The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 31, 1905, Page 30

STARTLING All Det Continued from Page 20, Column ails Are said lat asked questions brother of the night w iversity ion and A 2 spent in rounding sult that inected De- e the completed their ew weeks & ave been examining and s Mrs. Stanford did from heart trouble, who worked the time these lines saying that f the times ared Tfllflkfifiofir IS MISLEADING sl Caprain Ca//um/an Does Not Credit Denver Intervie eWw. el f the Morse ge believe that sta 2 ¥ ational ments credite t n Denver. Ac ding to ¢ n never saw reports and therefore is to make any revelations new developments which Dr. Jordan did not come out atements as those undan last persons who b reports. They itford Wilson, Charles f. 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INQUIRY ENOED' HIS LEVEL BEST SCORES ODELL RF SU LTS OF INQUIRY New York Special Legisla-| Army Vetera.n Given Charge'Indorses Presuient’s Efforts tive Committee Finishes of the New York Police Is Soon to Be leen to the Pubhc the Taking of Testimony| Enthusiastic Over Duties n a position to make comments. “1 will say that if we had any such evi- | dence as Dr. Jordan claims is on hand we would have made arrests long ago. For Miss Richmond, Mrs. Stanford's A;r maid, has been allowed by us to instance, forx 0 10 her home In England several months 2gc If we did not think her entirely in-| nocent we would surely have detained her s Dr. Jordan is quoted correctly, he s his suspicions directly against two persong, Miss Richmond and Ah Wing, cook. satisfaction of ourselves and general public that neither of these ons had anything to do with a con- acy to turn Mrs. Stanford against her etary, Miss Berner. "here could be no one else to cast the inger of suspicion at, for Miss Richmond and Ah Wing were the only persons who ose enough to the dead woman to! t such a plot. But they had 10 Go with it and we allowed them r way after the investigation gards the hold-ups by Honolulu | 1 answer (hat it is all non- tance, there were four doc- rs attending to the case. They worked hard and each put in a bill for 2600 very reasonable, consid- ering t} ; did. 1 was surprised at the 1 know just what was spent at Honolulu, for I was in touch with ¢ phase of the case there, and I no he rred. “The s did not have a chance to | o any work in this line, for the rea that the investigation was stmply | fined to the household, and as there was | nothing of & startling nature to keep quict the public knew just what was happening and therefore no one had a chance to make any demands. High Sherift Henry conducted the case in a business-like way | and I know neither he nor any of his deputies ever attempted to play the game of hold-up on any of us while we were there. ““Ihie bills have all been paid long ago. They were all reasonable, and therefore I cannot understand how the hold-up story managed to crop out, or where it came from. Dr. Jordan did not know any of the details in that line, and this further convinces me he is being misquoted. “While making my investigation at the islands 1 employed five stenographers, so many people did 1 question and to such an extent. It would have been impossible for any one to secure a full text of these reports save myself. I had them all transeribed and brought them to this city, where 1 turned them over to Mr. Wilson. Nobody save he, Charles Lathrop and myself knew what they contained. Dr. Jordan was not informed and could not bave learned their contents, “I have been turning in reports to Wil- son and Lathrop from time to time, and | they have kept the matter secret from | everybody else. We are etill working on this case, though nothing has devcloped that would furnish any startling news. I am not in a position to make public any f the data I collected during my re- [search. In fact, there is nothing that would Interest the public, and that i one of the reasons that Mr. Wilson has not deemed it necessary to give out the re port “There 1s absolutely no necessity to plunge into the poison mystery any more. We fully demonstrated after Mrs. Stan- ford's death that strychnine never kmedj That is an old story now, and 1) her. thought it had been settled to the satis- | faction of everybody. It seems strange | that Dr. Jordan should mention this again, for it was settled 8o 10ng ago as to have almost entirely slipped the minds of all of us connected with the case.” Albert Beverley, the butler, who was charged by Mrs. Stanford some time | her death and whose name was »ned with so much prominence dur- he noted case, has left his San Mateo Lest October he disposed of his perty and came to live in this city, attempt was made to locate him last ight, but without succes. Beverley is still in this city. He was| at the racetrack a few