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BALDWIN WEDDING
PACT DEMANDED
Girl Suing for Daughter's Share
of Estate Wants Contract
Produced in Court
WILL TRIAL TO OPEN MONDAY
Woman Who Claims to Have
Married Millionaire by Agree
ment Won't See Callers
A formal demand for the presenta
tion in court of the marriage contract
alleged to have been made between
Elias J. Baldwin and Lillian Alma
Ashley, now Mrs. William B. Turn
bull of Brookline, Mass., a suburb of
Boston, and mother of Beatrice Anita
Turnbull Baldwin, claimant for a
daughter's share in the estate of the
millionaire turfman, was filed yester
day in the probate department of the
superior court.
The demand is made upon H. A.
Unruh, executor of the estate of Bald
win, nnd upon Bradner W. Lee, as
attorney for the executor. It is made
by the young girl who is seeking to
be declared a legitimate daughter of
Baldwin and was filed by her through
Leo J. Maguire, her guardian.
According to the demand, the con
tract of marriage is alleged to have
been executed by Baldwin and airs.
Turnbull in San Francisco, March 3,
3893. In addition to bearing that date,
the instrument is declared to consist
of the following:
"I, Ellas J. Baldwin, do take Lillian
Alma Ashley to be my lawful wedded
wife. ELIAS J. BALDWIN."
"I, Lillian Alma Ashley, do tnke
Elias J. Baldwin to be my lawful
■wedded husband.
"LILLIAN ALMA ASHLEY."
TRIAL TO START MONDAY
The order is made upon the ejeecutor
that he produce that contract iii Judge
Rives' department of the superior court
at 2 o'clock next Monday afternoon,
when the contest of the young- girl fur
two-ninths of the horseman's estate,
or about $2,500,000, a daughter's por
tion, is scheduled to begin.
At the time the contract is said to
have been made Baldwin was married
to the woman who is now his widow.
Mrs. Turnbull once brought suit
against him in San Francisco, alleging
seduction, but she lost the case.
Another legal proceeding yesterday
that affected the Baldwin estate was
the confirmation by Judge Rives of
the returns of twenty sales of realty,
a part of the property, that were made
by the executor, the amount received
being J90.000.
A petition for a. partial distribution
of the estate was continued until Mon
day, the time for the beginning of the
wiil contest, which will be heard be
fore a jury, a decision by Judge Rives
to that effect being considered a vic
tory for the young girl.
Miss Baldwin and her mother ar
rived recently from Brookline and are
living quietly at the Hotel New Mary
ton, on Olive street, near the Angels'
Flight, where they had apartments
during their last visit to this city and
where they are denying themselves to
practically every caller except their
attorneys.
SPANIARD AND JAPANESE
RUN TO CONSTABLE'S ARMS
Castilian Held by Police on Sus
picion of Holdup
Ricardo Eschverria, who claims to
be a. native Spaniard, sped down
Turner street last night, shouting at
the top of his voice in pure t.'astilian.
A few yards in front of him ran I.
Tacunida, a Japanese, who was doing
his share of yelling In his own tongue.
Suddenly both men ran Into the arms
of Deputy Constable Street and the
shouting stopped.
Eschverria tried to explain matters
to the constable in Spanish and Ta
cunida tried to talk in Japanese. Since
Street could understand neither tongue
he took both men to central police
.station, where they told their griev
ances with the aid of interpreters.
"This man owed me $5," said the
Spaniard, "and 1 tried to collect the
oebt. Instead of paying me he ran.
Of course I ran after him."
"He lies," retorted the Japanese. "I
don't owe him money. He tried to
hold me up."
The Spaniard was placed in jail on
suspicion of burglary.
WILL IN CRUDE ENGLISH
IS SUFFICIENT FOR COURT
"My childer, it is also my strengeat
viah dat eferyting wil end in the
gretest hunnoney."
That was a codicil to the will of
John EngoJkamp, who died at llunt
jngton Park recently, and who devi.sr-<!
an estate of $1000 equally among his
ten children —.Louise, Carrie, Jiose,
John, Lorena, Ella, Albert, Edward,
Frank and Herbert Engelkamp.
The will which ua.s written in the
dead man's own handwriting on a
.single sheet of paper, and bore the
date of June 20, lUOK, was quickly ad
mitted to probate, the poor spelling
not affecting its legality one iota.
