The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-27
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Mrs. Hartjc Attacked After Llca Az
ing Courthouse: in
Pittsburg
AssAILA Al i. MADE N 4 []NE: ESCAPE a |:
Husband Makes Statement Which
May Send Wife y to the
Penitcntiary.
.AssAlLANT MADE ESCAPE
(By Assoc iated Press.)

S4 P1TTsBURG, PA, July 2s-Just after!
leaving the courthouse to-day, following
the adjournment Of the sHart1e divorce
case. Mary scott IIartJe. the respondent
In the case, was attacked by an un-i
known man on the street. Despite the
crowd about the courthouse at the time,
the man made his escape, although a
short chase after him was taken up.
He disappeared through an alley In the
vicinity 81 the courthouse.
Mrs. Hartje LETT the building accoM-.
Eanied BY Mrs. Alexander5W. slocum.
who has been Mrs. Hartje 8 constant
women were on the way to the office OF
John Freeman, Mrs. Hartje's counsel.
They had gone but a few steps from
the courthouse, when q man having the
appearance OF a mill-w orker. thrust out
his arm, and, grabbing Mrs. Harte,s
dragged her across the pavement, saying:
MARY, come with me. (
Screaming with III fright. Mrs. Hartje;
managed to escape from the man. and
found refuge II Nj. FI,reeman's once
In the meantime. the man started 70
run. ID q soon was lost TO the view Of
those who took up the 3 chase. Later
Mrs. Slocum pointed out a man as the
assallant, and he was arrested, bur no
was released when Mrs. 'HArt1eS said he
was not the man. n
To day twas the first since the hearing
that Mrs. Hartje has appeared on the
street without a detective being near.
At her own request, tho detectives were were
dismissed from protecting her. S$
1ss Woman on Stand.
a AT to-day's session Of the Hart % trial,
counsel for Augustus Hart3e called wit
rsessee to refute the story told BY Coach \
man Tom Nadine. 70 the effect that while Will
Mrs Hart was IN Memphis, HartJe met
u, blonde woman In schenh Park and too &
her to his home IN az carriage DRIVEN by
Josephine Wright, whom Augustus
sHartje had been charged with Waiting
at NO. 20 Second Avenue. was placed
upon the stand, and testified that Hartte
had never visited her; that she only knew
him by sigh and had never spok en- to
L him. The manner In which John n.
Freeman, OF counsel for Mrs. III Hart1e,
cross examined her led ito q report that
witnesses would be placed on the stand
BY Mrs. Hartje to rebut the Wright
3woman's estImony. "a Ebi
Alderman Festus NJ. King, Of the South
Side, was iii II court; and also Assistant
District Attorney John 81 Robb, sJr.2s Mr. n
sR Obj would not discuss the case. It was,
{ however, reported q that inforna lion Ris
to be made, and that thIs, Information
viii be based on the Wright nan g
ieTldence. . !. 4: 5,
!, 5la1llT estified Against Wife. IA
The rnusualt spectacle OF II a husband
giving evidence & that II produced S$ IN
4 Criminal Courthwould tend to convict his
wife OF crime, the punishment for which
lis imprisonment In the penitentiary, was
seen this morning. Wilbertsi Ashby, hus-
band OF Blanche Ash by. formerly do-
3n1estics inathe Hart5e house. testified that
his wife told him jshe had lied in the
deposition she made for Mrs. 4Iart5e.
and that she had been promised money
for doing so. This evidence was IN 4 con-
tinuation Of the attempt Of Hart1es at
torneys to show that improper IN luences
had been used in securing Testimony for
the other SIDE, t q.
8Ashby swore that his wife has told
him that Mrs. Hartje had declared to
4 her she was sorry she had not returned
81 to live with Hartje when he asked her
to 90 back to him. Il 5t6
sEt on $cross-examination a letter which
5Astrbys had written to Mrs. Hartje was
placed in evidence. In It he told Mrs.
Hartje that IL ''she could pay Blanche
A for speaking for her, Hartje could do the
same. n sss p, /,
z Previous testimony on that point had
been to the effect that Ash BY wrote that
81. Mrs. Hartje could pay Blanche for
5is,'lying,,'S Iart1e could AFFORD to pay for
the truth. 96iS 5$ a. Il
;f One Of the closing events Of the trial
will be to show, how, where ana when
the Nadine love letters were secured.