Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-12-24
BALDWIN GOLD
COULD Do
ANYTHING
PARTING SHOT OF MRS,
TURNBULL FROM STAND
Star Witness in So, 100000
win Contest Thus Explains
Presence of Stack of Letters
She Claims Are Forgerles.

rBy Morning Journal Special Leased wireI
Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 2S.-" Lucky
Baldwin's gold could do anything
against a defenseless woman"
This was one of the parting shafts
launched at the opposing attorneys
and to the jury by Mrs. Lillian Turn
bull before she ended her testimony
today in the contest of her daughter,
Beatrice, for nearly a quarter OF the
S11,O00,000 estate the old thurman leit
when he died two years ago.
The record Of the woman's testi-
mony at the trial of her $4,000 suit
against Baldwin has been destroyed,
and the attorneys for the state were
endeavoring to secure her present YER
sion of that testimony preparatory TO
introducing evidence for 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
Seventeen more of her alleged let
ters we're introduced and she de-
clared everyone of them base, afro
cious forgeries, perpetrated by VII
liam In the employ of that treacher-
Gus man, James r. Wood" Wood Is
the Boston detective employed py
Colonel Robert Pope, whom Mrs:
Turnbuli previously declared, SOLO
me out to Baldwin"
one of the letters contained TINS
sentence;
II resisted Lucky Baldwin more
than I did Colonel Pope. for / loved
Colonel Pope. | shall never oeIray
his name. A woman never betrays
the man she loves. Never"
Mrs. Turnbull declared she never
wrote this or anything like it, although
ii 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 reconyened January
A.
Mrs. Turnbull 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 promise of marriage?' was
asked.
No. Mrs Turnbull replied, II did
not so testify. l did say there had
not been a promise of marriage,
which was true. Mr.. Baldwin mar
ried me without making promise
He did it out of hand, as quickly as
he could write the contract"
Mrs. Turnbull also denied that she
had ever admitted an alleged con-
tract between herself and A. II. An
derson, Baldwins former advertising
agent to give Anderson 10 per cent
Of whatever sums she could recover
from Baldwin, i'm return for his testi-
mony in the betrayal suit. She was
shown the alleged contract.
That's another forgery, probably
because I never saw IT before and
never signed it," she said.
However, ii bore Identification
marks of having been introduced in
the seduction case.
Mrs. Turnbull was also asked
whether previously to her meeting
with Colonel Pope she had not met a
man named John Osborn and taken
him out ''to do Boston" for period
| covering an entire week.
II did not" replied the witness.
"In your previous case did you not
admit that a picture introduced in evil
dence was of you and Osborn in a
loving attitude?' was asked
II remember 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 daugh-
ter of Osborn's landlady. Incident
ally Mr.. McNab, II was the picture
that nearly cost Lucky Baldwin his
life when IL was shown. My sister
shot him them