days ago. | was never kept under survelllance | er the police and the Morse detective | agency became satisfied he was entirely innocent of any plot or scheme to obtain money from Mrs. Stanford. Ah Wing is also some place in the vi¥in- ity. He was allowed to go where he chose after the months ago. He Some suspected that the Chinaman knew: more than he wished to | tell at the time, but Captain Callundan was convinced the Celestial was innocent, { and for that reason no watch was kept | on him lately. Captain Callundan said he did not think anything would come of the present story, and that neither himself nor Wilson would take any action, as they are fear- ful that a mistake has been made in | quoting Jordan. | ———e MORGAN AGREES WITH JORDAN e Chemist Declares Death Was Due to Nat- ural Causes. Dr. Chearles L. Morgan, former city toxicologist. when interviewed last night said: “‘Mrs. Stanford dled of natural causes. I would not talk on the case, having been retained with that under- standing, but as long as Dr. Jordan has given out the statement that Mrs. Stan- ford died of natural causes, viz., fatty degeneration of the heart, I will say that |#0 far as to her having died of natural causes Dr. Jordan is right. Mrs. Stan- | ford did not, however, dle of fatty de- | generation of the heart. True, she died {of a heart lesion; ju-t what it was I am not prepared to s Dr. Morgan was loth to talk on the case. His reason for reticence regarding | the findings in the Stanford case was ! that he had been retained for his chem- jcal and medical assistance, providing | that he report, and report alone, to | Mountford Wilson, attorney for the Stan- ford estate. Dr. Morgan examined some of the ai- | leged strychnine-poisoned bicarbonate of {soda and filed his report with Wilson. He would mot state whether he found strychnine in the powder. He said that he was not given the work of examining | Mre. Stanfard's heart. He saw it, how- ever, saw the report, and knew that the | death of Mrs. Stanford bad been due to )& heart lesion. He sald that there were Long ago we proved | case had been closed several | the publication of the report was with- held for the present. | Dr. Morgan sald, in conclusfon: ‘“Mrs. Stanford dled of natural causes. She did ‘not die of strychnine poisoning. Whether an attempt to polson her by means of | strychnine was made. I cannot say. I did not do any detective work on the | case, but merely did the chemical testing that was allotted to me. ‘I have never found in any case that where enough strychnine has been | taken, a toxic dose, the same poison could not be found in welghable quanti- ties in the body of the person killed by it. You may get a coloring of the drug where a non-toxic quantity had been | taken. Mrs. Stanford took a capsule for her heart the night preceding her death. | This capsule contained as one of its in- | gredients a minute quantity of strych- | nine. It was not enough to KkilL" Dr. Morgan was asked, if, in the light of his statement, concurring with the statement of Dr. Jordan, that Mrs, Stan- ford’s death was due to mnatural causes, it would be logical to presume that there was no strychnine in the bi- carbonate of soda she had taken prior to her death, providing she had partaken of the same bicarbonate of soda as was examined by the chemists, or that the compound of soda taken contained such a small quantity of the poison as to be harmless. He replied with a shrug of the shoulders that he could not say, again stating that he was forbidden to discuss the case. A physician who was employed by the St@nford estate to examine Mrs. Stan- ford's heart but who refused to allow his name to be used, last night said: “If you will take the report of the proceed- ings of the inquest in Honolulu you will find that Dr, Edmund Shorey, chemist of the United Statés Agricuitural Station, and R. A. Dyncan, Food Commissioner and Chemical Analyst of the Honolulu Health Board, stated under oath that they could not say that they found strychniné in the corpse of Mrs. Stan- ford. Both of these men are of the high- est standing in their calling. They could not find evidence of strychnine poisoning. There was a preconcerted effort on the part of some physicians in Honolulu to make out the cause of Mi Stanford's death as due to strychnine.” The same doctor gave out the intima- tion that an attempt had been made to poison Mrs. Stanford, but that it had not been guccessful. It would seem only logical to presume in the light of i‘he statements made last night by Dr. Morgan that he found no weighable quantity of strychnine in the bicarbonate of soda examined by him. Agalnst the statements of Dr. Jordan, Dr. Morgan, Dr. Shorey of Honolulu and R. A. Duncan, chemist in the island city, that Mrs. Stanford’s death was due to a| heart lesion, whether that lesion was caused by the poisonous action of strych- nine, is vividly recalled the testimony of Drs. Wood, F. R. Day and George Her- bert of Honolulu, who testified that they belleved that Mrs. Stanford had died of strychnine poisoning, having found the drug in her body and observed its symp- | toms before death and its effects after death. R SUSE BERTHA BERNER NOT TALKATIVE Hopes, However, " That Mystery Will Be Cleared Up. PALO ALTO, Dec. 30.