DEPUTY SHERIFF BERDIE
TAKES VACATION TO WED
That the ten days' vacation taken
by Oscar C. Herdie, deputy sheriff
under W. A. Hammel, uas to be i Is
honeymoon was not known to his
friends until yesterday, when the newi
of his marriage to Miss Helen Ross Of
this city reached them. The marriage
was performed at Santa Ana Thursday,
Jack, as he is generally known, has
been acting as bailiff of department
seven of the superior court for two
years. Formerly he was city marshal
of Arcadia.
WALT MDUGAL HERE
Wallace McDugal, a well known newspaper
man and cartoonist of San Francisco, i.s in
],iis Angeles lor a few Uiyf; on business, a
guest at the liollenbeck. "Mac," as be la
known among a host uf friends here, Has
deserted the profession anil i.-; now in busi
ness for himself.
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REAL ESTATE MAN DIES
Henry Alexander Smith, president or the
Fieeborn Estate company of San Francisco,
died yesterday at 87S West Forty-seventh
tjstrfKt, where he had been rentdint; In the
' of a nurse. Funeral arrangements will
not be completed until today, when word 18
expected from the. north.
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RETURNS FROM FIELD
!■' H. Bmlth, H^Kist.-int ficiii supprin
i. ndenl < r the Guaranty Oil company,
returned from a visit of Inspection in
Midway fields yesterday.
WOMAN ROBBED AS
SHE KNELT TO AID
MAN WHO FAINTED
AlliS. FLaSSIK GARRKOJI
WOMAN KNEELS TO GIVE
AID; THIEF GETS PURSE
Wife Draws $100; Takes Water
to Aged Man in Faint; Is
Robbed in Crowd
Within fivo minutes after she had
cashed a Postal Telegraph moner or
der yesterday afternoon Mrs. Flossie
Garrison of 1413 North Broadway was
robbed or the money while in the act
of giving a drink of water to an aged
man who had fainted at Fifth and
Broadway. A small red purse contain
ing the money, in gold pieces, was
taken, from her pocket by some one in
the crowd that pressed about her us
she assisted the stricken man.
Mrs. Garrison discovered her loss ns
?he was leaving the crowd and began
screaming. Several policemen in the
vicinity hurried to the scene and had
considerable difficulty in handling the
crowd as it surged about the corner.
Mrs. Garrison reported the matter to
Captain Flammer's office and a detec
tive accommodatingly loaned her 5
cents for carfare.
The woman had wired her husband,
P. C. Garrison of Dalton, Tex., earlier
in the day to .send her $100, which he
immediately did. She cashed the tele
graphic order at the Postal Telegraph
office and was on her way to a drug
store at Fifth and Broadway when she
saw the aged man fall. Running to a
drinking fountain she procured a glass
of water, and pressing through the
crowd knelt at his side while phu
gave him a drink.
The money she had slipped carelessly
into a side coat pocket, and the police
believe some one may have followed
her from the telegraph office and while |
she was ministering to the stricken
man taken it from her pocket.
Mrs. Garrison said yesterday that |
she would gladly pay half of the
money to any one who would return it
and ask no questions.
OYSTER COCKTAILS CHANGE
BACK FROM FOOD TO DRINK
City Attorney Guesses Again and
Rescinds Order to Restaurants
You may order an oyster cocktail
over the bar or at the soda fountain
today without fear that the proprietors
of either will be forced into the res
taurant business.
The city attorney lias naiil so and
countermanded an order issued early
yesterday to the police to stop the
sales of the oyster cocktail over bars
and at fountains.
Attorney Frank Dominguez appeared
before City Attorney John Shenk yes
terday in behalf of a big manufacturer
of the beverage-foml with the state
ment that if oyster cocktails wore
food then sherry would have to BO
without the egg, milk without the malt.
Tom without the Jerry, nuts without
the sundae and bananas without the
ice cream. Thus would the matinee
girl be deprived of her favorite dishes
arid the ice cream soda man put out of
business.
The city attorney mused over the
matter for a moment and counter
manded the order, with the statement
that before cocktails were stopped over
the bar the case would have to be
I. St. .I in the supreme court.
GIRL WHO LOVES DANCING
AND NOODLES IS MISSING
Mother Asks Police to Help Her
Find Daughter of 17
if officers of the local police depart
ment nee a young girl who is inor
dinately fond of dancing and Chinese
noodles they are directed, to report the
case to headquarters in oider that the
anxious mother of the girl may bo noti
fied.
Since December 1 Elizabeth Lee, 17
yean old, daughter of airs. 11. Lee,
living at AVIVi Grand View, has been
missina from her homo. Except that
ill.' uirl is muili «iven to seeking a
"good time," the mother ts unable to
aci punt for her daughter's disappear
ance.
The Kill had until recently been em
! a.s a telephone operator in the
city. The San Diego police have also
been notified of h«r disappearance, as it
Is thought she might have gone to that
city.
