The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-22
MRS. TURNBULL
HAS IRON NERVE

Ios ANGELES. Dec. 21-For three
honrs today Mrs. Lillian Ashley urn'
I'M atrain cxperionced all the tortules
- the ~third degree" while oeng
Sross-exnmIned in the will contes, o 20
ohtaIn for her daughter 4 SZ,oVo'oVo
shsra NJ tho Lucky" Baldwin esta.e-
Ar the end of that period her reputa-
ZION for iron nerve remalneu un
sohanyod hut most of her alert VIII hao
,,Ivon way to the determined prooe OIL
the Baldwin attorneys.
Contract Marriage With Baldwin.
Tatinc over the ground OF her pre-
vious testimony. the croSs-c1aIninei,
cs,yf, McNab. caused Mrs. Trunouil
=" renaat her former declarations that
,bero had been contract marr1ge. ou.
tSst No one but herself and BALDWIN
had ovar seen IL. Then he demanded
80 tnou whether she Ind even been
,o,roduced by the turfman as bis vile,
or wbether She had been recognized
h,, anv one as Mrs. Baldwin. by
ione sorIcs of questions, which occu-
10 ncarIy an hour, McNab drew
fror, the witness the apparently re-
irc,ant admission that Baldwin had
rsferred TO her as Mrs. Baldwin be-
fore only hve persons. Ihree oil tnese
vera negro servants, empioyeu at INC
baldwin hotel In San Francisco, and
two were white men.
Not introduced as Vile TO women.
she could not recall that Baldwin
hod over introduced her as bis wife
10 q single woman.
Ono of the white men was George
paIdv,n Anita Baldwin McClaugh-
roy,s former husband, who was clerk
tn npaIdUin's hotel In 1898. The other
nos man whom Mrs. Turnbull only
ronembered as having white mus
tache.
,hot Won recall to whom Baldwin in
troduced you as his wite!' asked NC
Nab.
that she had no recollection one way
or the other. MoNab concluded with:
DWELL, that leaves only hye-three
representatives of the colored race
and TWO whito men-and one OF
the negroes, Jackson. and one OF the
white men, Baldwin. knew the real
Mrs. Baldwin very well at the time
Won saw Baldwin introduced you to
them as his wife. Why did they not
lin YOU, so that you could have pro-
ceeded against Baldwin for bigapy?
Did they laugh when Baldwin intro
duced you as Mrs. Baldwin,
'oThey did not curtly retorted the
witness.
ReoIetcrs Of Hotels In Court.
The registers OF hotels here and in
San Diego were introduced in evil
denoe TO show that Mrs. Turnbull had
registered as Lillian Ashley after the
alleged marriage with Baldwin, and
after she had reiterated her former
testimony that she regarded herself as
the turfman's wife, the cross-examiner
suddenly asked;
while you were at Baldwln's hotel
at Santa Anita did you not ask the
manager there, Mr. Lawrence. how Of
ten Mrs. Lille Bennett Baldwin came
10 visit her husbands ranch homer"
Felt Her Shame.
Il did not" Indignantly dIsclalmed
the witness. l did not know she was
Baldwin's wifo until some months Ia
ter, and / have never seen her"
MTS, 1uTuDull tcSllucu ludl, DtolutS
Ex-Governor Long of Massachusetts,
she had told DIN Wellborn, now
federal judge in Los Angeles, but for
merly one of her attorneys in the Sc
duction suit, OF the marriage contract
Moreover, she said she also wrote OF
her marriage to several girl friends.
Among them was Miss Armsby OF
Winchester, Mass, and Mrs. Laura
Wilson James Of Cynthiana, Ky. But
she could neither recall the first name
of Miss Armsby or her address, nor
could she recall anything Of subse-
ouent correspondence with them
81 felt my shame so keenly after
learning that | was to become moth
er without being wife. that I dropped
all my old friends and never wrote to
or heard from them afterwards" she
said
The case will be continued. with
Mrs. Turnbul again on the stand. to-
morrow morning
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