The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-11-12
WORKING CLUES
IN TODD MYSTERY
PHILADELPHIA CORONER sSAVS
HE HAS THEM AND TAKES UP
UNRAvELING OF RIDDLE OF
THE WOMAN'S DEATH.

New YORK, NOV, ll'-NeW my o'Si
was woven yesterday into the inves-
tieation of Margaretta Todd's tragic
death an the Reading tracks in the
outskirts of Philadelphia.
For three hours last night Coroner
Dugan and objective Gallagher of
Philadelphia, were in conference with
Sinclair Tonsey and his lawyers,
George Gordon Hastings and Theron
Davis. Prior to this conference the
Philadelphia coroner and detective
had been closeted with Coroner Schal-
er and had passed an hour in the DIS
trict Attorneys office.
Before boarding a late train for Phil
adelphia Coroner Dugan said:
Il do not assert that Mrs. Todd was
murdered. but | do assert with every
possible emphasis that the case is
gravely suspicious. Gallagher and |
return to Philadelphia tonight with
some working clues in our possession.
prophecy developments within the
next forty-eight hours"
Just what these working clues"
are Coroner Dugan declined to state.
So, also, did Mr.. Tonsey and his law
yers. But it was evident they all were
confident of important developments.
At the District Attorneys office lit
tie was done beyond the examination
of Mrs. Julia Horn, the dead woman's
stepdaughter; Miss Fannie Knight, the
one who last saw Mrs. Todd alive in
this city, and Miss Jennie M, Paine,
who was in Mrs Todd's service for
wears. and who was dismissed together
with the old lawyer Ingersoll Lock
wood.
The evidence referred solely to the
alleged conspiracy to steal Mrs, Todd's
lost will and gain control of the en-
tire estate
AS vet the District Attorney has
not taken up the grayer side Of the
mystery which envelopes the woman's
death. 1t is known that the District
Attorney will not make an arrest I'M
til proof is submitted that the docu
ment seen in the hands of lngersoll
Lockwood by Manager Radcliffe, Of
the Stephen Merritt Burial Company,
was a lost and valid will of Mrs.
Todd
Meanwhile the Philadelphia authori-
ties are bending every energy to so
luton of the mystery. To all intents
and purposes, Coroner Dugan, of Phil
adelphia, has taken full charge of the
Investigation. Coroner Scholer, lack
ing all legal jurisdiction, practically
has withdrawn from the case.
A new piece of evidence brought to
light Yesterday is regarded as of ques-
uionable quality although substantial
import. 1t is given by Richard Bayard
Coutant, son of DR.. Richard Coutant,
of Tarrytown, N. Y, physician to John
d. Rockefeller and other multimilion-
aires. DR.. Coutant last night admitted
that he did not believe the story. 81
do not regard Richard as responsible, "
said he.
Early yesterday morning a middle
aged man called on Sinclair Tousey, at
the publishers Union Square office,
and made a statement in substance as
follows:
L am Richard Bayard Coutant, and
live in Philadelphia, at No. GIL North
Broad street. | am a chemist in the
employ of John Wyeth & Co, manu-,
featuring druggists. On the night of
October q after passing the early
evening with a friend, took a stroll
in Fairmount Park | walked through
to the Reading tracks and sat down
on a bench close to the cut in which
! Mrs. Todd's body was found.
Il was lighting a cigar when
heard the sound of moving carriage
wheels on the opposite side of the cut
heard the opening and closing of a
carriage door and two figures came
into sight through the bushes. They
we're men and between them they car
ried a heavy something that looked
like bundle I lost sight of them in
the darkness of the cut and thought
nothing more of IT,"