Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-07-09
|ST0KES CASE HALTS|AIWOOD DUE TODAY
Negro Elevator Boy of Apart Aviator Expects to Leave At
ment House Missing. antic City Before Noon.
ADJOURNED UNTIL TUESDAY IMAY ARRIVE BY NIGHTFALL
Youth Was Expected to Contradict Plans to Make Short Stop In B
Milionaire's Story If Time Permits
PROBE INTO LOSS OF LETTERS NEW BIPLANE
nrrr.a.. a.
Investigation o Dis oa.d hu Tan ~. 49,
appearance of the :.
Negro Elevator Boy of Apart
ment House Missing.
ADJOURNED UNTIL TUESDAY
Youth Was Expected to Contradict
Millionaire's Story.
PROBE INTO LOSS OF LETTERS
Police Commissioner Waldo Orders
Thorough Investigation of Dis
appearance Of the Missives

CpSUA1A ANHp3VC1 1ne StaE.
NEW YORK. July s-The hearing Of
the case Of Lillian Graham and Ethel
Conrad. who are on preliminary trial.
charged with shooting ". E. d. Stokes
was halted today by the disappearance of
Wilfred Hart, the negro elevator boy in
the var,Ina apartment house.
Hart was 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 the
young women.
Il was expected the elevator boy would
be the first witness OF the day. When he
failed to appear the proceedings were de-
layed while officers went in search OF the
missing witness. After waiting half an
hour for the appearance Of the witness
Magistrate Freschi adjourned the trial
until Tuesday.
Police Commissioner Waldo today or
dered q searching investigation into the
disappearance of nine of the letters writ
ten by Stokes to Miss Graham Fourth
Deputy Police Commissioner Dillon was
placed in charge OF the investigation.
The news that Commissioner Waldo
was aroused and had ordered thorough
inquiry spread from headquarters through
the department by the underground in
record time. The first person to appear
as a voluntary witness was w. e. d.
Stokes himself. He was informed by Mr..
Dillon that he had not been sent for. But
he insisted on stating that the first thing
he knew about the discovery OF the let
ters that were introduced in court was
when Informed by his own attorney that
| they had been turned over to the district
attorney. Late tonight Mr. Dillon decided
| that he would be unable to make his re-
port before Monday morning.
NIL
James Cummings. the private detective
OF Mr.. Stokes, who testified that he found
| the package Of letters behind a trunk
in the apartment OF the girls at the
Varuna and carried them away, appeared
before Mr.. Dillon during the day. Four
city detectives and August Bloom, jani-
tor Of the Varuna apartment building
also appeared to tell what they knew
about the missing letters.
| It became known tonight that the po-
licemen who had testified told Of finding
more than thirty letters in the apart
ments the night Of the shooting. These
| were brought down to headquarters to.
day from the West 6Sth street station
| where they have been held. After an in.
vestigation Deputy Dillon was convinced
that these letters bore no part in the
| shooting case and they are now In the
custody Of Inspector Hughes of the de-
| tective bureau.
| Mr.. Dillon also stated that the detec-
tives declared they had kept a close watch
on Cummings and Gleason. the Stokes
| lawyers, and that neither Of these two
men or the janitor had found any let
| ters at all.
Say Flat Was Searched.
1.-The four detectives" Mr.. Dillon con-
tinued, further insist that when they
arrived at the apartments after the
shooting there was clear evidence that
the effects OF these girls had been rum
mayed. They were told by Bloom, the
1anitor. that he had been in the apart
ment."
Perhaps the disorder resulted from the
struggle that was engaged in by Stokes
and the girls. as testified to by the mil
| honaire," was suggested.
1.-THE detectives say 1t appeared to
have resulted from q search for some
| thing" replied the commissioner.