The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-07
Advice To Young Girls As
 Revealed At Trial
EXTRACTS FROM STOKES
 LETTERS TO LILLIAN

"hooO SoIipduloIlSllp Will De WOrUn
 more to you than all the worth
 less admiration of cheap stage or a heartless social life.
 NO matter how nice a girl is let
 her once go on the stage and she
 Is spoiled.
 Keep your head. Don't touch
 wine, beers or liquors. They will
 ruin your complexion
 Get this little check cashed and
 when the money comes in blow it
 on something.
 l am too old. All can do is
 to be polite and some day I will
 come across a divorcee or a widow
 who has had all the matrimonial
 experience she wants for life
 and we can just be good friends.
 I want to talk over with you.
 Chicago widow. She has a little nose and black hair and does not
 like Chicago because the dirty
 streets. the hogs and such things
 remind her of her late husband. am over twice as old as you
 and advise you to drop all ideas of
 stage life, there's nothing in it.
 If you won't take my advice I
 can't blame you for I told Maude
 Adams when she was a little girl
 that she was sure to make a fail-
 ure if she went on the stage.
 Keep your head.
 The most crushing part of your
 letters is to give your love to
 Clarence. I never heard of such a
 cruel act in my life.
 Special from United Press.)
 New York, July When the hear ing of Lillian Graham and Ethel Con rad. accused of the attempted murder of w. E. Stokes, multi-millionairt hotel proprietor and all around sports man, was resumed before Magistrate Present., today, it was plain that tht girls intended to insist that they sho in self defense The aged clubman still on the stand, was severely cross examined by Clark Jordan, attorney for. the girls, the latter endeavorins to show that Stokes was not sent fol by Miss Conrad to get the letters he had written to Miss Graham but that he went to the house hoping to sec the Conrad girl alone.
 That some of these letters are still missing developed, today, and an ef- fort is to be made to ascertain their whereabouts
 Attorneys for the girls want to know why it was that the private de tective of Stokes hotel the Ansonia was permitted to enter and ransack their apartments and take the letters from tin box in a closet when the apart TIIH0nC was SuppOS0O CO De uIlQSI guard of the police department
 On behalf of the girls, Attorney Jordan said just before court opened that he had a number of witnessee who have not yet been mentioned ir the case whom he will call if neces- sary. He refused to indicate who they were or what they would testi- fy.5
 Before we are done with this case' hn oddad ci will a T MT. Stokes sorry he didn't follow out his original intention of going to Flu rope and dropping the case"
 The three principals in the case are plainly showing off to the best ot their ability to the newspaper squad and spectators
 Stokes, himself. is most theatrical answer he made to the first few thou sand questions asked by counsel, but the strain proved too heavy and he finally curtailed his vocabulary. He acts his part wherever possible wav- ing his arms and bawling forth his statements in clarion tones.
 If it's death or paying one cent then I choose death,' he testified he told the girls when they were prepar- the minds of the listeners Patrick Henry's "Give me liberty or give me death."
 Ethel Conrad and Lillian Graham sat wedged between newspapermen at the counsel table. Miss Conrad look ed very bored Even when Stokes re- peated the cuss words he said she had used, her languid, dreamy expression never changed Miss Conrad has a rabbit lip" which projects consider ably beyond her lower lip under nor nal conditions Usually she keeps it compressed in meaningless smile but when she relaxes it puffs out leaving her mouth partly open. Ner- vous and idgety, Miss Graham is the antithesis of her friend. She watches every moment of her accuser and drinks in every word of his testimony. There is no denying that the progress of the hearing worries her and that she fears for the outcome. No photo grapher has ever succeeded in snap ping Miss Graham off her guard but she is always ready and willing to pose for pictures