Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-12-16
Testimony of Alleged Common
Law Wife Reveals Varigated
Past of Millionaire California
Turfman
DAUGHTER OF UNION
DEMANDS 81, 100000
Mother on Witness Stand Tells
of Romance Which Began
From GirIish Note Sent to
Horse,
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Los Angeles Cal, Dec. 15.---The
notified fabric Of elias J. Baldwin's
variegated past began TO be unwound
today in the trial Of the contest insti-
tuted by 17-year-old Anita Baldwin
Turnbull, his putative daughter, for a
$2,5 900 share of the big estate left
by the noted turfman when he died,
nearly two years ago.
| Mrs. Lillian Ashley Turnbull of
| Brookline, Mass, mother of the girl,
took the witness stand for a long siege
of direct and DISCRIMINATION. which
her own attorneys assert will reveal
monstrous betrayal but which, the
lawyers representing the estate, de-
clare viii expose only the self-seeking
of an adventures.
Miss Turnbull. the slender slip of a
girl who occupies the role of plaintiff
in the case. was not present in the
courtroom during her mothers testi-
mony: neither We're the recognized
daughters Of Baldwin, on behalf of
whom the array of noted lawyers is
making a fight to preserve the $i1,
600, 600 estate intact.
The story OF the old turfman's asso-
citation with Mrs. Turnhull had a ses-
sational setting in the garden and
park of an old manse at Winchester,
suburb OF Boston, where she said
she first met Baldwin, following a cor
respondence which started when she
wrote to him TO ask for a chipping
from the mane Of a famous race
horse.
Mrs. Turnbull or Lillian Ashley
as she then was--was 20 years old and
Baldwin So He wanted to adopt her
as a daughter, she said, but two years
later, when she came to California and |
went TO his hotel in San Francisco. he |
quickly made the suggestion that she |
become his wife instead
That was on March B. 1893 When |
she told him that she believed he al |
ready had a wife. she said Baldwin |
replied that he had been divorced; but |
instead OF seeking a clergyman or a |
justice of the peace, she added. he
drew up a contract on hotel station
cry. which both signed. Four days
later, Mrs. Turnbull testified, he took
the contract from her, telling her that
she might lose II and that he would
put it In a safe place.
The sentinrentalism Of Baldwin
showed all through Mrs. Turnbnll's
story. on several dinner occasions,
she said, he wore buttonieres, all of
which he gave to her. telling her to
preserve them She did. and they
were introduced to the jury today.
of her which he had
taken at the time Of the alleged mar
-iage were introduced in evidence.
one of these bore the number "22."
THAT does not refer TO my age
said Mrs. Turnpuik Il had counted
On the morning after our marriage the
number Of kisses Mr.. Baldwin gave
ne. They numbered just %, and he
old me 10 write that on the back OF !
he picture"
At the Santa Anita ranch. i'm the
San Gabriel valley. she said Baldwin
reated her as his wife. although at
iis dictation she had registered at his ,
lotel there as Miss Lillian Ashley.
II was there, according TO her story :
hat she told Baldwin of the interest q
ng event she expected.
He seemed glad she testified, J
and told me that II the baby were q
boy | should name him Elias Jack =
on Baldwin, Jr. If II were o girl he s
insisted that 1t should be named Anita. {
hat is why the name Anita IS borne t
y my daughter"
Mrs. Turnbull wore on the third j
niger Of her right hand plain gold y
ing which she said Baldwin had r
iven her as wedding ring. This IL
ing, she said, she had worn con- q
tantly on her left hand until her h
marriage to Or. Turnhull of Boston. p
hen il was transferred to give place n
)r the circlet presented by the physi- Il
ian. O.
Placidly she told Attorney Gavin Ii
IcNab OF San Francisco, cross-exam- n
Ter that several letters, vital to the d
lse OF the estate were forgeries. She
randed them forgeries despite the N
lct that they bore the endorsement h
( the clerk Of the court who received Ia
lem Ia evidence in the case which y,
as tried in san Francisco fourteen n,
,ars ago, and marked them as oN- te
bits. which Mrs. Turnbull had sworn NJ
ere genuine rO
The name OF Colonel Albert Pope J..
Boston was brought into the case n
hen Mrs Turnbull. answering the Ir
icstions Of the cross examiner, de- wg
ared that on discovering In May. 10
1913. that Baldwin had deceived her be
stating that his wife had been di- di
reed. she told him she would no hc
niger live with him. ot
You did that because Of your re- "A,
rd for the moral code. did you2" tb
ked McNab. n,
YES" replied Mrs. Turnbull. So
Then" McNab continued, "t Is =.
L fact that you sustained the same Gi
lations 90 Colonel Pope in Boston, ~
ring October. 1892. that you AS mi
med with Baldwin a few months IN,
crf' h.
Mrs TurnbuIl denied Il aud then no
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