New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-06
Beauvais Gives
Lie to Bankers
Star Witnesses
Stillman Visited Wife at
Pleasantville in Winter
Preceding Guys Birth,
Guide Writes to Friends
Tells of Trip With Them
Wishes He Could Shampoo
in Turpentine His Lad
der and Keyhole' Accusers

The anxiety of Fred Beauvais, the
Indian guide named as correspondent in
the divorce suit of James A. Stillman,
to take up arms in defense of Mrs
Anne UrQuhart Stillman is divulged in
letter he has written to friends here
since the last hearings. After express
ing the wish that he might give the
ladder and keyhole" witnesses for the
plaintiff shampoo with good strong
five-gallon can of turpentine to waken
them" he sums up his feelings in the
sweeping statement:
by God, | wish it were possible for
ME to get into this fight"
AT present there is no indication
that Beauvais will be called to testify
for Mrs. Stillman. He kept silent
through the initial proceedings. Now
his pent-up wrath apparently bursts
forth in letter in which he seeks to
prove that Mr.. and Mrs. Stillman were
at Pleasantville, N. Y. in 1917 and 1918,
contrary to the testimony of some of
the bankers star witnesses, including
his sister, Mrs. Percy A. Rockefeller.
In recalling incidents at Mondanne,
the Pleasantvile estate, in the latter
part of 1917 and early in 1918, Beau
vais declares in his letter that, con-
trary to general belief, Mr., Stillman
was a frequent visitor there III the
winter prior to the birth Of Guy. Ac-
cording to Beauvais special wing IN
the house was fitted up for the finan-
cier in November, 1917.
On one occasion he remained for fouS
days, says the guide. He recalls that
on this particular visit the banker and
Mrs. Stillman, Buddy and Alexander
Stillman and Beauvais all motored to
New York together to see eyes OF
Youth"
On their way back they occupied two
cars. According to the guides account,
Mr.. Stillman sat beside the chauffeur
in che car while he (Fred) sat in the
back. The other car was occupied by
Mrs. Stilman and the two boys.
Beauvais deals sharply in his letter
with the testimony given by witnesses
at the two last hearings, and especially
that of Bernard Kelly, former super
intendent of the Pleasantvile estate.
According to the guide, Mr.. Stillman
gave Kelly two suits of clothes, gold
piece and a pipe while in his employ
Connects Gifts With Visit
'T cannot see how Kelly can have
forgotten Mr.. Stillman being at Mon,
dame and giving him those things"
writes Beauvais. He adds:
Incidents like this ought to awaken
the sleeping memories of these wit
nesses. 1t is an easy thing to get
sleeping sickness of the brain, and this
is what has happened to them. l wish
/ couldaget down and give them a
shampoo with good, strong five-gallon
can of turpentine to awaken them"
Beauvais suggests in his letter that
counsel for the defense in cross-exam-
ming witnesses should work the light
of Christ into their brainless brains"
The guide asserts positively that Mr..
Stillman spent New Years Day in 1918
ut Mondanne. Mrs. Percy A. Rookie
Teller during the cross-examination by
John E. Mack was equally positive that
on the date mentioned her brother was
in his home at East Seventy second
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