Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-21
GHOSTS OF PAST
CONFRONT WOMAN
IN BALDWIN CASE
Mrs. TurnbuII Describes Her
WiCkedeSt Mantle Rises
Up in Courtroom
BARE. LIFE
Torrid Letters, Detectives, Old
Affairs Troop Forth in Rec
ord of Days Gene BY
CR0SS.QUESTl0NS BARE. LIFE

Hundreds of curious persons crowded
Judge Rives' department Of the SUI
perior court and had the qualification
of seeing Mrs. Lillian Ashley Turnbul
prodded with questions relating to al
legged improprieties before she met
Elias Jackson Baldwin, with whom she
says she entered into g. marriage con-
tract.
Mrs. Turnbull, to use a phrase which
doubtless slipped easily from the
horseman who, she alleges, Is the father
Of her child, Beatrice Anita Baldwin
Turnbull, who wants daughter
share Of the turfman's estate, was in
better form than when her cross-eX-
animation was begun last Thursday.
Hardly for moment was her COM
posure shaken, no matter with what
severity she was questioned re-
garding incidents in her life which
concerned her alleged relations with
Col. Albert A. Pope, the Boston manu-
facturer of bicycles and automobiles.
When the court was opened yester~
day morning Gavin McNab, for the
defense, resumed the cross-eXamina-
ton of Mrs. Turnbull without the ald
and abetting of the oratorical splendor
of Garrett McInerny, whose train was
DELAYED but who reached Los Angeles
from san FTdnClSCO III lllli0 " Sci w q"
a reinforcement in the afternoon.
Mr. McNab was handicapped by hav-
ing broken his glasses. A pair which
he had borrowed did not cling persls-
tently to his nose nor fit his eyes, and
during the reading of letters he often
had to stop several minutes to adJusc
them. He began with letter which
was brought forth last Thursday and
which was written by Mrs. Turnbull
In 1889 from Boston, Mass, to Lewis
Leach, president of the Farmers bank
of Fresno, Cal.
WRITES TO FRESNO BANKER
In the epistle, Mrs. Turnbull wrote OF
herself as being 20 years old and very
fond Of horses.
my eastern prince" she wrote, "is
Wesley P. Balch, but as want to go
to California 1 shall need count upon
the Pacific coast Now If you are q
good figure and fair looking face write
me and inclose photo and on receipt
of same will tell you more about yours
truly, MISS l.. A. ASHLEY:
"or The Blonde"
Mrs. Turnbull admitted that she had
written the letter, but denied that she
had advertised for employment as an
assistant in the breeding of horses, ac-
cording to the terms of printed ad-
yertisement which was attached to II.
"How do you account for the fact
that this, the only letter you sWore
was a forgery when your seduction
case was heard in San Francisco you
now admit is genuine|
"There was so much forgery ard
treachery then in connection with
James r. Wood that it was hard to
tell what was true and what was
false"
In response to questions, Mrs. Turn
bull declared that when she met Bald
win in ST. Louis shortly after she
learned that her alleged marriage was
only a mockery, he had taunted her
with having registered her as his
daughter and not as his wife at the
Hotel Coronado and hal told her TO Suo
as <'about the best advertisement q
man could have was good lawsuit.
TELLS OF "WICKEDEsT MAN"
"Durine the seduction trial did you
not say that you surrendered to hiln
because he promised to make you his
daughter?
'I don't remember"
"IJnder the laws of California, you
knew, did you not, that married
woman cannot bring a suit on seduc-
ton charger
"But / knew at the time the suit
was brought that the marriage was
fictitious
''O1Q uOC your dllOlllCyo NiJ W PADFc
that you had been registered at Coron-
ado as Baldwin's daughrer?"
"Very likely--I did not tell them how
to handle my case"
Mr.. McNab then reverted to letters
alleged to have been written by Mrs.
Turnbull to James r. Wood, detec-
tive employed by William Redding,
Colonel Pope's New York attorney, to
look up the woman's record.
wood forged the letters or caused
them to be forged" asserted Mrs.
Turnbull. Hes about the wickedest
man that ever lived. IT'S the Gods
truth I am telling and If Wood were
here should tell him what have said
about him"
Asked why she could remember the
words of the alleged marriage con-
tract moro clearly than she could her
letters, she responded that the paper
meant to her her marriage certificate.
"I think a woman remembers her
marriage much better than lengthy
matters which occur before or AFTER"
she said.
"Have you ever mentioned the con-
tract in any letter."
"Yes." she responded, "to ex-Gover-
nor John y. Long Of Massachusetts,,
and secretary Of the navy under Me-
Kinley."
Mrs Turnbull's legal representatives
said that Long had retired and de-
stroyed all of his correspondence, but
remembered that Mrs. Turnbull had
written to him about her alleged mar
riage. They promised to produce moro
evidence from Long.
"Did you ever write to Wood about
It ?" asked Mr.. McNab Of Mrs. Turn
bull.
at told him about It,"
az asked you IL you had written It
to him."
ST don't remember"
"wICKEDEsT MANI APPEARS
"Weu refresh your memory" de-
clared Mr.. McNab, and turning
around, said, "ATr. Wood, will you
please stand up?"
An elderly gray-haired, gray-mous-
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