New-York tribune., 1921-05-31
sfilInlarl Suit
Adjournment
Asked To-day
s.uyss Guardian TO Request
Date Next Week Be Set;
Referees Hearing May Be
Postponed for Ii Days
gumors of Peace Subside
U;fe's Attorneys Confident
of Outcome Without Call.
ing ON Beauvais to Testify

I,sn T. Mack, of Poughkeepsie,
~r,raIan ad Item for baby Guy Still
~. will to-day ask Referee Daniel J.
glsason to grant further adjourn
rest of the hearings in the divorce
,r;t Of James A. Stillman against Mrs.
Anne Urouhart Potter Stillman until
,ext week. Any day except Monday
q said to Be agreeable to Mr.. Mack.
wr. Mack announced last night that
Ss would be unable to be present in
sourt tomorrow and Thursday. when
tbe case was set for hearing, and that
4 would be necessary to ask a further
adjournment. He said he had not
heard from Cornelius Sullivan, of
eounsel for Mr. Stillman. 1t is un-
serstood he will hear from Mr.. Sulli-
van to-day and that a date will be
agreed upon. The adjournment was
sxpected to be for ten days, but this
would make the new date fall on Sun
iay, so a fourteen day postponement
may be accepted.
William Rand, of Mr.. Stillman's
counsel. refused to talk regarding an
adjournment. but it was said that he
would not depart from the custom of
agreeing to an adjournment if any one
LAWYER in the case found delay neces-
sary.
Peace Negotiations Ended
Mr.. Mack said that so far as he knew
All peace negotiations were at an end.
r there we're any further efforts being
made to bring about settlement they
were family affairs of which he would
.save no knowledge.
George Coggill, Of counsel for Mrs,
stilln,an, said that he had been enjoy
ing three day vacation and had been
playing golf.
When Mr.. Mack was asked if he knew
she whereabouts of Mrs. Florence Law
lor Leeds. who has been mentioned by
Mrs. Stillman in her reply, he said he
hsd no such knowledge.
It has been reported that Mrs. Leeds,
IL a luxurious touring cat, has made
visits to New York and had been seen
abeut Broadway. where she once ap-
peared as chorus girl. She Is known
70 have been sojourning in q city near
New York.
Mrs. Leeds will be called as a wit
ness. So will James A. Stillman. They
viii be questioned regarding their
alleged relations. 1t may be months,
however, before Mrs Stillman's de-
tense in the case is reached and before
any Of her witnesses ase heard.
If the case IS not settled out of court
the first witness to be called at the
rsOpening OF hearings will be Hugh
Russell, the Buffalo osteopath who tes-
tiled that Mrs. Stillman told him Fred
5eauvais, Indian guide, was the father
o. her unborn child He will complete
the direct examination conducted by
outerbridge Horsey and Mr. Rand,
after which John B. Stanchfeld and
Abel l. Smith will cross examine him.
Eager to Appear
Fred Beauvais, it was said yesterday
Is anxious to come to New York and
testify for Mrs. Stillman. 1t was de-
c!ared that he is prepared to swear that
the letters he is alleged to have writ
zen TO Mrs. Stillman were forged by ar
enemy, a man who lives in city ir
New York State near the Canadian
Boundary
Attorneys for Mrs. Stillman are not
as, it is said. they do not believe his
Mack insists he has conclusive proof
Of Guys legitimacy.
Arthur Beauvais, Montreal lumber
man and brother of Fred Beauvais, will
attend the hearings He is interpre-
Ter for the defense in the cross-exami-
nation of all French Canadian wit,
nasses