The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 8, 1905, Page 1

A st bourg ending’ midnight March 8: Sgp Francigeb and vicinity—Fatr Fetingyday? not so warm; light north- ®ast winds, changing to west. District Forecaster. G. McADIE, ‘ | E XCVII—NO. 99. 4_ This Paper not taken from - if — GRAND—"1 MAJESTIC— MECHANICS' Rowe’s. Circus. THE THEATERS. ALCAZAR—“The Middléman." CALIFORNIA—‘David Harum.' COLUMBIA—English Grand Opera. CENTRAL—"A Texas Steer.” | ORPHEUM—Vaudeville. day. A % TIVOLI—Comic Opera. Matinee to-day. Matines to- — SAN FRANCISCO, WEDNESDAY, MARCH S 8. 1905. ioa 11 PRICE FIVE CENTS. POISON IN STOMACH, SODA AND CAPSULES ‘e information that The Call has been publishing exclusively as to the finding of poison in the organs of Mrs. Stanford’s bedy, in the bicarbonate of soda and in the cascara ules was given official verification by the chemists in their testimonyiat the inquest in Honolulu yesterday. The unmistakable “color” of the strychnine test was revealed in analyses the stomach and other organs. There was half a grain of the deadly drug in the bicarbonate remaining in the bottle. The capsule Mrs. Stanford also took shortly before her death contained one-fifteenth of a grain of poison. The Call has spared neither expense nor effort to get the news in this great murder mystery and feels it has reason for pride in its achieve- s t every step it has had superior service in obtaining+and telling the facts. BATTLE S STILL RAGING Brave Stand of Kuropatkin at Mukden, Repeatedly Repulses Attacks of the Brown Men. — Rassians Repel Assaults and Take -Japanese Prisoners. - LONDON. graph's March 8 —The Daily correspondent at Tokio Reports are current here that Russians are in retreat and pre- destroy the railway north of General Kuropatkin is said wave gene to Fushun after holding ouncil of war of 100 officers. His t guard, consisting of 20,000 i troops, is retiring. Chinese re- at Mukden has been complete- M ly evacuated and that its great maga- Japanese ar- zines were set on fire by iespera tack on reports are arriv- fig 1 was renewed this xtreme left of the th sides fight- to the we ps are well 1 T the battle may g relative physical >f rank and file. In its omb: is very ke th Liaoyang, and if the e able to crush the »ry may be regarded in the ten days of e already far asualties in the i are likely to vass before the ck a. m. the Tserpitsky’s south of at inter- pulsed, es on both rdfhoc - ziments cc fiying and was. successful. KISS THEIR it w as over the victorious sol- d General Tser- praises and even feet. The Rus- 1 quick-fire guns prisoners, includ- reported t Major General gross of the East Siberian Rifles rd evening had taken and held hekiao. Here and to the north- 1 the Russians many times at- ked by colum and battalions, ® ming positions with the bayonet eud without firing a shot. Foreign ondents and military attaches language inadequate to express eir admiration at the heroism of the ssian troops. All Jast night and to-day Japanese risoners have been arriving in Muk- from the west front. The major- of them are wounded and all ap- ar downcast and ravenous, many n crying. v night the Japanese attacked eftun, Alanpu and Erthtaitzu, Iso made four furious attacks on illage of Luhuantun early this Continued on Page 4, Column 3. music | L YORK ~ DISORDERED Green Men Are Case ' 0f a Disastrous Collision, SEeiin Accident in Which Twenty- | Nine Are Hurt Ma-ks the | First Day of Strike. | | More Than a Million People Dependent | on Rapid Transit Lines Suffer ~ ~| Inconvenience, | —_— NEW YORK, March 7.—With one collision in which twenty-nine persons | were injured and none killed, New York has passed through the first day | of the general strike on fts rapid tran- | | it system. By this accident and some | minor casualties due to the abnormal | | conditions, the sam total of the day | was annpyange and vexation to a mil- lion ,or more people usually dependent upon the Interborough’s line for trans- | | portation to and from business. So far | there has been little disorder. Sporadic | encounters between individuals, some bad language and the action of a few hoodlums in throwing missiles at pass- ing elevated trains tell this phase of the strike.’ The annoyance to the mul- titude was increased by a wet snow which began falling this afternoon. Service on the elevated roads and sub- | way, while not tied up, was crippled | ly. Trains were run on irregular | schedules in the underground, begin- | ning with the early morning, but the elevated lines did not fare so well. On | the East Side practically no attempt was made to institute a service, while Sixth and Ninth avenue lines which | ThAYVE | | | | | | { | | | { [ | { | the serve the West Side were run in a fashion woefully inadequate. In fact, | the ated tem of the Interbor- ough's line pretty well paralyzed The company’s entire energy seemed to be directed to an effort to maintain service in the subway, and in this it was partially successful. Strike break- er y and his crew of 700 or $00 men were thrown into the tunnel; offi- als of the company gave this system nal attention and ‘an enor- number of policemen were de- i to the trains and stations. The | tempt to run express trains was | ndoned early in the day. Every | man was put on the locals | | and a fairly good schedule was main- tained during the evening rush hours until the accident at Twenty-third street took place. This upset things, but after strenuous effort they wera strajghtened out and a service We.. re- | sumbd on a headway of from five to | seven minutes. | The accident at Twenty-third street | was in the nature of a rear-end colli- | slon, due, it is said, to the inexperience | of the men on the trains. Two cars had their ends smashed in and there | was a panic among the scores of pas- | sengers. Of the injured fifteen were so severely hurt that they had to be sent to the hospitals. Traffic was delayed for more than two hours, from 5 o'clock lumn after 7 o'clock. A local train bound up-town had just drawn into | Twenty-third street station and some | of the passengers were about to alight there when there came a crash as a train which had left the bridge only | thirty seconds after the first train dashed into the first train standing at Twenty-third street. The rear car on the first train was forced into the | rear of the car just ahead. All of the lights of the first train went out and a moment later were heard the cries of the injured and panic-stricken pas- sengers. Those who were standing in the two rear cars of the rear train and the first two cars of the second train were thrown to the floor. The passen- | gers standing on the platform of the last two ears of the first train were | caught as in'a vise. It was here that jall of those who were hurt received | their injuries. i Policemen and firemen were sum- |moned to chop the cars apart and rescue the imprisoned. It was fifteen minutes before the first of the victims | were released. Meantime, some of the | cooler of the passengers in the train { had lighted matches in the cars and | were assisting the women to the doors | at the unbroken ends of the two cars and in a few minutes men and women ; were being passed through the broken windows to the platform. Some of them were carried across the tracks to the downtown station. The firemen worked for more than an hour before they were able to remove the last of the injured passengers from the car. ' Mayor George B. McClellan Jate this afternoon reached the conclusion that the transportation question had as- sumed such a serious aspect that it S FROM A WINDOW 10 DEATH Rich Rancher From California Ends His Lite. Imagined_fi;—Was Being Pursued by a Tall Dark Man. Association With Hypuotists Is Be- lieved to Have Wrecked Mind of J. Gordon Mackay. Special Dispatch to The Call. CHICAGO, March 7.—Fleeing from ar imaginary hypnotist J. Gordon Mackay, a rich ranch owner, ended his life lart night by jumping from a fourth story window of a hotel. Early in the day he had stabbed himself and was. saved from death only after a fierce struggle -with his wife. Mrs. Mackay says: ‘ ““Thursday we came back to Chicago from California, where Mr. Mackay had bought two cattle ranches. His sister- in-law is a hypnotist and through her he met several other hypnotists. Soon he began to act queerly. He told me that a tall dark man was trying to hypnotize him. “We had scarcely taken our seats in the dining-room to-day when a tall dark man entered and glanced at us. “‘That’s he,’ said my husband, and before I could interfere he slashed his wrists with a table knife. “Last evening my attorney called on me. Mr. Mackay caught a glimpse of him and before he could be stopped he ran and jumped out of the window.” ANIMALS FLEE FROM FLAMES B DR Wild Beasts in Madison- Square Garden Fight to Escape Death by Fire Rl T ERE NEW YORK, March 7.