The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1905, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1905. CHEMISTS PURPOSELY WITHHOLDING RESULTS OF THEIR ANALYSES BY REQUEST OF POLICE Honofulu Official Will Make No Arrests Until Evidence Gathered by San Francisco Detectives Is More Positive. SPECIAL CABLE TO THE CALL. —The ntents of h s e « CABLE 1S BUSY. Jenry keeps in constant com- e police in this c DOAN’S PILLS. STORIES OF THE STREET. San Prancisco People Are Talking About It on Every Corner. t is- sometimes an easy- matter to the public, but you -can’t keep it They are sure to find tyme a2 man made. Skep- ien reading in a ome fiewspaper about some incident occurring-in Maine or Iowa, but the circumstances. are entirely different when it refers-to some one right here at home, friends and neighbors, peo- know whom you can see and th whom you ‘can talk it over. This re kind of evidence at the back of Kidney Pills—home statements by home peaple, and the astonishing local work they have been doing has caused more talk among our citizens than the doings.of any other modern wonder. Read-the following: P.- Candy, employed in a.fruit ry, residence 318 Minna st., says: “I have gone c6ut of my way to in- duce iriends and acquaintances whom suffered from backa W I have never lost an ty to indorse them very for- e I have good reasons for so do- ing, | knew that my kidneys were cither-excited or weakened. I knew I required some medicine to soother rify and wash them, and I selecte P s Kidney They did thorough! ietly and quickly or sale by all dealers. Price 50 Foster-Milburn Ceo.. Buffalo, sole agents for the United States Remember the name, Doan’s, and take no substitut TEACE THE CHILDREN A. delicious dentifrice makes the footh. orush lesson egsy. SOZODONT is a fra- grant liquid cleanser, penctirating the little crevices of the teeth it purifies them. SOZODONT TOOTH POWDER ishes the delicate enamel, tut does not ratch, taus it prevents the zccumulation of tartar, without injuring the enamel, a poperty found only in SOZCDONT. ® PORME: LIQUID, POWDER, PASTE. bottles of one size only. _cent size, the California Fig Syrup Co. ADVERTISEMENTS. HAT JoY JHEY Bfi\ ToEvery Home as with joyous hearts and smiling faces they romp and play—when in health —and how corducive to health the games in which they indulge, the outdoor life they enjoy, the cleanly, regular habits they should be taught to form and the wholesome diet of which they should partake. How tenderly their health should be preserved, not by constant medication, but by careful avoidance of i every medicine of an injurious or objectionable nature and if at any time a remedial agent is required, to assist nature, only those of known.exce should be used; remedies which are pure and wholesome and truly beneficial | in effect, like the pleasant laxative remedy, Syrup of Figs, manufactured by Syrup of Figs has come into general favor in many millions of well informed families, whose estimate of its quality and _| excellence is based upon personal knowledge and use. - | Syrup of Figs has also met with the approval of physicians generally, be- | cause they know it is wholesome, simple and gentle in its action.” We inform all reputable physicians as to the medicinal principles of Syrup of Figs, obtained, by an original method, from certain' plants known to them to act most benefici- ally and presented in an agreeable syrup in which the wholesome Californian blue figs are used to promote the pleasant taste; therefore it is not a secret rem- edy and hence we are free to refer to all well informed physicians, who do not approve of patent medicines and never favor indiscriminate self-medication. Please to remember and teach your children also that the genuine Syrup of Figs always has the full name of the Company— California Fig Syrup Co. — plainly printed on the front of every package and that it is for: sale in If any dealer offers any other than the regular Fifty ze, or having printed thereon the name of any other company, do not accept it. If you fail to get the genuine you will not get its beneficial effects. Every family should always have a bottle on hand, as it is equally beneficial for the parents and the children, whenever a laxative remedy is required: cae @_... ol ~oe o llence { ®9e WHITEZA BEIP < <00 <o A g & e NFORD JR, UNIVERSITY AND TWO OF THE | TITUTION. TWO ABOVE WILL GO TO | K THE OF MRS. STANFORD. Strain of Implied Suspicion Is Telling o Murdered Woman'’s Secretary. n In fact, every movement made in the seems to be - instiza- ! 