The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-11-29
TO REOPEN CASE
Fight Looms Over Bringing
"StilIman" Boy Into Court.
Wife's Attorneys Want to Cite
''Living Evidence.
HOTEL REGISTER NOW SHOWN
Try to Prove Banker Lived
With Wife.
Indian Guide Registered But
Banker Paid.
HOTEL REGISTER NOW SHOWN

Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Nov. 29.-Tes-
timony declared to be the strongest
/ yet presented to establish the claims of
J 3-year-old Guy Stillman as the son of
! James Stillman, multimillionaire. was
! given today before Referee Daniel
Gleason. who is hearing the sensa-
tiona1 divorce and illegitimacy pro-
ceedings brought by the banker.
Hotel Register Cited.
| Charles Mascara and Theodore
Roth, employees of the st. Regis hotel,
New York. testified that Stillman oc-
cupied suite at the hotel with his
wife, Mrs. Fiji StilIman, in February,
1918. They produced the hotels regis
ter showing Stillman registered with
| his We February 16, 1918.
| Guy was born in November of the
| same year. The evidence was de-
clared by Mrs. Stillman's attorneys
and John E. Mack. guardian of the
! boy whose paternity is disputed by
Stillman, as indisputable evidence
that under the law the millionaire is
the childs father.
A notation on the hotel records
! shows that Beauvais's bill was to be
charged to Stillman's account.
Clerk Did Registering.
On cross examination it was re-
vealed that Stillman did not register
himself but that the clerk of the hotel
wrote his name, Mrs. Stillman's name
and the names of their three children
Anna, Bud" and Alexander. Reg
| istering in this manner is unusual at
the hotel, it was testified.
on the day following, Fred Beau
vais, the Indian guide, who StilIman
! claims is the father of little Guy, reg
| istered at the hotel, the records pro-
| duced showed.
Stillman arrived at the hotel with
| Mrs. Stillman and the three children,
according to the testimony. The fam
! lily with the children's nurse occupied
/ four rooms, the hotel employees testi-
! fled.
Mrs. Stillman unexpectedly ap-
peared at the hearing just before the
two hotel employees arrived. Failure
! of some of the witnesses to appear
| caused an adjournment shortly after
| noon. The hearings will be resumed
| next Tuesday, it was announced.
Surprise Is Predicted.
| AS they predicted a surprise from
| the bankers side before the windup
| of the famous case, John E. Mack
guardian of Guy Stillman. announced
that the S-year-old boy, whose future
! and share in $10,000,OOO estate are
| at stake, may be introduced in the
| hearings here as a living Exhibit" to
/ a
| helr and not, as the banker claims.
! the son of Fred Beauvais, the Indian
| lover of his mother, Mrs. Fiji Stillman
1t is not believed the child will be
permitted in the case as a legal eek
hlb1t, but it was pointed out he can
not be prevented from coming into
the hearing room and remaining there
| long enough to impress upon the ref
erees what is said to be a strikig re-
semblance to the millionaire who re-
pudiates him.
Fight Over Boys Appearance.
If the boy appears. a bitter fight is
| expected over his presence
he may remain only moment, ~
said Mack today.
1t is planned to have the child pro-
duced in the hearings before the case
shifts its scenes to Canada, where Mrs
Stillman will make her last stand for
her honor and for the name of her
child with Indian guides and trappers
from the woods where she and Beau
Yais, the handsome Indian guide, are
said to have had their romance to
furnish the most picturesque and SEN
sational angle of the case.
Beauvais is not likely to testify, It
was indicated today.
Two witnesses from New York are
| expected to tell of spicy parties given
| by Stillman and Flo Leeds on Mod
esty." the love yacht, while it was
anCnOFeu OH RAIN Beach.
Sensational new evidence will be in
| troduced to show that up to a COM
paratively recent date, long after Still
man instituted divorce and illegitimacy
! proceedings, the millionaire and Flo
Leeds shared the same cottage.
There will be testimony, it was
stated, to show that Stillman and the
! former show girl were together at a
Long Island roadhouse as recently as
| last summer.