• 11 my daughter cannot be recognizi d
by her Clothing and general appear
ance she should easily be Identified by
her fondness for dancing and noodle,"
Mrs. Lee loltl the local po.ko last night.
LOSES FAITH IN LAWYERS;
WILL PLEAD HER OWN CASE
Becau she lust faith in attorneys,
Mary i. Clark will plead her own case
in Justice Plerce's court, In which the
customary and reasonable fee charged
by attorneys tor securing a divorce
«ill i" decided, Evidence in the ca.se
ts k< n yeeti may.
The suit was brought about following
a quarrel between Mrs. Clark and her
attorney, 11. H. Heath, whom sho had
secured to Institute divorce proceed
ings in the superior court. The plain
tiff alleged Heath agreed to do the
work lor a fee of $10, but presented a
bill for }265.
LOS ANGELES HERALD: SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 10, 1910,
POLICE PROBE BIG
ART COLLEGE FIRE
Silver Plate and Other Valuables
Missing Cause Suspicion
of Burglary
Tin' origin of the mysterious fire
which destroyed the College of Fine
Aits at Pasadena, avenue and Arroyo
Seco at an early hour yesterday morn
ing, entailing a loss of more than $22,
--iniii and imperiling the lives of eight
Sri students, their matron and the
[dean of 'ho college, Professor William
L. Judson, is being investigated by de
tectives.
A tearch of the ruins yesterday af
ternoon failed to reveal any trace of
| nearly $li>oo worth of silver plate Pro
lessor Judson had stored in the build
ing and of other valuables he is known
to have kept in his apartments. This
fact lias given rise to the suspicion that
burglars robbed the college and burned
the building in an effort to conceal all
of their crime. Indications that
[the lire did not start from the pottery
kiln, as first supposed, supports the
theory.
It was a matter of common knowl
edge for several days prior to the tire
that Professor Judson, the matron and
students expected to be absent from.the
building Thursday night and the police
are Inclined to believe that a robbery
was planned with the idea that no per
sons would be sleeping in the building
on the night the crime was to have
i a ken place.
Those interested in the investigation
declare that the first report which
gained circulation to the effect that the
fire broke out in the chimney leaning
from the kiln in which pottery had been
placed the night before Is erroneous.
THROW DRKSSJX FROM WINDOWS
'['lie first intimation the students had
of the fire was when they were awak
ened by volumes of smoke that poured
into tlieir dormitory and for a while
threatened to block their progress in
seeking an escape down the stairs. The
girl students, as they scampered from
their beds and ran down the hall ways
barefooted and thinly clad, aroused
Mis. Alfa W. Anderson, the matron,
and the dean of the college.
Some of the girls halted long enough
tf> throw their pretty dresses from the
windows of the bedrooms or to rescue
their paintings, in which they took
great pride.
.Miss Sig-ne Hallquist paused long
enough in her flight to drag her trunk
to a window and throw it into the
street, where it struck with a crash
that wrecked it and scattered the con
tents.
The students were Misses Olive and
Hazel Prester. Florence Sergeant,
.Mary Weaver, Ira Connor, Clara Crone
wetter, Marguerite Vignes and Signe
Hallqulst.
The loss is estimated at $21,000, of
which $14,000 is on the building, $6000
on the paintings and $1200 in furni
ture and personal property.
Mrs. Nell Brooker lost fifteen paint
ings, Mrs. Helma H. Jahn two, and
Orley S. Tottenham seven water
colors.
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OCCIDENTAL FUND
REACHES $310,000
'Two Friends' Add $30,000 to
Subscriptions for New
College Buildings
An additional gift of $30,000 to Occi
dental college has Just been announced
by John W4llis Baer, president. This
brings the quarter centennial fund for
new buildings for the college up to
$310,000.
The announcement of the Rift was
made to the students and alumni of the
college at the annual dinner at the V.
M. C. A. building last night. The names
of the donors are concealed behind the
nondescript "Two friends."
Even with this large sum on hand,
the trustees have decided not to begin
work on the new buildings until more
funds are obtained, but it was stated
by President Baer that the college
hopes to celebrate the quarter centen
nial by opening the college work In at
least two new buildings on the new
Eagle Rock compus.
Another announcement of importance
attended the annual dinner. This was
the statement of President Baer that
the academy which has been a part of
Occidental college since its inception
will be discontinued. The end will not
come abruptly, however, and the ter
mination of the preparatory school will
not be made for two years. The acad
emy will continue until next June with
out change, but no new first year stu
dents will be accepted. Next September
the two upper classes of the academy
will be taken into the college.
