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Show MRS. TURNBULL i HAS IRON NERVE , LQ3 -AXOBLES. Deo. 2l--r three hours today Mm. Lillian Ashley f urn-Si urn-Si again experienced all torture, cf tho "(bird decree" while being rroasWmlnod to the will ctest to obtain for her daagbter n. p00.000 Fhare of tho "I-ucky" Baldwin estate. At tie end of that period her reputation reputa-tion "for iron nerve remained un-'changed, un-'changed, but most of her alert wit had glvcu way to the determined probe of the Baldwin attorneys. Contract Marrlofle With Daldwln. Takins over ibe ground of her previous pre-vious testimony, the crosa-cjtainlncr. Gavin McNaiJ. caused Aim. Trunboll to repeat her former declarations that thero had been ft contract marrige. but that no ono but hentelf and Baldwin had ever seen It Tbea he demanded i to know whether Rhe had even been Introduced by tho turfman as bla wife, or whether eho had been rccognteed by any one aa Mra. Baldwin. By a long scries of question?, which occupied occu-pied nearly an hour. McNab drew from tho witness the apparently reluctant re-luctant admission that Baldwin bad referred to her as Mrs. Baldwin before be-fore only five persons. Threo of these were negro scrrants, omployed at tie i Baldwin hotel In San Francisco, and two were whits men. Not Introduced as Wife to Women. She could not recall that Baldwin bad ever introduced her as his wife to a single woman. One of the white men was George Baldwin. AniU Baldwin McCIaugh-rey's McCIaugh-rey's former husband, who w aa a clerk ia'Baldwin's hotel in 1893. The other was a man whom Mrs. Turubull only remembered as having a white mustache. mus-tache. "Is there not another human being that you recall to whom Baldwin Introduced In-troduced you as his wife?" asked Mc- K'ah I And when Mrs. Tnrnbull replied that she had no recollection one way or the other, MoNab concluded with: "Well, that leaves only five three representatives of tho colored race and two whito men and one of tho negroes, Jackson, and one of the white men, Daldwln, knew the real Mrs. Baldwin very well at the time you say Baldwin introduced you to them as his wife. )Vhy did they not lip you. so that you could have proceeded pro-ceeded against Baldwin for bigamy? Did they laugh when Baldwin introduced intro-duced you &3 Mrs. Baldwin?" "They did not," curtly retorted the wltDesg. Reo'tcr of Hotels In Court. The registers of hotels hero and lu San Diego were Introduced in evi- 1 dence to show that MT3. Turnl.ull had registered as Lillian Ashley after tho alleged marriage with Baldwin, and after she had reiterated her former testimony that bo regarded herself as the turfman's wife, the cross-examiner suddenly asked: "While- yoti were at Baldwin's hotel at Santa Anita did you not ask the manager there, Mr. Lawrence, how often of-ten Mrs. Llllle Bennett Baldwin came to visit her husband's ranch home?" Felt Her Shame. "I did not," indignantly disclaimed the witness. I did not know she was Baldwin's wlfo until some months later, la-ter, and I have never seen her." Mrs. Turnbull testified that, besides ex-Governor Long of Massachusetts, sho hod told Olla 'Wellborn, now a federal Judgo In Los Angeles, but formerly for-merly ono of her attorneys in the seduction se-duction suit, of tho marriage contract-Moreover, contract-Moreover, 6he said she also wrote of her marriage to several Hrl friends. Among them was Miss Armsby of Winchester, Mass , and Mrs. Laura Wilson James of Cynthlana, Kr. But she could neither recall the first name of Miss Armeby or her address, nor could sho recall anything of subse-i subse-i quent correBpondeiice with them ' -"I felt my shame so keenly after learning that I was to become a mother moth-er without being a wife, that 1 dropped nil my old frlanda and never wroto to or heard from them afterwards." she paid. The case will be continued, with Mrs. Tnrnbull again on the stand, to-narrow to-narrow mornlDg, |