New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-07
Says Stillr,aa1l
Cast Off Wife
Nine Years AGO
Willing To Be Divorced by
Her if That Would Have
Settled Question of Guys
Birth, His Friend Asserts
Own Deeds Not Factors
Leeds Boy Cannot Benefit by
Trust Fund If Proved To
Be Child of the Financier

4 is the contention of James A
Stillman that he had not lived as .
husband with Mrs. Anne Urquhart Pct
ter Stillman for nine years before ht
brought his suit for divorce, accord
ing to friend of the banker, who has
been closely associated with him
throughout the present action.
Yesterday, when dispatches from
Poughkeepsie indicated that rulings
which Referee Daniel J. Gleason was
about to make as to Mr.. Stillman's
testimony might change the entire
course of the action, tnSs friend re-
vealed for the first time the plaintiff s
side of the case.
He insisted that the question of, in
fidelity on the part of either had
nothing to do with the suit This was
brought, he declared, merely to settle
the question of Guy Stillman's pattern
ity for all time. He laughed at the
recent statements attributed to Fred
Beauvais.
Invites Beauvais Into Fight
s'As far as the Indian guide is con-
cerned," said he, ~ understand that he
has said he wished to God he could
get into this fight.
he doesn't. / don't know of any one
who is trying to keep him out Of it."
He then set forth for the first time
what he said was the crux Of the en-
tire action, saying:
"Mr. Stillman has declared to me
that any child born to Mrs. Stillman
at any time during the last nine years
could not be his child.
Whatever infideltes Jim Stillman
is charged with did not antedate that
nine-year period. In other words, Mr..
Sfillnor hid nnf tu%a
woman except his wife, if such allega-
lions are true, until after he had rea-
son to believe his wife was not true
to him.
"The peculiar part of this case is
that the newspapers have had the
wrong slant at it from the very first.
The widest and most garbled stories
nave been printed as the truth, and
the real truth has been denied and
referred to as dreams by certain news.
papers.
Banked on confession" Letter
Jim Stillman did not bring this
suit because he wanted to; he brought Il
because he had to. His wife was TALKING
of suing him for divorce and he was
willing. she should go to Reno or Paris
or any other place and get the decree
Il she wanted to. He thought the mat
tei "a -Iuy Dlftn was settled by the
confession letter. He had the missive
firm his wife in which, it is charged,
she confessed that Fred Beauvais was
the father of Guy, and Mr. Stillman be-
Heved that this was all that was nee
essary and that it settled the matter.
He was not trying to save money or
to deprive his wife or any one else Of
money. But when he went to an at
tcrney to get the case Strengthened
out he was told that the point of
Guys birth had to be settled by a
court and that a letter could not settle
1T. as the document might be regarded
a. privileged.
MIR. Stillnan was also told that the
question of Guys birth could not be
settled in any divorce suit that might
be filed by the mother. He was
brought to see that he had to take
action and see it through. He said
that he thought it was about time to
find out what Guys rights were. that
he might respect the law in the
matter.
at was then he brought the suit
against his wife and Guy and started