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Show DtHuHliUll LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12. With unexpected un-expected celerity the attorneys for Anita Turnbull completed their case in the Baldwin will contest today, and counsel for the dofonse immediately begau their effort to break down the testimony adduced to prove that Miss TurnbuUK mother, Mrs. ;liilllan Ashley Ash-ley Turnbull, was "Lucky'" Baldwin's contract wife. Their principal witness wit-ness is James R. Wood, the Boston private detective, whom Mrs. Turn-bull, Turn-bull, during her long siege on the stand, repeatedly branded as a traitor, who nnd pledged his services to her and then "held out," Detective Identifies Letters. Wood, a palsied old man of 72, was placed on the stand and all afternoon he was busy identifying as Mrs. Turn-bull's Turn-bull's the letters which she previously had branded as forgeries, perpetrated by ono of his former employes in Boston. Bos-ton. The letters were introduced in the trial of Mrs Turnbull's former sultigainst Baldwin for $75,000 damages, dam-ages, and some of them are relied upon by the defense to controvert Mrs. Turnbull's contention that she married in 1S93, by showing that prior to the trial of the damage Buit in 189G she herself had repeatedly written the declaration that Baldwin hud betrayed her under the promise of regn'-dlng her as his daughter. One of thb letters, let-ters, which Wood identlfled as having been written to him by Mrs. Turnbull from San Francisco July 12, 1S93, spoke of the faint hope "she had that Baldwin would marry her and legitimatize legiti-matize her expected child. Important Letter Introduced. This letter, Introduced in cvldonce on behalf of the estate, says in part: "Lucky Baldwin is mighty stingy where women are concerned, everyone says, and If he thought he could divorce di-vorce his wife, who is really no wife at all (I have heard almost any one can get a divorce in Chicago), and marry me, to get out of this scrape at leust, I am almost persuaded ho would do it, even though he should dlvorco me soon after, just to give our child a name. You know, Mr. Wood, money mon-ey can do almost everything, and if ho will show mo and my innocent Ht-tlo Ht-tlo babe kindly consideration, and give my baby a legal name, while I can never love him, I shall always bo grateful to him and let him down easy, so to speak. "He has succeeded In making a fool of me, and if ho is as cruel as every one knows he can bo, he will find mo literally steel to deal with If I was a fool to let him get around me, I will show him I am no cheap fool. I shall sue him for two hundred thousand thou-sand dollars. If he is cruel and heartless, heart-less, as I expect him to be, he will find one girl he hns ruined his match, for holl hath no fury llko a woman scorned." |