The reason for discontinuing the
academy, as announced by President
Baer, is the fact that the attendance
has not been such as to warrant the
maintenance of a high-grade prepara
tory school.
When the upper classes are taken into
the college the academy building will
be turned into a gymnasium, and will
be used as such during the remainder
of the time thnt the college occupies the
Highland Park campus.
The study hall of the academy build
ing, 80x90 feet, will be used as n basket
ball court and will also serve for stu
dent social and athletic headquarters
Some of the cfnss rooms will be used
for offices. Another feature to be in
stituted when this change is made next
fall will be the establishment of a cafe
teria for students in the basement of
the academy building, whore the pres
ent gymnasium is located.
WANTS RECEIPT FOR FINE
PAID IN POLICE COURT
"Am I given anything to show that
I paid this money?" asked H. B. Wash
burn in Police Judge Rose's court yes
terday after he was sentenced to pay
a fine of $2 or go to the city jail for
two duy.s for violating the traffic or
dinance.
"Nothing," replied Judge Rose, "ex
cept your liberty."
"Huh," exploded the defendant and
paid his fine.
MEOW! WOMEN ROW
OVER CAT AWARDS
Animals, Not Owners, Considered, Is
Judge's Reply to Criticism
"Cries of "unfair play" and recrim
inations filled the air at the L.OB An
geles Cat club exhibition at Pantagca
theater yesterday. Dissatisfaction with
the awarding' of prizes was expressed,
many of the members of the club as
serting that Mrs. C. K. S. Deßlin, judge
of the show, used old-fashioned
methods in fulfilling her dutie3. Mrs.
Colcock Jones of 102 South Occidental
boulevard flatly refused to accept the
rulings and returned the ribbons
awarded her two cats, accompanying
the act with a letter of expostulation.
In this letter Mrs. Jones stited that
she returned the third prize ribbon
awarded Twiddles, No. 2. in class one,
and a second prize ribbon awarded
Dolly Darling, No. 31, classes 37 and
60, first, because the application she
made for a specific cage was turned
down for one made at a much later
late: second, that she considered the
Judging unfair because the cats were
not removed from their cages and
closely examined, but that the inspec
tion was made through the bars by a
judg-e who. having broken her own eye
glasses before the meeting began,
hastily borrowed some one else's
glasses to use In executing her duties;
that the lighting arrangements were
not adequate for proper inspection,
and, finally, that earlier In the game,
before her ribbons were awarded, she
had' made up her mind to present a
protest on general principles for the
porpose of protecting all the exhibitors
from the unfair methods employed.
"UNjrST, UNFAIR, «NHBARD OV"
Mrs. Jones further states in her let
ter that the "unjust, unfair and un
heard of method Of judging animals"
could never obtain at any other ani
m<* show in any other part of the
country.
Mrs. C. E. S. Deßlin. when asked
about the protests registered, declared:
"I have no opinion concerning them.
I have discussed them with no one
and shall continue to ignore them. My
duty in this affair is to judge the cats
—not the owners. There are always
some few people who are discontented
with the decisions made at any exhibit,
and all one can do is to be oblivious
to them."
Mrs. C. D. Weston, show manager,
declared that the women of the club
would pay no attention to the letter.
"As every applicant signed an appli
cation blank waiving all right to ques
tion the decisions of the Judges I do
not see on just what grounds Mrs.
.lours is taking her stand. We shall
pay no attention to the matter."
Another source of excitement at the
exhibition yesterday was the disappear
ance of Fuzzy, a beautiful silver neu
ter belonging to Mrs. Zoo B. Fuller,
14L' South Union avenue. SVirhe one
opened his cage in the morning for a
few moments and Fuzzy was missing
when his owner appeared. Whether
the animal was stolen or has slipped
out to join the back fence concerts
of his less aristocratic brothers is an
open question. .
The gate receipts have been so sat-
isfactory that the club has decided not
to close the exhibition till 10 o'clock
tonight. As a result Herald, the, mas
cot cat named after a morning news
peper/wlll not be rafTled till 9 o,'clock
this evening, nor will the voting for
the most popular cat be closed any
earlier.
Most of the owners seemed quite will
ing to leave their pets until tomorrow,
but some of them objected on the
grounds that it was too trying on the
eat*. Mrs. Lew*< S. Stone, accom
panied by her husband, Lewis S. Stone,
leading man at the Belasco theater,
made v visit to her pet. Buzz, and
firmly refused to leave him there an
other night. (
•'1 will bring him back in the morn
ing If you wish it," said Mrs. Stone,
"but I'm so sorry for these poor, tired
things—they don't get the care or pet
ting here they are used to at home,
and I simply am not willing to leave
Buzz h«re."
