Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-11-06
Coroner Scholer Will Make Formal
Demand on District Attorney
jerome for Assistance,
CASE BRISTLES WITH SUSPICION
Future Developments May Put it Side
By Side With the Celebrated
Patrick Case.

New York, Nov. G.--Coroner Scholer.
who arranged to make formal demand
today upon Dist. Atty. Jerome and
Police Commissioner McAdno for aid I'm
solving the mystery which surrounds
the death Of Margaretta Todd, said last
night
THE case fairly brlstles with sus-
picion, and my firm conviction is that
future developments Will put It side by
side with the Patrick case in depth OF
interest and quality of crime
1t was expected that the financial OBJ
staclc to an analysis Of the dead wom-
ans stomach would be removed at a.
conference planned for today between
Coroner Scholer and Sinclair Tousey,
the authorized representative of Mrs.
lodd's daughter who It was said would
permit no question Of expense TO block
the investigation, For the first time
since the tragic death OF Mrs Todd. her
French maid, Marie Goddard. made
statement yesterday II brought to
light one important f3Ct--that Mrs Todd
before leaving home the day of hcr
death, took "a package Of important
private papers from a cabinet aud
placed them I'm her s9tchcl That sdtch-
e was found beside the body on Read
ting tracks n Philadelphia, but the pa
pers were not in H.
ION the day she was killed. said tho
maid, she had been suffering from a
severe cold and was eager TO so out for
q breath OF fresh air as 'qhe expressed
'She put on her hat, took package
OF important private papers from a cab
met put them into her hand satChel
and started out / had no idea that
she was going ont NJ town"
Miss Goddard was positive that Mrs.
Todd could not have walked 10 the
place where her body was found
Why she never did any walking
said the maid emphaucally
she could not walk two blocks with
out distress She had been taking
medicine FOR months for her heart and
when she left home"
il was learned later that this medl.
cine was dig.tols put mp with other
ingredients in tablet form
Another fact learned Yesterday re
that q letter received Boy Mrs Todd
few days before her death from some
unknown person iu BrdceburE Pa
was found in her rooms q few days ago.
This letter may contain q clue to the
mystery of Mrs To4d's trip 90 Phih-
delpha. Just before her departure for
Philadelphia she told Miss knight who
accompanied her Co the ferry that the
private business which took her away
was not IN Philadelphia but Brides
burg.
No one has been able 10 discover that
Nfra Todd LBIN. UrVNup iiVIU0. doing
business iu Budcsburg which is praC-
tically a suburb of Philadelphia ON the
Pennsylvania road.
Unfortunately this Rridesburg letter
has been mislaid by its finder. A sys-
tematic search for it will bc mado to-
day.
Counsel Tor lagersol Lockwood who
was formerly Mrs Todds attorney,
said yesterday
we shall demand warrants for the
arrest OF Sinclair Tousey and his law
yers tho first thing tomorrow morning
II we Rail there we shall mo once apply
to the district attorney for permission
20 lay an the facts before the grand
jury"
Milton BerdIzhaim, grandson OF Mrs.
Todd, is watching developments eager
ly. The win OF 1902 Ned by Lockwood
ignores his existence completely, but
should this win be set aside the estate
would be left as N Mrs Todd died In
testate and Berolzhelm would be cnu-
tied 10 his share BeE0iheim's moth
er who was Mrs. Todds elder daugh-
ter, was for years prominent On san
Francisco society. on the morning Of
April l. 1900 she was found dead iu her
rooms In Forty-second street. suicide.
with reason unhinged, she had Sc