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Show READY TO SPEND FORTUNE TO CLEAR DAJGHTER'S NAME Hartfes' 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. Pittsburg. For tho sako t,t Arierl-can Arierl-can womanhood, for tho sako of American Amer-ican homes, lor tho Halvntlou of his daughter's name, John 1'. Scott, us Is now generally known, Is engaged lit a battle against the millions of Augustus Au-gustus Hartje, who Is suing Mary Kennty Scott Hartje, daughter of Mr. Scott, for divorce 'ami 1ms named a negro as co-respondent, llartjo's attorneys at-torneys say they will prove the relations rela-tions of this beautiful society woman with tho man who cleaned out her stables sta-bles nnd groomed hor horses. On her part, Mrs. Hartje accuses her husband of brutality beyond the imagination of ordinary man. It Is such a caso which promises to drag Its length through tho Pittsburg courts within tho next fow months, and the amount of public sympatic which is being given to this woman, who is fighting n millionaire for her children nnd her name ns a faithful wife and mother, Is ono of tho most remarkable things about It nil. Hartjo Not Popular. Not one kind word has yat been tpoken of Augustus Hartjo alnco tho taso started. If he has any friends who bellovo his statement, they are keeping it to themselves. Tho negro who made tho nllldavlt which' was Intended In-tended to strip from this woman the Inst shred of public sympathy and re-upect, re-upect, surrendered to tho officers of 'Iho law and confessed that ho had perjured himself, that his statements wero false, that he had received about $700 for telling his stdry and was to havo been paid $5,000. Mixed up in this alleged conspiracy aro a leading business man of tho East End of Pittsburg, ono of tho most prominent physicians of that fashion-ablo fashion-ablo section, and tho Hartjo brothers, Augustus and Edward G., his brother, who Is an nttorney. Not a Love Match. Tho Hartjo divorce caso first broke upon tho public October 19, 1903, when Hartjo filed suit against his wife for divorce, naming ns co-respondent Thomas Maillne, a young Irishman, who had been employed by tho too much. Tho lower ono is likely nearest It. Hartje Described. As a man Hartjo has been rather a nogntlvo character. That Is as a man among men. In business ho stands well. His promises and contracts arc fully lived up to. Ho pays his debts and treats his fellow men fulrly. Ho Is close In his business dealings, but on the whole Is regarded ns a business man of considerable ability. Socially ho has cut little figure. Ho Is fond of flue horses, but he has never been known to tnko his family Into his enjoyment. en-joyment. Ho Is, according to tho statements of his wlfo, tho kind of a man who will spoud $1,500 or $2,000 for a line horse and wonder at his wife's extravagance In spending $10 or $10. On anything that Augustus Hartjo wanted ho would spend any sum. Ho Is that way In business. Ho Is thnt way with his employes. Ho hires them for the least ho can get them to work for, and works them to tho limit. Mrs. Hartjo is u granddaughter of j old .lohn Scott, in his day one of tho ! most famous railroad men this conn-: conn-: try over produced. Androw Carnegie Is said to havo gotten away with tho I big end of the Scott fortune, bia tho ' facts are that John Scott was a spend-1 I thrift and a man who led a life which , was calculated to uso up two or three . I fortunes. Thcro was nlwnys tragedy In tho family. It went down like the Pynchoon family in Hawthorno's , "House of Sovcn Gables." Dank- ruptcy, violent denths, insanity nnd 1 J other trnglc happenings carried off : different members of old John's own 1 family anil those of his connections. i A fatality secmod to follow tho name, ; and It appears ns If that spoil still ' exists, for this beautiful young worn-1 an has met with the most tcrrlblo charges any man over brought against n wife. Good Woman and Mother. She Is a good woman. It Is not In-, tended to try her caso here, but mens- j ly to paint her picture for tho benefit of our readers. Sho has been as fool- j !' nunc ioaaoainiinw" itfCj Hartjcs, The couple wero married March 15, 1891. It was not a love match to begin with. Hartjo was Immensely Im-mensely wealthy. Mrs. Scott's father , was, comparatively, n man In mod. crate circumstances. He Is worth about $200,000. Hartje Is a paper manufacturer and has a mill at fltoubonvllle, 0 worth about a mil- I lion dollars. Ho also owns 20 or 30 pieces of real estate In tho downtown portion of Pittsburg, and property in this section Is valued at prices ranging rang-ing from $800 to $8,000 a foot front. On ono of these he has erected U sky-pcraper, sky-pcraper, fitted as a modern offlco building. build-ing. He Is variously estimated ns bo-jlng bo-jlng worth from $3,000,000 to $8,-'00,009. $8,-'00,009. The higher figure Ii probably Ish, perhaps, oa thousands of other women of wealth and fashion whoso names havo never felt tho breath of scandal. As a horsewoman sho has ridden astrldo If that Is nny disgrace. Perhnps sho has been Indiscreet enough to lllrt once In a great while. Hut hor gorvnnts worship her. They speak well of tho mistress and condemn con-demn tho master. Sho Is a good mother. Sho nursed her babies