The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-27
NAUSEAT|NG
HARTJE CASE
AIRED AGAIN
Defeated and Di.credited Husband
Of Pittsburg Woman Who :
Secured Di, Aats H..
TO APPEAL TO
/" HIGHER COURT
All Shiny Details Of the Trial to
Be Barred to the Public
Once Again

Associated Press to The Evening Times.
Pittsburg, Pa, March 27.-Pittsburg
milhonaires are determined to keep in
the spotlights of nauseating publicity.
Following close on the Thaw trial,
with its revelations Of unthinkable de-
bauchery, comes the announcement
that Augustus Hartje, the millionaire
paper manufacturer, will appeal the
notorious divorce case in which he
was recently involved. ]. Scott Fer
guson. chief counsel for Hartje, is
{. now preparing the papers for the ap-
peal to the superior court. It n de-
clared that new evidence tending to
prove the infamous charges against
Mrs. Hartje has been discovered and
In a short time all the Shiny details
of the most sensational divorce suit
on record will again be spread before
tho public.
The Hartje suit began last June and
was not ended until August. The
wealthy paper manufacturer sued his
wife for divorce on the ground of in
fidelity. AS evidence in the case let
ters were introduced, alleged to have
been written by Mrs. Hartje to Thomas
Nadine, a coachman. Clifford Hooe,
negro coachman, declared that he had
had improper relations with Mrs.
Hartje. He was arrested after testi-
tying on a charge of perjury and was
convicted. Through the decision Of
the court and the conviction of the
defendant she was exOnOrated from
the infamous charges made against
her.
The determined and desperate fight
made by Mrs. Hartje, young, beautiful
and highly cultured, to save her honor
and good name from the mire of in
fanny in which her husband attempted
to drag it, presented situation so
intensely dramatic that the gaze of
the nation was centered on the trial.
Other notable figures that shared
the stage in that famous battle for
the vindication of beautiful woman's
virtue were Augustus Hartje, grim,
determined, intent on forever dam
ming the mother of his children; Scott
and Mary Hartje, pathetic little fig
ures. too young to realize the tragedy
in which their parents were involved;
John Scott, father of the defendant,
heroic example of paternal loyalty,
pouring out his fortune in the defense
of his daughter; and Clifford Hooe,
the negro cOachman. the black william
of this sinister drama of perverted
family life.
Back of Mrs. Hartje and her loyal
father were untold thousands of
American men and women, praying
for their success. Thousands offered
to contribute to fund for Mrs. Hart
je's defense, Frederick Gaynor, an
Allegheny millionaire and friend of the
Scott family, alone offering million
dollars. From all over the south
came letters addressed to John Scott,
begging him to slay the "black devil"'
who had impeached the honor, not
alone Of Mrs. Hartje, but of the white
women of the nation. Scott replied
that his first duty was to clear his
daughters name, and that justice
would be meted out to the negro later.
II am fighting, not for myself alone,
but for my children and for the honor
of American womanhood," declared
Mrs. Hartje, during the progress of
the suit. Now, after a vindication won
after months of publicity from which
any refined and sensitive woman
would shrink in horror, Mrs. Hartje
is again to be called on to pass
through an ordeal similar to the one
from which she has just emerged VIC
torious.
1t was about thirteen years ago, at
the age of 20, that Mary Scott. one
of the most beautiful and talented of
Pittsburg society girls, became the
bride of Augustus Hartje. The cere-
mony was the most fashionable In
the history of the Smoky City. For
time the couple lived happily together
and five children were born to them,
only two of whom are now living.
Then the serpent of jealousy entered
Hartje's Eden. The millionaire paper
manufacturer was twenty years older
than his wife. While Mrs. Hartje was
in the bloom of young womanhood,
the husband began to show the marks
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