Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-19
SISTER ADDRESSED LETTER
Miss scott says Exhibit In Hartje
Case was written
by Ber.


PITTsBURG, July is-The most sensa-
tional scene Of the Hartje divorce cuse
during the trial came today. During the
oross-examination OF Miss Ida b. Scott,
Mrs. Mary Scott Hartjes sister, by Angus
tus Hartje's attorneys new letter was
produced in an attempt to show Miss
Scott had been practfcing 20 initiate her
sisters handwriting.
Attorney John NJ. freeman, chief cOun-
self for Mrs. Hartje. leaped to his feet aud
in excited tones declared the letter had
been stolen from his once. Hartje's coun-
sci declared that this letter. with other
papers, had been found in the street and
brought to them. Jvage Robert Frazer
at once compelled Hartje's counsel to ie-
liver the papers to Mr., Freeman and would
admit no testimony az TO how they we're
obtained.
"Any papers stolen from an attorneys
ONCE" said he will have very little in
iuence on the court IN this case"
Prior to this Miss Scott had testified that
she wrote exhibit No.A the only envelope
produced in evidence With the forty famous
letters. She said she wrote It at the re-
quest of Annie Lutz, servant
The defense introduced Thomas Scott, a
relative of Mrs. Hartie who testified that
he was Tom" to whom Mrs. Hartje tele-
phoned so often and then presented Miss
Mary Dillon, who testified she was the
Mary" to whom Tom Nadine telephoned
from Schulenberg's stable.
Miss Scott was then shown the letters
involved in the case and picked out a
number OF the missives as having been
written on the stationery belonging to
herself or one of her sisters. She said
the maid, Annie Lutz, had been given rhis
kind of letter paper and she wrote letters
quite frequently. The testimony caused
a sensation and the plaintiffs attorneys
followed with searching cross-examina-
tion to break its effect.
Toward the close OF the examination OF
Miss Helen Scott, Attorney Rogers sprung
a surprise upon the attorneys for the/d
fense by producing number of stained
and mutilated letters, the parts Of which
had been pasted together. The letters were
written upon the stationery. or the Hotel
Windsor and the F1orence<Villa and were
addressed to Dearest Mary"
Witness admitted that several Of the
new exhibits had been written by herself
but denied the authorship of the others
although she said the Handwriting looked
like hers.
Mr.. Freeman started to his feet and OBJ
jected to their being Introduced upon re.
direct examination. Mr.. Rogers ther
stated that his object in producing then
was to show that despite hor previous de.
malls on the stand witness had shown thai
| Mrs. Hartje and Tom Nadine had beer
in correspondence with each other and thai
the letters would show the truth OF hi.
statement
Court was then adjourned in order thai
counsel for the defense might have an op
portrnity of examining the new exhibits.
This was said to h4 the sensation which
counsel for the prosecution have all alenl
| promised.
During the course of her examination
Helen Scott was ssktd by NJ Freefnar
whether or net she had written in one o
her alleged letters to Mrs. FIartje a state
ment that she (Mrs. Hartje) and Ton
would one day be man and wife, but the,
would have to wait some time. Heller
strenuously denied this statement
John l.. Welshons, who is now under
$4,000 bail the charge of conspir
ing with August Hartje. the plaIntiff, an,
Clifford Hooe, the negro coachman to de
fame the character of Mrs. Hartje. an
nounced that he would go on the stant
as witness for the defense and explain
his connection with the case.