—Bertha Ber- ner, the companion of Mrs. Stanford at the time of her death at Honolulu, re- fused to be interviewed last night. The great house on the Palo Alto foot- hills given to Miss Berner by Mrs. Stanford about- six years ago was tightly locked. Miss Berner did not appear all day yesterday, but her brother, C. Berner, told the newspaper men that his sister had nothing to say on the matter. “We have nothing one way or the other to say about the af- fair,” he declared. But Miss Berner has not been so silent concerning her hopes for a so- lution of the mystery. For many months after the death of Mrs. Stan- | ford she would say nothing on the subject of the philanthropist’'s death, but within the last two weeks she has talked quite freely among her friends and her words seem to prove conclu- sively that the trustees have been making a thorough investigation, “I do hope that when they are through investigating,” she said, “that there will not be one phase of the mystery left unsolved. I hope so for my own sake. I have been accused of everything—of actually giving the poison, of desiring her millions and of much else. I know the public does not believe these statements, but I want the investigation to give the ac- tual facts to the public. I am inno- cent of any wrong in the whole affair. I will not say that any one is to blame, I loved Mrs: Stanford dearly and did everything I could for her. UNCLE SAM'S TARS GUESTS AT BANQUET Crew of Paul Jones Give a Spread to Men of the Perry. SAN DIEGO, Deec. 30.—This evening the officers and men of the torpedo-boat de- stroyer Perry were the guests of the offi- cers and crew of the destroyer Paul Jones at an elaborate banquet. The ban- quet to the men of the Perry was in re- turn for the refreshment provided Christmas day, when the crew of the Paul Jones was the guest of the men of the Perry. At the banquet to-night 140 officers and men from the two destroyers and about twenty civillan guests, includ- ing Mayor Sehon and a number of the city officlals, were nt. After the ban- quet the ourned to the United States army barracks, where A smoker ard danee were given. ————— ‘Will Run New Steamship Line. VICTORIA, B. C, Dec. 30.—The con- tract for a mew steamship lne with a monthly service between British Co- lumbian ports and New Zealand was signed to-day at Ottawa by the Can- adian Government and Bucknall Bros, or Liverpool. THE ROOSEVELT BEARS IN NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL. TARBELL IN BAD LIGHT Witness Says the Equitable’s Vice President Suggested Plan for Giving of Rebates —_— HAPPENINGS DURING THE PAST YEAR IN INGURANGE SCANDAL February 16-—Insurance trou- bles begun with the Equita- ble Life directors deciding that policy holders should vote. June 9—Stock of James Haren Hyde purchased by Thomas F. Ryan. June 29-—Report of State Su- perintendent Francis Hen- dricks. July 20—Legislature adopts ' resolution of Senator W, W. Armstrong, providing for the appointment of an inves- tigating committee. August 16—Life companies no- tified of the committee’s ap- pointment. September 3——First session of the legislative investigating committee. December 30—-Last session of the legislative investigating committee. Important witnesses—Jacob H. Schiff, James H. Hyde, Ben- jamin B. Odell, Chauncey M. Depew, Thomas C. Platt, Thomas F. Ryan, Edward H. Harriman, George W. Per- kins, Richard A. McCurdy, John A. MeCall, John R. Hegeman, Senator. John F. Dryden, Gage E. Tarbell, Superintendent Hendricks, ‘William M. Carpenter, George J. Plunkett, Warren F. Thummel, Robert H, Mec- Curdy, Michael E. Mullaney, Milton N. Mattison, Theodore M. Banta and Horace H. Brockway. Missing witnesses — Anarew Hamilton, Thomas D. Jor- | dan, Andrew C. Fields and | ‘Willlam ¥, Melntyre, b R R i R+ e e S NEW YORK, Dec. 30.