The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-12-21
LETTERS PRODUCED
IN TURNBULL CASE

rum EHEC Onr.h
love horses almost to distraction. am
twenty years old. alone in the world
my own mistress and have to earn my
own uving. Saw your name in the
iiorSeman, In connection with the great
International running race. As I went
10 nave hOrse-loving friend in Call
l0rnla 70 secure me a nice position
also further my interest in various
WAYS SO / can 40 there in the near fu-
ture, have written to you. NY east
ern prince is Wesley BaIch, but a. I
am going TO California 20 live for a
whiic shall need a count on the Pa
cific coast. Now IL you are a whole
sOuled youth with the 'ducats' good
figure and fair face. write me and en-
close photo and on receipt OF same will
tell you more about yours truly.
MISS L. A. ASHLEY.
OR THE BLONDE"
McNab declared the estate had scored
a tactical advantage by Mrs. Turnbull's
admission Of this letter. 10 was the only
one, he asserted. that she refused TO
admit at the trial Of her seduction suit
and that all the others. which in this
case she declared to be forgeries, she
then admitted were genuine.
Oath A. To Paternity.
In one Of these alleged forgeries oc-
CURED a passage describing an oath
Mrs. Turnbull took regarding the pater-
nifty Of Miss Beatrice Anita Turnbull.
the plaintiff In the present case. As
written, IL read.
May God smite me into a thousand
atoms II Colonel Albert Pope is not
the father OF my child"
That is a forged interpretation.
promptly interrupted Mrs. Turnbuil.
CT did make such an oath on my knees
i'm the office OF James X. Wood. But
I said then. May God smite me into
thousand atoms II r.. y. Baldwin is not
the father Of my child. and n ne was
not married to me by contract prior TO
my entering the marriage relation with
him
why is It. Mrs. TurnbuIl queried
MCNab. that your memory Is SO clear
on things that favor you. and so bad
as To things that do not favor YOU
shame has burned some things on
my memory. Mr.. McNsb. Then. too
there are things q woman never for
gets" Mrs. Turnbu replied.
over continued objections McNab
pursued tho examination Of Mrs. Turn
bull i'm reference to her connection
tectivc. who IS said to have assisted
i'm the preparation OF Mrs. Turnbull's
/ case I'm the seduction suit.
Whom did wood represent was
William Redding."
Whom did Redding represent"
col. Albert Pope"
What was the conversation when
| Wood came to YOU -
He said he thought I was a good
| girl but he had been employed TO look
up my record. Mr.. Redding was there
and he said he thought that pcrhs ps
Colonel Pope had wronged me. He
said he thought Colonel Pope would
| buy me a home in Pasadena IL I would
go and live there"
/ This conversation occurred i'm June.
/ 1898. one month after Mrs. Turnbull
testified she had declined to live with
Z Baldwin, following her discovery that
| the alleged marriage contract was
/ worthless because his wife had not
| been divorced. Questioned about the
| letters written to Wood and introduce
/ ton I'm the seduction suit Mrs. Turn
| bull declared that the contents were
I so dOctored and there had been so
| much perjury and bribery used
| against her that she could not positive
| ~ identify any Of the letters so far
/ shown her.
i Declared Them ForEeries.
/ The envelopes are mine she said.
] but the contents are dOCtOrCd. The
II forgeries are so CloSe-that is they