The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-12
STORY Or SCUDDER
Alleged Crimes of DR.. Harry
Scudder and His Suicide.
CHARGES DENIRD BY HIS FAMILY
Accused of Killing His wealthy Mother.in-
Law-lhe Accusations Drive HIM In
sane and Drive Him TO Desperation.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch. |
NEW York, Aug. 1.-THE New York
Independent, in its issue yesterday, contains
an article by Rev. M. w. Montgomery,
which is approved by Doremus Scudder
and Dora NJ Scudder, giving for the first
time the Scudder's family story of the al
legged crimes Of DR.. Harry Scudder and his
subsequent suicide. The dead physician,
who WAS the son Of appointment clergyman,
and had himself romantic career in San
Francisco and India, was accused of killing
his wealthy mother-in law, Mrs. Dunton
of Chicago, in order to get possession Of
her estate. In the Independent article, DR..
Montgomery says that the family OF DR..
Scudder deny enphatically every charge
made against him except that of removing
the tin box which contained the will to
which they attach no blame. He says:
sit is TO attempt to right this great
wrong; to vindicate the truth Of his story !;
to prevent an innocent and noble man
from being condemned without hearing !;
TO relieve IN some small degree the aching
hearts Of this celebrated missionary family
who have had to be silent and to give
others the facts, the learning of which has
given me so much sad relief, that have
entirely voluntarily written these lines"
Concerning the arrest of DR.. Scudder
and the occurrences of Sunday, Feb. IA,
DR.. Montgomery says they tended to ex-
cite DR.. Scudder and unsettle his mind.
Mrs. Dora Scudder in her statement says
of the INCIDENTS of the death of her mother ::
Mammals querulousness had produced
an alteration upstairs and the girls came
down much egitated. Celia afterward
told me that on reaching the parlor hall my
husband came out of the parlor, having
heard the alteration upstairs, and asked
what was the matter! Oh oh, she's wild,
Celia replied. Celia had hardly reached
the kitchen before mamma was heard to
scream There was but one sharp, pierre
ing scream, followed by the sound OF some
one running upstairs. There was no sue
cession of the screams, nor any cry OF
other words whatever. Run, HANNAH l
said, following Hannah had only time to
enter the room and put her arms ABOUT
mamma before | was there. Mamma was
lying on the floor with a crooked cut three
fourths of an inch long, on her nose be-
tween her eyes, another ugly, jagged cut
on her head, beginning at the edge OF her
hair and running back about three inches,
having the appearance of having been
scraped upward. When l reached the
door my husband was IN front
of her with his overcoau on, as
had left him a moment before
He had syringe out and was uncorking
bottle to give hypodermic injection to
still the pain. ! stepped in past him and
saw the horrible sight. | stopped down
saying, poor, poor mamma AS the doc
tor was going TO treat her mamma said in
petUlant tone: Go away, Doctor Harry
Just minute, just minute, / murmured,
as he inserted the needle, which bent be-
cause Of the toughness OF the skin or the
unsteadiness of his hand. Mamma also
said TO Hannah in very pleasant tone:
Help me up, Hannah and said the same
TO DR.. Bassett when he came in. My nus
band told me Rfterward that when he heard
the shrek he ran up to mammals room;
that she was wildly throwing herself
ABOUT and then fell forward out OF Ter
chair. This is the fall that thought must
have broken ner glasses afterwards found
broken ana bloody, and cut her nose.
Then he said she fell on the floor; then she
got up with bis help and pushing him off
again, fell a second time. 1t could
not possibly have been more than
one minute that my husband was alone
with mamma. When we were was hing up
the blood / saw blood on the left corner Of
the chiffonier, as if it had spurted up, and
then it was streaked down in six or eight
places"
DR.. Montgomery says that the news
paper cflJlclSmB brought on LIT. iocuuuer'S
malacy, and that two days after he was
suspected of having poisoned Mrs. Dunton
and forged the second will there was no
doubt Of his insanity. a statement by DR..
Lyman says that there was no doubt of
DR.. Scudder's insanity after the event Of
the week following the suspicious. DR..
Montgomery then takes up IN detail the
charges against DR.. Scudder and Of the
nose evidence TO prove that DR.. Scudder
of ~ of civ Hafq no
circumstances attending each event. He
says there were many things published as
evidence of guilt which can be explained in
natural way He says that DR.. Scudder
and his wife lived very happily together,
and that the former never ill-treated any
one till be was made insane by unjust
suspicious.