New-York tribune., 1921-12-07
Guardian Rests
Guy Stillnan's
BirtllrightPle
Scene Is Shifted to Canada,
Where Commission Will
Begin Hearing 30 Divorce
Suit Witnesses ON Jan. III
Einancier Known as Leeds
Ex.Chorus Girl Knew How
to Get What She Wanted
of Him, Nurse Declares
from a STAG Correspondents

pOUGHKEEPSlE, N. " Dec g.
Tho case for Guy Stillman, the three
year-old child declared by James A.
Stillman to be tho son of Fred Beau-
vais. was rested here to-day. With
the introduction at hearing before
Referee Daniel ]. Gleason of the testi-
mony of three witnesses, ono of them
. maid. who swore that Mr.. Stillman
vas at Pleasantville with his wife in
the early part of the year in which
Guy was born, John E. Mack concluded
the fight for his ward waged over a
period of eighteen months.
The next hearing, will deal solely
with the divorce suit brought by Mr..
Stillman and will begin in Montreal on
January II, after commission to Can
ada to take the testimony OF thirty
Canadian witnesses has been appointed.
John f. Brennan, chief counsel for
Mrs. Stillman, and Mr.. Mack. guardian
ad litem for Guy. conducted the ex-
animation to-day. Cornelius j. Sulli-
van, Colonel William j. Rand jr. and
0uterSridge HcTssy, counsel for Mr..
Stillman, attended tho hearings, but
there was no cross-examination at any
points In the testimony.
The Arst witness was Mary J. Sulli-
ran. a maid employed at Is East Sixty
ninth Street. who said that she WAS
engaged 60 work at Pleasantyille on
December IL, 1917, as assistant chef,
Immediately after the Christmas holi-
days, when Bud and Anne Stiilman
had returned to school. tho chef de-
parted, and thereafter she was the only
cook, Miss Sullivan said. Her testi-
nony to the effect that she prepared
meals for Mr.. Stillman at Pleasantville
on different dates in January and Feb
ruary, 1918, was excluded, on the
ground that her orders came through
other servants and that she had not
actually seen the banker on these oc-
casions. She testified that she remem-
bered hearing that Hugh L. Russell, the
osteopath, was there, although she did
not see him. She did see Mr.. Stillman
once during this period, shortly before
the family moved to the St. Regis
Hotel.
The next witness was Mary j. Far
ney, a graduate nurse, who testified
that she was first employed by Mr.. and
Mrs. Franklin Leeds at Rest Court.
Stonybrook, L. l., in June, 1918. and
that she remained with Mrs. Leeds
until q week after the birth of Jay, on
September II, 1918. Mr.. Leeds, whose
picture she identified as that of Mr.
Stillman, passed an average of three
days every week in the country with
Mrs. Leeds, she said. They all moved
IN from the Stonybrook estate to "a
East Eighty-sixth Street In the latter
part of August, according to Miss Far
ney, who testified further that Dr.
James Ogilvia was the attending physi-
clan when Jay was born. The wit
ness drew graphic picture OF Mr.. Still
mans anxiety at the time. When told
that fine, healthy boy *as born she
quoted him as saying;
eyes, yes; but how about his
MOTHER"
The nurse pointed out that Mrs
Leeds had a way of getting everything
she wanted from Mr.. Stillman and tina.
on one occasion when her dog was shot
he had promised to give her another
she spoke sharply to him because he
made the excuse that he had been "too
busy to get the dog"
"Mrs. Leeds knows how to handle
him." said the witness. "She told hin
to get the dog Immediately. and he
Admitted Stillman at Door
Mabel Young Thornc, a negro, living
st 1851 Seventh Avenue, said she was {
motion picture actress and that foJ
three weeks in December. 1917, she wa.
employed by Mrs. Leeds at IS Eas
Sixty-ffth Street. One day Mrs. Leeds
told her "to let Mr.. Stiilman in," ths
girl testified, and he appeared carrying
coffee percolater and some jellies-
:. With the conclusion of the testi
mony, Mr.. Mack announced that ths
ease Of Guy rested unless Mr.. Brennan
saw fit to call witnesses after the hear
ings in Canada. In that event h
might have some testimony which HI
bad been unable to obtain through the
disappearance of witnesses.
No objection was raised by counse
for the plaintiff to the appointment o.
\ commission to go to Canada, and i
was agreed by both sides that the ap
plication should be made here on Satur
day morning before Supreme Cour
Justice Morschauser.