El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-16
BALDWIN'S PERFIDY
LAID BARE IN COURT
Woman Says He Made Mar
rlage Contract With Her
and DESTROYED 1t.

LUIS AHSeIeS, Cal, Dec. 16-The mot
tied fabric of Elias ]. Lucky) Bald
WIN Var1egated past is being unwound
IN the trial of the contest instituted
by 17yearold Beatrice Anita Baldwin
Turnbull, his putative daughter. for a
Sz,5OOOOO share of the big estate left
by the noted turfman when he died
nearly two years ago.
Mrs. Lillian Ashley Turnbull of
Brookllne, Mass, mother of the girl
TOOK the witness stand for a long siege
OF direct and eX-cross examination,
winch her own attorneys assert will
reveal monstrous betrayal, but which
the lawyers representing the estate de-
clare, Will expose only the self-seeking
of an adventures.
Inc story of the old turfmans aSso-
citation with Mrs. Turnbull had a senti-
mental setting in the garden and park
of an old manse at Winchester q
suburb of Boston, where she said she
first met Baldwin, following CORE
spondence which started when she
wrote TO him to ask for a clipping from
The name of a famous race horse.
Mrs. Turnbull-or Lillian Ashley
as she then was-was % years old and
Baldwin 63. 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.
Marriage Contract Drawn.
That was on March 8, 1898 When
she told him that she believed he al
ready had 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 contract on hotel stationery, which
both signed. Four days later, Mrs.
Turnbull testified, he took the contract
form her. telling her that she might
lose it, and that he would put it in
safe place.
The sentimentalism of Baldwin
showed all through Mrs. Turnbulrs
story. On several dinner occasions she
said, he wore boutonnieres, all of which
he gave to her. telling her to preserve
them She did, and they were intro
duced to the jury. Photographs of her
which he had taken at the time of the
alleged marriage were introduced IN
evidnece.
One Of these bore the number ''22"
That does not refer to my age" said
Mrs. Turnbull Il had counted on the
morning after our marriage the mum.
Der of kisses Mr.. Baldwin gave me-
They numbered just %, and he told me
to write that on the back of the pic
ture"
AT the Santa Anita ranch in the San
Gabriel valley, she said, Baldwin treat
ed her as his wife, although at his die
tation she had registered at his hotel
there as Miss Lillian Ashley
1t was there, according to her story,
that she told Baldwin of the interesting
event she expected.
He seemed glad she testified, "and
told me that if the baby were boy 1
should name him Elias Jackson Bald
win, jr- If il were a girl. he insisted
Is why the name Anita is borne by
my daughter"
The Wedding Ring.
Mrs. Turnbun wore on the third fin
ger of her right hand a plain gold
ring, which she said Baldwin had given
her as a wedding ring. This ring.
she said she had worn constantly on
her left hand until her marriage to
DR.. TurnbuI of Boston Then it was
transferred to give place for the circlet
presented by the physician
The name of Col. Albert Pope of Bos-
ton was brought into the case when
Mrs. Turnbull, answering the questions
OF the cross examiner, declared that.
on discovering in May, 1893, that Bald
win had deceived her in stating that
his wife had been divorced. she told
him she would no longer live with him.
You did that because of your re-
gard for the moral code, did you not?'-
asked Mr.. MsNab
Yes" replied Mrs. TurnbulI.
Then" the attorney continued. 'it
is not fact that you sustained the
same relations to Col. Pope in Boston
during October, 1892. that you assumed
with Baldwin a few months Iater?"
Mrs. Turnbull denied it, and then
came series Of questions which con
cluded with this:
is 1t not fact that you know the
money with which your house and lot
IN pasadena was purchased came from
Col. Pope?"
Mrs. Turnbull admitted that she did.