Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
JUDGE MAY BRAND
MRS.. TURNBULL' s
STORY AS FALSE
Baldwin Defense Threatens to
Try to Prove Perjury Through
San Francisco JuriSt
WOMAN'S LAWYERS DEFIANT
Attorneys to Stick to Program,
Daring Opposition to Impeach
Testimony of the Widow

! That the defense In the contest of
| Beatrice Anita Baldwin -Turnbull for
a daughters share in the estate of E.
j. Oucky) Baldwin will attempt to
| impeach the testimony of her mother,
| Mrs. Lillian Ashley Turnbull, the prin-
cipal witness in the case, was declared
yesterday in the course Of her cross
examination before Judge Rives of the
| probate court.
The attorneys for the heirs known
| to be legitimate asked the attorneys for
the contestant if they would waive tho
matter of questioning Mrs. Turnbull
| about the opinion of Judge Charles
Slack, who heard Mrs. Turnbull's Sc
! ductiOn case against Baldwin years
ago, saying that it was their inten
| tion to call the jurist and officers of
his court to prove that Mrs. Turnbull
| testified falsely unless the procedure
were waived. The attorneys for the
plaintiff, however, declined to do away
with the questioning of their witness
along the lines indicated and prac-
tically dared the oposition to impeach
Mrs. Turnbull
Thereupon more and more letters,
alleged to have been written by Mrs
Turnbull and said to have been ad'
mitted by her to be in her handwrit-
ing when the former case was heard In
San Francisco in 1896, were shown to
her for either her acknowledgement or
her denial and later placed with the
clerk of the court with appropriate
exhibit marks upon them. With the
exception of the address upon one en-
velOpe, Mrs. Turnbull consistently de-
MED authorship Of the epistles.
QUESTIONED ABOUT ARCADIA
When the case was resumed yester-
day the examiners reverted to
the life Mrs. Turnbull and Baldwin
led at Arcadia. Mrs. Turnbull even
was questioned as to what garments
Baldwin kept In the room which they
jointly occupied except, according to
Mrs. Turnbull, when "he was playing
poker"
She wss asked to describe Turkish
bath. the furnishings of the Baldwin
hotel and the bowls IN a bathroom in
BaldWn's suite of rooms there, and
even queried in a sarcastic manner as
to whether Baldwin wore paper or
linen collars.
The defense wished to read a deposi-
tiOn of Mrs. Turnbulls brother, Everett
p Ashley, said to have been intro
duced at the seduction trial, but tho
plaintiffs attorneys objected, saying
they wanted to know where it came
from, as the records of the San Fran
cisco court were supposed to have been
destroyed in the disaster in that city
in 1906
Judge Rives sustained the objection,
and McInerny and McNab, for the de-
Tense, announced that they would
pass to something else for the time
being"
They kept their word, and asked
Mrs. Turnbull about the amount of
money which Baldwin expended upon
her. She could not remember details
any better than at any previous time
in the trial, but admitted $3.50 at one
time and $50 another, and said that
Baldwin usually gave her the change
whenever he bought anything in her
presence.
BOUGHT HER PRESENTS
She also said that he had bought her
a pair of shoes in San Francisco blue
dress valued at $40 or $50 in Los An
geles. and given her a white horse and
saddle at Arcadia.
She told of his also giving her a
wedding ring. She first expressed a
wish for one while in Coronado, and
when they returned to Los Angeles
she repeated. he had bought one for
her and "wished it on her finger"
Isn't it odd," asked McNab, that
you had not thought of wedding ring
when you were married? Did you not
know that a wedding ring is a part of
the marriage Service?"
"I had never been to any weddings
before that" answered Mrs. Turnbull |
Did you never ask your mother
what her wedding ring was? Did she
never speak to you Of it?'
Il don't remember"
She was unable to declare positively |
whether it was March or 6, 1898, that |
she relinquished the alleged marriage |
request. Neither could she say just |
where she was, except that it was in |
the Baldwin hotel that she had given |
it up.
When did you seek to have it re-
turned?"
when I first learned that Mr.. Bald
win had another and a legal wife,
What did he say?'
"He said he would give it to me if I |
would forgive him for having deceived |
me and would live with him."
ASKED AGAIN IN ST. LOUIS
when did you next ask for it?"
when l found him in st. Louis and |
talked with him at the race course
there"
"And what did he say them"
HE wanted me to make it a matter |
of whether a certain horse won race
that day. He suggested that if the !
morse won i WOulu i've WITH MIN anu !
wanted me to agree to the plan"
Making you a sort of prize for the |
race, eh?"
mo. If it won. was to reconsider |
my plan never to have anything to do |
with him. and if it lost he was to abide |
by my decision"
What did you say to that"
81 refused to make any such plan |
for my future"
"And he?"
HE said if l would not live with him |
that he would not provide either for me !
of for the child which was then un- |
born. He said he would not give up |
the marriage contract unless I forgave |
him and continued to live with him. |
If l did not do that, he said, / could !
starve and the child could starve and |
neither one of us would ever get a
red cent from him"
"Why did you want the contract?" |
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