The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-24
MRS. TURNBULL GIVES
 FINAL TESTIMONY Plaintiff Makes Cutting An swers to Lawyers NEVER WROTE LETTERS Mrs. TurnbuIl Declares That All the Letters Submitted in the Case
 as Her own Are Bnse
 Forgeries
NEVER WROTE LETTERS

1 Los Angeles, December B." Lucky
 Baldwins gold could do anything l against a defenseless woman" l This was one of the parting shafts 1 launched at opposing attorneys and to tho jury by Mrs. Lillian Turnhull be- fore she ended her testimony today In the contest of her daughter Beatrice for nearly a quarter oI the s11.oo0.oo0 hioh the old turfman left when !ie died two years ago.
 The record of the woman's testimony at the trial of her $75.o0o suit against
 Baldwin had been destroyed and the attorneys for the state were endeav-
 bring to get her present version of
 that testimony preparatory to intro ducing evidence for impeachment when she replied as quoted to a question as 1 to what reason there might be for so
 many forgeries of her letters.
 Seventeen more of her alleged let ters were introduced and she declared every one of them base. atrocious for
 geries. perpetrated by a villain in the employ of that treacherous man, James R. Wood"
 Wood is the Boston detectives em- ployed by Col Albert Pope. who. Mrs. Turnbull previously declared. "sold me out to Baldwin"
 One letter contained this sentence:
 T resisted Lucky Baldwin more than l did Colonel Pope, for loved Colonel Pope. I shall never betray his name. woman never betrays the man she loves. Never"
 Mrs. Turnbull declared she never wrote this or anything like 1t. although
 1t is quoted as part of the evidence
 in the decision rendered by Judge
 Charles Slack, who presided in the se- duction case.
 Former Judge Slack will be one of the chief witnesses for the defense after the hearing is resumed on Jan uary f.
 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 l a promise of marriage?" was asked. No" Mrs. TurnbulI replied. T did not so testify. I did say there had UOL D6en d prOHllbe OI IIldTIldS6i WHlCp
 was true. MT. Baldwin married me
 without making promise. He did 1t
 out of hand as quietly as he could
 write the contract"
 Mrs. Turnbull also denied that she
 had ever admitted an alleged contract | between herself and A. H. Anderson, | Baldwin's former advertising agent, to l give Anderson 10 per cent of whatever l sum she could recover from Baldwin | In return for his testimony in the betrayal suit. She was shown the al- 1 legged contract.
 l That's another forgery, probably, | because I never saw it before, and I never signed it." she said. | However. 1t bore Identification marks
 as having been introduced in the se- | duction case.
 l Mrs. Turnbull was also asked wheth- | CT. prior to her meeting with Colonel | Pope, she had not met a man named | John Osborn and taken him out "to l do Boston, for week.
 l 'T did not" replied the witness. l Tn your previous case did you not
 admit that picture. introduced in evil | cence was of you and Osborn in a | loving attitudeT was asked.
 "I remember a picture that Osborn | said was of himself and me-" she re- | piled. but as a matter of fact the l woman in the picture was the daugh- | ter of Osborn's landlady. Incidentally,
 Mir. McNab, that was the picture that | nearly cost Lucky Baldwin his life | when 1t was shown. My sister shot him then"