New-York tribune., 1921-03-29
Saw Stillr,1all
Cast Off Girl
For Mrs. Leeds
Bankers Wife Declared to
Have Found ssSecond
Woman" Once Mistress
of Mansion, Living in City
Ready to Face Financier
Husbands Side Discrcdits
Reports Divorce Action
Will Yet Be Withdrawn

| The second woman" in the Stillman
divorce case, whp, it is said, may be
named by Mrs. Anne Urquhart Potter
Stillman In a cbunter- action for di
vorce against James A. Stillman. began
to take definite form yesterday, al
though her name was not disclosed. .
She was discovered, it was said.
through information received BY. Mrs.
Stillman in anonymous letters, and was
living, when Mrs. Stillmans detectives
found her, in want and bitterness. She
is said to have seized with eagerness
what she regarded as an opportunity
to avenge herself upon the banker and
to be ready at any momeht to appear
voluntarily as witness for Mrs. Still
man.
The recital goes that until Mr.. Still
man met Florence Leeds" the show
girl named in Mrs. Stillman's amended
answer to her husbands suit to divorce
her and declare her small son Cuv
lllegltmate, the newly discovered
witness was living in luxury with
every whim satisfied
Loses as Another Gains
Her prosperity is declared to have
waned as that of Mrs. Leeds waxed.
She was compelled to abandon pre-
tentious summer home on. Long ISL
and, it was said, and when detectives
found her was quartered in small
and poorly furnished apartment in
this city.
A friend of Mr.. Stillman who is in
wif
the case said that the banker would
disregard all rumors refectisg upon
him which were set ahoat while the
case was pending and would refuse
steadfastly 'to be frightened or ca
Joled into any compromised
Az reports concerning negotiations
looking for settlement of the case
out of court could be regarded as base
less, this man said, as Mr.. Stillman
until 1t had been pressed through to
the finish and the status of twenty
eight-months-old Guy Stillman fixed in
the courts. If Mr. Stillman fails to es-
tablish the illegtmacy of the child
Guy will inherit $2,000,00O under the
will of his paternal grandfather and
share in the estate of James A.
| Stillman.
Justice Morschauser spent the entire
| day going over the papers submitted
with Mrs. Stilmans application for
$4,000 a month temporary aimony
and $4,000 counsel fees. Among the
documents are seven letters filed by
counsel for Mr.. Stilman. six Of which
are said to be to Mrs. Stillman from
Fred Beauvais, the French Canadian
guide, whom Mr.. Stillman named as CO.
respondent, and the other to be from
Mrs. Stillman to her husband.
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scribed as "a rambling, pitiful appeal"
in which, it is said, she tried to describe
to her husband the friendship she felt
for the French Canadian who had acted
as guardian to her and her children in
the Canadian woods. In one of the
letters declared to have been written
by Beauvais the writer is said to have
addressed Mrs. Stillman in terms of af-
fection. Beauvas in interviews in
Montreal has asserted that some one
seeking to make trouble between Mr.
and Mrs. Stillman had sent letters and
messages to Mrs. Stillman through her
/ husbands Office, signing his name or
initials to them and apparently believ-
ing that they could not fail to fall into
the bankers hands.
Hearing Waits on Decision
Justice Morschauser's decision on
application for increased alimony and
counsel fees, which may not be rem
dered until next week, is expected to
include ruling upon the competency
of the letters submitted as evidence
The next hearing in the case will not
take place until the decision has been
made 1t may be a public hearing.
Surrogate Daniel j. Gleason, of
Poughkeepsie, referee in the case, said
yesterday that it depended en counsel
whether the hearings hereafter would
be public or closed. The decision
would be his, he said, only if the
lawyers disagreed on this point. John
Stillman, expressed the opinion that
the supposed transcript of the testi-
mony given before the referee last
December, which was published last
week, was concocted out Of interviews
with the French Canadians who ap-
peared as witnesses.
81 can say without hesitation," Mr..
Mack added, chat none of the attorneys
connected with the action has given out
any copies Of the testimony. The same
applies to the referee and the official
stcnographcr. Any enc who has read
the actual testimony readily will agree
that the alleged minutes published do
not constitute verbatim report of
the proceedings in whtole or in part.
"In my opinion the published extracts
were reconstructed from reported in
terviews with witnesses now in
| Canada"
Bank Directors Meet To-day
Officers of the National City Bank,
of which Mr.. Stllman is president,
held an executive meeting yesterday,
and the directors will have their regu-
lar meeting to-day.
"We got through the executive meet
ing without any reference being made
to Mr.. Stillman or his possible resigna-
tion," said an attaches of the bank,
land I believe that it will be the same
with the directors meeting tomorrow.
The matter of Mr.. Stillman's resigna
ton (once refused by the directors) is
one that may be reopened at any time,
but l believe the oecslon of the direc-
tors not to accept it will stand"
ARMY Ordes.s