, the secre-
tary and the maid have testified that
Mrs. Stanford asked her secretary to
explain to the physician what had
happened in San Francisco. The re-
mainder of the soda was analysed by
DIR. Shorey, and the result of his
analysis disclosed the presence of an
immense amount of strychnine, so
rich was the soda I'm strychnine that
the smallest quantity a person could
have taken for the relief of the stom-
ach would have been fatal. This has
been repeatedly denied by DR.. Jordan.
Nevertheless, DIR. Shorey's report as
to the quantity of strychnine is en-
tirely correct and vouchered. All the
persons who witnessed Mrs. Stanfords
death testified before the Coroners
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."
1t has been claimed by the special
pleaders 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. 1t is quite probable that their
standard of muscular contortion is
based upon what might occur in the
case of young or middle-aged man
of athletic development 1t must be
borne in mind that Mrs. Stanford,
though muscular for woman, was rs
years of age, and her muscles could
not be brought by any condition into
a 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 personal study of Mrs. Stan
lords 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.
Ihese 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 withou
stain upon his character
BY the Interpolation of the divert
ing processes the findings of the Coro
ner's jury have been obscured.
FACTS AGAINST JORDAN.
Almost as soon as the public wa.
informed of the attempt incident
DIR. Jordan commenced to talk. III,
talks on every occasion, and aftel
every occasion he talks again, an,
loudly proclaims that he has been mis-
quoted. AS soon as the world was no
titled of Mrs. Stanford's death, as tn,
result of poisoning, he shouted "natura
l cause" and upon his return he issue
his ipse dixit.
Dr. Jordan's claims are not support
! ed by facts or vouchers The profes
i sional men, who have worked on tn
case officially, have not subscribed I
= his perverted understanding of EVIL