The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-11
LILLIAN GRAHAM PUT THROUGH
 SEVERE GRILL
Special from United Press1


 New York, Dec. 11-Although W. B. D. Stokes, millionaire hotel man, is still i'll serious condition in his apartments at the Hotel Ansonia, the trial of Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad, the show girls who shot him in the legs, was continued today, with Miss Graham still on the witness stand, facing cross-examination. Eff forts by the State to prove that she was not a child of tender years when she visited Stokes in Lexington, Ky, were continued
 Your sister, Mrs. Andrews, testi- fled Friday" said Assistant District years older than you and that she was five years old when your parents separated. You, therefore, couldn't have been born. How do you explain this discrepancy?
 Miss Graham said she couldn't, but maintained that she is only 2S, instead of 2S as alleged.
 ''Why did, you write MT. Stokes all these letters?" she was asked. "They were letters of friendship" explained Miss Graham.
 Do you remember when Al Adams. the notorious gambler, was said to have committed suicide in Ansonia?" "Yes''
 Your sister, Mrs. Singleton, knew you were friendly with Stokes then, didn't she?" ''Yes."
 ''Now, Adams died in 1906, and you say your sister, Mrs. Singleton, didn't try to stop you from seeing Stokes until 1910, though she told you then she heard Stokes murdered Adams in 1906. Why didn't she stop you earlier from being friendly with this notor- ious rake and alleged murderer" -lrN @4 answer. Assistant District Attorney Buckner forced the girl to. identify a number of letters to Stokes, in which she ad- dresed him in endearing terms. She broke down when she read letter she had written to Stokes in which she said he was the only man she had ever loved. This is the letter that l brought from Stokes the reply in which he called himself a "cross, grabbed old cove, whose head has
 been turned by such a pretty girl as you"
 Isn't it true,'' demanded Buckner, 'tthat this Al Adams matter has been dragged into this case for the mere purpose of discrediting MT. Stokes?" Despite strenuous objections, the girl answered.: 'sMost emphatically note"
 She was shown a letter in which she was purported to have asked Stokes for S2,500. She maintained that she had written $500 but re- fused to charge that Stokes had de- liberately changed the figures. Buckner tried to bring out that the famous confession letter of Lillian Graham, which she declares Stokes forced her to sign in Lexington, was only one of number of letters she wrote to Stokes before he would con- sent to take her to Lexington. or,f hi h Oc6 she wrote:
 Come to see me in my room, to- night, after 10 o'clock, the folks are away"
 To the sneering question of Buck ner in regard to this letter the girl made inaudible replies. +'Why did you not tell your broth er-in-law and sister of your experi- ence at Stokes hands, in Lexington ?" demanded Buckner. Because Stokes begged me on his pended knees, for the sake of his boy, not to tell" said Miss Graham.
 Another letter, which Buckner de- clared was written by the girl in her efforts to get Stokes to take her to Kentucky read:
 s'Dear Willie Stokes: I do want you if you will be devoted to me | alone. I promise to make no trou- ble for you."
 Another letter concluded:. "I will l do whatever you say and sign what ever you wish"
 Buckner declared Stokes hesitated l to take the girl to Lexington and that she insisted she be per .nitted to sign a letter freeing him from blame.