New-York tribune., 1905-11-07
WILL PROBE TODD CASE,
CORONER'S OFFICE ACTS
Philadelphia Officials Wake Up al
Last-Both Sides Talk.

George Gordon Hastings, the repleseii
Mrs. Rosalie Tousey, yesterday mao d w. 80.
conference with Assistant District AtloiiieS -
in the case of Mrs Margaretta Todd 'he asoN
woman found dead on the tracks of the Fhlia-
de,phia and Reading Railroad on the hshl u
Friday October ~. To-day the District 49, -
ney's office will examine witnesses ABOUT llie o
said to have been drawn by the woman III 80
In the afternoon Mark Alter. representing II
gersoH Lockwood filed petition for the -,
Of the heirs under the will of 19oZ lhl'
was put IN the Surrogates off1ce' put ho'
fered for probate. by Lockwood on the NAo.u'
succeeding the woman's death. In the petl'io', ,
for citation Lockwood swears that the va
1902 is Mrs Todds last win and testament
,o+bar devalonr,ent of the day was the
cbanee of front taken by the Philadelphla OH
cials DR. Dugan. the coroner or the
CITY" telephoned Coroner Scholer that ms 80
trict Attorney was ready to take TO ii'h -
and have analyzed the organs reinoNeu 49,
Mrs Todds body at the inquest last week. -
Robinson. coroner's physician, and professor
C. A. Meeker chief pathologist and chemist oil
Philadelphia came here yesterday, but the Sol
lege CT Physicians and Surgeons was closeo
Coroner Scholer will turn over to them different
parts of the organs for examination, retaining
the rest here.
Mr Mott who is taking District Attorney Je-
rorne's place for the present. said that he couo
not possibly take any action regarding the muir
der mystery. The only part of the case tia'
comes under his jurisdiction is that IN Whlch
Ingersoll Lockwood figures conspicuously. he
said that if il is established that a VIII drawn
in 1903 was in Lockwood's possession, his offer
ing for probate a will drawn in 1902 would con-
stftute felony It is known that Mr.. Mott mas
followed the developments in the TODD case
carefully and is now prepared to take action I'M
mediately. He consulted with Assistant Dlstlie'
Attorney Perkins after Hastings had gone
Lockwood changed his tactics and denied that
he had had a will drawn in 1903 by Mrs. Iooo.
His attorney, Mark Alter, said that he suspected
that there a will executed in l9U5' ana
that he suspected that certain person, whose
name he would not mention. had it When
Lockwood in Alters Office he denied, in a
wholesale manner, the statement regarding his
actions in the Merritt Burial Companys offices
made by vice-Presdent Radcliffe. He said:
did not show Nj Radefs del Will dsd sfSs body him IN
vault at Woodlawn until the arrival OF dtai MIS-;
from other orders @ given by Sinclair Tousey
found Mrs. Todds body in expensive .oil1 eol1
his bin as the exeG1rog # certasny e6 s5
day following her death do not know of the ex-
istence OF a will drawn in 1903.
Mr.. Radcliffe says that Lockwood showed him
a will dated 1903, and that Lsockwood's name
was not mentioned in it. Mr.. Hastings, at least
two newspaper men and two or three other per-
sons say that Mr. Lockwood told them that he
had drawn up a will, dated 1903. and that 1t
had disappeared.
I'VE know the two with Mrs TODD
in Philadelphia, the night of her death, was
the remark of Alter. When the proper tlme
comes we will make their names known. Mr.
Lockwood was not in Philadelphia on the even
ing of Mrs. Todd's death. and we can trace ms
movements all the time that Mrs Todd was out
of town Our statements will involve a pror1-
nent lawyer of this city. l am glad that the
District Attorney is going to investigate this
case. I hope my client will be one OF the hrst
persons examined before the grand jury He
will willing tell all that he knows concern
Ing the tragedy and the events that preceded IT.
Although James A. Lyons. the manager of the
cab service at the Reading station in Philadel-
phia identified Mrs T0dds body positively as
that of a woman that he saw in the company OF
two men-a tall man and a short one-on the
evening - her death, a controversy has now
arisen over the color Of the wig that the woman
wore. He swears that il red. Miss Fan
ME Knight. who drove in Mrs TOdds cab on the
afternoon of her departure, and Marie Godert,
Mrs Todd's French maid, assert that she wore
a white one. The dead woman had seven wigs
Four of them various shades of red, one
was brown one iron gray and one white