The New York herald., 1921-05-03
ACCUSES STOKES OF
PLOT AGAINST WIFE
Lawyer Tells of Pictures He
Was Asked to Use to
Such Purpose.
HUSBAND VISITED HIM
She Repeats Denials on Stand
as Her Defence Comes
to Close.
HUSBAND VISITED HIM

The defence OF Mrs. Helen Elwood
Stokes in the divorce action brought by
w. e ID. Stokes before Supreme Court
Justice Finch drove home it's final blows
Yesterday. and In behalf of her counter
action for separation presented evidence
to support her contention that Mr.. Stokes
sought to spread wrongful imputauons
about her past.
This was accomplished when Maren
". Ijttletou. Mrs. Stokes's counsel sub
panaed TO the witness stand Bernaru
Sander, lawyer, who is acting as coun,
sci for M. L Williams. negro, acquitteo
of stealing Mrs. Stokes's jewels, put IN
der Indictment charged with criminaiy
receiving the stolen property.
He testified that $50 many mysterious
yisitorsp that he couldn't keep track OIL
their names but some OF whom ne ioen,
titled as Stokes agents, came 10 MN sno IN
offered alleged pictures or MRS. s.oneo
in odd poses and attire. TO use 70 throw
doubt on her credibility when sne TOOK
the witness stand against his negro en-
ent. Stokes also visited him and ois.
cussed the photographs and nst Oh
ouestions to ask Mrs. Stokes wnich one
of her husbands employees brought MN.
he testified. Mr.. Littieton produced
COPY of the questions and read tne"
into the record.
He asked Mr.. Sander to describe some
of the photographs.
zone was of o woman resembling Mrs.
Stokes-I was assured 1t was--noiolns
a baby on her lap. | was told II was
aiken before her marriage to Mr.. stokes
One was taken in front OF a shack Win
come men. One showed Mrs. Stokes
.y1t- ch
was in the nude. purporting to be Mrs.
Stokes. and smoking a cigarette, claimed
to have been taken by S. M Roosevelt.
Mr.. Littleton asked the plaintiff $
counsel to produce the photographs,
some Of which already had been marked
for Identification. They produced all
but the nude described by Mr.. Sander.
They produced another one. group OF
nude women. Mr.. Sander said he was
told Mrs. Stokes was in the group. but
he couldn't recognize her.
Her counsel then recalled Mrs. Stokes
TO the stand She testified the baby was
Raymond Sergeant the young son OF
her sister She identified the other pic
lures as ones taken while in boarding
school or a few years after; snapped
with the fiance Of a girl friend whom
she had been visiting, she said. Others
vas Withdrawn as correspondent early
in the case.
Among the questions Mr.. Stokes
wanted Mr. Sander TO ask her in the
criminal case, the testimony showed,
were whether she had posed for a nude
picture by Mr. Roosevelt. whether she
had ever been on parties with men
known fictitiously as "Sid." Nick,
'-Old Nick or at parties at which a
Joseph T. Moran, millionaire longshore-
man and theatre owner" had been pres
ent. The women on these parties were
alleged to have sat around in kimonos
telling nasty stories" She denied
knowing the men or being on parties
where they were present. She did moi
pose for such picture, she said
Another question in the Stokes-Sand-
Ter list was rs II not fact that you
went out without the knowledge of YOU
husband to these parties. from which
YOU generally wound up drunk at Mrs
Kearncy's. and that you escaped from
his apartment in the Ansonia Hotel dis
.uised as a little old woman collecting
FOR DR.. Taylors church, and that you
even talked with your husband and col
lected money from him and laughed al
the way you were fooling him.
THAT is absolutely false Mrs
lsa