The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-24
x y,rnity Of TUo Children Questioned and
 Indian Named Ln Sensational SfiLln1an Suit
Attorney for Millionaire Open Iy Charges Mrs. StiIlman Had Son By Indian Guide. While Wife's Counsel Charge S;ilIman Is Father of Mrs. Leeds Son.
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White Plains, N. Y., March 23.- Paternity of two children, Guy Still man, aged 2S months, and Jay Leeds, three months older, is questioned in affidavits filed with supreme court preliminary arguments by counsel in the divorce suit brought by James A. Stillman, president of the National City bank, against his wife, the for mer Eff" Potter.
 Delaney Nicol, counsel for the bank president, arguing on the defendants motion for $1o,0oo month alimony and counsel fees of s75,00o, openly charged that Mrs. Stillman had taken "as her lover an Indian guide by whom she had an infant son, The child in question is Guy Stillman. A general denial to this charge was made by the society wom- ans counsel, who filed affidavits deny. ing all. of MT. Stilmans allegations.
 Setting up an affirmative answer to the bankers suit, counsel for the wife not made public, bringing into the case the name of Mrs. Florence H. Leeds" a former chorus girl, and that of her child. Jay, alleged to have been born out of wedlock and whose father is said tc be the bank president.
 NEITHER IN COURT
 Neither MT. nor Mrs. Stiilman was In court during today's proceedings. Mir. Stillman is believed to be living at a club in New York, and Mrs. stillmsn, with her two younger children, is at Lakewood, N. J.
 Mrs. Leeds was at last reported to be in Havana.
 The next open court development in the case is expected to be made next Monday at which time Justice Mar schauzer announced he would file atfi- davits presented by both sides today and replies thereto which must be submit ted to him before Saturday. At the sam 3 time he will temporarily fix aimony and counsel fees for Mrs. Stillman. Paper, 1 ir the case will be filed in Westrhester county and transferred to Putnam coun- ty. where the divorc action was started Plans of the defense to bring MT. Still man into court to be questioned aDout his income, so that the court might con clude what alimony should be paid, were automatically dropped when tne bankers counsel admitted that MT, Still mans net income for 1920 was $SSo,V0, and that he was wiling to allow his wife enough alimony to live in reasonable 1 luxury.'
 INDIAN IS MENTIONED Guy Stillman, whose paternity is ques- toned by the bank president. was born November IS, 1918 Fred Beauvais, m Indian guide, formerly employed at the Stillman summer camp at Three Rivers Quebec, is mentioned by the banker as the childs father. MT. and Mrs. Stiii- man are reported to have separated in March, 1920 and the divorce action was started the following July
 Reference is reported to nave peer made in the bankers affidayits to let ter. alleged te have been written to him by his wife in the spring of 1918, few months prior to Guys birth, in whlcn the name of Beauvas is mentioned. This letter. while not mentioning any spe- cific act of infidelity is said to form the basis for the bankers charges.
 Counsel for the wife will seek to prove through affidavits already filed and the testimony of witnesses to be heard later that MT. Stillrnan and Franklin Harold Leeds" described as the husband of Mrs. Florence H. Leeds, are one and the same man, and that the child, Jay, ls@ne re- suit of this union. Mrs. Leeds occupied a fashionable apartment here during the war, and up until a few days ago nao been living in handhome Viiia at Miami Fla. Counsel for the financier told the court that his divorce suit was started because it was impossible otherwise to estapnsh the alleged illegitimacy of the ehild,uus. The plaintiff presented it as matter ol either acknowledging the infant as member of the family or repudiatng nlm as illegitimate. Mrs Stiiiman counse' oontanded there was no evidence before the court to show anyone other than MT. stillman to be the father of the boy The wedding of MT. and Mrs: stiiimaa here on June 3, 1901. was one of the gala events of the season. They have three children, two boys and girl in additioh to Guy, the oldest boy of Y years