The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-22
"Lillian Ashley" Says Aged Mil
lionaire Has Most Pcrsua-
sive Way With Women.
MAY RUIN GIRLS CHANCES
Mother Testimony Yesterday
Said 10 Have lnvalidated
Plaintiff s Plea.

| Los ANGELES, Cal, Dec. Ill or
three hours today Mrs Lillian A. Turn
bull experienced all the tortures of the
third degree while being cross-cN-
amincd in the will contest to obtain
for her daughter a $2,500,O0O share Of
the ''Lucky'' Baldwin estate.
AT the end of that period her repu-
tation for iron nerve remained un
scathed. but meanwhile her alert wits
had given way TO the determined probe
of the Baldwin attorneys, enabling them
to get into the voluminous record ad-
missions which they declare knocks the
main props from under her daughter s
case
Taking her over the ground of her
previous testimony, the cross examiner,
Gavin McNab, caused Mrs. Turnbul TO
| repeat her former declarations that
| there had been q contract of marriage,
but that no one but herself and Bald
win had ever seen il. Then he demand
| cd to know whether she had ever been
introduced by the iurfman as his wife,
or whether she had been recognized by
anyone as Mrs. Baldwin.
BY long series Of questions which
| occupied nearly an hour, McNab drew
| from the witness the apparently reluc-
tant admission that Baldwin had re.
ferred to her as Mrs Baldwin before
only five persons. Three of these were
negro servants. either at the Baldwin
hotel in San Francisco or mt the Santa
Anita ranch here. The two others were
white men. She could not recall that
Baldwin had ever introduced her as
his wife to single woman.
Secret Marriage Contract
One of the white men was George
Baldwin, Anita Baldwin McClaughrey's
former husband, who was a clerk in
Baldwin = hotel in 1898. The other was
a man whom Mrs. Turnbul only remem
oered as having a white mustache.
Is there not another human being
that YOU recall to whom Baldwin intro.
duced you as his wife9' asked McNab.
And when Mrs. Turnbull replied that
she had no recollection one way or the
other. McNab concluded with:
Well, that leaves us only five-three
representatives, of the colored race and
Two Whlte men-and one of the negroes
Jackson, and one of the white men
baidwlu. knew the real Mrs. Baldwin
very well at the time you say Baldwin
introduced you TO them as his wifo,
WY nld they not tip you, so that YOU
for bigamy' Did they laugh when PAID.
win introduced YOU as Mrs. Baldwin,,
They did not curtly retorted the
witness. ''u '"e
The register Of the hotels here and in
san Diego were introduced in evidence
10 snow that Mrs. TurnbulI had regis. |
Tered herself as Lillian Ashley after |
We aheged marriage with Baldwin and |
aftcr she had reiterated her former
testimony that she regarded herself as
tbe turfman s wife, the cross.examiney
suddenly asked:
While YOU were at Santa Anita Ala
YOU not ask the manager there NJ
Lawrence; how often Mrs. Lille Ron.
nett Baldwin came to visit her bus.
oAnd S ranch bome7',
a. dId not, Indignantly discIaimcd
Baiwln s wife until some months wa. Was
and have never seen ber. ;; ''e''
Told Federal Judge.
Mrs. S Iurnbul testified that besides
eN eN'HoVernor Long Of Massachusetts sbo
mad told Olin Wellborn. now federsI
Judge IN Los Angeles. but formerJv orc
of ntr attorneys in the seduction suit
or the marriage contract. Noreo,.nr'
sne SAID. she also wrote of her marrioae
10 ssTerai girl friends. Among them
was MSS Armsby Of Winchester Mass
ana ana Mrs; Laura Wilson James Of Cyn.
thiana, Ky. But she couId neitbor
call the first name of Miss Armshy
nor her address, nor could She recall
anything of subsequent correspopdencn
with them. '''e"ec
felt my shame go keenlv after
leaIning that ] was TO become n mother
without being wife. that I dronncd oil
my 4Jd friends. and neither wrote IN
10, "eard from them afterward,D She
McNab made an effort to learn from
Mrs lurnbull whether she had como
from Boston on a round trip ticket
don t rememebr whether il waa
round trip ticket or not -
Gan I you remember whether Won
paid only for one way or both wavsq
ou were not n rich woman then and
the amount necessary for such tr;n aGn
was consideration, WASH I it?,'
can not remember. The money
vas part Of sums given me by Colonel
Pope N'''ne'
Recurring to the night of the alleged
marriage, March g. 1893, McNab asked:
When, as YOU say, Mr.. Baldwin fold
you ne had been divorced, did YOU in.
did not. -
Did you make any inquiries 30
ne toId me IN such a pathetic.
ieart broken way that | felt too sorry
or nm to risk reopening what I
hought was tender wound
Baldwin Very Persuasive
Dld YOU make any inquiry regard .
ne his character?H |
NO: ] thought him an honorable +
,igh minded, moral man. s
Continuing: Mrs: Turnbull said that s
yhen Baldwin gained her consent 70 4
marriage, she wanted the ceremony per. :,
ormed by minister or Justice. "but ), ,,
he added, he told me contract was !
ust as good and right, and said he had C
private reasons for having it that
way il
9 Had you no religious scrun)es and 4
'ad you ever heard Of a contract mar. h
iage before7'
MI Baldwin was a very persuasive
man., replied the witness, "and i had
IMPLICIT confidence in him. - n
p" And yet you had met him only b
hree times, commented McNab. e
Don you know that the entire re. u
lgious system of New England is VIC
emily opposed to divorcc7,' o.
You are stating facts g