Show I READY TO SPEND FORTUNE 1 TO ClEAR DflJGHMS NAME i Hartjes Millions to Be 01 No Avail Declares John F Scott of Pittsburg CASE PROMISES TO BE A REMARKABLE ONE For American Womanhood and American Homes I Will Fight Declares the Father of the Woman Accused of Grave Misconduct Plttsburg For tho sake d AIL rican ri-can womanhood for the Bake of Amur lean homus for the nulvutlcm of his daughters name John F Scott ass i as-s now generally known Is engaged In I a battle against the millions of Augustus Au-gustus Hurtjc who Is l suing Mary Kenney Scott Hartjo daughter of Mr Scott for divorce and has named a negro as corespondent llartjea attorneys at-torneys say they will prove tho relations rela-tions of this beautiful society woman with the man who cleaned out her stables sta-bles and groomed her horses On her part Xrs Ihirtju accuses her husband of brutality beyond the Imagination of ordinary man > It is such a case which promises to drag Its length through the Plttsburg courts within the next few months and the amount of public sympathy which Is being given to this woman who Is fighting a millionaire for her children and her name as a faithful wife and mother Is one of the most remarkable things about It all Hartjo Not Popular Not one kind word has yet been ipoken of Augustus Hartjo since tho case started If he has any friends who believe his statement they arc keeping It to themselves Tho negro I who made the affidavit which was intended In-tended to strip from thlH woman tho last shred of public sympathy and re tipect surrendered to tho officers of Jlio law and confessed that he had I perjured himself that his statements wero false that ho had received about 700 for telling his story and was to have been paid 5000 Mixed up In this alleged conspiracy are a leading business man of the East End of Plttsburg one of tho most I prominent physicians of that fashionably fashion-ably section and the Hartjo brothers Augustus and Edward O his brother who Is nn attorney I Not a Love Match The Hartjo divorce caso first broke npon tho public October 10 1903 when Hnrtjo filed suit against his wife for divorce naming as corespandont Thomas Mndlnc a young Irishman who had been employed by tho too much The lower one is likely nearest It Hartjo Described As a man turtle has been rather a negative character That Is as a man among men In business he stands well Ills promises and contracts are fully lived up to He pays his debts and treats his fellow men fairly lIe Is close In his business dealings but on the whole Is regarded as a businessman business-man of considerable ability Socially ho has cut little figure He Is fond ot fine horses but he has never been known to take his family Into his enjoyment en-joyment He Is according to tho statements of his wife the kind of a man who will spend 1500 or 2000 for a fine horse and wonder at his wifes extravagance In spending 10 or 15 On anything that Augustus Hartjo wanted ho would spend any sum Ho Is that way In business Ho Is that way with his employes Ho hires them for the least ho can get them to work for and works them to tho limit Mrs Hartje Is a granddaughter of old John Scott In his day one of the most famous railroad men this country coun-try ever produced Andrew Carnegie Is said to have gotten away with the big end of the Scott fortune but tho facts are that John Scott was a spendthrift spend-thrift and n man who led a life which was calculated to use up two or three fortunes There was always tragedy In the family It went down like tho Pynchcon family In Hawthornes House of Seven Gables hank ruptcy violent deaths Insanity and other tragic happenings carried off different members of old Johns own family and those of his connections A fatality seemed to follow the name and it appears as It that spell still exists for this beautiful young woman wom-an has mot with the most terrible charges any man over brought against n wife Good Woman and Mother She Is a good woman It Is not intended in-tended to try her case here but merely mere-ly to paint her picture for the benefit of our readers Sho has been as fool saaa + oar 7naaaaostaaa 2 4 I J1 jr I1 scout t Rru y t J A 1 el tie 0 oul5f ° o lfArtsaN NARTJE Hurtles rite couple were married I March 15 1SU4 It was not a love match to begin with Hartje was Immensely I Im-mensely wealthy Mrs Scotts father I was comparatively a man In moderato mod-erato circumstances He Is worth about 200000 Hartje Is a paper manufacturer and has a mill at Steubenvllle 0 worth about a million mil-lion dollars lIe also owns 20 or 30 pieces of real estate In tho downtown portion of 1Ittsburg and property In this section Is valued at prices ranging rang-ing from 800 to S000 a foot frontOn front-On one of these he has erected k sky pcruper fitted as a modern office buildIng build-Ing He Is variously estimated as being be-ing worth from 3000000 to 8 100000 The hither figure U I probably Ish perhaps as thousands of other women of wealth and fashion whose names have never felt the breath or scandal As a horsewoman she has ridden astride If that is any disgrace Perhaps she has been Indiscreet enough to flirt once In a great while Hut her servants worship her They speak well of the mistress and condemn con-demn the master She Is n good mother She nursed her babies at her own breast which Is something fashionable mammas seldom do Out under