The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-12
LILLIAN GRAHAM NERVOUS WRECK
 ON GRILL TODAY
Especial from United Press)

T | =. New York, Dec. 12.-The end of the gruelling examination of Lillian Graham, for the shooting of w. E. D.. Stokes, was in sight when the trial of the girl and Ethel Conrad was re- sumed, today.
 nery announced before court opened that he expected to finish with Miss Graham, by noon recess. Miss Con- rad will then take the stand to tell her side of the now famous story.
 Miss Graham appeared a nervous wreck when she resumed the stand for cross examination, today.
 Assistant District Attorney Buckner examined her about the famous "sui- eide letter" she left for Miss Conrad, last May, enclosing a letter to the press" and another to her sister, blaming her downfall upon Stokes. She said she had drank carbolic acid after writing the letters, but had rt- covered,
 Well, when you recovered did you try to see that these letters did not reach your sister with that terrible news?" demanded Buckner. "No, l never thought of that she replied.
 She admitted that, by taking these letters to Stokes Miss Conrad had re- ceived some money for her. Miss Graham denied that she and Ethel Conrad had asked the clerk in the department store where they bought their pistols to explain to them how to manipulate the weapons.
 Buckner tried to force the girl to admit that she and Miss Conrad had attempted to work a badger game" on Stokes in May.
 ''I want to ask you if this telephone conversation took place on May 31, v said Bucker. Didn't you call Miss Conrad up and say to her: T don't know how to get into his apartments, and didn't Miss Conrad say to you: Well, his birthday is coming soon, can't you take him in a box of hand kerchiefs and when you get in don't forget to lock the door, And didn't you reply: Will you stand by me Ethel?' And didn't she say she would ?"
 'That conversation positively never took place." said the witness.
 Well, didn't Miss Conrad tell you on May 29 that it was easy to get a man to sign any kind of a document when you had a gun in your hand?"
 .'No."
 Didn't she tell you how successful she was in a similar case in Platts- burg, N. Y."? demanded Buckner. No"
 The mention of the Plattsburg af- fair created a sensation. Efforts, it is said, are being made by the de-
  is said to have secured in Plattsburg. It is said now to be in possession of the man known as a leader of strike breakers. This letter would show, it is said, that Miss Conrad forced a retraction of a islander regarding her and then refused to accept $10,0 to part with the document that cleared her good name.
 Didn't you go to Martin w. Lit teton and ask him the best way to make a man sign a document in a islander suit:' demanded Buckner. Objection was sustained.
 With Miss Graham still on the stand, it was announced that both sides had agreed to submit the case to the jury, Friday morning.
 Miss Graham admitted that, when Stokes gave Miss Conrad s200, after the writing of the suicide letter" she (Niss Conrad) had promised to take the Baltic for Europe, but had failed to do so. She couldn't explain why.
 Buckner then came down to the day of the shooting and forced the girl to repeat, in every detail, the story of the shooting and describe the scene in which she alleged Stokes tried to choke her. She was so near a collapse when she had finished, that a recess was taken to permit her to regain her composure.