It is now absolutely certain that Mrs. Stanford died of strychnine poisoning. The report of the chemists shows this conclusively. The autopsy revealed the heart, otherwise healthy, badly swollen by assimilation of the poison, which quickly distributed through the system, not showing in the stomach. The chemists also found a large quantity of strychnine in the bicarbonate of soda.

 Students Revere the Memory of Benefactor
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, March 1905) - Impressive services in memory of Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford were held in the Leland Stanford Memorial Chapel to-day. It was the saddest founders' day in the history of the university. This anniversary has usually been a day of merry-making and elaborate ceremonies. To-day the atmosphere about the campus was exactly oppo site to that of a holiday. In the chapel the organ pealed the favorite airs of Mrs. Stanford. Benjamin C. Blodgett was the organist. Assisting at the mourning services were Miss Pearl Cooper and Samuel Savannah, violinist, from San Francisco. The entire chorus was present at the afternoon service and Miss Cooper was again the soloist. The sacred edifice was filled at both services to its utmost capacity by students and friends, who had come to pay respect to the departed benefactress of the great university. The San Francisco call, March 10, 1905

Miss Bertha Berner, who was Mrs. Stanford's secretary, has named Ah Wing, a Chinese cook employed at Mrs, Stanford's San Francisco home, as the person whom she suspects of placing the strychnine in the bicarbonate of soda. Advices received here are to the effect that Ah Wing is in the custody of detectives in San Francisco. More arrests are expected to follow at the conclusion of the investigation into the cause of death.

 The mystery attending the death of Mrs. Jane Lathrop Stanford at Honolulu is beginning to unravel. Once convinced that she had been poisoned, the police in this city were not slow to follow up clews and fasten suspicion. No suspect was ever arrested and convicted for the murder of Mrs. Stanford.

To this day this is a mystery studied by students at Stanford University and    98 years later, seems to point to Bertha Berner, Jane Stanford's long-time personal secretary, who was the only person with her both times she was poisoned.