The evening world., 1903-07-09
FOUND IN BES7'S
BODY, WARRANT FOR WOODS
Authorities Seek the Doctor and His
Wife, at Whose Home in California
the Once Wealthy Railroad Builder
Died-Sawdust but No Organs
Found in the Corpse.

tenuation. pale blonde, with watery blue
gray eyes: loud in her dress-she wore
a flaming scarlet nat at Atlantic CITY.
and has n rasp.ng voice.
With them mas been n ive-year-)li
girl, Kathleen. who strongly resemble
DIR. Woods. with brown hair. she Is
plump and is dressed lnconspicuously.
Once n Clergyman.
Investigation OF DR.. Woods. say those
Methodist minister down TO 1890. when
he was expelled from his charch a.
Allegheny. N. Y, by the Clean ConIer-
ence on the ground tnat he had two
train neal Buffalo to face II criminal
charge of s'2amy brought by the wom-
al who is Cow his companion. He had
represented himself at Port Allegheny
afterwGrd he introduced a young wife
to his flock. She was a Miss Isabella
Mann. If Buffalo.
He was known then as Rev. John
in an appearance and caused his first
trouble. Her aunt's husband, Robert
Cooper. who now lives AT No. 43S Gates
avenue, Brooklyn. gave bail of 5000 for
lie got n physicians diploma from a
wild cat medical college in the West.
added an IS to his name. and changed
"Dorrity" to Donald" for a middle
III am llab va iuNSA
When DR.. f. Gray Bllnn, of No. l67
West Forty-seventh street. was arrested
charged with causing the death OF Mary
J. d. Woods called on Charles r.. LIE
Barber, Blinn's attorney. and offered to
testify that he was in Or. Blinn's office
that she was then in the condition
which resulted in her death. and in
fact was then dying.
Later he turned up at Asbury Park
where he paid much attention to an old
woman sick at n hotel. she died and
he put in a claim against her estate
for $1,000 for medical attendance. Dr..
Woods lived for a time with his mother
at Union Hill.
The Newark coroner's physician who
performed the autopsy said that an ex-
]perlenced p~atholosist had evidently cut
open the body.
All these things. together with the
fact that the proceeds OF two $50 checks,
2 $500 money order and about 500 in
cash. with $3.50 worth OF mining stocks,
which Col. Best is known to have taken
TO California with him when he went TO
interest Woods, as an alleged recent
heir. in certain mining projects. have
disappeared. set the sons to investi-
eating his taking off.
studied for Ministry.
Or. Woods was born Wood. He Is
the son Ol pttISN "''N' al my
Woodworking ship carpenter who lives
with his wife and another son at No. 3i6
New York avenue, Union Hill, N. j.
Mrs. Robert w. Cooper, his aunt. said
to-day:
Ii was a bright boy and young man
and | can't understand his late dishon-
est acts unless IL is that that woman
who is much older than he. has a bad
influence over him.
He studied for the ministry at Drew
College and was pastor OF hat church
at Port Allegheny about a year. He
married that honest, nice girl. ISABELLA
Mann. Then this woman claimed him
and had him arrested for bigamy, and
Miss Mann got a divorce and he ran
AT the request of his mother-ln-lay
l hunted him up in Chicago during the
Exposition in 1898. He was then prac-
Using in a public hospital"
County Physician William II. McKen-
ze to-day sent the official report of his
finding at the autopsy on the body of
Col. Best to the authorities in the West,
and while he would not give out whet
was contained in the report. he said:
1T Is all UP to the Western people.
now and ! think h first step for
them to take Is to locate the under
taker who emoalmed the body and see
what he has to say. The fac that there
was sawdust in the body Is not strange.
In many cases sawdust or cotton is
placed in a body to absorb moisture,
II the undertaken will come forward
and say he removed the orEans that will
throw a different light on the subject"