The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-08
Counsel for Show Girl
and Chum Wants
to Know.
MISS CONRAD SAYS
THEY'RE A SCREAM
Wouldn't Dare Tell What Mil
lionaire Stokes Said in Them,
but Will Use Them When
She Gets Out of This
Trouble-Story of Shoot
ing Continued.

! New York. July 7--where are tho
rest OF the stokes letters? How did
! they come to be suppressed? Who
suppressed them. and why? These arc
the questions that Rober, w. Moore,
OF counsel for Lillian Graham and
Ethel Conrad. tried to get answered
this afternoon in their preliminary
hearing on the charge that they at
tempted to murder W. L. d, Stokes.
the millionaire hotel man, when he
called at their apartment to get pos
session OF those same letters.
| The questions were not answered
wholly to Mr.. Moore's satisfaction, but
he was able to advance so far that he
| Will rest his case tomorrow morn
inG after one more witness has been
! called-the elevator boy who took
Stokes to the girls apartments on tho
night he was shot. Magistrate Freshi
then VIII decide whether the case shall
so 10 the grand jury.
Under cross-eXa mination Stokes told
to-day how he first met Ethel Con-
! rad. how she enlisted his sympathies
anew for Lillian Graham. who, sick
and penni!ess, Stokes said Miss Con-
rad told him. had attempted suicide;
| how he came to call on the two girls
after Lillian Grahams recovery. and
what his sentiments for them We're.
His narrative only faltered when ne
was questioned about the missing let
tiers. But those who had expected the
two girls to take the stand were dis
| appointed.
Docs Not Disclose Hand.
| The defense succeeded in elicitins
! most OF the facts on which the peo-
! pie must base their case without dis
closing it's own hand.
Only once did Stokes show signs OF
confusion.
! Are these nine letters (produced in
evidence yesterday all YOU ever wrote
Miss Graham" asked Attorney Moore.
NO"
How many did you write her? AS
many as eighteen?"
Perhaps"
! What became OF those missing let
tiers. which you admit having written.
and which were in Miss Grahams pos
session on the night of the shooting?"
| Il haven't the remotest idea" said
Stokes. blandly.
| AT the afternoon sitting counsel for
the two girls called TO the stand James
Cummings. a house detective at the
Ansonia. owned by Stokes. Cummings
| said he had searched the girls apart
ment two or three days after the shoot
ing with three central office detectives.
I
behind a trunk,
and these officers of the Depart
ment OF Justice - the city allowed
| you to rummage the apartment and
| take from il what you wished"
They did not know | had found
anything" parted the detective.
Mr.. Moore pounced on him like
hawk. Then you deliberately secreted
these letters from the sworn officers
! of the law" he Numbered.
| II put them in my pocket"
Yes or no?" insisted counsel.
Yes" admitted Cummings.
Subsequent testimony was that Cum
mings had delivered the letters to a
Mr. Gleason, personal counsel for
Stokes, who had passed them on to for
mer Judge Olcott. in charge of the case
for Mr.. Stokes. who in turn delivered
them TO the district attorneys office
Cummings, the detective, had not
counted the letters, he swore. and did
not know their contents. Judge OIL
colt swore that the package as it
reached him contained twelve letters.
There were eighteen of those let
tiers at least" said Mr.. Moore, after the
f.. hearing. who suppressed them?"
/ They're II Screnm.'
| They'll make interesting reading
when they are produced" added Miss
| Graham. Il wouldn't dare tell you
what's in them. You wouldn't believe
me, but when 1 get out OF this trouble
I'm going TO use them. They're a
| scream"
During his examination OF Stokes Mr.
! Moore asked:
Did you not. down to the time of
Your visit to Lexington, entertain af-
| lection for Miss Graham"
| Never" shouted Stokes.
! During all that time what were
your intentions toward herr"
Merely to be polite TO her"
How long did she remain at your
farm, with only the farm hands and
q negro COOKE" pursued Mr. Moore
! ''Thren days" answered Stokes
Didn't YOU make her write n letter
generating you from an attempt to
wrong her before you would permit
! her TO leave?"
] II did not. No such letter exists"
| Let us try as much al possible to
keep scandal out OF this case" sug-
/ Scsted Magistrate Freschl
But the record shows that he gave
her money. and improper differences
might be drawn" protested Mr.. Moore.
X Nothing of the sort" volunteered
| the ma gistrate. He may have given
| 1t TO her out of the goodness OF his
! heart"
! Vixen Mr.. Stokes resumed his testi-
n,ony this morning he told of a visit
made to his office on May 81 last by
Miss Conrad which was the first time
the letters were brought to his notice.
She came into his office. he said highly
excited. and was unable To speak for
some time
When she became calm" Stokes con-
| tinued she told me she had been out
to dinner the night before. She met
| Miss Graham, she said at the dinner,
and the young lady was in distressed
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