Evening journal., 1911-12-08
bHOW GIRL
ON The STAND
Mss Graham TeStifieS About
Her Relations With
Stokes
IE SENT HER MANY NICE
NOTES AND LETTERS
" The United Press.

By The United Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. S.-Lillian Gra-
ham, pretty show girl took the wot-
ess stand today preparated to i'm
lolate herself TO keep the state from
~ ending her and Ethel Conrad her
WompGny. to prison for shooting w
~ D. Stokes, millionaire hotel man.
Nervous and bracing herself con-
inually to keep from weeping the
Moung woman told of her relations
@yith Stokes firm the day she first
met him. She spared herself moth
aug
It was only a few minutes before
Moon when the girl, clad in a blue
MNorlolk JACKET suit wearing a white
lat and heavy white veil, walked un-
tcadly forward through the crowded
Zouruoom and solemnly repeated the
Wiath. AT ner attorneys command sne
III hlew back the veil and revealed
ler lace for the first time in court
Her body moved convulsively and her
Aops twitcned as sne grasped the
MIms OF the cnair in an enolt TO pre-
pare ncrselI Tor the ordeal she was
@ race
III Her attorney, Clark NJ Jordon in
)urinmg the defense declared the
Mgirl would tell now as a simple child
Mne na0 become Stokes victim. Tne
urt was crowded in anticipation.
OnIy %, She Says.
Il am only % years Old" sa d Miss
Ilaham in an almost inaudible voice,
N reply to idan's questions. Stokes
2attOrneys maintain she is %.
Il was born IN the state of Wash
Il ngton and / lived there in the coun-
try until my poor mother died" Her
yoice broke .nto a sob and her two
sisters, NJ s. Singleton and Mrs. An
1. ews wept.
After poor mamma died l went
down to Los Angeles to live with my
sister and then in 1906 l came to
New York with her; l mean Mrs.
Singleton.
1--WE took an apartment in the An
sOnia. | fl. st met Mr.. Stokes in my
Sisters apartment. We were not
formally introduced. / was playing
the piano when he came in and sa d ::
my child you play wonderfully
we'll
Nice Notes and Letters.
after that | became very familiar
with NJ Stokes. He came up to see
me often and he sent me oh so many
mice notes and letters. | always an
Sswered them, either by note or by
1 phone"
Here Jordan read a number of let
ers written by the girl to Stokes in
1906 to SHOW the innocent spirit of
the child who was writing" he sad.
The letters were gushy little notes O.
IA girls. Jordan showed Miss Graham
letter written by her to Stokes. He
did not read it but asked.
did you mean TO ask Stokes for
lS2 500 in that letter "
"No indeed" whispered the girl, 81
wanted only $50. l had only been
hback a short time from Chicago and
! fneedod money"
Jordan then showed the girls bank
book TO prove that she had received
money from her mothers estate and
hat Stokes was not then supporting
Yher.
In testifying Miss Graham became
hysterical and Judge Marcus had tC
stop the hearing for awhile. She saiC
NNher demand upon Stokes had been fol
fss5O and not for S25O0 as he had said
~ When the questioning was resumed
Miss Graham said she often went mo
toring with Stokes until she left New
VorS in 1907 in the chorus of a musi
cal show.
81 was in Memphis, Tenn" she said
"when I received a letter from MI
AsSStokes on his stock farm in Lexington
XIV. asking me to come there for
visit. He told me he would have otne
guests and / saw no impropriety II
going. When ! got to Lexington onl.
Mr. Stokes and his cOlored servan
met me. He drove me to his stool
farm. but there were no guests there
was shocked and asked Mr.. Stoke
5 where they were. He said they woul'
be there by evening That afternoon
he took me on long drive. When w
4E got back to his house, there were SUI
no guests and in alarm l asked Wher
they were. He evaded making an an
swer In a little while his negro ser
sant left and / was alone in III
house with Stokes
On the witness stand Stokes ha
declared he had been guilty of no in
.propriety with Miss Graham until h
had documentary proof signed by he
that she was not innocent. He sui
mitted to the court a letter write
Nhim by Miss Graham in which sh
spoke of her past This letter, Stoke
swore. was written in New York b'
fore he had Miss Graham visit hil
'at Lexington.
The young woman told a vitality di
ferent story on the stand.
THAT letter was written that nigf
~ An Lexington" she said, "and w.
ID. Stokes stood over me and dictate
IA it. every word. was horror stricl
sA en-; | did not want to write it, bl
he made me. He said if l didn't writ
the letter, he would telegraph my PEE
a pie that l was there alone wit
N him and that | would be disgrace
forever. I had to write it.
Miss Graham declared she RENAME
X on the farm three days and then r
~ Joined the theatrical company i
M Memphis. Later she said when 81
MN returned to her sisters apartments
MNNthe Hotel Ansonia which Stok
GOWNS Stokes telephoned her at one
Va TO come to his office.
"I went down to see him." she sal
Nh "and on his bended knees he begg'
u me not to tell my sisters anythiI
q about Lexington. For the sake
VI my dear little boy he begged m
N don't tell anyone
AT this point, a recess was taken.
CHINA WILL TALK PEACE.
By The United Press
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