The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-4793-6 (ISBN)
Jane Stanford, the co-founder of Stanford University, died in Honolulu in 1905, shortly after surviving strychnine poisoning in San Francisco. The inquest testimony of the physicians who attended her death in Hawaii led to a coroner's jury verdict of murder—by strychnine poisoning. Stanford University President David Starr Jordan promptly issued a press release claiming that Mrs. Stanford had died of heart disease, a claim that he supported by challenging the skills and judgment of the Honolulu physicians and toxicologist. Jordan's diagnosis was largely accepted and promulgated in many subsequent historical accounts.
In this book, the author reviews the medical reports in detail to refute Dr. Jordan's claim and to show that Mrs. Stanford indeed died of strychnine poisoning. His research reveals that the professionals who were denounced by Dr. Jordan enjoyed honorable and distinguished careers. He concludes that Dr. Jordan went to great lengths, over a period of nearly two decades, to cover up the real circumstances of Mrs. Stanford's death.
The late Robert W. P. Cutler, M.D. was a Stanford Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences. His historical writing includes The Tin Box: Keepsakes of a Civil War General (1999) and Red Mountain: The Rise and Fall of a Magnesite Mining Empire, 1900–1947 (2001).
Contents Prefaceix Introduction: The Founding of Leland Stanford Junior University1 Part I 1The Death of Mrs. Stanford9 Picnic at the Pali, 9--Moana Hotel, February 28, 1905, 11--Securing the Evidence, 15--The Autopsy, 16 2The Poland Water Poisoning20 Nob Hill, January 14, 1905, 20--The Harry Morse De- tective and Patrol Agency, 22 3The Police Investigation26 Shocking News Reaches San Francisco 26--Sheriff Henry's Confusing Cablegram 27--Witnesses Interrogated, 28--Experts Voice Opinions, 30--Mrs. Stanford's Spiritualism, 31--Julian Hawthorne's Theory, 24 4The Honolulu Inquest34 Eyewitness Testimony, 34--The Toxicologists' Testi- mony, 38--The Question of Suicide, 43--The Jury's Verdict, 45 5The Stanford Party in Honolulu46 Captain Callundan Investigates, 46--Dr. Waterhouse Con- tacted, 47--Dr. Waterhouse's Opinion, 49--Dr. Water- house's Limitations, 52--Dr. Jordan's Conclusion 54--The Attending Physicians' Response 56 Part II 6The Stanford Party Returns Home61 Dr. Jordan and Captain Callundan Meet the Press 61--Dr. Jordan's Strychnine Theory 64--Dr. Humphris's Pique, 65-- Dr. Shorey's Position 66--Dr. Waterhouse Confronted 67 7Bolstering Dr. Jordan's Diagnosis70 No Poison Found, 70--The Ophuls Report, 71--Dr. Waterhouse Exposed, 73--Dr. Jordan's Conspiracy Theory, 75 8The Cases of Shorey and Humphris79 Jared Smith's Charges, 79--Dr. Shorey Accused of Fraud, 80--Dr. Jordan's Charges, 82--Dr. Humphris in Honolulu, 83--Dr. Humphris in London, 85 9The Other Physicians88 Dr. Harry Murray, 88--Dr. Francis Day and Dr. John Pratt, 89--Dr. Clifford Wood, 90--Dr. Ernest Water- house, 91 Part III 10Perpetuating the Myth97 11Summing Up102 Case Closed 102--Dr. Jordan's Cover-Up 103-- Appendix 1. Dr. Shorey and the Experiment Station 111 Appendix 2. The "Ross Affair" 114 Appendix 3. Professor Julius Goebel122 Notes129 Select Bibliography 149 Index 157 14 pages of photographs follow page 60 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Stanford, Jane Lathrop, 1828-1905, Murder Hawaii Honolulu History Case studies, Poisoning Hawaii Honolulu History Case studies
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.7.2003 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 22 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Palo Alto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 408 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8047-4793-8 / 0804747938 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8047-4793-6 / 9780804747936 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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