Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-08-02
new EVIDENCE
Brought Into HaItje Case
by Newspaper Man.
Against HaTtje, and Latter's
Counsel, Who Threatens.
mysterious Blonde, Alma Ross, Also
Damages Hairless Case.

| fIttsbnrg. Aug. Just before the adj
| J"urllment Of the Hartje divorce trial
| t"oav, Fred Long, a newspaper man.
"dS called to the stand by Jonn Free
man OF counsel for Mrs. Hartie. Long
| teStilied that Attorney Marion of
flart1e'S counsel told him in February
81 number Of letters in the possession
81 the Hartje lawyers This was sew
trai months before Fisher Hartie's
hrother-in-law said he had told coun-
sci of their existence. This was also
some months before Madness trunk WAS
broken open and from which the letters
We're alleged to have been taken, which
was IN June. Attorney Marion became
anScred at Longs testimony, and
threatened the newspaper man with vi
"lence after court adjourned. Maroon
Is expected to go on the stand tomor-
row.
one OF the most sensational incidents
| in the Hartjc divorce case in the five
weeks it has been running came today.
when Alma Ross the mysterious
'hlonde.' who kept a roomin@ house,
SW"re that Augustus HartJe and Jo-
@ephlne Wright frequently met at the
Ross Woman's house: that tn" Wright
woman brought him there and intro
duced him ana said that the house ut
which he had been living was too pub
lie and too close to the Tartie ware
house. The Ross woman said Hart je
paid Josephine Wright's room rent
thereafter. When the witness pointed
out lIartjc in the courtroom, Hurtje
smiled.
Hartic. several days ago. sworc that
he did not know Josephine Wright. ana
the Wright woman swore that she did
not know Hartje.
detectives II. q. Sytubb and John A
Anderson. who testified that they took
the famous "love letters from Tom Ma
dimes trunk, were arrested at the court
house on information sworn out b. Ma
dine before Alderman S. NJ. King, charg-
Jog them with entering: a building with
intent to commit n felony and larceny.
They were later released on bail of 5000
each, furnished by Attorney Edward
lTartie, Il brother Of Augustus Hartje.
Thomas Nadine. the former cJachman
of Augustus iIartje, and named by the
libellant Us correspondent, was the first
witness in sur-rebuttal, when tho trial
Of the Hartje divorce case was resumed
today.
The witness contradicted nearly every
detail of the dctectil es' testimony, telling
that his trunk was empty and that pic
lures the detectives said were lin the
trunk were in the bureau. His stolen
spurs, he said, were wrapped in flannel
and not the letters. Nadine said the let
tors We're never in his possession and he
had never heard of them until they were
introduced in court.
Nadine admitted that letter and tole-
gram signed by John F. Scott were stol-
en- from him, but insisted that they had
never been placed in the trunk. He said
that a jockey Jacket. pair of spurs and
an insurance policy We're taken. as we'll
as two letters from his brother.
Mrs. Hartje was recalled and swore she
wrote only two letters to Susie Wagner.
She also denied that she had promised
blanche Ashby $500 to testify in her IA
vor, or that she had told her what test
mony to give.