1 of Captain § r his asso- | ciates. | It is certain that no arrests will be made here until the chemists have completed their investigations. Sheriff | Henry declares that he will take no dec e action uniil he is certain be- | shadow of doubt that Mrs. i s death was caused by strych- | soning. | *“DUntil that time we can make little | progress in the stigation,” he says. | The stomach of Mrs. Stanford is closely guarded by the police in the Board of Health building. Two chem- ists are constantly on duty going for- | ward -with the work of making the [ sis. The task is presided over by Chemist R. A. Duncan. | The town is in a ferment over the | affair and the morbidly curious have to be kept away from the building. Speculations as to -whether any arrests will be made here when the results are obtained are being constantly whis- pered Miss Berner and May Hunt are obliged to stay within doors to escape gaping crowds. . Wherever they move they are followed by the vigilant eyes of the police and the stares of the curi- ous. ATTORNEY DENIES REPORT. The report that Attorney General Andrews has taken charge of the case is denied. I have taken no part in the affair,” he says, “and I will not unless a charge is made that requires legal advice.” One paper here stated yesterday that 4 | the Attorney General was at variance with the local police. He was indig- nant over the article and declares that it is grossly untrue, | . The strain of the implied suspicions is wearing on Miss Berner and May | Hunt. Both show evidence of the | strain and avoid being seen. Miss | Berner seemed annoyed when the ; publication of her statement regarding 1 Ah Wing was revealed to her. “I will talk no more except upon the advice of my attorney,” she said. May Hunt is equally uncommunicative, both acting under advice. Speculation is rife as to what will be the immediate action of the High Sheriff when the result of the analysis or of the investigations of the San Francisco police warrant an arrest or several arrests. Theories of all sorts are plentiful here, but the most pop- { ular one is that the poison was placed in the bicarbonate of soda bottle in San Francisco. The Sheriff has received requests from Mrs. Stanford's relatives that every organ in the dead woman's body be turned over to the chemists. It is evident that they are now satisfled that she was murdered. A rumor that a second bottle con- taining strychnine was found in Mrs. Stanford’s medicine chest is denied by the police. They declare that there were no traces of strychnine found in any of the bottles except the one con- taining bicarbonate of soda. Up to 11 p. m. the chemists were still at work on their analyses. No results were given out, but a complete { report is expected to-day. SERVANTS IN Continued From Page 1, Column 7. | aging expressions of opinion regarding | the guilt of another of his late mis- tress’ employ Whom he has ac- j cused is a secret with the police, but it is admitted that Wing does not sus- i pect Miss Be % Strangely, ss Berner, notwith- g St s to the contrary, has said that she suspected that Wing had some guilty knowiedge of the | first attempt to poison Mrs. Stanford. i Miss Berner’s mother has admitted to | the police that her daughter intimated | to her shortly after the discovery was ! made that poison had been placed in | the Poland water and that Wing was | M | under suspicion. While seemingly willing that some their movements in connection with Wing should become public, the e are trying to guard with the t secrecy every act, theory and concerning Miss Richmond, who, the former Stanford butler, Bev- is being closely watched at the latter's home on San Mateo Heights. l\\ifl: er! HILL MANSION UNDER STRICT SURVEILLANCE THE NOB Although not the slightest intimation is being given by the head of the de- tective force that he has a particle of evidence to substantiate a charge of guilt against Miss Richmond, it is well known that of all the suspicions enter- tained by the Police Department and | the detectives of the Morse agency the strongest are being directed to- 1 ward the former maid of the woman | lying dead in Honolulu. In searching back in the career of | | Miss Richmond it has been found that ;she and Beverley were not kindly dis- posed toward Miss Berner, a fact the police attribute to jealousy. It is said that there were frequent attempts made by members of Mrs. Stanford's. household to discredit Miss Berner in | the mind of her mistress, but that the latter, whose confidence in her private secretary could not be shaken, met these efforts with a prompt rebuke that only tended to intemsify tne ill feeling of those who were arrayed against Miss Berner. Within the past forty hours Miss Richmond has publicly stated that she had nv sdea who the murderer could be, but was willing to 'assis( the police im every way to find 1 1f the former maid was not inclined to | a perpetrator, she would not be sorry i the officers held a long talk with Ah the guilty one. In statements made to | members of the detective force who have subjected her to examinations, Miss Richmond is said to have occa- sionally thrown out bitter insinuations against Miss Berner and in a manner that has suggested to the police that, suspeet Miss Berner of the awful crime that the officers are trying to trace to if the guilt could be fixed upon ths | woman who stood between her and Mrs. Stanford. BEVERLY 1S BITTER. Beverly also seems to entertain a similar feeling in the matter and shows much uneasiness since the discovery was made that he is being shadowed. | As a matter -of ‘fact, and Miss Rich- mond has long been aware of it, the former maid and the butler, now liv- ing on San Mateo Heights, have been under the watchful eye or the detec- tives of the Morse