New-York tribune., 1905-11-09
TODD DCASE ARREST TODAY
Il CONSPIR4CY CHARGED.
Evidence of Womam's Murder dc
ca7nuIates-Cabman q Watness.

Arrests will be made to-day by the District
Attorneys office in connection with the case of
Mrs Margaretta Todd, the woman found dead
and supposedly murdered on the tracks of the,
PHILADELPHIA and Reading Railroad several days
ago The charge on which the law will act
will be that Of grand larceny arising from the
discovery of an alleged conspiracy TO get Mrs.
Todds property.
Assistant District Attorneys Mott and Per-
kins on Tuesday examined G. G. Hastings, the
attorney of Mrs. r. Tousey, Mrs Todds
daughter; S. Tousey, Mrs Touseys brother-in-
law, and P. ". Radcliffe, vice president ana
manager of the Stephen MERIT Burial Com
pany. regarding the existence of a conspiracy
The examination of witnesses will continue to-
day Probably Miss Jennie Paine. Mrs. Todds $
companion, will be subp9naed, but lngersoil
Lockwood the dead womans attorney, will not
be called upon testify
Mr. Hastings yesterday advertised that he
would give 81 900 to anyone who could furnish
him with any information in connection with the
alleged murder of Mrs Todd. He and the au-
thorities of this city and Philadelphia are con-
vinced that the aged woman was murdered ana
afterward placed on the track,
The police of Philadelphia believe that they
have an important witness in cabman named
O'Hara. He was the only man in the business
who could not be accounted for in all his move
ments on the night of Mrs Todds death Early
in the evening he picked up load. For tour
hours after he is supposed to have coLected ms
fare he was lost When he finally reappeared
he was drunk and has continued in that condl-
tion ever since When officers found him at ms
home short time later he was beyond talking,
hut his wife was vet capable of articulation
and when told that the Investigators were
searching for eIews IN the Todd mystery imme-
he mo announced that
her husband had told her that the murder had
occurred on the night of Friday, october "a IN
his cab When her original statement was SHOWN
TO her after she had become sober she asserted
that she haG said that she had read IN the
papers that the murder had occurred in her nus
band's cab. AT the time she made her nrst
statement nothing abou; Mrs. Todd's death had
appeared i'll the Philadelphia papers.
The most conclusive testimony so fnr obtained
in establishing that crime had been committed
is that of the two railroad employees who found
Mrs Todd's body They say that there was no
pool of blood at the place where she was found
This establishes the fact that she must nave
been dead long enough for her blood TO coaGu-
late before the train came ard cut on her iegs.
The say that she had evidently been
dragged along the track for three or four yfaroS,
the track appears TO have been Shieared Win
blood and flesh for that distance ana her
pocketbook and other belongings were found
from nine to twelve feet away from the body
Her garments now in Philadelphia. not
bloody When found the body waa cold. al
though the train that must nave severed tne
legs passed only half an hour before puZ-
zIing circumstance is that the head was lying
on the rail The authorities believe that it could
not have got there unless the murderers had
returned after the legs had been severed and
prepared her for idrther mutilation-
The authorities have discovered that an al
+e,1nt vas made iinne nediatelv after Mrs ToddS
death by a person involved in the conspiracy
charoa to get possession OF all mail directed To
the dead woman. The postoffice authorities at
the Madison Square station. which supplies the
eastern end OF 26th-st- refused To permit her
Ie4ters 10 go out of their hands. and are still
I,,tA-c4,,tin9 everything directed tn her. it is