The Minneapolis journal., 1906-07-08
HART JE LETTERS ALL
F0RGER|Es, He ASSERTS.
Even Sample of Woman's
Writing Discredited by
Expert Williams.
Spsoial to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Pittsburg, July 7.-Augustus Hartie,
several times millionaire is confronted
with most serious condition. Hartie
based his divorce suit on Mrs. Hartie s
alleged intimacy with Tom Nadine,
family coachman. .a.-H
Hartje's counsel have recently an
nounced they were satisfied to allow
the outcome of the suit to rest upon
the relations between Mrs. Hartje and
Nadine They produced forty letters,
80 per cent of them purporting to be
written by Mrs. Hartie to Nadine. the
others, alleged to have been written by
Nadine to Mrs. Hartje they announce
they are willing to stand Or fall by
these letters.
To-day T. NJ. Williams, recognized
local handwriting expert publicly an
nounced that he was one, who after eX-
amining the letters, refused to go on the
stand and testify in behalf OF the hus-
band.
Decided Them Forgeries.
He said, "I was employed by
Hartie to work on the letters
and went over them July 8 and
4. | decided they were forgeries
and told Hartje l couldn't go on the
witness stand and say they were genu-
Inc. First they gave me two letters,
one of which was written on scrap or
paper and told me that was Mrs.
Hartje's handwriting and that other
was a forgery. l examined them and
decided both were forgeries.
"Then / went to the office OF Attor-
ney Freeman, Mrs. Hartie S lawyer, and
asked for a sample Of her writing, he
gave it to me and I compared it with
The letters. They didn It look the same
to me and all looked like forgeries. L
haven t been employed by Attorney
I freeman to testify the letters are not
genuine.
II don't know about William Duff,
the only other handwriting. expert, OF
note in this city who hasn t been called
into the case. I would have thought
Hartie would have had him if he could
testify the letters were genuine
His Trunk Sacked.
Nadine today admits his trunk was
robbed, presumably by a private de-
tective who used the name of Craig and
that he (Madine) notified the police
Nadine says some of the papers stolen
iwere valuable to him, including docu-
Ireland in which he has an interest
Recommendations from former en-
iployees, letters from his Irish relatives
He absolutely denies that any letters
from Mrs. Hartje were among the
plunder. Mrs. Hartie's counsel are now
searching for Craig to bring crlmlna
suit.
Mrs. Hartie s lawyers have employed
handwriting experts, Lewis and Carval
no of New York, who figured in the
Molineaux poison case, to combat the
evidence Of the experts for Hartie.
Assistant District Attorney John S
Robb, now threatens prosecution
against Hartje and his friends in con
nection with the assertion by Hartj'
that his wife visited the Lincoln hote
with a prominent business man an(
millionaire. Mrs. Hartie's s lawyers triet
to force the name Of the man, but h
succeeded in avoiding it. Now, almos
every one in Pittsburg knows to whom
Hartie referred and his name is bandie
on the street. The man, who declare
to his friends, and is said to have mott
fed Hartie with some very strenuou
remarks attached that he ism guilty
isvery mad. He wants satisfaction 70
being placed in false and very humili
ating position. so he says.