Show 49 hartjes millions to be of no avail declares john F scott of pittsburg CASE PROMISES TO BE A remarkable ONE for american womanhood and american homes I 1 will fight declares the father of the woman accused of grave misconduct pittsburg for the sake ot ameri can womanhood tor the sake of amer lean homes for the salvation of his daughters name john F scott as Is now generally known is engaged in B battle against the millions of au austus hartje who is suing mary kenney scott hartje daughter of mr scott for divorce and has named a negro as respondent hartje s at torness say they will prove the rela lions of this beautiful society woman with the man who cleaned out her sta bles and groomed her horses on her part mrs hartje accuses her husband pt brutality beyond the imagination of man it Is such a case which promises to farag its length through the pittsburg within the next few months land the amount of public sympathy which Is being given to this woman who is fighting a millionaire tor her children and her name as a faithful wife and mother is one of the most remarkable things about it all hartje not popular not one kind word has yet been spoken of augustus hartje since the case started it he has any friends who believe his statement they are keeping it to themselves the negro who made the affidavit was in tended to strip from this woman the alast shred of public sympathy and re surrendered to the officers of the law and confessed that he had perjured himself that his statements were false that he had received about for telling his story and was to have been paid 5 mixed up in this alleged conspiracy are a leading business man of the east end of pittsburg one of the most nt physicians of that fashion ible section and the hartje brothers augustus and edward G his brother who is an attorney not a love match j the hartje divorce case first broke upon the public october 19 1905 when martje filed suit against his wife tor divorce naming as respondent thomas madine a young irishman iwho had been employed by the hartjes the couple were married march 15 1894 it was not a love match to begin with hartje was am densely wealthy mrs scott s father was comparatively a man in mod erate circumstances he Is worth about hartje la a paper manufacturer and has a mill at 0 worth about a mil lion dollars he also owns 20 or 30 pieces of real estate in the downtown portion of pittsburg and property in this section Is valued at prices rang ing from to a foot front on one he has erected a sky scraper fitted as a modern office build ing he Is variously estimated as be ing worth from 3 to 8 the higher figure Is probably too much the lower one Is likely nearest it hartje described As a man hartje has been rather a negative character that Is as a man among men in business he stands well his promises and contracts are fully lived up to he pays his debts and treats his fellow men fairly he Is close in his business dealings but on the whole Is regarded as a business a of considerable ability socially he has cut little figure he Is fond of fine horses but he has never been cnown to take his family into his en cyment he Is according to the statements of wife the kind of a man who will spend 1500 w 2 for a fine horse and wonder at his cifes extravagance in spending 10 or 15 on anything that augustus hartje wanted he would spend any sum he is that way in business he Is that way with his employed emp loyes he hires them for the least he can get them to work for and works them to the limit mrs hartje is a granddaughter ol 01 old john scott in his day one of the most famous railroad men this coun try ever produced andrew carnegie is said to have gotten away with the big end of the scott fortune but the facts are that john scott was a spend thrift and a 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 the family in hawthorne s house of seven gables bank 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 worn an has met with the most terrible charges any man ever brought against a wife good woman and mother she Is a good woman it Is not in tended to try her case here but mere ly to paint her picture for the benefit of our readers she has been as fool ish perhaps as thousands of women of wealth and fashion whose names have never felt the breath of scandal As a horsewoman she haa ridden astride it that Is any disgrace perhaps she has been indiscreet enough to flirt once in a great while but her servants worship her they speak well of the mistress and con benm the master she la a 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 are the graves of three ol 01 her babies who died before their father sought to blast their mother s reputation and to stain their names by charging her with infidelity with a negro only two children are left and on those two she lavishes all the wealth of her warm nature for the scotts were al ways warm hearted and loved each other and fought for each other loy ally for all the generations they have been known in pittsburg such are the man and woman in this case he is the average business man she Is a woman of refinement and of education hartje says he does not heed the evidence of the negro to support his case that he 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 pittsburg for Pitts burgers inquisitively ask why for the sake of his children he dragged in the if he did not need hima public feel ing Is against him to day in allegheny county legal giants on both sides the attorneys are all remarkable for their ability it is probably the first time david watson has ever engage tl in a divorce case he Is one of the greatest expounders of conati tut ional law in the world to day it there Is any man living who fills the shoes of daniel webster it Is david watson he only deals with great things he was attorney for the united states id the alaskan bound ary dispute and won that great case against the greatest lawyers of europe for the united states he was atter ney recently for the city of chicago in the traction cases there which were won by the city in the north era securities case his advice was in valuable he has figured in a dozen celebrated cases but the world does not hear much of him watson never gets interviewed he Is too busy he Is as pleasant and jolly a 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 his 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 hartje s interests reputation won in hundreds of ghedi legal battles while william rodger is a constitutional lawyer who in pittsburg stands only second to david watson with such a gal axy of legal lights on each side a bat tie royal may be expected when it finally opens it it ever does john F scott father of the re spon dent is not a millionaire but he says he will spend every dollar he ha to clear h s daughter s name this is a fight tor american worn angood he declares there can be no settlement we demand a trial that the world may judge and thea we will punish the people who are back of this persecution all the mil lions in the world cannot save them from an outraged public when the truth of this case is known when hartje filed his divorce suit his attorney secured an order from court to take the testimony of clit ford hooe who was alleged to be about to leave the city and the state hooe Is the colored coachman named patterson starrett acheson Is an other of pittsburgh Pitts burgs big law firms in fact mrs hartje could scarcely have secured any more attorneys of their class unless she had employed sen ator philander knox with wat son freeman and patterson ster rett acheson on her side there Is no doubt that things will tie made in terest lne the fur finally begins to fly hartje lias able lawyers john marrtin J scott ferguson and william hodgers are the attorneys secured by mr hartje mr marron weighs about pounds but there is a fight in every pound of him he is one of the ablest most persistent most attorneys at the AI comaty bar he is a little irishman whose tongue is like a ra pier in cross examining a witness he rarely leaves anything but the hide it the witness happens to be ing or misstating facts he Is verbally ver sally feared as an opponent J scott ferguson Is another man of by hartje as respondent the at torness for now say that they will not use the mans story they say they have plenty of evidence with out it and did not need it in the first place it is in connection with hooe s statement that the attorneys for mrs hartje and the district attorney threaten to bring criminal proceeding tor conspiracy hooe s first statement hooes story was first related to hartje by john L preele dent of the hardware conn pany of pittsburg hooe worked hartje tor a few months in 1903 II 11 was during this time he Is alleged alle gei to have been intimate with mrs hartje he was discharged 01 drunkenness in the summer of he was employed by a contractor driving a team attached to a dir wagon he was taken from thi wagon and put in the store of th farrar company H worked there tor several months aej during that time Is said to have re his story to |