agency or of the regular force for a number of months. ; Criminal history contamns many in- | stances where persons, with minds | soured against other members of the households in which they have long| been employed, have plotted to undo | those against whom they were embit- tered. To attempt the polsoning of s.1 person with the unholy idea of csst-i | | ing the blame upon an innocent one has been a theory that the local police have not ignored in their careful in- vestigation of the murder of Mrs. Stanford, not that they particularly | expected to trace such a heinous mo- | tive to Miss Richmond and bring, Beverly into the shadow of the gal- | lows as an accomplice, but with the | vague hope of possibly fixing a crime | of that character on any member of | the Stanford household. | Miss Berner was frequently the last to see Mrs. Stanford before she re- tired. If her mistress wanted a drink | of any particular medicine or water it was often the case that Miss Berner would order the maid or Wing to bring it and then serve it to Mrs. Stanford when the servants had retired. Had any one in the Stanford house sought to unjustly fasten a crime upon Miss Berner no opportunity for successfully accomplishing such a deed would prob- ably have offered itself than the scene | at night when the private secretary | and her benefactress were left alone in the latter’'s apartments. MISS HUNT FREE. Although Miss Hunt, who aceompa- nied Mrs. Stanford to Honolulu, has been named in connection with those who had access at all times to her mis- tress’ private apartments, {t was em- phatically said yesterday by one of the police detectives working on the case that as yet not the slightest suspicion has been attached to her. Similar are the facts, In so far as the police are con- cerned, regarding Miss Nora Hopkins, one of Mrs. Stanford's maids, who is now staying at the Stanford home in Palo Alto. Miss Hopkins has never been under suspiclon. Several times she has been visited by detectives at Palo Alto and this fact gave rise to the impression that she is being watched. Two days'ago she suddenly left Palo Alto, and the story was cir- culated ‘that she had departed myste- riously, but investigation vesterday re- vealed the fact that she had been hur- riedly summoned by the police to this city to furnish them certain informa- tion, and after a two hours' stay at the Hall of Justice she returned to Palo Alto, where she has since remained. Yesterday morning Captain Burnett, Captain Callundan and Detective Rey- nolds visited the Stanford home on | California street and made a careful | inspection of the upper floor of the, premises with a view to familiarizing | Detective Reynolds with the situation | in order that he would be better able | to work upon the various theories as to the source of the poison given Mrs. Stanford on the night she partook of Poland water. Before leaving the house Wing and Mary Gaffney, the present housekeeper. During the afternoon the detectives were ir consultation with Attorney Wilson at his office, and there | jearned that another day will elapse | before there will be definitely learned | from Honolulu the result of the au- topey on Mrs. Stanford’s remains. s o ety i GLOOM SHROUDS UNIVERSITY. i i Railroad Employes Express Sorrow . to~Charles G. Lathrop. ] PALO .ALTO, March 3.—Palo Alto! and the students of the Stanford Uni- versity have been in a feverish state of anxiety all day, waiting and won- SELBY JURORS ARE FOR MERCT In Judge Lawlor’s court last night Isaac Selby was found gullty of as- sault with intent to commit murder. His offense consisted of firing a re- volver at Judge Hebbard in his court- room in November. Accompanying the verdict of gullty was a strong recommendation for mercy, owing to the testimony intro- duced tending to prove the unbalanced condition of the accused man’s mind. When the case was called yesterday Mrs. Teresa Selby, the divorced wife of the defendant and the person over whom the trouble arose, testified as to her ex-husband’s freaks. J. Larsen, a locksmith who had known Selby in Australia, said that the man labored under some queer hallucinations. The jury retired soon after 4 o’clock, and its verdict was returned three hours later. L R e dering who could have committed the awful deed that brought Mrs. Stanford to her untimely end. The question of Mrs. Stanford’s death having possibly been wrought by her own hand is now entirely dispelled. The students are loth to believe, however, that any one could have been instrumental in re- moving one from earth who has done nothing but shower kindnesses upon her fellow men. The name of the be- loved benefactress has been on the lips of every student here to-day. They all ask the same question and that is, “What was the motive? Why should she have been poisoned?” The gay college life has for the nonce been entirely dispelled. Everything about the campus is quiet and students go to and from recitations talking in subdued undertones. Charles G. Lath- rop, the brother of the poisoned wo- man, departed on an early train for San Francisco this morning. Prior to his leaving here a number of employes in the Southern Pacific Company who had been befriended by Mrs. Stanford gathered about Lathrop and expressed to him their sympathy in his great be- reavement. Lathrop was much over- come by the simple testimonial of af- fection for his sister. His eyes filled with tears and he was unable to speak, so he mutely shook hands and then hurried on board his train. Detectives from San Francisco have been closeted with Robert Berner, the brother of Bertha Berner, but Robert has refused to give out what the pur- port of the visit was and, in fact, tried to evade the question that they had been there at all. However, the fact remains that one of the shrewdest men in the detective business has this end of the case in hand. e —e—— MISS BERNER’S BIRTHPLACE. MILWAUKEE, Wis, March 3.