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Show Interest is revived in is. todd mystery Officers IfrliiMP They Are Close on Trail of Murderers of Woman. N K W YORK, Nov. .10. There was a revival of activity yesterday both In ihe criminal Investigation ami the. i Ivll proceedings consequent upon the death of Mrs Margaret!,. Todd, Ihe wealthy New York woman found mangled on the Keadlnc, Harks In Philailelphla on October J7. Theron Davis, one of the attorneys for Mrs. Rosalie Tousey, Mrs. Todd'a daughter spent th. da In 1'bll.nlelphla following strong clues, which are ex-pei ex-pei ied lo reveal who lb" persona were who were with Mrs. Todd on the night of her death, Including a man who mel her ai ihe railroad station In that city. Satisfactory Progress. Mi Davis returned from Philadelphia last night. "1 made Satlsfat 101 y prnuress ' he -aid. but do no! feel Justified as yel In divulging ths facts or giving an) intimation rr them. Such B cdurse would be too likely lo defeat the ends of justice." in this iity ngersoll LOckwood, for many years the Intimate ftlend and legal adviser of (ho dead woman, produced pro-duced three documents purporting to convey portions of her property. Two of these were assignments of mort-gages, mort-gages, the existence of which was unknown un-known to Mrs. Tousi y m lu-r atlornevs. They were dated In 1901. and trniu-ferred trniu-ferred a nioriRaxe for jr.o.ono and one for 140.000 from Mrs. Todd to Lockwood himself. Served on Trust Company. A copy of the third document was served by Ml Lock WOO d upon the Lincoln Trust company, temporary administrator ad-ministrator of the estate, yesterday It Is the deed of trust by which Air. Lock-wood Lock-wood some time iieo claimed possession of Mrs. Todd's personal estate, amounting amount-ing by his own admission lo more than $100,000. The deed makes Mr Lockwood trustee trus-tee of the entire personal estate, 111 - Btructa him to Invest the funds, and from the Income pay Jennie m. p.ilne, at one time Mrs Todd's mo hi. SPxio, kejp $1000 annually for himself, and tuin over the balance of ihe Income to Mrs Tousey. The tuiv terminates on Mr. Look-wood's Look-wood's death. |