Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-31

at Pocantico Hills. and 1 barred him
from my camp at Three Rivers"
Beauvais secured job at a sport
Episode
The court. papers continue thai
Mr.. and Mrs. Leeds were we'll
known by sight to many of the ten
ants in the apartment house at 81
East Eighty-sixth street during jan
uary, 1918"
ence of the Century chorus. and
Leeds. according to Frank Ivens' af-
fldavit. and that of Sophie Erickson,
maid. was James A. Stillman, Jr,
vice president and director of the
National City bank.
They Kept their tongues, they say,
because; well. what was the use?"
Then came March. and the death
of James A. Stillman. the father of
jim
In two weeks after the death of
James Stillman the son was made
tors and note paper of the National
City bank read: James Alexander
Stlllman, vice president" Frank
Vanderllp. however. retained his
hold
During this summer Mrs. Leeds
remained in retirement at Rest Court.
Stony Beach, l.. J.. in a handsome
| u. l.
I1onalre sportsman of New York.
Episode S
FIJI Potter Stillman entertained
laVlshly at the Stillman home in P0
cantlco Hills. but it was observed
that Mr.. Stillman attended thesa
functions rarely. if at all
Autumn came and both women re-
| turned to their respective homes in
town. III
Stillman divided his time almost
equally, say the affidavits. between
MS wife and Mrs. Leeds.
Fred Bauvais. the half breed guide
1eft New York and returned to Mon
| treal. He opened an insurance office
in the Canadian city. '''0'
re on >, September II, 1918, Gay
son of Harold and Florence Leeds
was born in the East seth street
apartment. DR.. James Ogiiiyie,
noted surgeon, signed the birth Ger,
tiflcate although he added the note
Ia siIaC ne was not the attending ply
G. Exactly Exactly two months later at the
man gave birth to Guy Stillman.
The birth certificate said that Anne
Orquhart and James Alexander Still
man were its parents.
Episode 6
winter came and passed, and 1919
round Stillman engaged in a bank
battle to attain the presidency Of
me me institution, then held by Frank
o,, fud a5ei,1y!, yan M igned with
was immediately named as president
OF the National City Bank. The
workmanship of the board of d.
fectors,, the only position that RI
vailed the presidency, was left omen.
St1llman won it,
1t was commented on at the birth
OF Guy Stillman that his name had
DOT been given a place, in the Social
was asked. by that publication to at
test by his signature that the boy
wa his child, he refused to do so,
ot51e7r r no explanation.
daily in her new Pierce-Arrow car,
calling on personal friends, say the
affidavits, exhibiting her babv,
proudly to some, cautiously to 9TH
The name little Jay Leeds did
Register. despite the affluence and
friendship of Stillman. because Mrs.
Leeds was not of society.
Episode 2
In June, 1920. society was sud
denly startled by the publication of
answer to the other. A society jour
nal surrounded these letters with
question marks, and they were trac-
ed to the Stillman home.
Pinned down by a swarm Of re-
porters, Mrs. Stillman issued a state
ment in which she said simply that
both letters were hers and that they
had been stolen from a wall satl
in her room.
Immediately after the first two let
tiers had been published Stillman
started a secret action for divorce
against his talented wife. He denied
the paternity of Guy Stillman, and
named Beauvais as correspondent.
Thinking to avoid notoriety he left
the jurisdiction of New York city
courts and filed his complaint in the
obscure county of Westchester.
Mrs. Stillman Immediately brought
counter-suit naming Florence Leeds
as correspondent and saying official
ly in her answer that Mrs. Leeds is
the inamorata of my husband, and
her child. Jay, is my husbands
child"
Although astute attorneys for
Stillman succeeded in having the pa
pers sealed and filed in remote
Duchess county, reporters succeed
ed in finding the papers, studying
them and making their contents
| known.
The Stillmans Immediately parted.
| Mrs. Stillman succeeded in obtain
ing court order which compels her
husband to provide her with 100000
yearly alimony pending the trial of
her suit.
Mrs. Leeds hurried to Florida, &C.