New-York tribune., 1905-11-04
NOT KILLED BY A TRAIN.
TODD AUTOPSY VERDICT
Coroner Says aged Woman Vas
Murdered and Throzcn on Track.

Ihe autopsy held yesterday on the BODY OF
Mrs. Margaretta Todd, of No. % West 26th-st
who was found dead on the tracks OF the Phila-
delphia and Reading Railroad In Philadelphia
last Friday night added evidence that she had
been murdered. 1t was found that ten ribs and
the breastbone were fractured There were no
bruises on the body. as would have been the
inevitable result if it had been struck by train
The flesh not torn, the clothes were neat
and not torn nor disarranged in any way. Inc
only thing surely done by the train was to cut
off her legs below the knees.
After the autopsy Coroner Scholer said that
he was convinced that the had been
crushed thrown down embankment before
the struck her. The force of mans knee
might have killed her in the manner in which
she apparently met her death he said. Coroner
Dugan, of Philadelphia who was present, seemed
to share DR.. Scholer's views The womans
stomach and other organs were sealed up and
sent to the College of Physicians and Surgeons,
where they will remain until analyzed by a
chemist. The body will be returned to Wood
lawn Cemetery to-day.
A patry controversy has arisen as TO
who shall pay have the organs analyzed to
ascertain whether the woman had been drugged
prior to her death. Coroner Dugan says that
he is sure that the courts in Philadelphia would
contribute the necessary money, and Cor
oner Scholer is satisfied that court in this
city Will give the funds, as the woman met her
death in Philadelphia. Coroner Scholer says
that the analysis might cost $1,000. G. G.
Hastings an attorney said last night that he
would see that analysis would be made, but
would not pay $4,000 for the work. Coroner
Scholer says that the investigation Is to be kept
at standsti until the money is produced
from He says that his next step
will be to hold an inquest and summon every
in any Way with
Ingersoll Lockwood took legal action yester-
day to regain possession OF No. 90 West 26th-st
which captured from him Thursday after
by party under Hastings With Mark
Alter as his counsel Lockwood went before
Magistrate Whitman in the Jefferson Market
Police Court yesterday morning and got five
summonses returnable at $50 o'clock this morn
ing They issued for Hastings, his col
league Theron Davis: his client. Sinclair Tousey,
and for two of the detectives who took part in
the raid While neither Alter nor Lockwood
would make a statement, j. j. Ascher. propr1e-
tor of the detective agency which Lockwood pat
ronizes, said that Mr.. Lockwood wished to prove
Hastings a trespasser and compel him to
show cause for his raid Lockwood promised to
have in court his lease of the Won Honman
house and the last will of Mrs. Todd. Hastings
said that he believed that the action would COM
pei Lockwood to bring forward the Will made
and signed by Mrs. Todd in 1909. He asserts
that no police magistrate has the authority to
pass on the validity Of either the will or the
lease and does not fear that he will be dis
possessed. He said
| am now of the opinion that Mrs. Todd died
intestate. Lockwood admits that he dreT UP a
will in 1903 which changed the terms of the
will of 1902. which he filed. If he lost the last
will as he says, the will file is not valid. l
have witnesses that the will of 1903 was in
evidence after Mrs Todd's death. and II 1t
+Ia loft NV kfyu
must be divided between Mrs. Tousey and Mil
ton Berolzed. Mrs. Todds grandson The
mans mother who Mrs. Touseys sister. is
dead lockwood now says he has $1SOOOO be-
longing the estate in his possession. Early in
the week he told me that the property did not
amount to 100000. The last time ! saw him
he said that he had that large sum Of money in
trust Thursday evening he offered to count
out 100000 in front of Captain Dooley Of the
Tenderloin precinct. L do not know how he
Would not have intrusted 1t to him after she
had discharged him. and she never accused him
OF taking it. in the case Of her last Will.
Mr. Hastings met last night Berolziieds
LAWYERS Morris Meyer and Daniel O'Reilly.
Meyer and O'Reilly said that they entirely
satisfied with the course that Hastings is per-
suing since they know that he is not acting
contrary to the interests of their client.
Coroner Scholer demanded last night the let
ters written by Mrs. Todd and Lockwood in the
possession of Hastings. They were later made
public. They contain suggestive paragraphs
bearing on the plots in which the
involved in the last months of her life. Mrs
Todd's letters were all written to Amory from
Atlantic CITY in July and August. Lockwoods
letters were written 10 Amory chiefly from
Saratoga Springs.
Some extracts from her letters follow:
l. has played me false. He tried to make
trouble between my daughter and me. but he
could not do It. He go back into little
hall bedroom again at SO week and make tea
over the gas jet. l am through with him for
l. is big sponge. and I Will squeeze him dry
before ] get through with him. He knows me,
and | swear I will do il If he troubles any
more. 1 will spend money to do 1t and will get
a lawyer that will show him l know A lot
of his doings He tried get in his power
like Patrick who used Rice's valet TO poison
him. Patrick will go 80 the chair for II. Ihat
was what l.. tried to do with you-to use you
against me-and now he and Mrs Lee are try
ing 10 swallow their words. She touched a vital
spot when she tried to make trouble between |
ne and Mrs Tousey. and / can never forgive |
her.
Mrs Tousey knows that one of my pretended
friends wrote her that stuff as dictated py {
Lockwood She did take any stock III
him He was on the make and was living Oh
me- He used Miss Paine as catspaw, and she
q willing tool.
The letters signed Il" call both Heal ana
Miss Paine 'rogues" and attempt TO cause
Amorv to injure Heal They beg the manager
TO Mrs Todd's apartments. Amory showed
+hesa q, hiS While he appeared