The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-18
MORE THRILLS IN
THE HARTJE CASE
Sister of Mrs. Hartje Says She
Addressed Letters to Coach
man Nadine.
HAD DONE THIS
REQUEST OF THE MAID
This Testimony Is Taken as In
dicating Plans of the
Defense.

PITTSBURG, July t7-Not the least
important development in the Hartje
divorce case was the outline of the de-
fense that was disclosed by the testi-
niony OF Miss Ida Scott, the 16-year-
sister OF Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje, who
was put on the stand today few min
utes before the adjournment OF the
case until tomorrow morning. From
this testimony was gathered for the
first time that the plan for accounting
OF the disputed love letters would be
followed by Mrs. Hartje's attorneys,
That she had written two or three en-
Telopes addressed TO Tom" Nadine,
the coachman correspondent, at the re-
quest of Annie Luetz, one OF the maids,
and that she had given Annie sheets of
her paper were among the significant
sta .ements she made.
May Explain Authorship.
Thus the presence of the single en-
velope among all the love letters pre-
scnted by counsel for the libelant would
be explained. The charge of forgery
made by counsel for the respondent,
Will be reinforced by accounting for the
presence, In the disputed letters, OF the
paper used by the Scott girls in the
manner indicated by Ida's testimony
that she gave ii to her maid. Her sis
ter Helen also often gave sheets OF her
paper TO the servants, she testified.
1t Is said that Annie Luetz will be-
next called and ,interrogated as to wha.
shs did with the envelopes addressed
by Ida Scott and with the latter's pa
per given TO her.
Miss Scott was not given an opportu-
nifty TO examine the Nadine envelope,
Which it is said she wrote. but she Will
be questioned about il when she re-
snrup6 her IuOOv fprpprrou,
Mrs, HartJe's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
John f. Scott. We're witnesses during the
day. Mrs. Scott testified that IL would
have been impossible for her daughter
To have done the things with which she
has been accused by Augustus Hartje
since their separation. because She
watched the daughter too closely. She
declares the forty famous love letters
in the case are not in her daughters
writing.
The mothers testimony concerning
the Susie Wagner" letter. known as
exhibit No. G. was sensational Mrs.
Scott declared that she had seen the
Susie Wagner letter before it was
mailed and that there were statements
In the original letter that were not
ir the alleged Wagner letter that was
exhibited In court and that the letter
produced in court contained some state
ments that there We're not in the orig
maj anu Teal wagner letter. This let
ter was one of the standards" in the
case until Mrs. Hartje denied writing
the copy that had been shown her and
declared she had been deceived
Mrs. Hartje Was Watched.
John f. Scott. Mrs. Hartje's father.
declared that ii was impossible for his
daughter TO have met Nadine or TO have
telephoned to him, as she was never
out of the house alone and all in the
Scott home usually knew when the
telephone rings.
Mrs. Mary Slocum, the friend and
neighbor of Mrs. Hartie. testified that
the disputed Dear Susie" letter. ex-
hibit No. 6. was not written by Mrs.
Hartje, nor were the love letters, she
said, She testified that she knew Mrs |
Hartje's handwriting very we'll.
Three more bank clerks were put
on the stand by Mrs, Hartje's counsel !
today, all of whom testified that tho |
love letters. exhibits Nos. 10 to IS |
were not written by the author of the |
admitted standards which is Mrs !
Hartje. She said however, that the |
envelope, No. 81. was written in a dif- |
ferent hand than the letters In dis
pute,