Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-18
HARTIE DEFENSE is DISCLOSED
womau's sister says she Directed
Envelope to Nadine at Request
of Maid.

PITTsBURG. July 17.-Not the least inn
portant development In the Hsrtje divorce
case was the outline OF the defense that
was disclosed by the testimony Of Miss Ida
Scott, the 16-year-old sister Of Mrs. Mary
Scott Hartje who was put in the stand to-
day few minutes before the adjournment
OF the case until tomorrow morning. From
this testimony was gathered for the first
time what plan for accounting for the dis
puted love letters will be followed by Mrs.
Hartie's attorneys That she had written
two or three envelopes addressed to Tom"
Nadine, the coachmau correspondent, at the
request Of Annie Lutz. one Of the maids.
and that she also had given Annie sheets
Of her paper. we're among the significant
statements she made.
Thus the presence OF the single envelope
among all the love letters presented by
council for the libellsnt viii be explained.
The charge of forgery made by counsel for
the respondent will be reinforced by ac-
count for the presence, in the disputed let
ters, Of the paper used by the Scott girls
in the manner indicated by Ida's testimony
that she gave it to her maid Her sister,
Helen, also often gave sheets OF her paper
to the servants, she testified.
1t is expected that Annie Lutz will next
did with the envelopes addressed by Ida
Scott and with the letter paper given to
her
Miss Scott was not given an opportunity
to examine the Nadine envelope, which 1t j.
said, she wrote. but she will be questioned
about it when she resumes her testimony
tomorrow.
Mrs. Hartjes parents Mr. and Mrs. John
F. Scott. were 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 ac-
cused by Augustus Hertie since their sep
aration, because she watched the daughter
too closely. She declares the forty famous
/ love letters I'm the case are not in heI
daughters handwriting.
! The mothers testimony concerning tho
Susie" Wagner letter, known as exhibit
/ No. 6, was sensational. Mrs. Scott de
clared that she had seen the Susie" Wag
ner letter before IT was mailed and tha
! there were statements in the original lettel
that were not in the alleged Wagner lettel
that was exhibited in court, and that tn,
letter produced in court contained som'
statements that were not in the origina
and real Wagner letter This letter wa
one of the standards" in the case unit
Mrs. Hartje denied writing the copy tha
had been shown her and declared she hat
been deceived.
John F. Scott, Mrs. Hartje's father, de
| clared that 1t was impossible for hi
daughter to have met Nadine or to hav
telephoned to him. as she was never out o
the house alone and all in the Scott hom
usually know when the telephones wer
used and who used them.
Mrs. Mary Stone, the friend and neigh
Dor of Mrs. Hartje, testified that the dis
puted Dear Susie" letter, exhibit No.
was not written by Mrs. Hartje, nor wer
the love letters she said. She testified tina
she knew Mrs. Hartje's handwriting YER
we'll -
Three more bank eletSs were put tn
stand by Mrs. Hartje's counsel today, a
of whom testified that the love letters, ex
hibits Nos. 10 to IS, were not written b
the author of the admitted Standards,
which is Mrs. Hartje. They said however
that the envelope, No. Il, was written in
different hand than the letters in dispute.