The Washington times., 1921-05-09
FITS SECRET
Love IS Barred
Bankers Wife, In Letter, Admits
Fired Has Come
Into Life"

CONTINUED from, First Page.)
that became public today there 10
nothing to substantiate that charge.
The nrst part of the .fhysteria"
letter IL said to be q description Of
Mrs. stilIman's mental and pnysica1
condition at the time of writing. as
Respondent and run down, with her
mood bordering on deep despond-
ency.
Meanwhile Mrs. Stillman's attor-
neys forged ahead today with the re-
arrangement Of their plans. deemed
necessary by them as result of
the tactics Of the opposing side.
Abel I. Smith, one OF her lawyers
and Norman Fitzsimmons, head of
a private detective agency. prepared
to leave tomorrow for Canada to
take the dispositions OF about nifty
witnesses said to be ready to testify
on behalf of Mrs. StiIlman.
One Of these witnesses, woman.
is said to be ready to swear that one
Of the ladder and keyhole" wit
nesses for Stillman had conf1ded to
her he had received $500 about the
time he was examined. Other charges
of money payments TO witnesses for
the banker were limited at by Mrs.
Stillmans counsel.
Counsel for Mrs. Stillman began to-
day to rearrange their entire plans in
the counter-suit against the divorce
aire ex-president of the National City
Bank.
They admitted that the revelations
OF alleged condolences between Mrs.
StiIlman and her former physician
and the publication of alleged ardent
love notes to her from Beauvais has
forced them to undertake a new
deal"
sTILLMAN CHILDREN IN CASE.
In the reshuffling Of the legal cards
two of the Stillmap children, James
A, jr. seventeen, and Anne. nineteen,
doomed as "aces." Both, IL was an
nounced, will testify in behalf OF
| their mother.
Moreover, at least forty men and
| women prominent in society circles
of New York, Newport, Paris and
London are expected to render testi-
| mony for her.
The original desire of Mrs. stillpan
and her counsel was to spare her
children and her society friends the
ordeal Of testifying in a divorce
| scandal. but, chatting under last
weeks disclosures" which they de-
nounce as malicious fabrications, they
| declared themselves ready today to
| drop all bars and introduce every
scrap of evidence at their disposal TO
controvert the exbanker's charges,
''let the chips fall where they may"
Desertion of Stillman's cause by
many of his important prospective
witnesses was given today as the
reason for the delay in resuming the
hearings. the case having been post
poned until May 10.
Not only have many OF these wit
nesses disappeared. it was reported,
but others, who originally proposed
declared they will not do so. while
some of those who have already tes-
| tined said they will repudiate the
stories they have told.
These wholesale assertions were
ascribed to general revulsion OF feel
ing caused by Stillman's attack on
the legitimacy OF little Guy.
The list Of witnesses for Mrs. Still
man is reported to have proportion
ately increased.
One trump card which Mrs. Still
mans counsel expect to produce when
the hearings before the referee are
resumed will be refutstion of the tes-
timony of George Adams. one OF the
l"Peeping Tom" witnesses for Still
man, who has sworn that through a
hole in a window curtain he saw
everything that went on in Mrs. Still
mans bed chamber in the cottage al
Grand Anse, Canada, for thirteen con-
secutive days.