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Show A "FT (Hk W 1 fl IP B O A H IBftNQnnl a fl I 3 ATTuRNtYb LOS ANGELES, Cal., Fob. 28. The olalm of Miss Anita Baldwin Turn-bull Turn-bull of Boston to a daughters sharo ( of the late "Lucky" Baldwin's rail- f lions was subjected to a violent verbal ver-bal attack today by tho attorneys for the estate. A motion wbb presented asked Judgo Rives to direct the jury to deny the young petitioner's claim to $2,500,000 of tho estate, and tho lawyers began a three days' argument ! in support of tho plea Garrett McEuery of San Francisco began the arguments on behalf of the heirs of Baldwin and was followed fol-lowed by Former Governor Henry T. Gage and Bradner W. Lee, who drafted draft-ed the will by which tho old turfman cxpresscdly cut oft with $10 bequests be-quests all claimants excepting his three daughters, Clara Slockcr, Anita McCaughrey and Rosa L. Daselby. Call Claim a Monstrosity. "A grotesque, Incomprehensible, legal le-gal monstrosity" was'McEuery's characterization char-acterization of the claim mado by the girl's mother, Lllllam Ashley Turn-bull, Turn-bull, that she and Baldwin had been married by contract in San Francisco March 3, 1893 McEnery reviewed the evidence, pointing out that the fact of the alleged al-leged marriage rested upon 'Mrs. Turn-bull's Turn-bull's unsupported word alone, and then turning the attack upon the woman direct, he added: Adventuresses and Rich Men's Estates. "Now Is the time and this tho opportunity op-portunity for this court to serve notice no-tice upon the adventuresses of the country to adopt a new system and let married mon alono when planning raids upon their estates after their death " Attorney Lee argued that even if tho court should deny the motion for . an Instructed verdict and that Miss Turnbull were recognized us Baldwin's daughter, she could receive only 10, and not $2,500,000. Former Governor Gage devoted himself exclusively to an attack upon Mrs. Turnbull both as a witness and as a woman. The argument will be continued tomorrow. |