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Show Jude Charles Slack, who presided In the seduction cane. Judge Slack to Be Witness. Former .ludi;c Slack will be one of tbe witnesses for th defense after the case U reconvened, Januaiy I. Mrs. Turnbull said she did not testify tes-tify regarding her aliened marriage by contract to Baldwin In tbe former case because she had not hern asked. "Did you testify that there bad been a promise of marriage?" wr.s asked. "No," Mrs. Turnbull replied. "I did not so testify. I did say there had not been a premise of mairlace, which wag true. Mr. Baldwin marjied without with-out making a promise. lie did It out of hand, as quickly ns he could write the contract." No Contract With Anderson. Mrs. Turnbull also denied that she bad ever admitted an alle-.-ed contract between herself and A. H. Anderson, Baldwin's former advertising apent. to tfve Anderson ten per crnt of what sums she could recover from Baldwin, in return for her testimony In the betrayal suit. She was showu the alleged contract. "That's another forgery, probably. beeaue I never saw it before, arid I never sipned it," she said. However. It bre indentlficatlon marks as having been introduced in ttie seduction case. Mrs. Turnbull wan also a"ked whether previously to her meet leg with Colonel 1'ope, sh" had not met a man named John Osborne an 1 taken him o it "to do Boston." for a period covering an entire week. "I did not," replied the witness. "In your previous cae did yu not admit that a picture Introduced in evidence evi-dence was of yon and Osborne In a loving attitude?" was asked. "I remember a picture that Osborne said was of himself and me," she replied, re-plied, "but ns a matter of fact, the woman In the picture was In daughter daugh-ter of Onborne's landhdy. Incidentally Incident-ally Mr. McN'ab, that wms the picture that nearly covt 'Lucky' Baldwin hi life when it was shown. My sister shot him then." BALDWimOLD AGAINST WOMAN TX)S ANGELES, Cat. Dec. 21. "Lucky" Baldwin's gold could do anything any-thing against a defenseless woman " This was one of the parting shafts launched at the opposing attorneys and to the Jury by Mrs. Lillian Turn-bull Turn-bull before she ended her testimony today In the contest of her daughter, Beatrice, for nearly a quarter of $11,-000,000 $11,-000,000 entate the oil turfman left when he died two earfl ago The record of the woman's testimony testi-mony at tho trial of her $75,000 suit against Baldwin ha9 been destroyed, and the attorneys for the estate were endeavorin? to secure her present version of that testimony preparatory prepara-tory to introducing evidence prior to Impeachment, when she shot the above retort In reply to a query as to what reason there might bo "for so many forgeries of her letters. j Declares Letters Were forgeries. I Seventeen more of her alleged let ) ters were Introduced and she declared every one of them "base, forgeries, j perpetrated by a vlllian In th employ of that treacherous man, James R. Wood." Wood Is the detective employed by Colonel Albert Pope, whom Mrs. Turn-bull Turn-bull previously declared "sold me out to 11 tldwin " One of the letters contained this sentence: "I resisted 'Lucky' Baldwin more than I did Colonel Pope, for I loved Colonel Tope. I shall never betray his name. A woman never betrays the man she loves." Mrs. Turnbull declared sb never wrote this or anything like it, although al-though it Is quoted as part of the evidence in the decision rendered by |