The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 3, 1896, Page 16

16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY &5, 1396. LUCKY BALDWIN SHOT AT N COURT Emma Ashley Undertakes to Avenge Her Sister's | Wrong. HYSTERICAL GIRL'S ACT. Two Angry Attorneys Confront ! Each Other With Revolvers. A BIG HOLE IN THE WALL One More Dismal Chapter in the Wetched Story of the Ashley | Sisters. “E. J. Baldwin ruined my sister Lillian | and diseraced her name, and, not satis- fied with that, he has, with the help of his paid witnesses and detectives, heaped un- speakable calumny npon her. 1 have sat in that courtroom day after day and heard | them swear those foul things, and she is i my sister—and—and—" { And the speaker cried. It was Miss | Emma Ashley speaking. She was sitting in the City Prison. She had just made a frenzied attempt to kill E. J. Baldwin, and only an inch of space had intervened be- tween the millionaire’s head and her bul- let. i For the second time ‘‘Lucky” Baldwin has escaped an enraged woman’'s revol- ver. The first time his niece, Verona Baldwin, waited for him in an upper hall of his hote! and fired two shots at him. At9 o'clock yesterday morning Judge Slack’s court was called to order for the suit of Lillian A. Ashley against E. J. Baldwin. It was to be the last day, and the trial was to have ended at 10 o’clock, when the Craven-Fair case was to have begun, The plaintiff was on the stand being | cross-examined by Attorney Highton of | the defense as to the identity of several | photographs of herself. It had been con- tended that she had been on more than friendly terms with one Osborne, and she had given him one of the pictures. The picture was shown her, and she was asked by the lawyer if it was hers. “It may be,” said she, think it i At that instant Emma Ashley, who had been sitting on a Jong bench placed along | the wail at the back of the courtroom, arose and walked over to tLe rail, seating | herselt directly behind and near Baldwin, as he sat with his aftorneys and Henry A. Unrub, his secretary. As she had been in | the habit of sitting in that place, rather | close to the defendant’s party, no notice | was taken of her movements. In fact, the mild and quiet demeanor of the woman throughout the course of the triai has been | marked. Not a sound has ever come from | her, not even a sob, when ler sister was enduring the terrible cross-questioning at the hands of the defendant’s learned at- | torneys. She either sat and listened stol- idly or read her Bible, which she carried | in her handbag. “*Are you quite positive that this is not your photograph?” asked Highton of the | witness.. “It is not mine,” sheanswered, “I never saw it before—I never wore my hair crimped so.” | “Do I understand you to—"" | Then a pistol shot rang out and a splash in the plaster on the wall told where a | deadly bullet had found lodgement. Then | the white powder smoke followed, and all was confusion. When the startled Judge looked up from his notes he saw a large woman with a | revolyer grasped in both hands standing over Baldwin, who sat limp and speech- less in his chair, his face whiter than the | few locks of hair on his head. ‘With her weapon a few inches from the back of his head she bad fired, but it be- ing a double action or self-cocking revol- ver the muscular force required to puil the trigger back bad elevated the muzzle of the gun and the leaden missile went | high to strike the opposite wall. | Before another shot could be fired, if | such was the maddened woman’s inten- | tion, Henry A. Unruh sprang up, and, | reaching over the rail, grabbed her baads. She held firmly to her weapon and a fierce | struggle took place. For a few instants | not another move was made. The witness | sat in her chair stricken dumb, her face as pele as that of the man who had just es- | caped death. The attorneys, a few seconds | before engaged in their wordy battle, were | silent, so quickly had it all come upon | them. But the shock of the unexpected soon passed and confusion reigned throughout the room. Atwrney Orittenden started forward just as Unruh wreuched the pistol ——————————————————— “but I don’t NEW TO-DAY. & g @ 3+ re i/ BROWN'S Jamaica GinGiR has been curing the ills of human kind. A spe- | cific for all stomach trou- E bles. Sold everywhere. Ask for o FRED BROWN CO., PHILADELPHIA, | While they were | weapons soon lay side by side in the