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Show K DR. SCUDDER'S CRIME. He Not Only Murdered His Mother-in-law but He Also Forged the Will Which was Afterwards Found. Chicago, April 23. Another case has come up in which Dr. Henry Martyn Scudder, Scud-der, against whom the charge of causing the death of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Dun-ton, Dun-ton, is pending, is interested. It has reference refer-ence to the second will purporting to have been made by Mrs. Dunton, and which her husband and attorney assort is a bogus one, drawn by Dr. So udder. Dunton's attorneys this afternoon tiled a petition in the probate court settiug forth the facts in regard re-gard to the prior will and asking Judge Mighty to take such action in regard to the second document as he deemed proper. The prior will was admitted to probate pro-bate shortly after Mrs. Dunton's death. In it a portion of the estate was devised to Scudder' s wife and the remainder to other relations. The second will, which the attorneys at-torneys allege was prepared and the signature signa-ture thereto forced by Scudder, leaves the whole of the estate to his wife. Celia Wallace, one of the servants, whose name is signed to the Will, testilied this afternoon af-ternoon in court that the paper is not the one signed. It was another paper which Dr. Scudder asked her to sign, and, when she did so, Mrs. Dunton's name was not signed to it. Scudder explained to her 'chat the paper shs signed in the presence of Mrs. Duuton was signed erroneously, hence the substitution of the other. He further told her not to tell Mrs. Dunton abont the second signature lest, in her weak condition, it should worry her. Hannah Johnson, another domestic, testified testi-fied to seeing the Wallace girl sign a paper, saying it was folded so that the writing could not be seen. She added that Mrs. Dunton, before her death, told her that the residence resi-dence was to go to Miss Parker, and wanted her to remember that if there was any trouble about it. Experts testified that the signature on the second document was evidently written by a different hand than that which signed Mrs. Dunton's first will. In the criminal court the case against Scudder was continued until May 4th. |