at her own breast, which Is something fashlonablo mammas seldom do. Out under tho grass, now growing green with tho spring rains, there aro throo llttlo mounds In Homo-wood. Homo-wood. Sho goes thcro occasionally and moistens them with her tears. Thoy are tho graves of three of 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 thoso two sho lavishes all the wealth of her warm nature, for tho Scotts wero always al-ways warm-hearted and loved each other and fought for each other loyally 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. Sho Is a womnn of refinement and of education. Hartje says he does not need the evidence of the negro to support his case, that ho hns plenty of proof against her without that. He alleges thnt he con prove her guilty of Intimacy with other men, whlto men, nnd has plenty of testimony to that effect. That Is whnt has lost him favor In Pittsburg, for Plttsburgers Inquisitively ask why, for tho sake of his children, he dragged in tho negro If he did not need him? Public feol- ing is against him to-day In Allegheny county. j Legal Giants on Both Sides. Tho attorneys aro all remarkable j for their ability. It Is probably tho first tlmo David T. Watson has ever engaged In n dlvorco case. Ho Is ono ' of tho greatest expounders of constitutional consti-tutional law lit tho world to-day. If thcro Is any man living who fills tho shoes of Daniel Webster it Is David Watson. Ho only deals with great things. Ho was attorney for tho United States In tho Alaskan boundary bound-ary dUputo and won that great caso against tho greatest lawyers of Europe for tho United States. Ho was attorney attor-ney recently for tho city of Chicago In tho traction cases thoro which wero won by tho city. In tho Northern North-ern Securities caso his ndvlco was invaluable. in-valuable. Ho has figured In a dozen celebrated cases, but tho world does not hear much of htm. Watson nover gets Interviewed. Ho Is too busy. Ho 13 as pleasant nnd Jolly a companion compan-ion as you would want to havo, but ho has a horror of notoriety. Ho does not lllio tho look of his namo In cold typo. His partner, John M. Freeman, Ib nlmost ns well known as Mr. Watson nnd, In his wny, Is ns good a lawyer. They lend tho counsel employed to look after Mrs. Ha'rtjo's Interests. Patterson, Storrett & Acheson Is nn-other nn-other of Pittsburg's big law firms. In fact Mrs. Hartjo could scarcoly havo secured nny inoro attorneys of their class unless sho had employed Senator Sen-ator Philander C. Knox. With Watson Wat-son & Freeman and Patterson, Ster-rott Ster-rott & Achoson on her side thcro Is no doubt that things will bo mado Interesting In-teresting when tho fur finally begins to fly. Hartjo Has, Abl( Lawyers. John Murron, J. Scott Ferguson and William n.'Uodgora aro tho attorneys secured by Mr. Hartje. Mr. . nrron weighs about 125 pounds, but thoro Is a fight In ovory pound of him. Ho Is ono of tho nbloat, most persistent, most successful nttorneys at tho Allegheny Al-legheny county bar. Ho Is a llttlo Irishman whoso tonguo U llko a rapier. ra-pier. In cross-oxnnilnlng a witness ho raroly leaves anything but tho hldo If tho witness happens to bo unwlll- Ing or misstating facts. He Is unl-, unl-, versally feared as an opponent. J. Scott Ferguson Is another man of reputation won In hundreds of great legal battles, while William II. Rodgers Is a constitutional lnwyor who, In Pittsburg, stands only second to David T. Watson. With such a galaxy gal-axy of legal lights on each side a bat-tlo bat-tlo royal may" l.o oxpected when It finally opens, It It ever does. John F. Scott, father of tho respondent, re-spondent, Is not n millionaire, but ho says ho will spend every dollar he has to clear his daughter's namo. "This Is a fight for American womanhood," wom-anhood," ho declnres. "There can be no settlement. Wo domand a trial that tho world may Judgo, and then wo. will punish tho people who nro back of this persecution. All the millions mil-lions In th't world cannot save them from an outraged public when the ' truth of this caso Is known." I When Hartje filed his divorce suit his attorney secured an order from court to take the testimony of Cllf ford Hooe, who was alleged to bo nbout to leave tho city and tho stntc. Hooe is the colored coachman named by Hartje as co-respondent. The attorneys at-torneys for Hartje now say that they will not uso the man's story. They say they have plenty of evidence wlthi out it, and did not need It in the first place. It Is in connection with Hooo'd stntemcnt that the attorneys for Mrs, Hnrtje and the district attorney, threaten to bring criminal proceeding for conspiracy. Hooe's First Statement. Hooo's story wns first related to Hartje by John L. Wolshons, president presi-dent of tho Welshons Hardware company, com-pany, of Pittsburg. Hooo worked for Hartjo for n few months In 1903. It was during this tlmo he is alleged to have been Intimate with Mrs, Hartje. Ho was discharged for drunkenness. In tho summer of 1905 I ho wns cmployod by n contractor driving n team attached to a dirt wagon. Ho was taken from this wagon nnd put In tho storo of tho Fnrrnr-Welshons company. Ho worked thero for several months, nnd during that tlmo Is said to havo related re-lated his story to Welshons. |
