The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 3, 1905, Page 1

e —————— ‘ ; 1 i THE THEATERS. THE WEATHER. =SR2 « Forecsst made at San Francisco for thirty Bours, ending Midnight, March . 3 5 ) N San Francisco and " vicinity—Fair Friday; light north winds. j A G. MeADIB®, | E . . : District Forecaster. ALCAZAR—"“Captain Jinks' CALIFORNIA—'‘Devid Harum.” COLUMBIA—Grand Opera. CENTRAL—"“Why Women Stn.* ‘| cHUTES—Vaudeville. GRAND—'Mother Goose." MAJESTIC—Old Heideibers.™ ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. TIVOLI—Comic Opera. & i T 3 XCVI—NO.- 94 SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS. CHNESE CODK SUSPECTED OF POISONING NRS. STANFOAD DETECTIVES ARE HOLDING AH WING IN CUSTODY AT MANSION ON NOB HILL PENDING THE INQUEST SPECIAL CABLE TO THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. HONOLULU, March 2 —Miss Bertha Berner, who was Mrs. Stanford’s secretary, has named Ah Wing, a Chinese cook employed at Mrs. Stanford’s San Francisco home, as the person whom she suspects of placing the strychnine in the bicarbonate of soda. Advices received here are to the effegt that Ah Wing is in the custody of detectives in San Francisco. More arrests are expected to follow at the conclusion of the investigation into the cause of death. MISS BERTHA BERNER GIVES CLEW TO THE POLICE ALL THE WORLD } WILL BE AGHAST AT CRUEL PLOT Bequests in Will Said| to Be Most Likely Motive. | PLAN MORE ARREST; the death of Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stan- ir ravel. Orice convinced that city.were not slow to fol- Ah Wing, a Chinese cook Stanf 1 for almost a quar- he detectives at the mansion on st, which will take place to- is awaited before a formal arrest is made. M’IJ’J" BERNER THE ACCUSER. | ss Bertha Berner, Mrs. Stanford’s private secre- 1 at the cook. She || and they in turn . { | rancisco police. | the f 10!‘!’1": sp: ew to the Honolulu auth ing tcthe San F 12 worked upon with much energy. 1ore arrests will be made within forty-eight ews now being pursued have successful outcome . I murder will be laid bare at which the civ- | 6 i th ld, some of them long in. service and ’ i arm personal regard of the noble character whose | | | ruelly snuffed out, are implicated in what ap- .| | al plot for which it is difficult to find a paralle] in | | POLICE ESTABLISH MOTIUE. 3 motive or motives cannot be definitely described. Tf involved, as seems likely, there will be con- it. Despicable impatience to enjoy the bounty provided by Mrs. Stanford’s will and jeal- i — a z the employes over enioyment of her favor is a sum- g =% ming p of the views the police entertain. ; SuSpect IsFaithful Home of Mrs Ber- The strychnine is believed to have been placed in the bicar- . . . . L f soda in this city, That an attempt was made to poison n SerV]ce for ner.ls Vls_lted by M f in this city in January is now verified by the posi- Many Years_ > 3 Detecthes. € Bt of the chemist that the Poland water she drank con- X + ; A A RS S ned str nine, AH WING UNDER CLOSE GUARD AT RESIDENCE Other Employes of the Household Being Watched by Police. , who for nearly a qunrt-r morning he was placed under restraint ry has been deemed, one of | Y the detectives, and will probably be rusted members. of the 2. | ysticy surrounding Mrs. Stanford’s d household, now rests under the | | death has been thorouglily removed by fon of having been implicated in | the Police Department. the apparent poisoning’6f Mrs, Jane| THIS action of the police is said to be Stanford. Closely guarded by a detec- | the Tesult of & :"‘“fi“‘ i un tive, Wing s > <4 y of Honolulu se 0 Act- a8 ’rrrw heid within the ""”““9; ing Chiet of Police - Spillane a few th ornia-street mansion and | houry after it was sispected fn Hono. 1ot permitted to have intercourse with lulu that a plot -to poison Mrs. Stan- the outside world. Barly yesterday | ford had been successful. It was upon | kept under their watchful eyes until the | a statement ‘made by Miss Berner, pri- vate ‘secretary to Mrs. Stanford, that Wing was put under strict surveillance yesterday. According to advices re- ceived from Honolulu by Acting Chief Spillane, Miss Berner has made a statement. to High Sheriff Henry and other officials of the Territory that she strongly suspected Wing ahd that even Mrs. Stanford, after her recent eéxperience in. S8an Francisco, talked with Miss Berner, durtng the trip to ‘Honolulu, that Wing might have ‘| placed poison in the water which was drunk at the Stanford home. ANOTHER COOK IS WATCHED. ‘While the detectives were preparing to place Wing within certain bounds, another detective was sent into China- tewn to find Yeng, another cook, who had ‘worked in the California-street mansion and at the Palo Alto home of Mrs. Stanford up to her departure for the islands. Yeng was found Wlth lt- tle difficulty and taken to police head- quarters, where he was closely ques- tioned by.Detective Captain Burnett. The police refuse to give out any in- fermation regarding their action in BEAU'[TFUL STRUC IURS REMAINS WHE‘T THEY Can of Soda From Whlch Small Bottle Was. : Fllled Has Been Found. the case of Wing .or Yeng, who was later permitted to: return to China- town, where, ‘however, he is still kept Little suspicion is at- tached to Yen;, but the police fleemun it advisable to. watch him carefully un- til some definite information recu‘dm' the poison alleged to have’ ben touml ALTO RECENTLY ERE('I‘ED BY THE PHILANTHROPIC WOMAN, WHICH WILL BE_A EMO! AN HERE THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE READ OVER HER in Mrs. Stanford's stomach is received ‘to-ddy from Honolulu. . If the.report of the autopsy surgeons shows that strychnine really exists in the bottle of bicarbonate of soda, of which Mrs. Stanford took a portion shortly -after retiring Tuesday night in Honoluly, the detectives feel that pos-| night sibly Wing, if not the real culprit, may at least give testimony that will lead those to the conviction of one of the other| In the theory of murder, persons now' under suspicion of the| have gone to work om In Police Department. the probable report Attempts to get an interview with m—mhflmu Wing at the Stanford mansion last proved fruitless, tor;m barred the way at the front gate and the housekeeper refused admittance to the house to those who were fortunate to evade the watchman and mount the marble steps. Asked if Wing was in the house the woman admitted that he was, Gut said he could not be seem She refused to make any statement re= the Stanford household they have un- der suspicion, but it is now weil known that sentiment daes not emter imto conclusions they have arrived at a careful investigation of all the they can obtain pertaining Stanford’s private life and dences she reposed in £ § e Jil;fi i to-day [l [ i i !