clerk’s | attempted to draw it bad not Mr, Unruh | 11 o’clock.” | ceilin, | ®ross immorality. The Scene in Judge Slack’s Court Yesterday Morning When Emma Kill the Man Whose Nickname Ashley, Sister of the Plaintiff in the Ashley-Baldwin Case, Tried to “Lucky” Is so Justly Deserved. T from Miss Ashley. He turned around, | flounishing the weapon in his band and | faced Crittenden, who doubtless, in his | excitement, thought that Unruh in- tended to assault him. He quickly threw his right hand to his hip and partly drew a pistol from his pocket, shouting, “Drop that gun.” This new stage in the course of affairs awoke the spectators to the fact that two excited and angry men were conironting each other with weapons in their hands. Highton and Lioyd soon approached the two, and Clerk James McElroy sprang between them and, disarming Unruh, ordered Crittenden not to draw his pistol. In the meantime Emma Ashley had run around to the southern part of the room | pursued by Baldwin, angry and excited. | struggling together Judge Slack stepped down from behind his desk and separated them, and the auiet and dignity of the court came back | again. ‘*Mr. Crittenden,” said the Judge, “*have you a pistol 2 “Yes, sir,”’ answered the lawyer. “Deliver it up at once, sir,”” ordered the court. The attorney did so, and the two drawer. “Mr. Crittenden,” said bis Honor sternly, “you must show cause before this court why you should not be punished for contempt. Why do you come here armed ?”’ | “I live across the bay, your Honor, and carry a pistol simply for protection. I have always done so. I would not have made a hostile demonstration toward me with the other gun. He was pointing it directly at me, otherwise I should not | have gone for my own weapon. If I am cited for contempt I ask that Mr. Unruh be treated the same, as his action caused me to act as I did.” “‘Very well. I,will order you both to appear before me to-morrow morning at The court then asked if there were any more revolvers in the room, and all present dented that they were armed. Quiet haying settled down upon the | court the trial was about to proceed, when Lillian Ashley, who had remained in an almost fainting condition through all the tumult seated in the witness-chair, sud- denly began to cry. “0, I can't go on,” she said, wringing her hands in a pitiful manner; “I am atl unstrung. My baby is sick unto death at bome and this is the last straw. [ don't know what to do—what to do, nor what to say. What have T done that all this should come upon me? It seems that I haven’t had enough to contend with all these terrible days, and now this must come! O, my sister, my baby! I can't go on now—I can’t.” And, utterly broken down, the woman sobbed in her wretchedness. ““I think we are ali too excited and too nervous for further proccedings to-day,” said Judge Slack. *I will hear the con- tempt proceedings to-morrow morning and will resume the trial of this case next Monday morning at 11 o’clock.” As Miss Emma Ashley was being taken down to the City Prison she acted like a person demented. She stared up at the and sang “Nearer, My God, to Thee’” and fragments of other hymns. She wanted to kneel down and pray, and said she had asked God to direct her, and it was not his will that her sister’s seducer should die now. One of her sister’s attor- neys walked with her, and she asked him his name, failing to recognize him. She stood calmly in the poiice station, where she was formally charged with as- sault to commit murder. In the ma- tron’s room she walked up and down the little apartment, wringing her hands and erying. **0, I did it, I did it. I shot him because he has ruined my poor sister, and ruined all of us. I sat in the courtroom and heard his witnesses from the East accuse her of And that dear little baby, Baldwin’s own child, that looks just like him, is at home dying, I think, for want of proper care, medicine and food. I | sat till morning after court adjourned last | night and nursed that poor suffering child, and this morning I did not take a bite of nourishment, but came down to the trial. I asked God on my knees this morning if I should do it, and prayed if it were not right to make me fail. I guess it was not right. But I am trusting in him even in this dark hour. I have never done any- thing wrong in my life. I came from my school over two years ago at the call of Lillian, who was in trouble, I would have