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Show TAKE RANll THHT ! ! jpFlJILLIONAIRE RICE -' H t - - - ... ! ' NEW YORK, Nov.'6.-Coroner 8chor ler, who arranged to make formal demand de-mand today upon District Attorney Jerome Je-rome and Police Commissioner McAdoo for aid in solving the mystery which surrounds the death of Margaretfa Todd, said last night: "The case fairly- bristles with suspicion, suspi-cion, and my firm conviction la that future fu-ture developments will put It side by side with the Patrick case in depth of interest and quality of crime." To Baise' Needed Funds, It was expected that the financial obstacle ob-stacle to an analysis of the dead woman's wo-man's stomach would be removed at a conference planned for- today between Coroner Scholer and Sinclair Tousey, the authorized representative of Mrs. Todd's daughter, who, it was said, would permit not question of expense to block the InvVstigatlon. For the first time since the tragic death of Mrs. Todd, her French maid, Marie Ood-dard. Ood-dard. made a statement yesterday. '. . Jt brought to light one Important fact hat Mrs. Todd, before leaving home the day of her death, took a package of important private papers from a cabinet cabi-net and placed them in her satchel. That satchel was found beside the body on Reading tracks In Philadelphia, but the papers were not in It. Wanted Fresh Air. ' ""On the day she was killed." said the maid, "she had been suffering from a severe cold and was eager to go out for 1a 'breath of fresh air,' as she expressed it. . "She put on her hat, took a package ui iiiipuriaiii private papers nom & cabinet, put them Into her band satchel and started out. I had no Idea that she was going out of town." Miss Goddard was positive that Mrs. Todd could not have walked to the place where her body was found. Never Did Any Walking. "Why. she" never did any walking," said the maid emphatically. "She could' not walk two blocks without distress. She had been taking medicine for months for her heart and carried a bottle bot-tle of it In her satchel when she left home." It waa learaed later that this "medi-c!ne' "medi-c!ne' was digitalis, put up with other Ingredients in' tablet form. Another fact, learned yesterday, is that a letter received by Mrs. Todd a few days before her death from some unknown person in Brldesburg, Pa., was found In her rooms a few days ago. Kay Furnish due. This letter may contain a clue to the mystery of Mrs. Todd's trip to Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. Just before her departure for Philadelphia she told Miss Knight, who accompanied her to the ferry, that the private business which took her away was not in Philadelphia but Brldesburg. Brldes-burg. No one has been" able to discover that Mrs. Todd knew any one living or do-li.g do-li.g business in Bridgesburg, which in practically a suburb of Philadelphia on the Pennsylvania road. Letter Mislaid. Unfortunately this Bridesburg letter has been mislaid by its finder.- A systematic sys-tematic search for. It- wilt be made today. to-day. r Counsel for Ingersoll Lookwood, Wh0 was formerly Mrs. Todd's attorney, said yesterday: t "We shall demand warrants for the arrest of Sinclair Tousey and his lawyers law-yers the first thing tomorrow morning. If we fall there we shall at once apply to the District Attorney'for permission i to lay all the facts before the grand Jury." |