The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-02
Forde Denies Every. Charge
 Against Him
Actor Takes Stand In Di- vorce Suit to Deny Allega tion Made Against Him in Story Case.

New York, March 2-Stanley H. Forde, actor, correspondent in the suit for divorce begun by Allen Law renee Story against Helen Hilton Story, granddaughter and heiress of Judge Henry Hilton. was the star wit ness in the case yesterday. The morning was taken up with tales told by the neighbors about Forde and Mrs. Story when they occupied Tower Cot tage in Navesink, and by women de-
 tectives who had been engaged to watch them.
 After the testimony given the per- sonal appearance of Forde seemed to take away whatever romance, if any, had been suggested. The stories of strolls through trelissed gardens, Of walks in moonlit ways, of basking in the white sands on the beach of dom- esticity in the cottage near the famed highlands, had built up for persons in the courtroom a Lothario that not only would represent the part, but that would be Lothario himself. Forde took a lot of the romance out of the minds of the auditors when they saw him. He is not ill-looking at all. But and bigness and badness are not the ideal of the regular attendant in sem sational cases in the courts of New York. He had a strident tone that carried itself to the furthest corners in the room, but that pleased the au- ditors. who had had to strain their
 ears to hear what other witnesses had said.
 Forde went to the stand after a court session that reeked with accusa-
 tion. His testimony was specific denial of all the allegations made iii
 Storys bill of complaint and by wit
 nesses on the stand. He denied tha,
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 Mrs. Story's laundress from the Story apartment in East Nineteenth street; that he had been frequent caller in the evening on Mrs. Story in her hus-
 bands absence; that Mrs. Story had
 been a frequent caller in his apart
 with Mrs. Story improperly; that he ever had called her wife; that he ever had put his arm around her; that he
 ever had told her that he loved her;
 that he ever had cuffed, slapped with
 a paper, Or booted the Story baby.
 and that he ever had been guilty of
 misconduct with Mrs. Story, and all of the allegations in the framed is- sues in the case.
 , Things that he admitted were that Mrs. Story and her three-year-old daughter and himself had been the main occupants in the Tower cottage in Navesink Beach in the summer of 1911; that Mrs. Story frequently had called in hi, apartm ents. but only to meet his sister op her husband and have luncheon there; that he had been a frequent caller on Mrs. Story In Story's absence, but at S.ory's ex- press request, and only in the after noon or early evening. as his occupa- ton in thu theater demanded his evenings; that he had returned with Mrs. Story from two fancy dress balls at o'clock in the morning, but had left her at the front door; that he had remained one time in the Story apartment until 5 o'clock in the , morning, but when Story was present. Those admissions and denials were made in response to questioning by his counsel, and when counsel to Story took up his cros7-examination he first incurred about the proposed status of the Storys in the Navesink Beach cottage.
 ''They were to be there in the character of paying guests. I was to be paid $100 8 month and receive the services of one maid from them," an swered the actor, whose crosS-eXami nation will be continued today. In the morning Se7sion Samuel Law hine. neighbor of Mrs. Story and F'orde in sNavesink. said ne frequent ly saw them go bathing and come out. of the water. He told of watching them when they left the beach. On l cross Lavhine said the