graduated but this came, and my happy school days were over. Nobody knows what nusflish 1 have suffered, what hard- ships and poverty I have putup with since I came to California. *‘And neither have I suffered alone, for poor Lillian and baby have suffered, too. Last Thankseiying we sat down to a din- ner of thin soup and crackers, and while sitting there over that poor meal we read in a scrap of a newspaper how E. J. Bald- win entertained a party richly. That was our dessert. God only knows how this will end, but He is our only trust.’” Then she clasped her hands together, and, looking upward, began to pray. In the small Bible which she carried in her hands during the trial, and which she must have been reading just beiore she the thirteenth chapter of John, twenty- sixth and twenty-seventh verses. They give an account of the entrance of Satan into the heart of Judas Iscariof, inciting the unfaithfal disciple to betray his mas- ter. e NEVER TOUCHED HIM. Lucky Baldwin Says He Felt the Bullet Pass the Top of His Head. “Lucky” Baldwin walked jauntily out of the City Hall and downtown to his hotel as though one of his horses had brought home a plethorie purse. Before he went outof the courtroom he took a look at the hole in the wall which the bul- let made after missing his bead, and said, “It never touched me.’ “I saw my hair fly up,” he continued, noticed the woman sitting close behind me, but she seemed to be of a religious turn of mind and was always reading her Bible. Idid not know of her near pras- ence until I felt the wind of the bullet lift my hair up and the tingle as the lead flew 80 _closely over my scalp.”” While he was standing in the court- room, rather ruthfully looking at the “but such things never disturb me. I often | to learn why and to separate them. As he jerked the revolver out of her hands he whirled around as if to meet me with the weapon pointed directly toward me. He seemed to be intent upon using it; why I could not understand. He was certainly trviu§ to cock the gun and it struck me that [ had better look out for myself. ‘‘So of course I threw my hand behind | me toward the pocket in which [ carried my pistol. When I saw there was no neea 1 did not draw it out, and when I was or- | dered to surrender the weapon I did so. | “I imagine we were all pretty well ex- cited, and probably did not have a clear | idea of affawrs. Iwas surprised to see a young woman so quiet and gentle wrought up to the point of using a revolver asshe did. Through all the trial she bas sat silently in the courtroom, and 1 have never heard any outbreak from her. She must have been laboring under some se- | vere nervous excitement that made her unaccountable for her acts.’’ | BTSSR EMMA A. ASHLEY. A Quiet, Religious Person, She Was Not Considered to Bs a Despsrate Character. Emma Amanda Ashley is a large woman, weighing over 200 pounds, but is of com- trying to prepare a flaxseed poultice for her baby, who is very ill with bronchitis. The little child lay tossing on the bed, its tiny face drawn in the intensity of its suf- fering. At the request of its mother it looked up and lisped that it was ‘*‘Lucky Baliwin’s baby girl.” “I do not understand it at all,” said the mother, “and I am not able to tell any- thing about the incident. It is sounlike sister. That is not ber disposition, and I never heard her speak as though she was desperate. Iam also at a loss to account for the pistol. (f she had it all the time she has kept the fact from me. Oh, why has all this come upon us? ““When I was in such deep trouble I thought of my voung sister at school and, having no one else to apply to, I sent for her. When she, arrived here baby was several months old, and that was the first she knew of my being a mother. You hurriedly been a gootf our helpless innocent baby. There never willing to make for this child withouta father. We two wretchea sisters have struggled for our three lives such as few women have struggled before. But no need to speak of the past when the dread- ful present and the more dreadful future is at hand. “In October, 1891, I met E. J. Baldwin in my happy Eastern home. I had every comfort and life looked very hopeful to me. Now look at me. Fair name gone; womanhood ruined; feeding upon the uashes of a dead life; a veritable Hester Prynne walking through the scornful maultitude. “‘Sister has had but little sleef foralmost a week, being at the trial all day