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Show DENIES BALDWfH-ASHLEV BALDWfH-ASHLEV MRRIAGE LOS ANGELES, Feb. 15. The reading read-ing of the deposition of Mrs. Maria S. Thompson, taken in Boston last wcok, occupied much of the tlmo today in tho caso of Mrs. Liillan Ashley Turn-bull, Turn-bull, contesting for the "Lucky Baldwin millions. Mrs. Thompson deposed de-posed to tho effect that she had become be-come acquainted with Lillian Ashley in the fall of 1891 through a nows-paper nows-paper advertisement Inserted by tho latter, requesting some aged couple to adopt her. She said Miss Ashley iifterwards came to her home In Westminster, West-minster, near Boston, and later helped 5n housework, for which servlco she was paid. Mrs. Thompson Bald that "Lucky" had luncheon at her house in 1S92, and that afterward Lillian told her that Baldwin, who she said was married and had grown children, wanted to adopt her. Tho witness denied that she had ever received a letter from Miss Ashley, saying that Baldwin had married her or had entered into a contract con-tract of marriage with her. oo |