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and Miss Berner on a street-car next morning, and they told
me of the incident and of Mrs. Stanford's decision to go
away for a time. This discovery of strychnine suggested
to Mrs. Stanford at Honolulu the idea that she had been poisoned.

Mr. Cullandan found that a maid temporarily employed
by Mrs. Stanford, an Englishwoman forty-five to fifty years
of age, named Richmond, was subject to periodic attacks of
mania, that the chief subjects of her conversation with her
associates turned on her experiences in the houses of the
English aristocracy, with numerous anecdotes of those mem-
bers of high society who had died from poisoning.

I reached the conclusion that no one else could be
under suspicion for the affair in San Francisco. Meeting
Callundan at Placerville some time after he told me that
he believed that this phase of the mystery was fully solved.
The poison was put into the Poland Water in an insane freak.
Meanwhile, as nothing could be absolutely proved, nothing
was done in her case nor in that of the blunders or worse
which took place at Honolulu. I have always regretted on
Miss Berner's account that the Board did not see fit to
publish the report of the surgeons of the Cooper Medical
College, but there would be no gain in reopening these
questions now after sixteen years.

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