Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-07-19
ALLEGED LETTERS ARE
ENLARGED BY CAMERA
Both Sides in the Hartje Oi.
vorce Suit to Present
"Exhibits."
HE WORE PAPER COLLARS
Multi Millionaire Paid Small Tribute
to Laundries, and Not Much More
to His Wife, 1t
Appears.

Pittsburg. July lS.-Nandwriting ex-
perts. David y. Carvalho, OF New
York. and Marshall y. Ewell, of Chi
cago. We're closeled for several hours
today with Mrs. ~llartje. defendant in
the divorce case. ana homas Nadine,
the coachn.am correspondent examining
forty letters alleged To have been writ
ten 10 Nadine by Mrs. Hartje.
Not TO be outdone by the defense the
attorneys for Hattie have had the IA
NOUS letters photographed and pre-
pared a CHART three feet in height.
Both sides have prepared charts and
enlargement OF the letters and they
will be taken into court when The trial
OF he case is resuned tomorrow.
Mrs. tIartje's Statcnent.
To u correspondent Mrs. I%iartje made
this statement. embracing Il lot OF in
teicsting things which have not come
GU in her testimony on the stand:
w were married on March IA. 1894,
and / we'd With him until June, 1905.
! cannot tell what | suffered during
those eleven years. and If this case
lasts weeks longer it could not all be
shown. | want to say, in the first place.
that ali he has charged in his divorce
papers and al lthat his hired witnesses
have sworn TO in court is false. | was
a true wife to him all of those years.
When | couldn't stand his cruelties
any longer and went home he waited
for a time and then wrote me to come
back. While he was writing these
false letters he was getting false evil
dence connecting me Il negro. The
world knows that the Negroes statement
is false. for he has confessed that he
perjured himself for money and is now
in jail to be punished for the crime.
My husband sent his brother. Edward
j. Hartje, a law yer, TO urge my father
to send me back. and my father said.
No, not while i have amy flesh on my
bones
'From that moment the building ur
of this awful case began. The Negroes
perjurcd testimony was but one item
They even intimatol that l tried to
overcome Nj. iiartic with chloroform
while we We're in Paris. That Euro
pean trip has a lot to do with this case.
While we We're away he was most
cruel to me.
Mr.. Hartje was always insanely
miserable. Although he OWLS u paper
mill worth a million dollars in Steu-
benville, and OWNS twcnty-siX pieces of
downtown real estate in Pit,sburg. in
Guiding a corner ON which he is now
erecting Il twelvo-story skyscraper, he
Wore paper collars for years.
Denied Child Good Shoes.
"Hc would buy q $500 horse Owe,
the telephone and the next minute
when l would ask him for SO to buy Il
pair OF shoes tor 'Scotty,' our little
boy. he would tel me 10 get them for
$1.50. Finally my mother had In bur,
me money With which To buy a bed on
which To sleep in the children's room
SO for nights | mao to Sleep on a cot.
AT first when he began his suit he
said he would prove his charges by
prominent MEMBERS of the Country
club, but finally ne narrowed down to
this negro coachman. who is in Jail
and TO the c%oachman. Tom Nadine.
now cr!ticises me because /
drove out with one of these ccach,ren
by my side. Any one who OWES a sta
BILE knows that this is perfectly proper,
but that is not the point l wish to
make. l took the coachnnan because
Mr.. Hartje insisted on it himself. He
sent the coachman With me ard 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
VINO used to be in our employ and he
replied: L will not swear to anything;
no. not to get you out of hell
Next day they went to Tom Nadine.
and he could not be bribed either. In
stead he went on the stand and testi-
fled for u.s.
Mrs. Hartje and her father are both
pros,rated by the and un-
expected incidents of the trial. john
Scott. the father. is confined to his
room. but hopes soon to be out and
attend the trial.
Attorneys for Hartje complain of the
public prejudice which mas grown up
against their client because he intro
duced the negro coachman, Hooe. into
the case. They say ii has injured their
case and made 1t much harder for them
to work. But, they add, they are ask
ing u divorce of the court. and not of
the public, and have 70 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, ever twelve
years ago. was a thin. solnbre man.
From his mother he inherited one of
the largest paper mills in the country.
He belonged 10 good clubs, took his
wife to church of Il Sunday, didn't
drink to excess, always stopped at the
Waldorf-Astoria when he went to New
York and otherwise deported himself
like a true P~ittsburger of moderate
habits and plenty of money.
The couple had a handsome home in
the fashionable east end. with lots Of
carriages and Il retinue of servants.
Personally, though. Hartje appears tc
have been a blend of prodigality 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 re-
turn from abroad the wife went to her
father's nome. taking her children with
her. She sent her husband word that
She intended to Sue him for separation
and alinloay. When she refused to re-
turn TO him he began Il suit himself
the most startling suit ever filed in
the divorce courts of Allegheny county.
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