The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-04-29
WROTE OWN WEDDING vow.
6ut Baldwin Deceived Her, Mrs. Turn
bull SAYS.

bull Says.
New York. April 2j.-ln a finishing
school in this city is the pretty 16-
year-old miss, who, through her moth
er, is the claimant for five million
dollar slice of the twenty million dol
lar estate left by the late Elias Jack
son Baldwin, better known as Lucky"
Baldwin, the California turfman. She
is Beatrice Turnbull, the daughter of
Mrs. Lillian A. Turnbull, wife of Dr.
William Barrett Turnbull of Boston
and according to the claim of the
mother Lucky" Baldwin was her ia
Their.
The Turnbulls have lived quietly in
their beautiful home in Brookline,
Mass, and have moved in good social
circles there. The girl was legally
adopted by Doctor Turnbull as his
daughter not long after his marriage
to Lillian A. Ashley Mrs. Turnbull,
through her lawyer Walter b. Grant
of Boston, has made public the story
of the claimed love affair between the
rich turfman and of a marriage agree
ment in San Francisco which made her
the common law wife of Lucky" Bald
win.
In the way of evidence Mrs. Turn.
bull who was Miss Lillian A. Ashley
of Royalton, VT, a daughter of William
Ashley who had stock farm and con.
Quoted a lumber business there, de.
Clared that Beatrice was born in Los
Angeles and at the city hall there can
be found on file the usual birth certifi.
cate, which reads:
Born at 1919 South Olive street, Los
Angeles, December Z, 1893, girl;
mothers maiden name, Lillian A. Ash.
ley; fathers name, Z. j. Baldwin. DR..
j. w. Trueworthy, attending physi.
cian."
Either on March 2 or 8, in 1893, 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
guest at the hotel for several days
and they had known each other for
several years.
ION the eve of his marriage Baldwin
told Miss Ashley he was a divorced
man, that he loved her very much and
wanted her to become his wife. Miss
Ashley consented and then Mr.. Bald,
win told her that he would like to
keep the marriage from becoming pub
licly known. Baldwin told her that
under the California law a separate
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.
Mr. Baldwin, on the stationery of
his hotel, then drew up these agree.
ments, signing himself the one which
read, i hereby take Lillian Ashley as
my wife
Miss Ashley learned that Baldwin
had deceived her and that there was
a living, undiyorced Mrs. Baldwin.
She accused him of the deception and
he admitted it. This was about six
weeks after the making of the mar
riage agreements in San Francisco.
OF course, Miss Ashley Immediately
left Mr.. Baldwin, but asked him to
provide for her. This he refused to
do unless she would come back to live |
ton and consulted with the late secre-
with him. Miss Ashley came to Bos-
tary 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 and hair
dressing.
while in New York Miss Ashley |
met Doctor Turnbull and they were
there"
HENRY WATTERSoN'S ALARM.