Permission was given her to take the
animal home, and there was rejoicing
in the heart of at least one cat In the
city last night.
Yesterday mi visiting day for pedi
greed cats not entered in the exhibi
tion, and many beautiful cats were to
be seen stalking majestically round
gazing with pity at their confined
friends.
MANY SALES ARE MADE
Though no record has been kept of
the number of sales made during the
exhibition the women declare that a
great many anlmali have changed
hands. The flub grts 10 per cent of
each sale. All funds over and above
expenses raised by the club are turned
over to charitable organizations.
The closing •social feature of the ex
hibition will be the luncheon given
today by the Los Angeles Cat club to
visiting women at Fosgate's.
Cats which won special prizes yes
terday were Sir Fluffy, Mrs. P. B.
Bueneman: Vanity Fair, Mrs. .1. C.
Oirton: Stirling Sensation, Mrs. A.
Franklin; Sunflower, Miss V. G. Eager;
WHTtthayen Sterling, Mrs. W. C. Whit
tenberger; Silver Dilre, Mrs. James R
Qorham; King. Mrs. James E. Gor
ham; Brutus, Miss Marie L. Webster;
Abdul Aziz, Mrs. J. L. p'inan; Ernna
Oirl, Mrs. K. S. Shirley; Oraibi, Mrs.
W. C. Whittenberger.
Many of these cats won more than
one special ribbon and cup, and some
of the cups have only been wqn ten
tatively, it being necessary ■'to win
them in several successive shows be
fore ownership is established.
REPORTS ON PROPOSED LAWS
Reports of proposed lawn to be suggested to
the legislature will be submitted at a final
meeting of the advisory committees appointed
by Meyer Uiisner, chairman of the. Republican
state central committee, at the Palace hotel in
San Francisco December 29 and 30. These com
mittees, consisting of judges, attorneys and
business men from various cities of the. state,
have gathered much material to aid the legis
lators In their work.
PIONEERS, 97 AND
93, DIE SUDDENLY
Mrs. Rachel Levy and John Mer
rill Pass from Life in
Los Angeles
WOMAN A NATIVE OF POLAND
Good Government League Lose*
Member Who Was Promi
nent in Campaigns
Two pioneers in Los Angeles, both of
whom were nearlng the century .mark,
are dead. They were Mrß. Ra
chel Levy, nearly t'7 years of age, who
had lived in Los Angeles twenty-four
years, and John W. Merrill, 93 years
of age, who had been a resident of the
city since it was a small town.
Mrs. Levy died lato Thursday night
at the family home, 1132 South Union
avenue. The funeral was held yes
terday at the home, Rabbi I. Myers
officiating. Burial was In tho Jewisli
cemetery.
Mrs. Levy was born In Poland April
17, 1814, »and came from a long-lived
family, her father having lived to the
remarkable age of 104 years. -Mrs.
lievy went to London In.her early life
and came to Los Angler, in 1886. She
•was prominent in , benevolent work
until the last year, when falling health
compelled her to retire. She leaves
two children, two grandchildren and
two -great-grandchildren,'all of Los
Angeles. The sons are Charles and
Sam Levy, the grandchildren being
Sam G. Levy and Mrs. J. Morris. Ihe
great-grandchildren are Marguerite
and Harold Morris.
BIEKKIM. ACTIVE IN POLITICS
Mr. Merrill, known throughout Pico
Heights as a strong adherent of the
Good Government league, died at his
Pico Heights homo. He had been a
resident of Los Angeles for many
years and was prominent in the Good
Government forces of his precinct, be
ing a stanch supporter of Mayor Alex
ander* He was born in Maine In 1818,
and while a young man was a Whig,
but on the advent of the Republican
party became a member of that party.
Before coming to Los Angeles he re-
Bided many years in lowa.
Arrangements for the funeral have
not been completed.
OHIO SOCIETY TO MEET
The monthly reception of the Ohio society
will occur next Tuesday evening In Fra
ternal Brotherhood hall. 845 South FUT
ueroa street. All "Buckeye*"- and their
friend, are cordially Invited to attend ™?
offUers tor the ensuing year will be elected
VFtS£2*S!L Other totomtini n
will include a "Greeting" by MUW A<l». ." •
Ornv Marble of Cleveland, O.i ptano •OW,
■'",-,., we-' ((Tiopln.. Miss Margu-rii"
.Femch; contralto solo, Miss Adallne .i.,y
Mable, etc. .