—After four months of arduous work, the Legislative Committee on Insurance Investigation, appointed at an extra session of the last Legislature, adjourned to-night. To-night was given over to the presen- tation of documentary evidénce, which- was ‘ot in readiness for the committee until the present time. Late in the day somewhat of a stir was caused by the announcement of Counsel Hughes that a letter had been received from David B. Hill, who protested against the hearing being closed until he had been heard as a witness in regard to his retainer from the Equitable Life As- surance Soclety. Chairman Armstrong announced that, notwithstanding Hill's attitude, the committee would have to complete its work without his testimony. Not the least interesting testimony of the day was that of George H. Sickles, a real estate agent of Buffalo, who had for- merly been employed by the Equitable Life, According to Bickles, Gage B. Tar- bell, vice president of the Equitable, sug- gested a plan to get around the rebating methods. Tarbell, on the witness stand, said he opposed rebating. Bickles testified that Tarbell suggested that letters be written to policy holders and eventually thebe letters were to be bought back at & price. The committee adjourned subject to the call of the chair, in case of an emergen- cy before the Legislature assembles on Tuesday next. After adjournment the committee held an executive session. Among the cuts in salaries at the Mu- tual Life Insurance Company which have been made but not previously announced are those of Robert A. Grannis and Dr. ‘Walter R. Gillette, vice presidents. Up to a short time ago Grannis was drawing $50,000 a year and Gillette $40,000. At the demand of the Truesdale committee each has had his salary cut $10,000 a year. WILL TRY TO REACH NORTH POLE e et Continued From Page 20, Column 4. draw them over the ice, and a completely organized and equipped sledging party, ready at any moment, should it be neces- sary, to abandon the airship and take to the ice. If at the worst our aisship car- ries us only to the vicinity of the pole, or two-thirds of the way to it, we have an alternative method of travel by which we may reasonably hope to complete our task and make our return to land im safety. “At no time will our airship be out of touch with the surface of the earth. A gulde rope, so called, but in our case & smooth, tapering line of steel, is to drag its lower end over the ice, keep the ship at a fairly stable height (150 to 200 feet, the altitude most favorable to wireless telegraphy), and maintain under ordinary conditions the vertical stability of PLEDGE TO THE PUBLIC Simply Intends to Carry -Out the Law as He Finds It in the Statute Books NEW YORK, Dec. 80.—General Theo- dore A. Bingham, who soon will as- sume control of New York's police department, to-day outlined the policy he purposes to follow in his new posi- tion. “I intend to jump into the job and do my level best,” he said. “I intend to try to get the confidence of the people and keep it. I suppose there are plenty of knockers, but I don't care. I am absolutely independent and will try to do good work. We need good govern- ment and that is what I am going to try to give.” General Bingham said that he did not intend to use the office as a stepping stone to anythlnl else. “It is & man's job,” he said, “and if a man is successful it ought to be enough to keep Bim busy the rest of his life.” He said that he was able to outline his policy only in this general way be- cause he was not familiar wkh any of the details of the e. He never had visited police headquarters and was not sure he could find it without a guide. 1t was his intention to take things as they came, and if reforms were needed, he said, they would be instituted. “It's the biggest job I ever was up agalnst,” sald the new Commissioner. “It presents difficulties that are almost superhuman. The police department must be an executive department, and when 1 assume the office I shall simply try to carry out the law as it is on the statute books. I have a reasonable hope of succeeding. “I am not going in with the pur- pose of making any record; I am simply going to do my duty as I see it. As yet I have no opinions about the job, but I hope I have the backbone. There will always be a certain amount of vice in a community; but I am going to enforce the laws that regulate vice, and enforce them without regard to any- body. I am absolutely independent. I took the place to help out my old friend Mac. I know if I do good work it will help the McClellan administration and I'm going to work as hard as I know how.” Police Commissioner Willlam McAdoo to-night made public his letter to Mayor McClellan, presenting his resig- nation, to take effect to-morrow. Me- Adoo states that his resignation was requested by the Mayor, but says such a request would not have been neces- sary had it even been Intimated to him what the Mayor's wishes were in the premises. He declared Mayor McClel- lan had no cause whatever for keeping him in studied ignorance of his inten- tions. In his letter Commissioner McAdoo quotes a letter which He addressed to Mayor McClellan in October last, call- ing his attention to a newspaper inter- view attributed to the Mayor, in which certain police officlals were criticized. McAdoo told the Mayor that