Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-07-07
STOKES GAVE
GIRLS ADVICE
1t Is Dangerous to Tell Pretty
Maidens Not to
Booze
EXAMINATION QUITE THOROUGH
Elderly Millionaire Wanted Let
tiers He Had Written Miss
Graham.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
New York, N. Y, July w. E. D.
Stokes testimony was still unfinished
when court convened today for furth
er examination on the charge that an
attempt to murder Stokes was made
Ia month ago by Miss Lillian Graham
and Miss Ethel Conrad. The purpose
of these proceedings is to determine
whether the evidence is sufficient to
warrant sending the case to the
grand jury, but the examination and
cross examination is conducted with
such thoroughness that it amounts
practically to trial.
On the stand yesterday, Stokes
gave his version of the alleged at
tempt on his life when he visited the
young woman's apartments at Miss
Conrad's invitation to recover letters
he had written to Miss Graham. &
These letters were found by detec.
tives in the girls rooms few days
after the shooting and since then
have been in the possession of the
| District attorney. In them Stokes
who said on the stand yesterday that
he was 81 years old, for the most part
adopted toward the young girl an at
| titude of fatherly counsel, advising
her against the stage, against intoxi
eating liquors and about life in gen
eral.
The pretty young defendants wers
dressed alike today in striking gowns
Of white serge trimmed with satin.
Girl Was Broke.
When Mr. Stokes resumed his tes
timony he said he was not sure how
many letters were his. He though
habout eight
| He told of visit made to his Office
of May q last, by Miss Conrad, which
was the first time the letters were
brought into notice. She came int
his office highly excited and was un
able to speak for some time.
when she became calmedl'
Stokes continued, "she told me sh
had been out to dinner the night be
fore. She met Miss Graham, she SAT-
at the dinner and the young lad
twas in distressed circumstances, wit
little money and no clothes and tina
she had taken her home to her rooms
|"When I went out this morning t.
business" Miss Conrads said, I lef
Miss Graham in bed. l forgot m
pencil and returned for it. When
got into the room I was shocked t
find a note on the table together wit
a bundle of letters, the note sayinI
that Miss Graham had committee
suicide and she had addressed tn
letter to the press"
Pumped Out Poison.
"Miss Conrad also told me-" con
tinued Stokes, that some of the let
ters were mine and some belonged
to other men. She said she rushe'
Into the bedroom and found Miss Con
rad with her face all blistered ant
burned, where she had spilled car
bolic acid. A doctor wass called ant
pumped her out, Miss Conrad said
and saved her life"
| Miss Conrad, according to Stokes
proceeded to narrate to him her ia
mily history. She was, according t
this narrative, the daughter of
Russian prince, who met her mothe
in Louisville, KY, and eloped wit
her, Miss Conrad being born in BLU
fields, where her father was killed
a riot.
Losses of one kind or another r.
duced Nthe Widows property frol
$4,000 to $4,000, which latter sui
she collected in New York on insu
ance. This $4,000 Stokes said, Mis-
Conrad told him, was squandered b
a man her mother married. Th
daughter then had to go to work.
"She said" the witness CONTINUES
"she had come to see me on her LAY
yer's advice to tell me about the lie
ters she found on the table with Il
suicide note"
II Visited Stokes Farm.
, New York, N. Y, July TT tol
, Miss Conrad that Miss Graham We
, an undesirable woman" said Stoke
and that wouldn't give Miss CIR
ham one cent, but l said would Civ
Miss Conrad money for the nurse
look after Miss Graham. Miss Co
rad wanted me to sign a note fl
'' 5000, to allow Miss Graham to
abroad. l said I would not I woul
give no agreement because / thougl
Miss Graham dangerous woman.
Stokes said he offered to draw
check for 5000 to enable Miss CIR
; ham to get to Belgium to join h4
/ sister, whereupon, he continued:
"NIiss Conrad said, fOh no, don
draw check, there might be SON
scandal about 1t. Give me the cas-
said all right and gave her Il
) money"
: The defendants attorney questio
ed MT. Stokes sharply regardir
Miss Graham's visit to his farm
: Lexington. KY.
The defense has contended that Il
5 girl expected to find other gues
5 with Stokes and when she discover
s that she was visiting him alone 81
: left the following morning.
s The prosecution closed its ca
Stwith the examination Of policem,
+ who first reached the house aft
= the shooting. He said the girls to
"a Continued on Page Five.)