The Washington times., 1919-12-07
CHAPTER II.
(Comtinued from Last Sunday)

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TT was February H. 1911, that William E d. Stokes
was married IN Jersey City, N. j.. to Miss Helen Ell
wood of Colorado The New York multi-millionaire
was sixyfye years old and his bride in the early
twenties. In less than month the young bride AYERS
that she in tears the disllusonment Of her
dreams Of happiness
What honeymoonl
What matrimonial voyage the unsuspecting young
bride had embarked on
Lewd women, pistol shots, acid throwingl Insulted
and brutsy treated inside her domestic circle and threat
ened with attacks from ousde-these were the things
and this the atmosphere Mrs Stokes she found
confronting her in the very earliest weeks Of her
rage And in the divorce suits which each has brought
against the other the truth of all the many and strange
charges viii be sifted ont in court
Last Sunday on this page mention was made of Mrs.
Stokess statement that scarcely the honey
moon when her domestic happiness clouded by
the dongs of women of the underworld with whom her
aged husband mixed up. Once Stokes came home
with his clothing covered with acid that one of his
women had thrown him she declares and on another
occasion she startled by the news that her husband
was in the hospital with two bullet wounds his aged
body which had been fired by of his mstresses while
he visiting her in her apartment in New York City,
according to Mrs. Stokes's affidavit
What revelation to the young bride!
And what other shocks and surprises did the future
hold for herf
early in june, 1911 less than four months after
the wedding that the bride stunned to read in the
newspapers headlines like this:
1.-TWO WOMEN SHOOT W. E. d. STOKES
IN THEIR FLAT
Mr. Stokes did not enjoy these two bullets He was
determined to have those young women Lillian Graham
and Ethel Conrad, taught lesson So Stokes took Wig
orous steps to have the girls indicted tried and punished
At lest the day of the trial arrved-in November
I9 Dtokes was in court and he told the jury his story
OF what happened that day six months before in the
apartment Of the woman he admitted he had had guilty
relations with
The old millionaire swore that on June T. 1911 at
O'Clock IN the evening, he went to Lillian Grahams apart
ment IN the Varuna, Eghteth street and Broadway in
which she lived with Ethel Conrad to obtain some let
eea belonging to him. He said that the girls first asked
nm TO sign statement retractng certain charges about
Mis Graham, and then demanded $25 00O When he
ed 70 escape both girls attacked him with revolvers be
sno and IN the struggle he was.shot.
Then Miss Lillian Graham took the witness stand and
gave the story of her experience with Stokes Told be-
tween nearrendng sobs it made the deepest impression
on the jurors and many of them in tears as they
listened TO It. She stated that she first made Stokes
acquaintance when she less than eighteen years old
and staying at the Ansona With lowered voice she told
Of being ured to Stokes Kentucky stock farm and ruined
by the old millionaire Coming down to the afternoon of
the shooting her testimony was reported thus:
CuESTloN-Dd Mrs. Singleton your sister, ever say