without the support of the city’s head he could not consent to remain in the police de- partment. In the Mayor’'s reply to this letter, dated October 3, he wrote to Mr. Mec- Adoo: “I am indeed sorry that my ac- tion of yesterday should have awaken- ed in your mind even the slightest sus- picion that you and your administra- tion did not have my fullest confi- dence.” The Mayor concluded: “With undi- minished faith in you and your admin- istration and with assurances of my personal esteem,” etc. After glving this correspondence in full, Commissfoner McAdoo concludes his letter of resignation as follows: “If a vacancy was desired to be cre- ated, I should have been with; if we had differed as to a ques- tion of policy it should haye been a manly and honest one from which we could have parted as friends; if it re- lated to my personal conduct or that of those under me, I should at least have been given a hearing; if vou believed that my continuance in this office was an advantage to the public, you owed it to them and to me to say so and to at least have t!v) me the opportunity of refusing in this# connection any further honors, or even i{f you were convinced to the contrary the unusual circum- stances under which I accepted this trust and our personal relations de- manded that you should so state to me in that eandid and honorable way which prevalls among gentlemen.” RAILS AT THE MEN WHO SAVED HIS LIFE ‘Would-Be Suicide Complains ‘When Hauled From the Bay. BAN DIEGO, Dec. 30.—An elderly man named Sutherland this afternoon made an attempt to commit suicide by rolling oft the wharf into the bay. He secured a hack and drove to the water front, where he dismisséd the driver. He lay down upon the wharf and remained there for some hours, his appearance ex- citing the curiosity of some of the fre- quenters of the place. Finally he rolled off the wharf into the bay. A man reached him with a boat hook and drew him to the piling, from where he was hauled to the wharf. During the time he was in the water he apparently @ld his best to keep his face under the surface. After being hauled upon the whart he complained that those who res- cued him should have let him stay in the water. He 1s in a precarious condition and his recovery is a matter of doubt. TheLos An consulted | to Purge New York Repub- lican Party of the Boss BLACK OUT OF RACE Former Governor Will Not Be a Candidate for Chair- man of the State Committee Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING, WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Representative J. Sloat Fassett of New York to-day con- tributed a sharp chapter to the discussion started by ex-Governor Odell regarding the interference of the President and Governor Higgins in the matter of the New York speakership. Fassett, who is standing behind Governor Higgins, said: “I think that former Governor Odeil, as is apt to be the case with men who have been long in a high position, entirely mis- reads and misunderstands, as he certain- ly misinterprets and misrepresents, the issue before the people. “The question before the Republicans of the State of New York is whether the Republican organization and leadership is to be continued along the lines which have led to widespread distrust and sus- picion and demoralization, or whether the party is so to clean house as to render the Republican house the most attractive for a majority of the people to dwell in. “It seems to me that President Roose- velt and Governor Higgins have been pointing the way, not for the purpose of injuring any particular man or amy par- ticular set of men, nor for the purpose of festering the ambitions of any particular man or any particular set of men, but for the purpose of re-establishing the ideals and the higher purposes of ‘the Republican party upon a sound plane of thought and feeling.” ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 30.—Former Gov- ernor Frank 8. Black, who was asked by President Roosevelt to become chairman of the sxye committee, has positively de- clined to” become a candidate for the place. Black prefers to devote all his at- tention to the practice of law, and the de- tails of political management have al- ways been distasteful to him. J. Sloat Fassett, John F. O'Brien, Sec- retary of State; Willlam Barnes Jr. of this city and Willlam L. Ward of West- chester have been discussed for the chair- manship, and the rumor was circulated here to-night that William Leeb, the President’s secretary, might be made chafrman of the committee. Loeb, who formerly lived in Albany, now a resi- dent of Oyster Bay. The appointment of George B. Cortelyou as chairman of the Republican Natiénal Committee is cited as a precedent for the selection of Loeb. It is now probable that a new chairman will be chosen In the immediate future, although it is possible that the State com- mittee will decide to ask for Odell's resig- nation before the meeting of the next State conventlon, when the new commit- tee will meet to organize. VESSELS NARROWLY ESCAPE DESTRUCTION Dynamite Laden Steamship Collides With a Schooner. WILMINGTON, Del, Dee. 3%.