—Fire was dis- covered in Madison Square Garden to- night, a short time after the thousands who had -been attending the sports- men’s show and the audience in the garden theater had left the building. The fire started in some rubbish in a storeroom in the northeast corner at Fourth avenue and Twenty-seventh street and worked its way up from the storeroom where it started to the sec- ond balcony, on which were the ex- hibits of birds and wild animals. The bears and wild cats and a pair of tame wolves were aroused by the smoke and fought madly te escape. One of the bears and a wild cat perished. The fire practically destroyed all the exhibits on the second balcony at the Fourth avenue end of the garden, be- sides damaging others by smoke and water. Chief Croker estimated the damage to the building and exhibits at $15,000. 3~ “ R would be necessary to bring the two factions to some speedy agreement. He accordingly addressed a letter to both the Interborough Comany and the Amalgamated Association to this end. No meeting of the Amalgamated As- sociation was held this afternoon, and Vice President May of that'organiza- tion said that no meeting would be held until twenty-four hours had elapsed. If at the =nd of that time Superintend- ent Hedley was still unwilling to .ac- cede to the demands of the. men the engineers and firemen of the electric and accentric union would be called out. The members of this organization are employed in the various power- houses. George Pepper, president of ' the Amalgamated Association, in a state- ment issved to-night, says the associa- tion is caring for 125 men who say they were brought here to work on a new railway. General Manager Hedley says the compary ig prepared to maintain and improve the service on all its lines. Mayor McClellan’s letter offering to arbitrate, Hedley said, will be replied to by the executive committee of the interborough Company to-morrow. The executive committee of the Amalgamated Association to-night considered the Mayor's letter, but the officers would not say what action had been taken. SHERIFF HENRY TO SEND DEPUTY' HERE TO ASSIST THE DETECTIVES CHEMISTS TELL OF UNMISTAKABLE STRYCHNINE (TESTS, BUT FEAR TO EXPRESS OPINTON. HBnPU Evmentlu% IS Convinced of Murder. To Send Deputy, but Secretary Comes Free. By Special Cable to The Call. 5] HONOLULU, March 7.—~The fi- quest over the death of Mrs. Jane Stanford was all but finished to-night. The testimony of the chemists virtu- ally completed the case, but there will be no verdict till to-morrow night, Time had to be allowed for prepara- tion of the tr#nscripts that the wit- nesses must’ sizn. High Sheriff Henry has decided to send Deputy Rawlins to San Fran- cisco on the steamship China to as- sist the police and detectives of that city In the effort to ferget out the murderer or murderers of Mrs. Stan- ford. The deputy will be provided with conies of all the testimony taken at the inquest and of the statements that have been gathered in the inves- tigations here, It is reported that the Sheriff is of the opinion that Miss Richmond, and Albert Beverly should be kept un- der strict surveillance. Miss Berner, the secretary, and Miss Hunt, the maid, will return to San Francisco on the Alameda with the remains, according to plans the local representatives of the Stanford estate have made. The body will be given over to the possession of these representatives as soon as the inquest is over. All of Mrs. Stanford’s jewels and wardrobe will be sent with the re- | mains. ALYSIS REPORT OF GIVEN !/ BY TWO CHEMISTS Doctors Shorey and Duncan Testify That Strychnine Was Found in M Stanford's Stomdch. HONOLULU, March 7—When the inquest into the death of Mrs. Jane L. Stanford was resumed this afternoon the first witness called to the stand was R. A. Duncan, Food Commissioner and Chemical Analyst to the Board of Health. FHe testjfied that three analy- ses of the bottle of bicarbonate of soda found in Mrs. Stanford's room had been made. He said: "I made the first.analysis alone, and in ten grams of the bicarbonate of soda I obtained seven hundredths of a grain of strych- nia. The second analysis I made in conjunction with Dr. Edmund Skgrey, chemist of the United States Agricul- tural Station. In ten grams of the bi- carbonate of soda we obtained thir- teen hundredths of a grain of strych- ria. In the third analysis of the same amount of the bicarbonate of soda we secured fourteen hundredths of a grain of strychnia. ““By calculation we estimated that in the bottle were