New-York tribune., 1921-05-30
Delay
Is Forecast lin
Stilll1lall Suit
Guys Guardian Expected TO
Ask Adjournment Until
Other Work Is Finished;
Russell Not Summoned
Peace Negotiations Go On
Mrs. Percy Rockefeller Said
To BE Still Hopeful of
Settlement Without Trial

Every indication last night was that
another adjournment would be taken
in the divorce suit of James A. Still
man, finaucier, against Mrs. Anne Urqu'
hart Potter Stillman, The case which
is set for hearings Wednesday and
Thursday in Poughkeepsie is expected
to be postponed for two weeks. The
continuance TINS time, it is under
stood, will be requested of Referee
Daniel J. Gleason by John E. Mack,
guardian ad litem for baby Guy Still
man, whose birth is the principal issue
in the whole controversy.
Mr.. Mack, it was said, would ask for
adjournment on the ground that he
would be unable to be in court on the
dates named, as he has urgent business
elsewhere.
An authority who has recently been
in Poughkeepsie said that Mr.. Mack
telephoned George Coggill, of the law
firm of Calwalader, Wickersham g. Taft,
night and told him that he desired a
continuance. Mr., Mack is said to have
asked Mr.. Coggill to treat with Cor
nelius Sullivan, of the law firm of
Nicoll, Anable, RULER g. Sullivan, of
counsel for Mr.. Stillman, and ask him
to agree to further adjournment.
Suggests Personal Negotiation
The Poughkeepsie authority quoted
Mr.. Coggill as advising Mr. Mack to
treat personally with Mr.. Sullivan on
the telephone. just what came of Mr..
Mack's wire conference with Mr.. Suly
livan was not revealed, as Mr.. Sullivan
was moving into town yesterday from
the Garden City Hotel to the Univei-
sity Club and could not be reached
Another strong indication that the
case would not come up for hearing
Wednesday was the fact that Hugh
Russell, the Buffalo osteopath, had not
been notified to appear to give further
testimony. Russell was on the stand
when the hearing adjourned, and had
testified that Mrs. Stillman told him
that Fred Beauvais, Indian guide,
named by Mr.. Stillman as correspond
ent, was the father of her unborn
child, now Guy Stillman.
Russell did not finish his direct tes-
timony, and would be the first witness
called upon reopening Of the case. The
fact that he had not been notified to
appear last night, and that no reserva-
tions had been made for witnesses and
attorneys in Poughkeepsie hotels. was
taken to mean that the action would
go over, for q while at least.
Percy A. Rockefeller, urged by his
wife, sister of James A. Stillman and
the original peacemaker in the case,
was preparing last night to renew peace
parleys. The family, it was said, would
exert every effort to bring about set
tlement.
Anne Remains Fathers Friend
1t is known that Miss Anne Stillman.
oldest child of the Stillmans and now
nineteen years old, has been on friendly
terms with her father since the divorce
suit was filed. While the younger chill
dren have been with their mother, Anne
has shown her strong affection for her
father on many occasions. She is said
to desire settlement without further
court proceedings.
Harold T. Mccormick jr, of Chi
cago, chum of the Stillman children.
has been much with them of late, and
IS said to have attended the peace con-
ferences.
Mr.. Stillman is known to have been
angered by the report that his wife
was considering offers to appear in
motion pictures and that she was not
greatly affected by publicity. The
truth is her friends say, that Mrs.
Ssillman has determined to establish
the legitimacy of Guy regardless of
publicity and is ready to make her own
living If ever called upon TO do so.
Many persons interested in the case.
among them Mrs. Stillmans attorneys
are known to have received the motion
picture report as a joke. Mr.. Still
man. however, took it seriously, and it
IS said to have had much to do with
blocking the peace moves