St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-05
The WILL Was FORGED
Chicago Puzzled by Latest De-
Velopments in Scuddep's
Case.
The Will in Favor Of the Doc
tors Wife Is an Evident
Forgery.
It Is Strong and Regular in
Language, but Weak in
Signature.
On Infant Slaughtered by a
FiVe-Year-Old Fiend in
Ohio.

CHICAGO, March 4.-Who drew up the
forged will? is tonight the first question
in the genuine Jekyll-Hyde case that is
pulling all Chicago. But for the al
legged discovery OF DR.. Scudder's snr-
reptitious handling of the private pa
pers of the rich woman he is supposed
TO have asSasSinated, he might never
have been suspected of crime. The
forged will making the doctors wife
the chief legatee is in the possession of
Attorney Mann, who, with ex-senator
Doolittle, is representing the dead
woman's husband and sister. lnspec-
ton today showed that it is not bung-
ling job, and the interest in this was
heightened by the fact that the circum-
stances under which DR.. Scudder had
the paper drawn, if he did it, will
likely go far to prove or disprove his
sanity and guilt. The document is in
perfect legal verbiage, clear in all its
provisions. 1t seemingly was prepared
by a lawyer, and the question Of tue at
torney's identity and possible completely
is being carefully put towards solution.
In this connection it is noted that the
paper upon which the Will Is written
is of
Peculiar Texture
and extraordinary size. The dead
woman's signature, it also appears, was
eaade Elizabeth Maria Dunton," i'll
stead of Elizabeth NJ Parker Dunton."
Those who assume that the doctor is
guilty of poisoning his victim and beat
Ing her brains out have the theory that
after he had placed the forged will
among Mrs. Dunton's papers, and had
succeeded in causing her death, lie be-
came worried about, the error III the
signature, and it was this which led
him to .7feign illness, and remain at
home during the funeral to seek to
again get possession OF the paper, an
attempt which, it is alleged, tended
more than anything else to arouse the
suspicious of the other relatives.
1t leaked out today that an expert to
whom the two wills were submitted
before DR.. Scudder's arrest, and who
knew nothing of the circumstances of
the case, decided without hesitation that
the two documents were not signed by
the same person. He declared one sig
nature showed the tremor incident to
old age or feebleness, and the other was
firmly written, with forced attempts at
irFeguiarity of outline.
t4j-i autopsy AT GAINESVILLE.
GAINESVILLE, Wis. March Mot
until 2 O'Clock this afternoon was the
coffin of Mrs. Frank Dunton opened.
Then for the first time since her injury
the relatives saw the dead woman'S
face. When the body was placed in
the coffin at Chicago, the face was kept
covered at Dr.. Scudder's instance, be-
cause lit was wholly unpresentable."
AS the body was placed on al operating
table this evening it was seen that there
were five wounds. One was across
the bridge of the nose and was
deep depression about an
inch long by a half inch wide.
Three were close together on top of the
head, and might have been made by one
stroke The fifth was at the side of the
head. just above the temple. The eX-
animation was conducted by DR.. Henry
Palmer, surgeon of the Wisconsin Ma
tiOnal Guard, and DR.. CIV. Chittenden,
both of this city. Late tonight Drs.
Palmer and Chlttenden began another
autopsy.