and sitting up much of the night with this child. that she was not accountable for her Miss Emma Ashley, the Young Woman Who Tried to Kill E. J. Baldwin. pitted wall, Attorney Lloyd clapped him on the shoulder and said, comfortingly : “Well, old man, you live up to your name, and are Lucky Baldwin indeed.”” The weapon was a cheap double-action 38-caliber five-chambered revolver. When examired aiter the shooting one chamber was found embpty. In Potice Judge Joachimsen’s court last evening a warrant was issued for £mma Amanda Ashley’s arrest, with bail fixed at $10,000. Her attorneys, Crittenden and Van Wyck, considered this sum excessive and argued against 1t, but Baldwin’s attorneys insisted that it should stand in that sum. An effort will be made to get the bail recduced. Yesterday afternoon a physician treated Emma Asnley’s hand, which was badly Hren(iihed in her struggle with Henry nruh. ot ALL WERE EXCITED. Attorney Crittenden Thought Un- ruh Intended to Assault Him With Emma Ashley’s Pistol. *“The report of that revolver came like a veritable bombshell to me,"faid Attorney Crittenden, soon after the shooting. ‘At first I couldn’t locate the sound and of course I was much excited. When I saw fired the shot at Baldwin, was a mark at Mr. Unrub struggling over the rail with_ Miss Emma Ashley my first impulse was pact build and does not appear to weigh within twenty-five pounds of that figure. She is fair, with blue eyes and very light- l'-:;""“. hn"}r like her sister Lillian, and was Tn in Vermont twenty-iwo years 0, being about five ye'u'l ;ounger thnn‘a:e glnntgfl in the now celebrated Ashley- aldwin case. She has always been a member of the church and of a very relig- ious nature, and even to strangers she ap- veared to be a mild, timid sort of person. “I would never have considered that woman of the kind that carry guns,” said Attorney R. H. Lioyd last evening. “I have been ching for a possible out- break on the part of the other one, but have looked upon Emma Ashley as harm- less. T often noticed her sitting near us, but paid no particutar attention to that. It was the appearance of the photograph that started her out of her. leuxnfi . It proved that the plaintiff had not told the truth regarding the pictures of herself that Osborne had. This woman, in aM probability, recognized the photograph, and realizing that the game was lost, was excited to frenzy and pulled her gun for deadly work.”’ i S LILLIAN’S STORY. She Is at a Total Loss to Account for Her Sister Emma’s Des- perate Act. Miss Lillian Ashley was seen at her room shortly after the shooting.- She was actions. I can’t find any other reason and I am wholly in the dark regarding the whole matter.” S JUDGE SLACK’S ACTION. How His Honor Restored Order After the Attempted Murader. Judge Slack’s actions throughout the exciting scene in his courtroom were such | as might have been expected on the part of that decisiye official. The report of the | had | pistol of the would-be murderess hardly died away before his Honor set about restoring order. He left the bench and coming down past the clerk’s desk commanded the excited attorneys spectators to take their seats. Miss Emma Ashley had been disarmed, but Lawyer Crittenden and Superintendent Unruh seemed about to spill one another’s blood. Judge Slack’s determined words brought the men to a realization of their surroundings, and in a moment, except for the sobbing of Lillian Ashley, the courtroom had resumed its usual quiet. After court adjourned, the Judge told several reporters his impression of the dramatic scene. ‘1 was engaged looking over a paper which had been handed me,” he said, ‘‘and not looking in the direction of Mr. Bald- win when the shooting took place. Thein- stant the report sounded I looked up and saw Miss Ashley holding the pistol in her hand. Mr. Unruh immediately grasped her and took the pistol from her. Whiie the young woman was being secured, Mr. Crittenden and Mr. Unruh seemed in dan- ger of getting into a difficulty. “I commanded them to beseated. Mr, Unruh held the 1piatol which he had taken from Miss Ashley and Mr. Crittenden’s attitude suggested that he mightaraw one from his pocket. *'After order was in a measure obtained, 1 asked Mr. Crittenden if he had a pistol in his pocket. He acknowledged that he had and handed it to the clerk. No one else acknowledged being armed. 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