The San Francisco call., 1896-06-09

noon he gave an account OF incidents that
happened in the East, which, to put il
mildly, would prove very interesting if il
could appear in full. Besides his oral testi
mony a letter of the witness was intro,
duced, despite the objection of Mr.. Crit.
tenden, Miss Ashleys attorney, which, as
a genuine scathing is rarely matched.
Farmer John Osborn of Oregon was
asked further about the love letters he had
written to Miss Ashley. incidentally, a
conversation he had in Lawyer Johnson s
office was gone over in which Osborn had
said of Miss Ashley that she "had carried
out what she said she would; if Baldwin
knew what know he would not want me
as his witness"
After some inquiries about Mr. Osborn's
trip home to Oregon he was allowed to de-
part and Detective Wood was sworn.
Mr.. Wood, who served through the Civil
War under Burnside, Hooker, Meade and
Grant, has been detective in Boston for
the past thirtY-two years. He has been at
his present quarters, 256 Washington street,
Boston, nearly seventeen years and first
became acquainted with Miss Ashley in
June, 1893.
Detective Wood went to Miss Ashley to
TO Colonel Albert A. Pope, whom she was
then trying to see. She acknowledged
that she was going 10 Pope's home to see
his wife and she declared that she would
see Pope or commit suicide by taking q
bottle of laudanum, which she had with
her then. When Wood asked her why
she was prosecuting the colonel, she de-
clared that he'had ruined her and she was
going to make him settle. A year before,
in 1892 Miss Ashley claimed that she had
been sent by a charitable woman to
Colonel Pope, who, she was told, was
chaTitably inclined and would assist her.
Accordingly she saw Pope and told him
she wanted money to go to Kentucky.
After calling twice without obtaining
satisfaction, the third time she called
Colonel Pope, she averred, accomplished
her ruin. Thereafter the colonel gave her
various sums of money. She declared,
however, that she would have more money
or she would expose the colonel. Finally
she said if she had enough TO buy little
home near Pasadena or Los Angeles she
thought she and her brother could make a
living.
She told this to Detective Wood, who
was then in Pope's employ, and he COM
municated it to the colonel. The colonel
SAID that he was under no obligation, but
Mr.. Wood, thinking perhaps that Miss
Ashley would leave Boston and that it
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her the $1,000 upon her signing certain
paeprs. Accordingly, upon her declara-
ton that she would not annoy or bother
Colonel Pope any longer, Wood maze ar
rangements for her to purchase her little
home, which was to be decided absolutely
to her at the expiration of year provided
she kept her promise to cease troubling
the colonel.
Wood then executed conditional deed
to this effect, and Miss Ashley signed a
paper which was delivered to Colonel
Pope. in which she did "release and dis
charge the said Albert A. Pope his execu-
tors and administrators, from all claims,
demands, damages, debts and sums of
money recoverable by me, or due to me, or
to which | am entitled from the said
Albert A. Pope, for or on account OF any
and every matter, cause and thing wha t
soever, which happened or existed pre-
vious to the date hereof, and for or on ac-
count of or by reason of any act or doing
of the said Albert a. Pope at any time
previous 10 the date hereof"
At this time Miss Ashley confided to
Wood that she was then in trouble and
tnat Lucky" Baldwin had caused it.. She
recounted how she had become acquainted