Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-05-06
UNFOLDS CHAPTER
OF PAST LIFE T TO
CAPTURE FORTUNE
Now Child of the Marriage
Wants Slice of "Lucky's"
Great Estate.

Boston, April l5.-For some four
years Mrs. Lillian A. Turnbull and her
husband DR.. William Barron Turnbull,
physician to many of the best families
in Boston, have lived quietly in their
luxurious home in Brookline, where
they have beer received in the best OF
society. DR.. Turnbull was known as a
descendant of George Washington. but
beyond hints OF a which cul-
minated in their marriage. little was
known about the history of Mrs. Turn
bull before she came to Boston.
The friends of the Turnbulls will be
amazed to e that 1t was the ply
sician's wife who recently instituted
legal proceedings TO secure for 16-year-
third, or about 5 1000, 600 of the estate
left by the late Elias Jackson Bald
win, better known as Lucky Bald
win," the California turfman.
Mrs. Turnbull, through her attorney
Walter B. Grant, told the whole story
of her love affair with the millionaire
n of a marriage agreement In a
Francisco, which made her the COM
mon law wife of Lucky Baldwin. Little
Miss Turnbull who is now at a finish
ing school in New York City, she de-
clared is the daughter of lucky Bald
win, and under the California law, en-
titled to a third of the more h $780,
GOO, 900 left by Baldwin.
Cites the Birth Certificate.
in the way cf evidence Mrs. Turn
bull, who was Miss Lillian A. Ashley,
of Royalton, VT, daughter of William
Ashley, who had a stock farm n con-
Quoted a lumber business there, de-
clared that Beatrice vas BORN in Los
Angeles. AT the city hall there can be
found on file the usual birth certificate,
which reads:
Born at No. 129 st. Olive street.
Los Angeles, December Z, 1898, a girl.
Mothers maiden lame Lillian a. ASH
ley. Fathers name E. j. Baldwin. DIR.
j. w. Trueworthy, attending ply
sician"
Either on March 2 or 3 in 1898, at
the Baldwin hotel, in San Francisco"
said Attorney Grant, Miss Ashley and
Mr.. Baldwin entered into a common
law marriage. Miss Ashley had been
a guest of the hotel for several days,
and they had known each other for
several years.
ION the eve of this marriage Bald
win told Miss Ashley he was a di-
vorced man; that he loved her very
much and wanted her to become his
wife. Miss Ashley consented, and then
Mr.. Baldwin told her that he would
like to keep the marriage from becom-
ing publicly known. Baldwin told fer
that under the California law, a sep
arate writing, signed by each party,
stating that they took each other for
man and wife, was as legal as any
other form of marriage. Which was
true.
Baldwin Wrote Agreement.
Mr.. Baldwin, on the stationery of
his hotel, hen drew up these agree
ments, signing, himself. the one which
read: I hereby take Lillian Ashley as
my wife
Mrs. Ashley learned hat Baldwin
had deceived her and tAat there was
a living, undivorced Mrs. Baldwin. She
accused him of the deception and he
admitted it. This was about six weeks
after the making Of the marriage
agreements in San Francisco. OF
course Miss Ashley Immediately left
Mr.. Baldwin, but asked him to pro-
vide for her. This he refused to do
unless she would come back to live
with him. p
Finding herself in Strengthened cir
cumstances, Miss Ashley went to ST.
Louis. where Baldwin had gone to the
races, and there she again pleaded with
him to provide for her. He repeated
that he would only do so when she
"Oulu o5iCC ~ olAl DoSh ~ hNS Will
him. Then Miss Ashley told Mr.. Bald
win of her condition. His reply was
that that did not alter the circum-
stances so far as he was concerned.
Child Born in Los Angeles.
after the meeting in st. Louis Miss
Ashley came to Boston and consulted
with the late Secretary of the Navy
John D. Long, after which she returned
to Los Angeles, where the little girl
was born.
miss Ashley then went to New York
city, where she supported herself and
baby by opening a school for teaching
girls manicuring INT hairdressing.
While living in New York she met
DR.. Turnbull and they were, mar
ried there. Determining to lea e be-
hind all the unpleasant memoi les of
the past and to start their newly mar
ried life where Miss Ashley's identity
could be drowned and forgotten, DIR.
Turnbull and his bride came to Boston.
after moving to Boston DR.. Turnbull
formally adopted Lucky Baldwiu's
daughter by decree of the probate
court of Middlesex county, and she
has since been known as Beatrice Turn
bull"
In addition to the Boston lawyer, Mrs.
Turnbull has engaged Walter l.. Nc
Corkle, of No. 20 Wall St, New York,
to press the claim of her daughter TO
the Baldwin millions.