| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 101.3

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The Mysterious Death of Jane Stanford

By Robert W. P. Cutler

(Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xi, 161. Illustrations, appendices, notes, select bibliography, index. $29.95.)

On the last day of February 1905, elderly dowager Jane Stanford cried out in the night, "This is a horrible death to die!" Linking her words to the agonies of strychnine poisoning, Dr. Robert Cutler, once neurologist and pharmacologist at Stanford University (now, most regrettably, deceased) reopened a one-hundred-year-old murder investigation. The book has caused quite a stir, not only because of Cutler's conviction that Stanford was a victim of foul play, but because of his accompanying accusation of a cover-up orchestrated by Stanford University's famous early president, David Starr Jordan. Jordan, of course, had been plucked by Jane and Leland Stanford from the presidency of Indiana University to build and expand the university that the couple created to memorialize their only son.

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