page_title: Lucky Baldwin
section_title: Personal attacks
hierarchical_section_title: Lucky Baldwin / Personal attacks
caption_attribution_description: English: Lillian Ashley Turnbull, who testified in 1910 that she had signed a contract supposedly marrying her with Lucky Baldwin.
context_page_description: Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin was "one of the greatest pioneers" of California business, an investor, and real estate speculator during the second half of the 19th century. He earned the nickname "Lucky" Baldwin due to his extraordinary good fortune in a number of business deals. He built the luxury Baldwin Hotel and Theatre in San Francisco and bought vast tracts of land in Southern California, where a number of places and neighborhoods are named after him.
context_section_description: One of the women accusing him of breach of promise shot and wounded him in 1883 with a pistol inside his luxury Baldwin Hotel, built in 1876 on the northeast corner of Powell and Market St. He also narrowly escaped death in a San Francisco courtroom on July 2, 1896.  He was sued by Lillian Ashley for seduction. While she was on the witness stand, her sister  Emma Ashley, walked up behind Baldwin and fired a pistol at him, grazing his skull.
caption: Lillian Ashley (later Turnbull) signed a "wedding contract" with Lucky Baldwin. Los Angeles Herald[16]
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