—Laden with dynamite the steamship Pennsyl- vania from New York for San Francisco via Philadelphia crashed into the schoon- er Prescott Palmer to-day while the schooner was aground on Cherry Island flats in the Delaware River. So great was the impact that although the colli- slon occurred before daylight, it was not until late in the afternoon that the ves- sels were separated. The sharp prow of the steamer cut into the schooner’s stern for a distance of thirty feet. That the Pennsylvania’s cargo of dynamite did not explode is regarded as little short of miraculous. The Prescott Palmer is hard sground and is in danger of breaking In two. The damage to the schooner is es- timated at $30,000. Captain Carlisle of the schooner as- serts that there was no fog when the Pennsylvania struck his craft and he has filed a libel against the owmers of the steamer, and the latter has been seized by United States Marshal Flynn. The Prescott Palmer {s owned by Wil- liam D. Palmer of Boston, for which port she was bound with 4400 tons of coal. The Pennsylvania is owned by the Northwestern Steamship Company of Seattle. WILL BUILD WIRELESS PLANT AT POINT LOMA vy Asks for' Bids for Statien to Cost $20,000. SAN DIEGO, Dec. 30.—Lieutenant L. J. de Ryder, United States navy, who is in charge of the naval coaling station site here, has received instructions to secure bids for the comstruction of a wireless telegraph station on top of Point Loma, and he will receive blds up to January 2. The order comes from Commander Gearing, equipment officer of Mare Island. The statfon will include an operating building, dwelling houses, water tank and other structures, costing approximately $20,000. The site for the post, which is to be one of four to be established by the Government on this coast, is on the crest of Point Loma, which is 422 feet high tself. It will be in charge of an officer and six assistants. Comptroller Ridgely Marries. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. — Willlam Barrett Ridgely, Comptroller of thé Currency, and Miss , Derring were married this afternoon In St. John's Church. es Times Midwinter Number mmmmsmnmmnwm An eye-opener to Eastern people SEND ONE TO YOUR FRIENDS—Price 10 cents ONSALlhIumdacchdqmouflng,Jmuya. AT NEWS STANDS, or at The Times San Francisco Office - - mu.mnwg FORCED OUT His Retirement as Solieitor of the State Department Due to His Qwn Wishes PRAISED BY MR. ROOT Secretary Expresses Regret of Himself and President at Loss of Subordinate i WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—Solicitor W. L. Penfleld to-day made the following statement regarding his retirement from the State Department: “In view of erroneous interpretations which have been given to the motives for my resignation as solicitor for the Department of State, I would say it was not on account of any req or suggestion directly or Indirectly made by the President or the Secre- tary of State, nor was it because of any Indelicate or improper assumption on my part to criticise as a subordinate official the judgment of my chiefs™ The following letter from Secretary of State Root to Penfleld was made public: “I have communicated to the Preai- dent your letter, dated the 23d Inst, In which you tender your resignation of the office of solicitor for the Stata De- partment. “The President directs me to say that in accepting your resignation he sin- cerely regrets the termination of your long and distinguished services. For myselt I beg to assure you of the re- luctance with which I view the sever- ance of your important position with this department. “Regretting the loss the public ser- vice sustains in your retirement and appreciating your zeal and earnestness in the fulfiliment of your duties, I trust you will carry with you an agreeable recollection of our personal assoeclation and an assurance also of the good wishes of all those who have kmown and esteemed you.” e ——— ENDS HIS LIFE AFTER MAKING NUMEROUS APPEALS FOR FOOD | BELLINGHAM, Dec. 30.—Despondent because he could get nothing to eat, an unidentified laboring man threw him- self in front of a train from Sumas shortly after 12 ¢'clock to-day and met instant death. His body was horribly mangled. The man had been loitering about the neighborhood an hour before the tragedy, begging from door to door. T AHandsome Income Rents $700.00 Per Month $70,000 26 amall flbal:s: never idle; rents reasonable; on a sunny corner, 6ox114; nr. 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