New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-28
TRAIN KILLS MRS. TODD.
DIES IN PHILADELPHIA.
Ozcner of Cafe Francis Wanders
from City Home.
& Underwood. }

PHILADELPHIA Oct 27.-Mrs. Margaretta TODD,
of New-York was found along the tracks OF
the Philadelphia and Reading Railway at the
oxford-st. entrance to Fairmount Park late to-
night. Both legs were severed from the body
below the knees and her head crushed She
was found by f1agman who was walking along
the track. A patrol was hurriedly summoned
and the woman was conveyed to the German
Hospital where she died a few minutes after
being admitted
How the woman met with the accident,is not
known and the officials have started an inVestl-
CATION. Papers newspaper clippings and letters
found on the body showed that she was the wife
of Louis L. Todd proprietor of the Hotel Ven
dome in New-York
When found the wore eight diamond
rings and a diamond brooch. In ner handbag
were found a cancelled Pullman car ticket from
Jersey City to Philadelphia, check drawn
bv Augustus w Fisch of No. 257 West 112th-
St New-York and a small sum of money a
card also in her handbag, gave her address as
No 20 West 26th-st., New-York. The body is
at the norgue, and the police have taken charge
of the valuables.
Mrs. Margaretta Todd, who was killed last
night by an accident in Philadelphia, had been
reported missing few hours earlier to the po-
lice of this CITY, Hoboken and orange, by John
Emory. the manager of the Van Hoffman,
Apartments, No. 20 West 2Gth-st.. which she
owned and in which she lived. She had been
three times married. the last time to Louis L.
Todd the proprietor of the Hotel Vendome, from
whom she was divorced some years ago.
Mrs Todd, who was more than eighty years
old was eccentric in many ways, always wear
ing much 1ewelry and red wig over her white
hair On Thursday night she taken sick
and her mind wandered considerably.
She sent for her lawyer and her stepdaugh-
ter Mrs. Howe, living at No. 152 West 18th
St. announcing that she was going to change
her will When they came Mrs Todds mind
was too unsettled to make the contemplated
change Shortly after noon yesterday she rose
and told her maid that she was going to visit
friends in Orange.
cab was called, and Mr.. Emory was about
to accompany her to Orange when a woman
with whom Mrs Todd had been intimate for
some time called She Mrs. Knight, liv-
ing in S1st-st She volunteered TO accompany
Mrs Todd. and the offer was accepted.
The cab driver ordered to drive to the
Christopher-st. ferry, but Mr.. Emory later
found that he drove to the 23d-st. ferry. The
next thing he heard was that she had been killed
in Philadelphia. Mr.. Emory at once started to
bring back the body after sending a message to
Mrs Todds daughter by her second marriage,
who is in Europe
Mrs Todd was wealthy, and her apartments in
the Won Hoffman, it is said, were furnished with
almost Oriental lavishness. -Four years ago she
and her daughter barricaded the Cafe Francis,
which she also owns, against her son-in-law,
William Marchand At first Mrs Todd said he
was only her caretaker, but later admitted that
he was partner in the cafe. but held that he
was in arrears large amount of rent, The
manager Otto Busse whom she had arrested at
that time, later sued her for $4,000 for false
arrest but the case thrown out of court.
Mrs Todds first husband a Mr. Weather
ford After his death she married to a man
named Andrews and later to Louis L. Todd,
from whom she was divorced several years ago.
The daughter who is abroad, is the wife of
Frank Tousey, the publisher.
Emory found the cabman who had driven
Mrs. Todd and Mrs. Knight to the ferry. The
cabman said he was directed to go to 23d-st
instead of Christopher, and that Mrs. Knight
relieved him of the task of purchasing Mrs
Todd's railroad tickets. After the women |
aligh+ed from the cab he drove away.