The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-19
STEALING OF PAPER CHARGED Sensation in Divorce
 Proceedings. |HARTJE's {, ,UNSEL ACCUSED Took kIess from Office of Opposing
 Attorney. sist,s of Woman Alleged to Have ,ved Her ceaehman. Testify as to Borrowing of Letter Paper.

Pittsburg. July 1s.--with each suc- ceedinE day of the Hart3e divorce trial new sensations are developing and to- day was no exception to thescourse of events.
 Misses Ida and Helen Scott were star witnesses today for their sister. Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje IIelen's direct ex- animation closed when court adjourned this afternoon. after counsel for the libellant had introduced q number of letters said to have been written by her and which prove. according to the counsel for Mir. Harfjes that Helen Scott had knowledge of the alleged relations between Mrs Hartje and Tom Nadine. Helen denied the authorship of all these new letters excepting two.
 Attorney John Freeman. for Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje. the respondent. openly charged the other side with stealing certain paper from his of- flee. Counsel for Augustus Hartje, the millionaire libeliant in the case, de- ciared this charge false.
 Excitement In Court Roona.
 Attorneys Freeman and Ferguson bacams almost beside themselves when the charges of theft were made A scene Of 50 great excitement has rarely If ever, been witnessed in local court room The result of the trou- ble was apparently victory for Mrs {. Hartje. as Attorney ". R Rodgers. for the libellant was compelled to return to Mir Freeman by the court paper prepared in Mir Freeman's office as well as another letter of MT. Frsenaan's s which he said had been taken from his office.
 aThe other Mary a servant girl who knows Tom Nadine. the cores pendent. made her first appearance on the stand today. She testified that Il was she who telephoned to Nadine while he was working at livery sta ble and who wrote him some times as often as twice a week.
 The letter alleged to have been stoi. en from Mir Freeman's office is said to have begun with My Dearest Edith
 The passage of arms was started when Mr Ferguson asked Ida Scott the yeung sistaf of Mrs. HaFtjg when when dearest Edith. Then Freeman Inter rupted and tnterposed a vigorous ob- lection and demanded the letter which was written on his office stationery and he obtained 1t.
 Just what is in the Edith letter and what Ida Scott had to do with II may remain mystery.
 The attendance at the opening .oi the trial of the HartJe divorce case to- 0ay was StAdd4cE bt<tn cta ohE e1@S oAtaSs 1t began.
 Miss Ida B. Scott. sister of Mrs. Hartje, the respondent testified that Mrs. Hartje never wrote letters or telephoned to Thomas Nadine. the CO., respondent.
 Concerning the envelope known as exhitit thirty-fo.4. Miss Scott said she had addressed 1t for Annie Lutz. a domestic.
 identified Stationery.
 Miss Scott was then shown the let ters figuring in the case and picked cut a number of the msssives as having been written on stationery belonging either to herself or. one of her sis- ters She said the maid, Annie Lutz, had been given this kind of letter freduettly The testimony caused a sensation and the plaintiff's attorneys followed with searching cross exami- nation to break it's effect.
 John l. Welshons, who is under ss,000 ball on the charge of conspiring with August Hart1e. the plaintiff. and Clifford Hooe.s the negro ccachman, to defame the character of Mrs. Hartjes announced that he will go on the stand as witness for the defense and explain his connection with the case.