The Sentinel=record., 1911-07-08
SIX LETTERS ARE MISSING
MISS GRAHAM SAYS MOST I'M, PoRTANT LETTERS WRITTEN
 BY STOKES ARE GONE.
Stokes Says Blandly That He Does Not Know Where They Went to Detective Searched Girls
 Room After Shooting.

New York, July 7.--Where are the rest of the Stokes letters? How did they come to be suppressed? Who suppressed them, and why?
 These are the questions that Rob- ert w. Moore of counsel for Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad, tried to get answered today in their prelim mary hearing on the charge that they attempted to murder w. E. D. Stokes, the millionaire hotel man, when he called at their apartment.
 The questions were not answered wholly to MT. Moore's satisfaction, but he advanced so far that he will rest his case tomorrow morning af- ter one more witness has been heard --the elevator boy who took Stokes to the girls apartment on the night he was shot.
 Magistrate Freschi will then decide whether the case shall go to the grand jury.
 Stokes told how he first met Ethel Conrad; how she enlisted his sympa- thies anew for Lillian Graham, who, sick and penniless, Stokes said, Mise Conrad told him, had attempted sui eide; how he came to call on the two girls after Lillian Graham's rs' covery and what his sentiments for them were.
 Those who had expected the two girls to take the stand were disap- pointed. The defense succeeded in eliciting most of the facts on which the state must base it's case without disclosing it's own hand.
 Only once did Stokes show signs of confusion.
 Are these nine letters produced in evidence yesterday, all you ever wrote. Miss Graham? asked Attor- ney Moore.
 "No.'
 How many did you write her? As many as eighteen"
 Perhaps" :
 What became of those missing let ters. which you admit having writ ten and which were in Miss Graham's possession on the night of the shoot ing?"
 T haven't the remotest idea,' said stokes Diandiy.
 Counsel for the two girls called tc the stand James Cummings, a house detective at the Ansonia, owned by Stokes. Cummings said he had searched the girls apartments two or three days after the shooting with three central office detectives, and found the letters on a closet floor be- hind trunk.
 And these officers of the depart ment of justice of the city allowed you to rummage their apartment and take from it what you wishedg'
 They didn't know I had found thing" parried the detective.
 MT. Moore bounced on him.
 Then you deliberately secreted those letter from the sworr officers of the law" he thundered.
 q put them in my pocket"
 Yes or mo-" insisted the counsel
 Yes" admitted Cummings.
 Subsequent testimony was that Cummings had delivered the letters to MT. Gleason, personal counse for Stokes. who had passed them or to former Judge Olcott. in charge ol the case for MT. Stokes, who in turn delivered them to the district attor-
 Cummins, the detective, hat ney's office.
 Lad not counted the letters, he swore and did not know their contents Judge Olcott swore that the package as it reached him. contained twelve letters.
 There were eighten of those let ters," said Mir. Moore after the hear ing.
 Who suppressed them?"
 "They will make interesting read ing when they are produced" added Miss Graham. q wouldn't dare tel you what's in them. You wouldn' believe me. but when get out O this trobule, I'm going to use them They're scream"