New-York tribune., 1921-06-07
Mrs. Stillrrlan's
Reply to Name
Second w oman
Husband Must Show Cause
Saturday Why Amended
Answer Should Not BE
Filed; Delay Aids Wife
Brennan Accuses Official
Keeps Charges I'M Allegiance,
However, After Conference
Will, Justice Morschauser

Serious charges against an upstate
county official, growing out OF the
divorce suit of James A. Stillman
against Mrs. Anne Urquhart Potter
StiIlman, were said yesterday to have
been the subject of conference be-
tween John F. Brennan, principal at
torney for Mrs. Stillman, and Justice
Morschauser, of the Supreme Court
The Justice is understood to have ad-
vised the lawyer against making the
charges. Mr.. Brennan is said to have
agreed to hold the matter in abeyance
TO await expected developments in the
divorce action.
The matter of the charges was i'm
parted to a man high in the confidence
OF friends of Mr.. Stillman, and he char
acterized it as "unthinkabie." ut is
preposterous, he added. "Why, it is
the most unwarranted thing ever
heard of to even hint at such thing
The hearing of the divorce suit, which
was to have been resumed this morn
ing before Referee Daniel j. Gleason
in Poughkeepsie, was stayed on writ
obtained yesterday afternoon by Mr..
Brennan before Justice Martin J. Keogh,
- suysceme Court, and made re-
turnaolo al New Rochelle, when MIR.
Stllmans S attorneys are ordered to
SHOW c;--se why Mr.. Brennan should
l:QI DC peFnlltteQ TO HE an aHlelueu
answer to Mr.. Sti'lman's divorce COM
,1a mt. Mrs. Stillman's new amended
reply is based on newly discovered evi-
denoe. and is expected to name one
Woman as correspondent other than Mrs.
Florence Lawlor Leeds, the former
snow girl and mother OF jaw Leeds,
whose father, it is charged, is James
A. Stillman.
One Missing Girl Located
1t was announced exclusively by The
Tribune some weeks ago that detec-
tives were seeking two girls, May Had
den and Clara Young as witnesses in
the Stillman suit. For weeks all track
of the girls was lost. 1t developed yes
terday that May Hadden had been
found and that she would be called as
q witness to substantiate charges that
she was present at a wine party, at
tended by Mr.. Stillman and Florence
Leeds. The party, it is charged, was
given to celebrate the winning of a
prize at dog show by dog of Mrs.
Leeds.
Mrs. Stillman went Yesterday morn
ing to the Offices of Brennan, Curran
& Bleakley, in Yonkers. and after a
short conference motored with Mr..
Brennan to Justice Keogh's court,
where Mrs. Sti,lman waited in her ma
CHllG NIllS uSI dCCOlHSy ODIdiHSG tilC
stay The order works to the advan-
tage of Mr. Brennan, who gets more
time to read into the case, of which he
has only recently assumed charge, and
causes inconvenience to Mr. Stillman's S
attorneys. Cornelius ]. Sullivan, for
Mr.. Stillman, had notified witnesses to
be at Poughk 9epsie this morning ready
to proceed with the hearings. Among
these witnesses was Hugh Russell,
Buffalo osteopath, who has testified
that Mrs. Stillman told him Fred Beau
vais was the father of her unborn
child, now known as Guy Stillman.
May Be Further Delay
There was a rumor that certain of
Mrs. Stiilmans attorneys might with
draw from the case. 1t was also re-
ported, on good authority. that fur
ther delays in the case might be ex-
pected, as was predicted by The Trib-
une After the filing of the new
amended answer, If this is ordered by
the court, Mr.. Brennan S expected to
ask for an adjournment pending an
examination by him into all files in
the case.
James Brown Potter, father of Mrs.
Stillman, it was reported, will back
his daughter with the last dollar of his
wealth and will be witness for her
to help substantiate the claim of the
defense that Mr.. Stillman and not Fred
Beauvais is the father of Guy.