The San Francisco call., 1896-06-26

Baldwin found all extremely agreeable.
His counsel held the reins, and they drove
the case in pleasant ways for the defend
ant. One by one Henry E. Highton re-
counted the allegations of the plaintiff
and her witnesses, and Baldwin speci-
ficaly and generally denied everything.
Little more than monosyIlablic mega
tives were required by him, and only oc-
casionally he threw in few words of ex-
planation or ext ra vehement denial. Such
occasions were when reference was made
to Miss Ashley having referred to him as
papa Baldwin didn't like the idea
that his relations to the frail Lillian had
ever been paternal, and at every such ref
erence he waxed eloquent in denial.
The defendant was shown a number of
letters, which have heretofore been pub
lished and he was requested to explain
cert ain references in them. One of these
was the one wherein he said he had for
gotten her last name, as she always signed
her letters l.. A. A. The witness said he
had written this simply as an excuse for
not writing. He explained a statement in
one of his letters, to the effect that he had
been short of cash ali winter, as an excuse
for not sending her money to go to school.
"She asked me to give her money to go
to school with, he said, land told her
would see. | never made any promise"
While Baldwin was describing his visit
to Miss Ashley's room at the Baldwin she
laid her head on a table and sobbed bit
terly. By afternoon she had apparently
regained her composure. Once when
Baldwin was going into the details of his
relations with Miss Ashley she laid her
head on the table, but to those nearest her
something very like a smile seemed to be
playing about her countenance.
AZ the afternoon session of the court
Baldwin was handed over to the not very
tender mercies of Attorney Crittenden.
The latter commenced his investigation at
the genesis OF the defendants career. He
traced his steps from the date of his birth
until the opening of the present suit. Par
ticuiar attention was directed TO Baldwin's s
operations as a canal-boat proprietor at
Racine, Wis.
The searching nature of these questions
caused the defendant to exclaim testify:
II never ran away or cheated anybody out
of anything. I'm not ashamed of it.'
He referred TO Newt Killip, the local
auctioneer who was then III his employ, to
prove his statement of his integrity as
canal man.
"Did you know a man at Los Angeles
named Gregory" asked Crittenden.
Highton objected successfully to the
question and Cr1ttenden tried another
tack. He asked Baldwin if he had ever
paid man named Gregory $4,000 to testify
falsely in suit for seduction brought
against him by Louise Wilson. An
objection to this question was also over
ruled. Crittenden persevered in attempt
ing to get the witness to answer substan-
TALLY the same question until Judge Slack
warned him he had enough of the matter.
Baldwln's matrimonial career was then
gone into at length. 1t is an eventful
story in four chapters, but the continuity
of the narrative was badly marred by the
defendants faulty memory. He couldn't
remember Just where he was married the
first time. He knew it was somewhere in
South Bend, but explained that he had
never had any occasion to recollect the
exact location of the ceremony. He was
also unable to recollect within five years
of when his first wife died. His sec
,ond wife. Mary Cochran, he married
in San Francisco. He was divorced