The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-04-05
INDIAN CHIEFS IN STILLMAN
 DIVORCE

New York, April 5.-From the hand of the Sky-blue Water have come six ''witnesses'' to testify against the character of the wife of Wall Street banker.
 Six "witnesses' from the tribe of Tive Nations" as the far-famed Iroq1cis tribe is known, once held al!
 Arrcrfca. from the Atlantic to the PaisIc, in a slate of terror. Si,apLe days in America years of l pioneers, cf wars and explorations, Of
 trail blazing and nation building But the redman paid court to the .palosace- Races and tribes tntersnac- rzsS.. French and English beat back tne s~sas of the arrow makers on to Er-Hr1s5onS.
 given way to the white mans God Ar-d a*.zne Of his lesser gods And the Mighty of this day and in
 our city have given way to the | F1tSIty-hence the Stilln1an case. The StiIlman Case. h his desire to free himself from | uaaIitsd bonds James H. SdIln1an, president of the National City Bank, I'otideT StiFlu1an, of taking an Indian lover and has charged her son Guy with illegftin2acy.
 | To bear out his charges the banker | is said to have brought from the North woods a half dozen Indians who arc expected to swear away his |
 The legal battle will be a fierce one | on both sides
 Clodihality of witnesses will be | questioned and every effort will be and defendant to discredit testimony. Imposing lists of legal talent will | be arrayed on each side in the Still l man fight
 The banker-miIlionaire will not | need to spare expenses to defend him. self and to blacken the character of l the woman who bears his name. | What of the credibility of the half l breed witnesses brought to New York | City from the wilds at the bankers | expense?
 | 'sIroquois,' Delancey Nicon. one of
 tho bankers advisers, describes them | Whether or not the lawyer was
 pleased to be facetious is not known
 The ql1cstion of the Indian witnesses
 The s'Ffve Nasions'' The Iroquois, or the Five Ma
 tions," made up of the Mohawk. One
 ida, Onondaga7 Cayuga and Seneca | tribes once Toamed about North America bold mauraun7ers, terrorizing
 other tribes and races
 We of the long house. and 'rea1
 people" are translaions of Indian phrases that expressed the tribes | opinion of itself. Known as a
 !nnghty and imperious people, the
 nation. settled all domestic difficulties
 and were anxious to have @ state Of tranquility maintained.
 | They also prescribed the future | conduct of warning families within | tribes, according to Parkman, the hist brian.
 | Iroquois language is rich in beau
 tifuI metaphor and their lore abounds
 in "delicate aIlusions,'' according to
 the same authority
 After the coming of the tribe of
 the Tuscarora nation the Iroquois
 were called by some the SiX Ma tions," but the earlier name is better | known.
 That the mixed descendants of the 1 once mighty tribe have lessened In | ferocity is evident when they can be | coaxed to come to so-ca1led c'viliza-
 ton to testify against white wo-
 mans character.
 | Hiawaitha sang:
 | ''In the thickets and the meadows l Piped the b1uebird the Owaissa'-
 And James H. StiIlrnan. metropoh- tan banker, will seek to prove that
 his wife, in company with Fred Beauvais. guide of the wilds, found
 the bluebird of happiness in those woods where hide the heron, the wild goose and the loon- 'aCleaa,ed the tangled pathway for her Bent aside the swinging branches Sophisticated residents of the
 North, where Mrs Stillman passed periods of rest and recreation, de clare there is nothing unusual about a woman accepting the company and ) protection of guide through the fastnesses of thsir forests '.Al1 the travelling winds went with } Ger the meadow, through the for , But what story will the pro-Still- man witnesses relate. what opinions will those simple and perhaps there l fore, unduly suspicious hadforeeds