The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-22
GRlLLING GOES ON
The Cross Examination of Mrs.
TurnbuIl Continues.
The Innermost Secrets of Her
Life Are Barred.
LITTLE MISS LUCKY
Is What She Called Her Baby
Daughter.
Now Plaintiff in the Baldwin
Will Case.

Los Angeles, Dec. 2.-Mrs. Lillian
ashley Turnbull resumed the stand
today for her fourth day of testimony
in the Baldwin will contest Altogeth-
| er she has been under the fire of cross
examination II hours, but her spirit
today was unflagging although the
questions searched out the innermost
secrets of her life. Lines of fatigue,
however, marked her usually placid
| cOuntenance.
More of the letters she is alleged to
have written to the Boston detective,
James X. wood, prior to her seduction
suit against Baldwin in; 1896, were re-
introduced. AS on previous days she
pronounced these counterfeit wraiths
| of the past, shrouded and draped by
Wood to suit the convenience of the
attorneys for the Baldwin estate.
| In one of the letters, referring to
Baldwin's alleged betrayal, there oc-
Cured this statement:
| HE (Baldwfn) got around me and
| made fool of me, but he will find me
no cheap fool. He will find me glitter
| ing steel"
Mrs. Turnbull admitted having once
penned such a phrase, and her eyes
glittered like steel as she flashed angry
glanees at Wood, and at Gavin Nc
Nab, the croSsexaminer, who merci-9
| lessly prosecuted his announced pur-
pose of showing that the marriage
contract on which the present suit is
based is only myth. In another let
ter to Wood, dated early in 1894, she
wrote:
| MY baby is girl-Beatriee Bald
win-little Miss Lucky, for she has her
| fathers disposition to IT. .
/ Acknowledged Before Five.
/ G. McNab caused Mrs. Turnbull to
| repeat former declarations that there
| had been marriage contract, but that
no one but herself and Baldwin ever
/ had seen it. Then he asked whether
i she ever had been introduced by the
turrman as his wife. McNab drew
! from the witness that Baldwin had re-
/ ferred to her as MRS Baldwin" be-
4 fore only five persons. Three of these
were negro servants and two were
| white men. The registers of hotels here
| and in San Diego were introduced to
show that Mrs. Turnbull had registered
| herself as Lillian Ashley after the al
| legged marriage with Baldwin,
The cross examiner then referred to
| her visit to California. She said Bald
win urged her to remain with him and
McNab made an effort to learn
whether she had come from Boston on
a round trip. o.
IT don't remember whether it was a
round trip ticket or not" Mrs. Turn
lbu1l replied. i saa.ss
aCan't you remember whether you'll
paid only for one way or both ways p?
You were not rich woman then"
81 can't remember. The money was
part of the sums given me. by Col
Albert Pope"
Returning to the night of the alleged
marriage, March g. 1903. McNab asked:
when, as you say, Mr.. Baldwin told
/ you he had been divorced, did you in
quire as to the cause OF the divorces!
II did not"
| did you make any inquiry"
He told me in such a pathetic, heart
| broken way that 1 felt too sorry for
! him to risk reopening what thought
4 was a tender wound" Continuing, Mrs
| Turnbuil said that when Baldwin gain
/ ed her consent to marriage, she want
ed the ceremony performed by a min
1 lister or justice. But she added ne
told me a contract was just as good
and said he had private reasons for
1 having that way.
Had you no religious scruples and
| had you never heard of contract mar
| riage before2"
Mr.. Baldwin was very persuasive
| implicit confidence in him."
/ "And yet you had met him only three
| times?" commented McNab. When
Baldwin said he had been divorced, it
did not excite you to making inqu1r-
ies?" -
81 made no inquiries said the wit
Ever meet Mrs. Baldwin?'
Never saw the lady, said Mrs. Turn
| bufl. ct never knew where she lived
! until Mr.. Baldwin went east in May,
| 1s93.''
Her Stay at the Ranch.
| Attorney McNab questioned Mrs
Tnrnbull closely regarding her stay at
Baldwin's hotel at the Santa Anita
| ranch Her relations with Baldwin
1 were inquired into with the minutest
details. The attorney made vigorous
/ effort to show by the woman's answers
that Baldwin had never deported HIM
| self toward her as a husband would
He Piled her with questions touching
her ideas of deiicacy and propriety.
did your bFether take room next
to yours after his arrival at Baldwin's
4 hotel?"
Yes
Mr.. Baldwin occupied the room with
you?"
Eyes, such nights as he was not play
ing poker"
The questions and answers which fol-
lowed this dealt with the most intimate
4 phases of Mrs. Turnbull's life with the
millionaire turfman, and the witness
passed through the ordeal with many
evidences of embarrassment. The wit,
ness testified Baldwin had kept but