| Show I LUCKY BALDWINS BALDWIN'S ALLEGED WIDOW TF TELLS 11 I a Of ROMANTIC COURTSHIP ITS AND ANO MARRIAGE I LOS ANGELES Gal Cat Dec 16 The The legal battle for a partition of or Ellas Elias J. J Lucky Baldwins Baldwin's estate contrary to the tho provisions of or his will began beban Thursday and sensations expected by those who vho had known of th the old turf turf- mans man's proclivities for romance and ad adventures ad- ad ventures in love were wore Immediately in process process process pro pro- cess of development The Tue plaintiff in the tile case caso is s Miss Beatrice Anita Turnbull of Boston the seventeen old daughter of of or Mrs Lillian Ashley Turnbull who seeks a share of or the Baldwin estate on the pica plea that Baldwin was her father Miss Turnbull was not in the courtroom having been excluded 1 BO 50 o that thatah ah m 1 not hear he hethe the story of or her mothers mother's acquaintance with her alleged father But no other v were l kept out and fully half haJ of or the the- throng that t packed the bi big courtroom were women who craned their necks neds and strained their ears to hear hoar tile story of oC the love affair that gave Baldwin more than one experIence experience ence in court and once brought him face to face with death at the hands of or Mrs Turnbull's sister sleter who fired at him one day In court Mrs 1 Turnbull on Stand Mrs Turnbull was the first witness and within three hours after she she- took the stand 1 was as In a maze of ot cross examina tion that took her over the ground grounds of her testimony In her suit against Baldwin for fOl betrayal and brought the present case to the crucial point The attorneys for the recognized daughters and heirs Mrs s. Clara Stocker Mrs Anita McClaughery l and Selby of San Francisco went straight to the point as to which of the two pleas pIcas Mrs Turnbull has made mad against J I is true and correct the correct the one of ot seduction or the one now on trial that Lucky y Baldwin married Lillian Ashley by contract In San Sari Francisco on March farch 3 1893 1803 and that Miss Beatrice Anita Turnbull Turnbull Turnbull Turn- Turn old r-old plaintiff plaintiff plaintiff plain plain- bull the pretty ea year seventeen tiff in the case was the child d of that union Mrs l Turnbull told of her hr meeting with Baldwin at Winchester Mass in ill 1831 I her lier alleged marria marriage e to him on March St L 1893 and the severance of their relations the thc following May Mas Placidly she told Attorney Attorney At At- torney Gavin ln McNab of San Francisco cros examiner cross that several letters vital to the case of the estate were forgeries She branded them forgeries despite tho the fact that they bore the indorsement of the clerk of the court who received them In evidence In the case which was tried in San Francisco fourteen years ago and marked them as exhibits which Mrs Turnbull had sworn were genuine Marriage Contract Questioned McNab asked Mrs Turnbull if she had ever mentioned a marria marriage e contract prior to the death of Baldwin nearly two years year ago When sho she said she had written to that effect to former fonner Governor Long of Massachusetts some lime during 1834 1811 the attorney challenged her attorneys 8 to produce produce produce pro pro- duce the letter The name namo of Colonel Albert Pope of Boston was brought into the case when Mrs Turnbull answering answering- the questions of the ross examIner declared declared de do- that on dh discovering In May 1893 that Baldwin had deceived her in stating that his wife had been divorced she told him she he would woul no longer live Il with him You did that because of or your regard for Cor the moral code did you 1 asked McNab Mc Mc- Nab Yes Yes replied Mrs Turnbull Then McNab said it IL Is not a fact that you ou sustained the same relations to Colonel Pope In Boston during October 1892 that you assumed with Baldwin a afew afew few months later Mrs Turnbull denied it I. I and then came a series seres o of questions which concluded with this Is It not a a fact that you know th 3 money with which your our house and Jot lot In Pasadena was purchased came from Colonel Colonel Colo Cob nel Pope Mrs Mr Turnbull admitted that she did The letter leter that Mrs Turnbull first pronounced pronounced pronounced pro pro- a forgery related to th the honeYmoon honeymoon honeymoon honey- honey moon week she had ha spent with Baldwin Badwin in In San Diego Dieg On direct examination she Rhe had stated that she believed that Baldwin had registered her at the hotel as Mrs Baldwin The letter leter written prior to the trial of the seduction case In 1896 contained con con- on- on tamed the statement that the manager of the hotel had told her that B Baldwin BUdwIn had registered her as his daughter and that she had been introduced about abut the hotel as Miss Baldwin At this point the court ordered an ad adjournment adjournment ad- ad until next Tuesday when the examination cross cross will wI be resumed |
