The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-09
Wal 10 " ants to Kn w
w no Got tokes's
Lett rs
WINES HAS
DISAPPEARED
Elevator Boy Who Was Elk
pected to Contradict Million
aires Version of Visit to
Girls Apartments Cannot
Be Found, and Hearing
Is Adjourned.
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New York July s.-The hearing Of
the case Of the Misses Graham and
Conrad, who are on preliminary trial
charged with tie attempted murder
of the millionaire hotel proprietor, w
F. d. Stokes, was halted to-day by
the disappearance OF Wiifred Hart. the
negro elevator boy in the varuna
apartment house
Hart vas on duty in the varuna on
the evening of the Stokes shooting,
and. it was said would contradict the
version given by the millionaire of
his visit to tho young women in that
apartment house
II was expected the elevator boy
would he the first witness Of the dav.
When H. failed to appear the proceed
ings were delayed while officers went
In search OF the missing witness. After
waiting half an hour for the appear
ancc OF the witness, Magistrate Freschi
adjourned the trial until Tuesday.
Waldo 1n Aroused.
Police Commissioner Waldo to-day
ordered searching investigation into
the scandal that has grown out of the
disappearance OF nine letters written
by stokes to Miss Graham Fourth
Deputy Police Commissioner Dillon
was placed In personal charge Of the
Investigation
The news that Commissioner Waldo
was aroused and demanded thorough
investigation spread from headauar-
ters through the department by the
underground" in record time. The
very FIRST psrson to appear as a vol
untary' witness was W. T.. y. Stokes
himself. He was Informed by Mr.. Dillon
that he had not been sent for But
he insisted upon stating that the first
thing ne knew about the discovery OF
the letters that were introduced In
court was when informed by his own
attorney that they had been turned
over to the States attorney.
Late tonight Mr.. Dillon declared
that he would be una bile TO make his
report before Monday morning
James Cummings, the private detec-
tive of Mr.. Stokes. who testified that
he found the package Of letters behind
a trunk in the apartments Of the
girls at the Varuna, and carried them
away while three city detectives were
in the room. appeared befor. Mr. Dillon
during the day. Four city detectives
and August Bloom. ianitor of the
Varuna building, where the shooting
'''h pace hiSO appeared 10 tell what
they knew about the missing letters.
II became known tonight that the
policemen who had testified told of
fnding over thirty letters in the apart.
ments upon the night OF the shooting
These were brought down to head
quarters to-day from the West Sixty
eighth Street Station, where they have
been held After an Investigation
Deputy Dillon was convinced that
these letters bore no part In the shoot
ing case. and they are now In the
custody of Inspector Hughes. OF the
detective bureau
Found No Letters.
Mr. Dillon also stated that the de-
tectives declared they had kept a
close watch upon Cummings and
Gleason. the Stokes lawyer who had
accompanied him. and that neither of
these two men or the ianitor had found
any letters at all
The four detectives" Mr. Dillon
continued. further insist that when
they arrived at the apartments after
the shooting there was clear evid e
that the effects of these girls had been
rummaged They were told by Bloom.
the ianitor. that he had not been in
the apartment"
perhaps the disorder resulted from
the struggle that was engaged in by
Stokes and the girls. as testified to by
the millionaire" was suggested.
THE detectives say 1t appeared to
have resulted from a search for some
thing" replied the commissioner