Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-21
MRS. HARTJE
SCORNS THEM
Brands Accusations As Being
Malicious and False Victory
for Wife FOreShadOWed.

PlITSBuRG, July 21.-The ventila-
ton of the negro coachman (Hooe) cpl
sode was renewed when court opened
for the thirteenth day of the Hartje
divorce trial.
The respondent, Mrs. Mary Scott
Hartje, was called to the stand to deny
that she had been intimate with Hooe.
Her denial was complete, and her eyes
blazed as she sc%ornfully said that the
deposition made by Hooe was mali
ciously false. Mrs. Hartje said that
she was present when the Hooe depo-
sition was taken. She was not cross
examined to any extent by the attor-
neys for her husband, they reserving
the right to cross examine her later.
Information from superintendent
Taylor of the Philadelphia police that
plans had been completed in that city
for kidnapping the two Hartje children
suddenly caused activity among the
Pittsburg police. While the parents
were fighting In the divorce courts Po-
lice Superintendent McQuaide sent two
officers IN citizens clothes to guard the
AOhlC vi JOhn H. PtOit. lutitI VI NllS.
Hartje, where the children at present
are.
The Hartje divorce case took on a
turn that was unexpected and bids
fair to end in an outbreak of public
opinion against some of the counsel in
the case, the end of which cannot be
foreseen. The episode was launched
by Attorney J. Scott Ferguson when he
cast reflections upon the women of
Pittsburg during his impassioned argu-
ment against the admission of the de-
positions of the negro Hooe as evil
dence. Mr.. Ferguson shouted in the
courtroom:
LET them put Hooe on the stand, If
they dare! Let them call Hooe!
But with papers forced from an ig-
norant man in the stiffness of the night,
guarded by detectives-why. it's a
thing unheard Of. And l want to say
here that If this thing be tolerated II
will create in a short time a stencil In
the nostrils of every man Interested In
the carrying out Of justice.
"a man who resorts to this sort of
thing does not deserve recognition in
a civilized community.
at doesn't do to say that this man
Hooe is n negro-God knows there's
many an intelligent woman who has
Z sinned as we say this woman has sin
ned. History is full of it. l repeat.
many a woman high in life socially and
in this community has sinned as this
woman has DONE"
On all sides can be heard expressions
or mdignation at the sweeping state
ment Of Attorney Ferguson in be-
smirsching the name of Pittsburg be-
fore the country in this manne
VIII. are apparently a series of le-
gal victories for Mrs. Hartje marked
the session and eliminated in the nd
mission of the confessions of Clifford
Hooe, the colored coachman, in which
he is said to have declared that he
lied when he swore that he had improp-
err relations with the respondent. This
most important point was 10 gained
until after a bitterly contested strug-
gle between opposing counsel, which
lasted for over an hour and a half and
during which Attorney Ferguson made
many sensational threats.
Alderman King also was called and
testified that Hooe was not drunk
when he made his confession, but made
it freely and of his own free will.
There was a terrific battle of argu
ment when counsel for Augustus Hart.
je tried to get stricken from the ease
the evidence concerning Hooe given
by John l.. Welshons. Hartje's close
friend, and the witnesses who follow
ed him.
At the close Judge Fraser said that
the four statements made by the ne
gro coachman would not be read III
open court.
The judge said 1t would not be well
to have them made public at this time
and corrected an intimation that he
was acting solely In the interests of
public morals.
With the unexpected throwing open
of all the doors in the celebrated ease
sensations even bigger than those here.
tofore promised are expected.