The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1905-11-02
Investigation Into death
Of Mrs. Todd.
SHE LEFT LARGE ESTATB
Coroners Of Philadelph and
NewGork At work.
wealthy widow, whsse Beay No.
Feuna on Tracks q ne neaa-
ias, n Il WOW BelisveA
was Murdered.

New York, Nov. l.--Acting upon -
suspicion that Mrs. Margaret 1000, -
wealthy widow. aged 76 years. was =
victim OF foul play. Coroner soholers
a. this city. and Coroner Dugan Of
philadelphia today commenced =
Searching Investigation Of the mystert-
aus facts attending the death and tno
pushing moves that precedei and tot
lowed It.
The value Of Mrs. Todd's estate = es-.
sibly at $1,000, 900. She owned and
lived in the Won Hoffman apartments:
In west Twenty-sixth Street and
owned other real estate In this citys
She wore. when found dead on the
Reading Railway tracks in Phiiadeipnia
last Friday. several thousand doilaps
worth OF jewels. It was learned. how
belt In which she carried large sum
Of money. So far no trace has been
found OF this belt.
/ Thursday last, the day before Mrs.
Todd's leath, George @. Hastings, =
lawyer who had acted as counsci for
Mrs Frank Tousey, Mrs. Toid's daugh-
/ ter, was asked to go to Mrs. TodGa
apartments to draw up new VIII for
/ her. She said she had lost . previous
one. The drawing up OF the new VIII
was postponed until the following Mon
day after Mrs Todd had told the lawyer
what she wanted.
ON the following day, Mrs. Todd left
the Won Hoffman apartments. saying
that she was going TO visit frtends In
lorange, n. j. A Miss Knight accom-
panied her.
Met by UnI<nswn afan.
It has been learned since that MrA
Todd was driven in a cab to the BaIti-
more and Ohio Railroad Station in this
city, where she was met by an un-
known man
Miss Knight says she accompanied
Mrs. Todd at her request Mrs. Todd,
she says. seemed in trouble but did not
lconfide in her. .s 81
Mr.. Hastings. the lawyer. said today
/ that wi en- Mrs. Toid's body was
| brought to New York, Ingerscli Lock
wood, who had previously acted as at.
ltorney for Mrs. Todd. requested that
4 her body be crenaateds but her rela.
tives had countermanded the request
The body was placed in a vuait IN 9
Yesterday Lockwood filed viii ex.
ecuted by Mrs. Todd in 1908. which was
| the will Mrs Todd said she had lost
In 1T she bequeathed the greater part
of her estate to her daughter. Mrs.
| Frank Tousey, wife OF the pubJfsher.
The will also gave $500 to Lockwood
Mr. Hastings said today that this win
was practically nullified II q trust deed
which Mr.. Lockwood declares he holds.
| is drawn. This trust deed, Mr.. L0cAr
wood said, covered the entire estate ex-
cept about $4,000.
| A further complication yesterday was
| the fling by an unknown person Of q
deed by which Mrs. Todd transferrcd
the Won Hoffman apartments to Mrs.
| Tousey.
Murder fs Suspected.
The authorities are unable to dis
cover how Mrs. Todd reached the point
where she was killed. nor whether she
was a victim of crime. The fact that
Coroner Shuier and Coroner Dugap
have taken the case up makes 1t evil
dent that murder Is suspected
Coroner Scholer received letter to-
| day from Coroner Dugan of Philadel-
phia in which he wrote that since the
| discovery OF Mrs Todd's body. eircuna-
stances have been found that require
stringent investigation as to her move
ments after leaving the train In phil
adeIphia. Coroner Dugan said that be
had been unable to find witnesses to
| Give information on that point
/ Coroner Scholer was asked today by
st. Clair Tousey brother-in-iaw OF Mrx
| Frank Tousey, Mrs. Todd's daughter, to
have an autopsy made on the body of
Mrs. Todd. The coroner ordered 1t to
be made tomorrow.