The San Francisco call., 1910-12-24
LLLETTERS ARE
FORGERIES, SAYS
MRS. TURNBULL
Woman on Stand Intimates
Baldwin's Gold Paid for
Alterations in Epistles
Denies Writing That She Re-
sisted Turfman More Than
Colonel Pope

LOS ANGELES, Dec. "a" Lucky
Baldwin's gold could do anything
against a defenseless woman
This was one of the parting shots
launched at the opposing attorneys and
to the jury by Mrs. Lillian Turnbull
before she ended her testimony today
in the contest of her daughter, Beaa
trice, for nearly fourth of the mil
lions the old turfman left when he died
two years ago.
The record Of the woman's testi-
mony at the trial of her $4,000 suit
and the attorneys for the estate were
endeavoring to secure her present YER
sion of that testimony preparatory to
introducing evidence for her impeach-
ment, when she shot the above retort
in reply to a query as to what reason
there might be for so many forgeries
of her letters.
LETTERS ALL FORGERIES
Seventeen more of her alleged let
ters were introduced and she declared
every one of them base, atrocious
forgeries, perpetrated by a villain in
H.,
James E. Wood" Wood is the Boston
detective employed by Colonel Albert
Pope, whom Mrs. Turnbull previously
declared, sold me out to Baldwin
One of the letters contained this
sentence:
Il resisted Lucky Baldwin more
than L did Colonel Pope, for L loved
Colonel Pope. 1 shall never betray his
name. A woman never betrays the
she
Mrs. Turnbull declared she never
wrote this or, anything like it, although
it is quoted as part of the evidence in
the decision rendered by Judge Charles
Slack, who presided in the seduction
case.
Former Judge Slack will be one of
the chief witnesses for the defense
after the case is reconvened, January A.
Mrs. Turnbu1l said she did not tes-
tify regarding her alleged marriage by
contract to Baldwin in the former case
because she had not been asked.
Did you testify that there had been
a promise of marriage?" was asked.
No" Mrs. Turnbull replied. az did
not so testify. l did say there had
not been a promise of marriage. which
was true. Mr.. Baldwin married me
without making promise. He did it
out of hand as quickly as he could
write the contract"
DENIES CONTRACT
Mrs. Turnbull also denied that she
had ever admitted an alleged contract
between herself and A. H. Anderson,
Baldwin's former advertising agent. to
give Anderson 10 per cent of whatever
sums she could recover from Baldwin
in return for his testimony in the be-
trayal suit. She was shown the al
legged contract
That's another forgery, probably
because I never saw it before, and !
never signed it," she said. However,
it bore Identification marks as having
been introduced in the seduction case.
Mrs. Turnbull was asked whether
previous to her meeting with Colonel
Pope she had not met a man named
John Osborn and taken him out ito do
Boston" for period covering an entire
week.
'In your previous case did you not
admit that picture introduced in evil
dence was of you and Osborn in low
ing attitude?'
Il remember a picture that Osborn
said was of himself and me-" she re-
piled, but as a matter of fact the
woman in the picture was the daughter
of Osborn's landlady. Incidentally, Mr..
McNab, that was the picture that near
ly cost Lucky Baldwin his life when it
was shown. My sister shot him them