The Washington times., 1921-06-25
Fiji IS DAD
APPEALS To
ST|LLMAN
James Brown Potter, In Letter,
Urges Banker to QUIT
Divorce Action.

NEW YORK, June zo.-Wnat
James Brown Potter, father Of
Mrs. Anne Urquhart Stillman,
thinks Of James A. Stillman's
prosecution of his divorce suit was
revealed in letter from Mr..
Potter to the banker.
The letter was written from
Paris on March IL, when Mrs.
Stillman's father first learned Of
the proceedings through press re-
ports.
DEFENDS HIS DAUGHTER.
Amusement. indignation and an
ardent desire to bring about an Inn
mediate reconciliation are shown N
tho letter. Above all. Mr.. Potter
makes 1t plain that he is absolutely
convinced that Mrs. Stiliman Is in
nocent of eevry charge brought
against her by the financier.
The letter, which was addressed to
Stillman at the National City Bank.
of which he was then president, says
In part:
"Dear Jim: For must. as you are
the father Of my four grandchildren.
still address you so in their and my
daughters and your own interests,
rather than formally as Dear Sir,
for the object of this letter, which
t.is intended as an appeal to. you to
act only from your own better ma
ture, of which you have an abund-
ance, rather than from the less wise,
less forebearing. less just, less gem
: erous, less considerat sid, which. un-
\ happily, W all possess,
"The statement regarding happen
I ings in the Quebec camp Is SO OBJ
viousIy baseless and unjust that 1
cannot believe 1t is correctly re-
ported In the press. You must under
stand that know my daughters
character intimately, having been ef-
/ fectively both father and mother to
her for many years.
IT appeal to you as a true gentle
man to restrain your lawyers from
I any such ungenerous insinuations
with respect to the wife wro nursed
| you through your latest serious ILL
ness and who is the mother of your
children.
II am. most sincerely.
JAMES BROWN POTTER"
HOW SHE CAUGHT BANKER.
How Mrs. stillman nrst learned of
Mrs. Leeds was revealed today by
the divorce suit.
! The discovery came about by a
telephone call from Stiilman's sec
retary. who spoke about trip TO
Atlantic City, for which she had
engaged o room with twin beds In
VI hotel there for her employer.
Mrs. Leeds entry into the picture
came in March. 1920. before Stiuman
had started his divorce action. and
followed the return from abroad of
Mrs. Stillman.
bered, was served with the papers
in the present action on July 8, 1920,
In her stateroom in the Olympic, an
hour before sailing time.
In March, 1920, the informant said.
Mr.. Stfllman's secretary called Mrs.
stiilman on the telephone at their
town house.
SECRETARY SPILLS BEANS.
During the conversation, which
was over some family matter, the
secretary is quoted with having said:
did you enjoy your "trip to At
lantic City. Mrs. Stillman7"
The bankers wife asked:
what trip to Atlantic City7"
The secretary is reported to have
then said:
why the trip you made with Mr..
stillman last week. You know he had
me engage rooms by telephone. He
was most emphatic in his orders. He
said that he wanted a room with twin
beds. overlooking the ocean, and that
|Eou would go with him. When he
came back he said that both you and
The had enjoyed yourselves very
|ymuch."
This was the hrst intimation to
Mrs. Stillman that there was another
woman in her husbands life-a
woman who was posing as his wife"
She at once engaged detectives, and
Peoon found out about the love nests In
New York and Miami.
Then came the break with her hus-
band. and she sailed for Europe with
her children.