Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-07-19
YOUNG SISTER ADMITS WRITING
Lawyers For the Defendant Accuses
tibeIIant's Attorneys Of Stealing
Papers Of Vital Interest In the Suit
Court Refuses to Allow stolen
Papers In Court.
tIsy Associated rrcss.,

| PlrTSBURG, PA. July 1S.-With
each succeeding day of the Hart u
divorce trial new sensations IRE dc.
| rclopcd and today was no except lon
| to the course Of events In this now
famous legal battle.
Misses Ida and Helen Scott were
star witnesses today for their sis
/ ter, Mrs. Mary Scott Hartjc. Belcn'l
direct examination closed when cour
adjourned this afternoon, after coun
sci for the libellant had introduced
n number OF letters. said to have
been written by her and which prove
according to the counsel for Mr.
| Hartjc, that Helen Scott had knowl.
edge of the alleged relations between
Mrs. Hartje ana "Tom" Nadine. Hell
on denied the authorship Of all these
new letters except two.
Theft Enters Into the Case.
Attorney John Freeman, for Mrs
Hartje onenly> charged the other slide
with stealing a certain paper from
HartJe. the millionaire libellant, dc.
clarcd this charge false and Attorney
j. Scott Ferguson said no could prove
that the papers were picked up out.
side of the Office whore they had
been carelcssly laid.
Attorneys Freeman and Ferguson
were almost beside themselves when
the charges of theft were made. A
scene of so great excitement has
rarely, If ever, been Witnessed in =
local court room.
Victory For the Woman.
The result Of the trouble WAS ap.
parently n victory for Mrs. Hartje
as Attorney w. Is. Rodgers, for the
libellant, WAS compelled by the court
| to return to Mr.. Freeman paper
prepared In Mr.. Freeman's office. rs
well as another letter of Mr. Free.
mans, which he said had been stolen
from his Office.
The other Mary" servant girl
who knows tom" Nadine. the co
respondent. made her first appear
nnce OIL the stand today. She tcstI-
fed that 1t was she who tclcphoned
to Nadine while he was working nj
a livery stable and who wrote to hin,
sometimes as often ns twice week
| my Dearest Edith" Letter Stolen
The letter alleged to have been
stolen from Mr.. Freemun's Office
along with other papers, Is said to
have begun with My Dearest Edith
and Judge T'razier's announcement
that any stolen papers would have
little Influence OH the court broke a
tension of curiosity in the court room
that had been whetted to fine edge
The wrangle was started when Mr.
Ferguson asked Ida Scott. the young
sister of Mrs. Hartje. while on tho
stand. to write the words my Dear
est Edith" Then Mr.. Freeman inter
posed vigorous objection, couple,
with all accusation.
Judge Frazier interrupted the In
| IL
en- letter had no place in the tria
and he would not consider It. Mr.
Freeman demanded the letter which
was written on his Office stationery
and he obtained It.
Letter Not introduced.
Just what is In the Edith" letter
and what Ida Scott had to do with
1t may remain mystery
Toward the close of the examina
ton of Miss Helen Scott, Attorney
Rodgers sprung surprise upon the
attorneys for the defense by produc
ing number of stained and mutilat
ed letters, the parts of which hat
been pasted to it.
The letters were written upon the
stationery of the Hotel Windsor and
the Scott villa and were addressed
to "Deerest Mary" Witness admit
ted that several of the new exhibits