Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Section 1 Poland Spring Water
Chapter 1 The first poisoning 3
Chapter 2 Strychnine 10
Chapter 3 Watching the detectives 13
Chapter 4 AH wing and Wong toy wong 18
Chapter 5 The way to san jose 23
Section 2 Founding a University
Chapter 6 Bertha Berner writes a life 33
Chapter 7 Leland Stanford Jr. 37
Chapter 8 Ghosts and money 41
Chapter 9 Leland Stanford junior university 49
Chapter 10 David Starr Jordan 55
Chapter 11 Independence 61
Chapter 12 Surrogates 66
Section 3 Quarrels
Chapter 13 Follow the money 75
Chapter 14 Comings and goings 80
Chapter 15 Edward Ross 86
Chapter 16 The Ross affair 92
Chapter 17 Ross strikes back 98
Chapter 18 "He told it nice" 107
Section 4 A System of Absolutism
Chapter 19 The despot 115
Chapter 20 The breach 122
Chapter 21 The surrogate son 129
Section 5 Travels Toward a Poisoning
Chapter 22 My man beverly 139
Chapter 23 Thomas Welton stanford 143
Chapter 24 Homecoming 147
Chapter 25 Downstairs 152
Chapter 26 The walls close in 156
Chapter 27 Resurrectsons and suicides 162
Section 6 Death Comes for Mrs. Stanford
Chapter 28 Moana hotel 167
Chapter 29 When she met death, she called it by name 170
Chapter 30 George Crothers comes home 175
Section 7 The Investigation Begins
Chapter 31 The high sheriff 179
Chapter 32 The case in san francisco 184
Chapter 33 The medicine bottle 188
Section 8 The Investigation
Chapter 34 Suspects 195
Chapter 35 Jordan and Hopkins cross the pacific 201
Chapter 36 The coroner's jury 205
Section 9 The Cover-Up
Chapter 37 Past is prologue 215
Chapter 38 Everyone was lying 217
Chapter 39 Jules Callundan and Harry reynolds 221
Chapter 40 Reframing the investigation 228
Chapter 41 Jordan and waterhouse 234
Chapter 42 A melodramatic detective story 240
Section 10 Jane Stanford Comes Home
Chapter 43 Tay Wang and chief of police wittman 247
Chapter 44 Death of an investigation 255
Chapter 45 The funeral 261
Chapter 46 Covering up the cover-up 269
Chapter 47 Almost an act of just retribution 279
Epilogue Who killed her? 287
Acknowledgments 301
Notes 303
Index 351
Illustrations follow page 192