The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-04-26
STOKES
READS DIARY
Little Black Book Refutes Hus.
bands Charges Of InfideIity.
Declares He Starved Her.

NEW YORK, April 26.-Mrs.
Helen Elwood Stokes was on the
witness stand all yesterday in the
trial of the suit for divorce brought
by William Earl Dodge Stokes
against her. 49,
Yet the young wife was not the
chief witness for the defense. For
she summoned to her side, as she
estified, the figures of her children,
Jimmy, the first born, now six
years, and Red Top, who is Mural,
a year younger.
STORY UNCANNY.
The mothers was the only voice
heard in answer TO the long series of
accusations made against her. But
the unseen presence of the children
was felt as she told her story. in a
manner that approached uncanniness.
You knew. as she talk ed, that the
babies were in Denver. 1000 miles
away, and still
Martin Littleton. her counsel.
prosaic and practical, doomed:
women from No. 13 East Thirty
nth street have sworn in this court
that, in May or June of 1914, they
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,.ss 80 hai,a,.a on, ~,
answered slowly:
| why. Jimmy. my boy, my hrst
baby. was born in Denver in Septem-
Der of that year. Don't you under
stand"--
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d.ning ch..
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never in thai house in NV life. nv
baby was coming at that date--don't
you understand--
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thick, black book, bound in pebbl ed
leather, with gilt edges As she took
il Herbert C. Smyth, of counsel for
Stokes. flung an objection across tn,
table. Littleton stopped IL before tho
court could rule. They wrangled over
the technicaiities Of the law. The
skirmish ended with the book open on
Mrs. Stokes knee and Justice Finch
ruling in her favor Then, futterins
the pages. Mrs. Stokes met the accu-
sat ion fairly:
"In May or June, 1914? recall
now left New York with Mr.
Stokes that month for his farm in
Lexington. Ky. was in delicate
condition then. had been very i'll
I can only tell you that before
left i lived very quietly. All this
time I was having my baby / was
ILL., and for a long time after it."
But Littleton, inexorable in the de-
termination to meet every detail OF
the charge, went through the entire
month of May, day by day. The
diary began that month with many
entries each day. mostly trivial
written in a Arm hand But as tn.
month progressed they were fewer
and the handwriting wavered.
ShiS NE STARVED HEN.
The entries were almost monoton-
Gus. dealing with the visits OF