The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-04-03
WIFE ALSO rs OPPOSED
New Affidavits, Said to In
volve Another Woman, to
Await Alimony Appeal.
MRS. LEEDS MAY ASK AID
Reports Indicate Probability
Of Move to Clear Herself Of
Alleged Charges.

When Mrs. Anne Urquhart Potter
stillman decided to amend her denial
of her husbands charges and accuse
him Of infidelities she had to choose
between the names of two women.
The source Of this information, OBJ
tanned yesterday, said that Mrs. Still
man decided to name Florence Lawlor
Leeds, the chorus girl, because she
wanted to save the other woman If she
could.
1t was said that Mrs. Stillman knew
OF the undesignated woman some time
before she had heard the name or
even guessed Of the presence of Flor
ence Leeds. Just why Mrs. Stillman
was thus generous to her mysterious
rival could not be learned. The
woman Is said to be as attractive per-
sonally as Florence Leeds, although
older, and a woman of culture and re-
nnement.
She is the woman who is prophesied
as the central figure in the additional
affidavits Mrs. Stillman's lawyers may
file. But it was said there will be no
such affidavits filed until after the
bankers lawyers appeal from the de-
cision Of Justice Morschauser, which
ruled out Mrs. Stillman's letter to her
husband and the alleged Beauvais
epistles.
Despite the fact that Justice Nor
'schauser's ruling upon the letters made
even more remote any chances Mr.. Still
man may have had of obtaining di-
vorce, the banker refuses to listen to ar
guments to drop the suit.
Banker to Continue Fight.
1t was learned yesterday that De
LAncey Nicoll and Cornelius J. Sullivan,
lawyers for Mr. Stillman. have made
several suggestions to their client that
he had much to loose and little to gain
should the letters on which his whole
case is predicated fail to pass Justice
Morschauser. Mr.. Stillman is reported
to have told them he would not quit I'M
til the last available court had been tried.
And now that Mrs. Stillman came out
victorious in the first skrmish she is
just as determined to carry on as her
husband.
The Stillman lawyers are not worried
about the result of the appeal from the
award of $4,000 a year alimony and
$4,000 counsel fees. While they con-
tend that such awards are excessive 1t
known that Mr.. Stillman would be very
glad to have been assessed even more
had the Justice admitted the letters into
the record.
While no representative Of Mr.. Still
man would answer questions, certain
statements were made yesterday that
indicated the bankers attorneys do not
expect the Appellate Division will re-
verse Justice Morschauser. or that the
so-called 'hysterical' confession written
by Mrs. Stillman to her husband before
the birth of her son Guy will ever be
admitted into evidence.
Mrs. Leeds May Act.
But there are difficulties facing those
who would drop the case. First of all
Mrs. Stillman will refuse TO listen to
such a proposition. or even an arTnistice,
unless her husband publicly repudiates
his charges against her and the child.
Guy Stillman. Second John Z. Mack,
whose business II is to see that Guys
legal rights are protected, says he will
not consent to dropping the suit until
the world Is informed by Mr.. Stillman
himself that James A. Stillman Is the
father Of Guy.
Even more disconcerting Is the pos
sible next move of Florence Lawlor
Leeds. Mrs. Stllman's lawyers have
learned that II Florence Leeds becomes
convinced that Mr.. Stillman cannot OBJ
tain divorce she may seek legal aid to
be cleared of the accusations made
against her by Mrs Stillman.
A brief skirmish between counsel may
be staged at White Plains tomorrow
when John f. Brennan, of counsel for
Mrs. Stillman, asks Justice Morschauser
to sign the order for Mrs. Stillman's ALI
mony. Counsel for Mr.. Stillman will
object. saying that an appeal is to be
taken and that allmony payments should
be held up pending the decision of the
Appellate Division. The papers in the
case, now sealed at White Plains, will
be transferred to Carmel tomorrow. II
is not unlikely, however. that the ex-
cuded letters may not be hled, mas
much as they are not now legally num-
bered with the exhibits.