Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-09
uesday
Hour Sale
8 to 9 A. M.
nd me hack. and nv father said, No.

send me back, and my father said, No.
not while have flesh on my bones
From that moment the building up OF
this awful case began. The negroes per
jured testimony was but one Item They
even intimated that I tried to overc ome
Mr.. Hartje with chloroform while we were
in Paris; That European trip has ~, 10,
he was most cruel to me-
Mr.. Hartje was always insanely jealous
of me and he made my life miserable Al
though he owns gapsr m worth apd o m,,
twenty-six pieces of downtown real estate
In Pittsburg, including a corner on which
he is now erecting a twelve-story sky
scraper, he wore paper collars for years
Denied Child Good Shoes.
HE would buy $1,000 horse over the
telephone and the next minute when l
would ask him for SO to buy a pair Of shoes
for 'Scotty,' our little boy, he would tell
me to get them for $3.50. Finally my
mother had to buy all my clothes. He
would not give me money with which to
buy a bed on which to sleep in the chill
dren's room, so for nights | had to sleep
on a cot.
AT first when he began his suit he said
he would prove his charge by prominent
members of the Country Club, but finally
he narrowed down to this negro coachman.
who is in Jail, and to the coachman. Tom
Nadine.
''He now criticises me because 1 drove
out with one of these coachmen by my
side. Any one who owns a stable knows
that this is perfectly proper. but that Is
not the point l wish to make. l took the
coachman because MI. HartJe insisted on
it himself He sent the coachman with me
and would ask him when we returned
where we had been. Then certain persons
got the negro to swear to his awful story.
'.They went to another coachman who
used to be in ouf employ, and he replied
L will not swear to anything; no, not to
~ hntl
Next day they went to Tom Nadine
and he could not be bribed, either. Instead
he went on the stand and testified for u.s. I"
Mrs Hartje and her father are both
Frustrated by the strenuous and unex-
pected Incidents of the trial. John Scott
the father, is confined to his room. but
hopes soon to be out and attend the trial
public prejudice which has grown up
against their client because he introduced
the negro coachman. Hooe. into the case
made it much harder for them to work
But, they add, they are asking a divorce
Of the court, and not of the public, and
have no fear Of the verdict
Couple Lived Well.
Before her marriage the wife was one of
the prettiest girls that ever grew up in
Pittsburg Hartje, even twelve years ago
was a thin. sombre man.
From his mother he inherited one of the
largest paper mills in the country. He be-
longed TO good clubs took his wife to
church of a Sunday. didn't drink to ex-
cess always stopped at the Waldorf-As-
toria when he went to New York and
otherwise deported himself like a true
Pittsburger OF moderate habits and plenty
of money,
The couple had handsome home In the
fashionable east end, with lots OF carriages
and retinue of servants. Personally.
though, HartJe appears to have been a
blend Of prodigalfty and parsimony.
Nevertheless, the Hartjes seemed happy
enough in possession OF each other and of
their two children until the summer Of last
year On their return from abroad the
wife went to her fathers home, taking her
children with her. She sent her husband
word that she intended to sue him for sep
aration and aiimony. When she refused to
return to him he began suit himself-the
most startling suit ever fled in the divorce
courts Of Allegheny county.