The San Francisco call., 1910-12-22
NERVE OF iron
SEXHIBITED BY
MRS. TURNBULL
Admissions Secured, However,
Which May Damage Her
Daughters Case
Woman TestifieS Baldwin Re-
ferred to Her as His Wife
Before Only Five Persons

Los ANGELES. Dec. 21-For three
"ours today Mrs. Lillian A. Turnbull
sgaln experienced all the tortures of
uhe third degree" while being cross
examined in the will contest 10 Obtain
Tor her daughter q $4,000. coo share of
me Lucky Baldwin estate. At the end
d that period her reputation for iron
nerve remained unscathei. but her alert
WIS mad given way to the determined
P.SDe or the Baldwin attorneys. en-
hDlhg them TO get into the voluminous
record admissions which they declare
knock the main props from under her
daughters case.
Gavin McNsb caused Mrs Turnbull
70 repeat her former declarations that
there had been a contract of maria re
put uhat no one but herself and Bald
WIN mad ever seen it. Then he de-
named 10 know whether she had ever
been introduced by the turfman as his
we. or whether she had been recog-
nized by any one as Mrs. Baldwin.
BY a long series Of questions, which
occupied nearly an hour, McNab drew
from the witness the apparently re-
luctant admission that Baldwin had
referred to her as Mrs. Baldwin before
only five persons.
NET NO WOMEN
Three of these were negro servants.
either at the Baldwin hotel in San
Francisco, or at the Santa Anita ranch
mere, and two were white men. She
could not recall that Baldwin had ever
introduced her as his wife to a single
woman
One Of the negroes Mrs. Turnbull re-
naembered as Bob. McNab, by another
long series Of questions, established
ais Identity as Robert Jackson, who at
the time Of the alleged contract mar
rage, was coachman to Mrs. Lille
Bennett Baldwin, the wife Of the turf
man, but who later became valet to
Col Henry J. Kowalsky Of San Fran
cisco. McNab also ELECTED the inform
alton that Mrs. Turnbull had met Jack
son within the past fortnight at Kow-
alsky's apartment in a hotel here.
One OF the white men was George
Baldwin. Anita Ba ldwin- McClaughrey'
former husband, who was a clerk in
Baldwins hotel in 1898. The other was
2 man whom Mrs. Turnbull only re-
membered as having white mustache.
Don't you know that that man was
George TOLLS. George Baldwin's part
ner in the book making business"
asked McNab
Mrs. Turnbuil denied such knowl-
edge. but acknowledged she had met
George Baldwin in the Office Of her at
torneys a few days ago.
rs there not another human being
that you recall TO whom Baldwin in
troduced you as his wife?" she was
asked.
CURT ANSWER
And when Mrs. Turnbull replied that
she had no recollection one way or the
other McNab concluded with:
Wei, that leaves US only fve-three
representatives Of the colored race and
white r-en-and
Eroes, Jackson, and one Of the white
men, Baldwin, knew the real Mrs.
Baldwin very well at the time you say
Baldwin introduced you to them as his
wife. Why did they not tip you, so
that you could have proceeded against
Baldwin for bigamy? Did they laugh
when Baldwin introduced you as Mrs.
Baldwin,
They did not" curtly -retorted the
witness.
Recurring TO the night Of the alleged
marriage, March 3, 1898, McNab asked:
When, as you say, Baldwin told you
he had been divorced, did you inquire
as to the cause Of the divorce?"
He told me in such q. pathetic, heart
broken way that I felt too sorry for
him 10 risk reopening what thought
was a tender wound"
Did you make any inquiries regard
ing his character
NO. I thought him an honorable,
high minded, moral man.
Mrs Trunbul said that when Bald
win gained her consent TO marriage
she wanted the ceremony performed by
z minister or justice.
But" she added, "he told me con-
tract was just as good and right and
said he had private reasons for having
II that way
BECOMES INDIGNANT
The registers Of hotels here and in
San Diego were introduced in evidence
10 show that Mrs. Turnbull had regis
tered herself as Lillian Ashley after
the alleged marriage with Baldwin.
and after she had reiterated her for
rner testimony that she regarded her
self as the turfman's wife, the cross
examiner suddenly asked:
while you were at Baidwin's hotel
at Santa Anita did you not ask the
manager there. Mr. Lawrence, how
often Mrs. Lille Bennett Baldwin came
to visit her husbands ranch homer"
L did not" Indignantly disclaimed
the witness. I did not know she was
Baldwin's wife until some months
later. and ] have never seen her"
Mrs. Turnbull testified that besides
former Governor Long of Massachu-
setts she had told Olin Welborn, a
federal Judge in Los Angeles. but for
meriy one Of her attorneys in the
seduction suit, of the marriage con-
tract. Moreover, she said she also
wrote Of her marriage TO several girl
friends Among them was Miss Arms
bv Of winchester. Mass, and Mrs. Laura
Wilson James OF Cynthiana, Ky.
But she could neither recall the first
name of Miss Armsby nor her ad-
dress. nor could she recall anything of
subsequent correspondence with them.
Il felt my shame so keeniy after
earning that was to become a mother
without being wife that I dropped
all my old friends and neither wrote
"a nor heard from them afterward,"
she said.
The case will be continued, with Mrs.
Turnbun again on the stand, tomorrow
morning.