Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-10-08
HARTE AGAIN
ACCUSES WIFE
MILLIONAIRE SAYS LETTERS
PROVE CHARGES
Pittshurger Who Alleged His Spouse
Was Unfaithful Asks to Have
the Entire Case Re-
opened
BY Associated Press.


PITTSBURG. Oct. 7.-Interest in the
sensational Hartje divorce case was
revived today by the announcement
that a petition had been filed by the
complainant August Hartje, with the
justices of the superior court sitting in
Philadelphia asking, that the case be
reopened in order that additional evil
dence alleged to be damaging to the
defendant, Mary Scott Hartje, could be
heard.
The millionaire paper manufactures
has, 1t is stated, discovered package
of letters alleged to have been, written
by the two sisters of Mrs. Hartje and
Thomas Nadine, the coachman CO.
respondent, and desires to show that
the respondent was guilty of the
charges brought against her by her
husband
The letters said to have been written
by Mrs. Hartje's sister are alleged to
contain admissions with reference to
the divorce case. Nadine Is also al
legged to have made confession to the
attorneys of Mr.. Hartje and to have
turned over to them masses of docu-
mentary evidence.
d. I. Watson, attorney for Mrs
Hartje, stated today that the alleged
letters have no bearing on the case
Augustus Hartje said the new evil
dence would vindicate him. He would
spend his last dollar to secure vindi-
cation, he said, and asserted that be-
fore he was through he would win
Mrs. Hartje is out of the city.
1t was learned that Nadine, the coach
man, was married recently and is now in
Belfast Ireland, with his wife. 1t Is said
Nadine intends to make that place his
permanent home.
Mrs. Mary Scott Hartje, who is visit
ing at Ligonier Springs, Pa, in tele-
phonic 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 He Has Letters
In the petition presented to the court
for Mr.. Hartje he recites that since the
hearing In the case he has secured let
ters 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 position to prove
that Mrs. Hartje arranged with the en-
ployes o. the hotel to have the letters
delivered privately to her and that she
supplied Nadine with envelopes addressed
to herself.
He further AYERS that Mrs. Hartje ar
ranged with a hair dresser, Ambrois, OF
274 Rue ST. Honore, Paris, to mail let
ters through him to Nadine, and that
she received letters from. the coachman
and SEM money to him through the same
avenue.
He relates that the receipt of the let
ters by Nadine were established through
Madine's mother at Down Patrick, Ire
land, and by the testimony of the coach
mans sister. The petitioner sets forth
that the letters were in the possession OF
Madine's mother until July OF this year
when he wrote for them, and that or
August they were delivered by Nadine
to a representative of Mr.. Hartje in TO.
ronto, Canada.
other letters which the petitioner saws
he has found since the case was neard
were written, he alleges, by Helen scot
and Ida Scott to Howard A. Lappe OF
Pittsburg, in which the writer's indicate
that unless their parents paid them 4
certain sum of money each month thex
would turn in for the petitioner
These letters were written, according tc
the petition on April q and 20. 1907.