The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-10-08
HARTJE WANTS
CASE REOPENEO
The Pittsburg Multi Millionaire
Claims to Have New Evil
denCe in His Possession.
MORE EVIDENCE BOUGHT
SCOTT GIRLS LOVER IN BAD
LIGHT.

Pittsburg. Oct Interest in the SEN
sational Hartje divorce case was revived
today by the announcement that a petit
ton had been filed by the complainant,
Augustus Hartje. with the justices of the
superior court sitting in Philadelphia
asking that the case be reopened in or
der that additional evidence alleged TO be
damaging to the defendant, Mary Scott
Hartje, could be heard.
The millionaire paper manufacturer has.
IL is SAID, discovered package of letters
alleged to have been written by the two
sisters of Mrs. Hartje and Thomas Ma
dine. the coachman correspondent. and
desires to show that the respondent was
guilty of the charges brought against
her by her husband.
What Letters Contain.
The letters said to have been written by
Mrs Hartjes sister are alleged to con-
divorce case. Nadine is also alleged TO
have made a confession to the attorneys
of Mr., Hartje, and to have turned over
to them masses of documentary evidence
d. T. Watson, attorney for Mrs. Hartje
stated today that the alleged letters have
no bearing on the case. Augustus Hartje
said the new evidence would Yindicate
him. He would spend his last dollar TO
secure vindication, he said, and asserted
that before he was through he would go
after every one mixed up in the case, for
conspiracy. Mrs. Hartje is out of the
city.
1t was learned that Nadine was mar
ried recently and is now in Bel
fast with his wife. 1t is said
that Nadine intends to make that place
his permanent home. Mrs. Mary Scott
Springs, Pa, in telephone conversation
with this city today refused to discuss the
new phases of the case as alleged by her
husband. Further sensations in the case
are expected.
Says Wife Sent Money.
In the petition presented to the court
| for Mr.. Hartje he recites that since the
hearing of the case he has secured let
| tiers written by Thomas Nadine, the
| coachman. while Nadine was in Ireland,
| to Mrs Hartje. while she was at the
| Hotel Victoria in London, and others
which she wrote to the cOachman from
there He relates that he is in a posi-
| ton to prove that Mrs. Hartje arranged
with the employees of the hotel to have
the letters delivered privately to her
velopes addressed to herself. He further
AYERS that Mrs. Hartje arranged with a
hair dresser. Ambrois. of ga Rue st.
Honore, Paris, &c mai! letters through
him to Nadine, and that she received
letters from the coachman and sent mon
ey to him through the same avenue.
He relates that the receipt of the let
| tiers by Nadine was established through
Madness mother at Downpatrick, Ire
land, and by the testimony of the coach
mans sister. The petitioner sets forth
that the letters were in the possession
of Madness mother until July of this
wear. when he wrote for Them and that
on Aug. they were delivered by Ma
| dine to a representative of Mr.. Hartje
! in Toronto, Canada
Alleged Threat of Sisters.
Other letters which the petitioner says
! he found since the case was heard were
written. he alleges, by Helen Scott and
| Ida Scott to Howard A. Lappe of Pitts
| burg in which the writers indicate that
unless their parents paid them certain
sum of money each month they would
| turn in for the petitioner.
These letters were written, according to
| the petitioner, on April q and April %,
1907 AS a sidelight on the already in
Volved Hartje case argument will be had
before the superior court tomorrow on
petition TO set aside the verdict in the
| case of William f. De Costa, who was
convicted of perjury on testimony given
| in the divorce suit.
Brought the Letters.
Concerning the letters alleged to have
| been written by Ida Scott, sister of Mrs.
| Hartje, it is said they were addressed to
Howard Lappe OF this city. 1t was Lappe
| who eioped to Youngstown, Ohio, with
| Ida Scott last spring, but parental OBJ
| jections prevented the marriage. Refer
ring to the letters today Augustus HartJe
| said:
| Those letters were written in the strict
| est confidence. They were written by a
| girl who expected to become the wife of
| the man to whom they were written.
have nothing to say about the man who
| will sell letters received from his former
| sweetheart. for that is what he did. We
have the letters. which materially helps
| to prove our case, and we own them be-
cause we bought them
|