Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1907-10-15
HARTJE ADMITS
HE BOUGHT NOTES

Hartie, the paper magnate. had filed
with the state superior court in
Philadelphia papers and an affidavit
asking that his divorce shit against
his beautiful wife, Mary Scott Hartje,
be opened for rurther evidence.
The attorneys submitted at the
same time copies of new evidence
which will be presented to the lower
court if permission is obtained
The. divorce asked by Hartje was re-
fused by the courts of Allegheny
county. His appeal is now pending
before the superior court at Phila-
delphia.
This opens the most extraordinary
chapter in the tangled case.
The two young sisters of Mrs.
Hartje, Ida and Helen Scott, have
been whirled into the limelight and
| il is also admitted today by Mr..
Hartie that he has purchased letters
from Miss Ida Scott to her intended
husband, bearing on the Hartje d.
vorce case.
The missive. if genuine, would
indicate that the two girls black
mailed even their own father in order
to help ont the divorce defense
A letter, purporting to be from Ida
Scott to Howard c. Lappe. tells how
they, the sisters. could win the case
Tor Hartje, if he but knew, and how
they would so to Hartie with their
information, unless Mr. Scott, the
father, agreed to pay them SO much
per month. That this sum was forth
comig is indicated in a letter signed
Ida to Lappe
Another sensational letter from
Ida is published, in which she tells
Lappe that they will so to Mr.
Hartje with their testimony, since
Papa has fixed it up" the inference
being that the girls had been prom
ised the money which they wrote they
would demand as the price of their
silence.
Nor is it denied by John F. Scott
father of Mrs. Hartje and Ida and
Helen Scott, that his sixteen-year-old
daughter, Ida, did demand of him q
monthly allowance, not only for her.
self bnt for Howard w. Lappe, the
young man she expected to marry
the same young man who is alleged
tonight by Mr.. Hartje to have sold
Ida's love letters. Mr.. Scott will not
talk of this phase of the affair, but
said regarding Mr. Hartie:
II am not surprised at anything
! Mr. Hartje does or says. A man who
would hire seven attorneys to defend
a negro would do anything"
Mrs. Scott said she could not speak
of the letters because she did not
know whether her daughters had
written them. Miss Helen Scott re-
| fuses to be seen and Ida Scott is at
q boarding school in. New Jersey, Mr.
! Hartje asserts this evening that his
wife tried to poison him in Paris, and
sites, in support of his assertion, a
| letter purporting to have been writ
! ten to Mandine by Mrs Hartje from
London. In part this letter reads:
Dear Tom-While | was out yes
terday, Mary l.. was in the room
alone with her papa. He seemed
well all day and had just taken one
of his large pills when he tainted and
| fell to the floor Men came from the
Office and he was in spasm We all
thought every minute was his last
| The doctor came and said it was
| Just from his nerves. He was very
sick all night. but seems better to-
day. The doctor got nurse, and he
will be in bed a week or so. He was
nearly dead, as he was cold all over.
Now If anything should happen |
will send for you to help me, and ii
he gets better | will be home in two
weeks. | am not sure you will get
this or | would write the feeling of
my heart this morning / am living
on your promise. Try again. | did
my part and will do it again | will
send YOU some money and this is
| what you must do: Bring home some
of that | have in my box, or any
other kind. | did not have enough.
\ hope you understand | am SC
sorry that | did not bring the other
kind too. +" When left the
room yesterday night Mr.. H. took
sick. | put my hand on my locket
and said, All for the one love
must tell you | put the pill in his
mouth, and it is all so hard, the way
it turned out. will tell you all
when we are home, but do not come
without what | said Please burn
this, as you know what it means for
us both. " +" Why, oh, why did il
not work? am wild to tell you all
about it. Poor NJ l.. saw it all. THE
! dauUhfnr nf Mrs Hort Ia nv, 9