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Show A BOGUS WILL. It Betrays the Murderer of His Mother-iii-I.an, Who Drew I p the False Instrument. ChiOaoo, March 6. Who drew up the forced will? is the first question in the .iekyll-Ilyde ease that is puzzling all Chicago. Chi-cago. But for the alleged discovery of Dr. Scudder'a surreptitious handling of the private pri-vate papers of the rich woman he is charged with having murdered, he might never have lieeu suspeetl'd of the crime. The forged will is in the possession of Attorney Tolman, representing the dead woman' husband and Bister. The circumstauces under which Si udder had it drawn, if he did, w ill likely go far to prove or disprove his sanity and guilt. It seemingly was prepared by a lawyer, and the question of the attorney's identity and possible complicity is being carefully put toward a solution. It is said that an expert, to whom the two will were submitted before be-fore Dr. Scudder' arrest and who kuew nothiug of the circumstance in the case, decided, without hesitation, that the two documents were not signed by the same person, one signature showing the tremor incident to old age or feebleness, and the other firmly written, with forced attempts at irregularity of outline. A Jauesville, Wis., dispatch tonight says that at an undertaking establishment there an examination of the body was made. The relatives were afforded an opportunity to ace the dead woman's face. When the body was in Chicago the head was kept covered, it Is said, at Scudder's instance, because it was wholly unpresentable The autopsy showed the head of the woman to have been terribly bruised, ami tho skull fractured iu several places. |