— Miss Bertha Berner, Mrs. private secretary, is a former Wiscon- sin girl. at Oconomowoc and was a schoolmate of Secretary Robert Haukohl of the Milwaukee Police Department. It was not long after she was graduated that she left Oconomowoc and went to Cali- fornia, where she became Mrs. Stan- ford’s secretary. g LEAVE TO-DAY FOR HONOLULU. . Dr. David Starr Jordan, Timothy J. Hopkins and Detectives to Sail. To-day will mark a new step In the | police investigation of the poisoning of Mrs. Stanford. Captain Jules Callun- dan of Morse's agency, who has had full charge of the case for the Stan- ford Interests, and Detectlve Harry Reynolds of the local department will leave this morning at 11 o’clock on the Oceanic Steamship Company’'s boat Alameda from the Pacific-street dock. Captain Callundan, who is the pick | of Morse's agency, probably knows more about the case than any other man. He was immediately given charge of the entire Investigation. at the time of the first polsoning in Jan- uary and has been working thoroughly angd patiently since that time. On behalf of the trustees of the Le- land Stanford Jr. University, Presi- dent David Starr Jordan of the uni- versity and Timothy J. Hopkins of the board of trustees will also leave on the Alameda for Honolulu. They may ar- rive in time to return with Mrs. Stan- ford’s body on the China, which Is due here on the 16th. During Dr. Jor- dan’s absence Vice President Branner will take charge of the affairs of the university. 3 o RETURNS TO PALO ALTO. Rumor of Nora Hopkins’ Disappear- ance- Is Dissipated. g A sensational rumor was started yes- terday that Nora Hopkins, a maid at the Stanford mansion in Palo Alto, had suddenly disappeared m the college town. It was set at rest later in the day by the return of Miss Hopkins to the residence in Palo Alto. The report gained large proportions that Miss Hopkins had fled and that the police were frantically searching for her. Miss Hopkins was summoned to San Francisco Thursday by Mountford S. ‘Wilson to confer with the detéctives employed in the case and the necessity for catching a train on short notice oc- casioned her hasty departure and the circulation of the rumors. B Miss Hopkins stayed over night in San Francisco and returned to the Stanford Palo Alto residence yesterday morning and at the train refused to make any statement. She sald that she was admonished by the detectives to nothing. REV. DAVID EVANS TALKS.—Rev. Da- vid Evans delivered an address last night at the Academy of Sciences Hall befors the res- ular meeting of the British and American Union. Stanford’s" She was born and educated- FXPECT A WIR - IN SCANDINAVIA. Special Cable to The Call and -the New ¥ark lerald. Copyright, 1905, by the New Yerk Heraid Publishing Cqmpany. . BERLIN, March 3.—Thé latest ye- ports from Norway aré causinz con- siderable anxiety here, for it is recos- nized that the ministerial crisis.is only the transifion stage of a national erisis which may end in a civil war between Norway and Sweden. There seems no doubt that the Norwegian ‘party is de- termined to bring about a separation between Norway and Sweden by force | of arms if necessary. There is little chance of the Swedish party giving way, as the Swedish tleet is in a pesition to blockade Ner- way and bring the commercial life of the country to & standstill in twenty- four hours. — Smart-Jolly . Engagement Brokem, Friends of Johnhy Smart and Miss Jolly will not be surprised to learn that their ‘engagement is off, as it has long been an open’ secret that she father of the young lady was bitterl§ oppbsed to the match."What caused the rupture will be told in eight very funny”cologed pictures in next Sunday’s Comic Sup- plement. —————— ARABIAN INSURGEN F TAKE TWO MO TOWNS Ali Riga Isha, With Five Battalions of 5 Turkish Troops, Starts for Hodeida. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 38— The towns of Aab and Yerim, south- wafd of Sanaa, the capital of the province of Yemen, Arabia, have fall- en into the hands of the Insurgents. All Riga Isha, with five battalions of Turkish reinforcements, left Akaba February 28 for Hodeida. S ————— A New Art Gallery. - We have comverted' our picturs reom into a beautiful gallery” fo;fl :; exhi- itfon and sale of moderate paint- lbnn. water colors, pastels, etchings and fine photographa. tion_ cordially fnvited. 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