Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-22
Mrs. Lillian Ashley TurnbuIl De-
scribes Early Love Affair
with Noted Turtman
RECALLS MARRIAGE CONTRACT
Estate Attorneys Make Vigorous
Attack on Statement That
Agreement Was Signed
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kept secret except from the servants
and the employees? How did, he rec
ognize you as his wife?"
well, he told the waiter to give Mrs.
Baldwin anything she wanted
WAS the waiter negroP'
"Many of his hotel employees were.'
"Was the waiter?"
perhaps ne was. He was dark
man"
do you know any person else in the
hotel besides the negro waiter to whom
he declared you to be his wife?'
st can't state any one in particular,
except the employees and the friends of
Mr.. Baldwin"
Name the people you met in San
Francisco"
Il was there such short time that l
hardly met any person"
Did you meet any one there whom
you now remember as having seen
there?"
81 can't remember"
"You met only the servants, them
II don't remember"
did it not strike you as strange
that he told you your marriage should
be kept secret and then disclose II 10
the negro servants?"
you overestimate the secrecy i'm
posed, Mr.. McNab. He wanted 1t kept
out of the newspapers. And he did
not wish his daughter, Anita, to know
it"
"she was living at that time in the
same hotel?"
Il did not know it, then"
did you not know that Baldwin
was a news feature Of San Francisco|
mo"
MARRIAGE AND THE NEWSPAPERS
'sDid you not know that the news
papermen of San Francisco We're as
enterprising in the search of news as
are these gentlemen sitting here?" and
Ire waved his hand toward the press
representatives.
'I don't know much about news
papers," declared Mrs. Turnbull.
Ibid you tell any one about your
MARRIAGE"
81 knew no one socially there"
Did you inform anybody in any
way?"
about it,"
McNab wanted to know who they
were. Mrs. Turnbull remembered with
difficulty that one was Miss Grace
Ormsby of Winchester, Mass. Another
was Miss Laura Wilson of Abdullah
Park, Cynthiana, Ky. Mrs. Turnbull
declared that when she learned that
she was a mother, yet not a wife, she
felt great shame and also lost all OF
her friends.
81 think 1 also wrote to Mr.. and Mrs.
Thompson, the friends with whom 1
had made my homie, that I had been
married" she said.
"Where are they now?''
'I don't know. l have not heard
from them nor seen them for years"
She also said that later she had told
n Mrs. Marjorie Holmes, whom she
had met at Arcadia and who now is
supposed to reside in Monrovia, that
she was Baldwin's wife.
Mr. Grant, her attorney, said Mrs.
Holmes will appear as witness
"When. you and Baldwin were at
Arcadia" queried McNab, did he tell
anybody there you were his wife,"
HE told the coachman."
"A negro?"
Eyes"
Ibid you not think it odd that it was
always to colored people to whom he
acknowledged you to be his wife?
Where is that coachman now?"
81 don't know"
Have you heard from him re
cently?"
Yes, few weeks ago"
HAS he been subpoenaed as wit
ness?"
II don't know
Mr.. Grant interposed.
Hell be here in court, Mr.. McNab,"
he said
II thought so,' remarked McNab.
"And there will be some white wit
nesses here Also" announced Mr.. Dock
weller.
"They'n be needed" said Mr.. McIn-
erny.
MARRIAGE CONTRACT QUESTIONED
MtNab turned his questioning back
to the time the marriage contract is
alleged to have been made.
"At the time of the contract you say
you made with Baldwin did you know
whether Mrs. Baldwin was living?'
Il don't know
"If she were dead he would not have
need to tell you that he was divorced.
You never asked about your predeces-
sor?"
NO"
"Well, Mrs. Turnbull, l think Wen
have to put you in evidence as scien-
titic example of the absence of Wom-
ans curiosity" McNab remarked with
sarcasm. ITO how many negroes were
you introduced as Baldwin's wife,"
1T might have been one or series
of negroes"
The case then was adjourned until
10 o'clock this morning.
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