forty-three grams of bicarbonate of soda and that the bot- tle contained half a grain of strychnia. The methcds of analysis used in the last two experiments were the most re- liable. : ““We examined a portion of the con- tents of the stomach with a negative result for strychnia. We further exam- ined one kidney and some of the con- tents of the intestines. but were un- eble to separate any poison from the substance, yet we obtained the color reaction characteristic of strychnine. “‘We then combined all the remain- ing organs, including the liver, and found that a test of an extraction gave the same results as the intestines, namely, the color reaction indicative of strychnine. “The test we used is known as the fading purple test, and, so far as I know, it is the most reliable test. The color reaction we obtained is not pro- duced except by strychnih. We were not able to isolate any strychnia.” WOULD SHOW POSOIBILITY OF SUICIDE Aflempt_té_[stahliSh This Theary Causes Jar at euest By Associated Press. HONOLULU, March 7.—Attorney General Andrews and Deputy Sheriff Rawlins clashed at the inauest on the death of Mrs. Stanford yesterday, when the former tried to bring out evidence showing the . possibility that the aged woman committed suicide. “Did Mrs. Stanford complain of a bitter taste such as would be noticed by persons taking strychnine?’ asked the Attorney General of Miss Berner. Rawlins shut off the answer and tried to prevent further questioning on this line, but Andrews persisted. ““Was there an examination of the tongue and throat for--indications of strychnine?”’ demanded the Attorney General. It was then brought out that such an investigation had not been made The Attorney General continued. on this line of questioning with the idea of establishing or eliminating the sui- clde theory. He tried to draw from Miss Berner evidence that the wealthy San Francisco woman had ended her life, a victim of a peculiar- mania. It was Andrews' persistence in this form of inquiry that caused the clash with Deputy Sheriff Rawlins, who has charge of the inquest. Rawlins seemed in a hurry to have the work finished and resented such questioning as un- necessarily delaying the case. Though the chemists have found strychnine in Mrs. Stanford's stomach and in the bicarbonate, proving be- yond doubt that she was poisoned, High Sheriff Henry is disappointed that the results do’ not. furnish evidence in stronger form. The poison could only be traced by the color test. Evidently High® Sheriff Henry is pleased with the work of the'San Fran- crisco police, as he commented upon it to-day. “I appreciate what they have done in the case very much,” he said. “We have been working in perfect har- mony." Continuing, Dr. Duncan said that he had consulted the standard authorities while working. The reason the strych- nia was inseparable, he explained, was that the amount was too small and was distributed in a bedy of matter. POISON IN CAPSULES. Dr. Duncan also testified that ' they analyzed the cascara capsules, one of which Mrs. Stanford took before retir- ing. They were found to contain nux vomica. The average weight of each capsule was three and sixteen hun- dredths grains. The total alkaloids in each capsule was one-fifteenth of a grain of brucine and strychnine in equal parts. Brucine is an alkaloid poison, but Continued on Page 5, Column 1{,- Attorney General Andrews' questions intended to develop a suicide theory have roused.much comment here. The Attorney General did not appear at the inquest to-day. —_—————————— ‘WILL TEACH 'ENGLISH TO 5 . THE YOUTH OF SAMOA Three Marist Brothers Take Charge of School in Western District of Tutuila. e TUTUILA, Samoa, Feb. 21.—The Samoans of the Western District of Tutuila have established a boys' school for the teaching of English and have e three Marist brothers | to act as three years. nstructors for a term . of | Ri MER B! ronm, "mu; CAPTAIN BURNI POSSIBLE SOLUTION OF THE MRS. NE L. STANFORD, 23 R [ETT YESTERDAY IN AN EFFORT TO FIND A POISONING MYSTERY. ' WHO WAS AGAIN QUES-. | — McWHINNEY DENIES THAT TUNCORKED POLAND WATER “I do not know who opened the bettle of Poland water that nearly caused Mrs. Stanford’s death on Jan- wvary 14.” One statement of Elizabeth chmond. “The butler opened the bottle.” A second statement of EHlizabeth Rich- mend. “I did not open the bottle in ques- tion.” Statement made by the butler, William McWhinney, to Captain Bur- Comtinued on Page 2, Column 4.