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Show lNI) Or lit lAif J pipe Miss Anita Baldwin Turnbull Loses Her Case N. Los Angeles, March S. At the conclusion con-clusion of the arguments In the Baldwin Bald-win will case at noon today, Judge Rives announced that he would instruct in-struct the Jury that the evidence adduced ad-duced "fell far short or making out a case for the plaintiff," and that the Jury return a verdict in favor of the defense. This ends tho contost brought by Miss Anita Baldwin Turnbull, tho seventeen-year-old Boston girl for a daughter's shai iu the 11,000,000 estate es-tate lert by the late Lucky Baldwin. Tho suit to break the Baldwin will has been on trial since the first week of December, At one time, just after aft-er filing of the petition, there was said to bo a disposition among the recognized heirs 'to compromise and procure nn early distribution of the estate. Tho Baldwin estate was appraised ap-praised at $11,000,000 but is commonly reputed to be worth twice that sum One heir Is understood to have hold out against any compromise with Miss Turnbull and a fight was decided .upon. .up-on. Upwards of fifteen nttornoys, among whom nre some of tho most promlnont members of the California bar, were arrayed on ono side or the other of tho contest Thef 18-year-old plaintiff, Bcatrico Anita Turnbull, nnd her mothor, accompanied ac-companied ly Boston lawyers came here from Brooklino, Mass, last September Sep-tember and Ldo J. Magniro, a realty broker, was named by the court to act as guardian for the girl. In the trial, Mrs. Lillian Ashley Turnbull, tho mothor of the contestant, contest-ant, was tho star witness on tho side of her daughter. Mrs. Turnbull testified that Baldwin had married her by contract on March 3, 1S93, upon her visit to him In San Francisco to accept his offer to adopt her, then a young woman of twenty-four, twenty-four, as his daughter. Sho loft him tho following May, when sho learned he already had a "wife and her daughter daugh-ter was born a few months later Attorneys for the estate made a strong point of hor inability to produce pro-duce many persons to whom she had been known as Mrs. Baldwin, and the credibility of tho few whom sho did produce was violently assailed. Among those was George Baldwin, former husband of the Into turfman's daughter, Anita, now Mrs. McClaugh-rey. McClaugh-rey. On this, thev partly based their motion for a directed verdict against Miss Turnbull's claim. Wood testified that he 'became acquainted ac-quainted with Mrs. Turnbull when ho was ongaged by Colonel Pope to settle set-tle with the woman a clnlm'alleged to have been similar to that which gave rlso to the Bnldwin damage suit In 1896. Incidentally, the attorneys for the estate rigorously cross-examined Mrs. Turnbull as to why sho did not in her seduction suit against Baldwin, speak of the marriage contract. When she answered that sho did not know why sho did not, she was asked if sho was not aware that a wife, contract or otherwise, could not sue for seduction. The motion for a directed verdict was presented to Judge Rives' Fob- ruary 28. At tho instanco of the plaintiff the Jury was excused and has been out of court moro than a week. In the motion for a directed verdict, ver-dict, counsel for the estate mado two. points: That even if there was a marriage contract which was denied there was no marriage because of the legal provision that such unions must be followed by a general knowledge on the part of outsiders of the marital relations of the parties. That should Miss Turnbull bo declared de-clared a logltlmato daughter of Baldwin Bald-win and a legal heir, sho could In no case inherit more than $10. The latter case grow out of the provisions of Baldwin's will whfc'i states expressly that he had but three daughters but that If any others came forward and were recognized they should havo "ten dollars each and no more." ir |