the grass now growing green with the spring rains there are three little mounds in Home wood She goes there occasionally and moistens them with her tears They I are the graves of three of her babies r who died before their father sought and mothers reputation to blast their her In charging to stain their names with Infidelity with a negro Only two children are left nnl on those two she lavishes all the wealth of her warm nature for the Scotts were always al-ways warmhearted and loved each other and fought for each other loyally loy-ally for all the generations they have been known in Ilttsburg Such are the man and woman In I this case lIe Is the average businessman business-man She Is n woman of refinement I and of education Hartje says ho does not need the evidence of the negro to support his case that ho has plenty of proof against her without that He alleges that he can prove her guilty of intimacy with other men white men and has plenty of testimony to that effect That is what has lost him favor In Iittshurg for Plttsburgew Inquisitively as = k why for the sake of his children he dragged In the negro If he did not need him Public feel ing Is against him today In Allegheny I county I Legal Giants on Both Sides The attorneys are all remarkable 1 for their ability It is probably the first time David T Watson has ever I engaged in a divorce case He Is one I of the greatest expounders of constitutional consti-tutional law In the world today If I there Is any man living who fills the shoes ot Daniel Webster it is David Watson lIe only deals with great things Ho was attorney for the United States in the Alaskan boundary bound-ary dispute and won that great case against the greatest lawyers of Europe for the United States He was attorney attor-ney recently for the city of Chicago In tho traction cases there which were won by the city In tho Northern North-ern Securities case his advice was Invaluable In-valuable Ho has figured In a dozen celebrated cases but the world does not hear much of him Watson never I gets Interviewed lIe Is too busy He Is as pleasant and Jolly a companion compan-ion as you would want to have but he has a horror of notoriety He does not like the look of his name in cold type typeHis Ills partner John M Freeman Is almost as well known as Mr Watson and In his way Is as good a lawyer They lead the counsel employed to look after Mrs Hartjes Interests Patterson Sterrett Acheson Is another an-other of Pittsburgh big law firms In fact Mrs Hartjo could scarcely have secured any more attorneys of their class unless she had employed Senator Sen-ator Philander C Knox With Watson Wat-son Freeman and Patterson Ster rett Acheson on her side there is no doubt that things will he made interesting In-teresting when the fur finally begins to fly I Hartje Has Able Lawyers John Marron J Scott Ferguson and William D Rodgers are tho attorneys secured by Mr Hnrtje Mr 1 arron I weighs about 125 pounds but there Is a fight In every pound of him He Is one of the ablest most persistent most successful attorneys at the Allegheny Al-legheny county bar He is a little Irishman whose tongue la like a rapier ra-pier In crossexamining a witness he rarely leaves anything but the hide If the witness happens to be unwill ing or misstating facts Ho Is universally I uni-versally feared as an opponent J Scott Ferguson is another man of reputation won In hundreds of great legal battles while William U Rodgers Is a constitutional lawyer who In Plttsburg stands only second to David T Watson With such a galaxy gal-axy of legal lights on each side a battle bat-tle royal may Le expected when it finally opens if it ever does John P Scott father of the respondent re-spondent is not a millionaire but he says he will spend every dollar he has to clear his daughters name This Is a fight for American womanhood wom-anhood he declares There can be no settlement We demand a trial that the world may Judge and then wo will punish the people who are back of this persecution All the mil lions In tin world cannot save them outraged public when the from nn out rag truth of this case Is known When Hartje filed his divorce suit his attorney secured an order from court to take the testimony ot Clifford Clif-ford Hooc who was alleged to bo about to leave the city and the state Hooe Is the colored coachman named corespondent The attorneys by Hnrtje as torneys for Hartje now BOY that they will not use the mans story They without say they have plenty of evidence out It and did not need It In the first place It Is In connection with Hooe statement that the attorneys for Mrs Hnrtje and the district attorney threaten to bring criminal proceeding for conspiracy Hooes First Statement to Hooes story was first related Hartje by John L Welshons president presi-dent of the Welshons Hardware company of Plttsburg Hooo worked for pany H n tie for a few months in 1903 It was during this time he is alleged to have been intimate with Mrs 00 o Oo o 4j J t vY o o 4 i w of cii F V K o 1 THE NEGRO 080 J lldk I t v c pLZur1 d Hartje He was discharged for drunkenness In the summer of 1905 he was employed by a contractor driving a team attached to a dirt wagon He was taken from this wagon and put In tho store of the FarrarWelshons company Ho worked there for several months and during that time is said to have related re-lated his story to AVelshons |