New-York tribune., 1921-03-16
New Negligee
Scene Pictured
At Stokes Trial
Woman Advertising Agent
Says She Saw Wife and
Oil Man in Apartment
in Most Scanty Attire
Witness Anglers Littleton
Tells Judge He Never Saw
in Court of Justice Such
''Unblushing Impudence"

Mrs. Genevieve La Croix de Anauinas
an advertising agent, of Bayside. L. L..
was a voluble witness yesterday at
;he trial, in the Supreme Court, of the
divorce suit brought by w. f. D.
Stokes against Mrs Helen Elwood
Stokes. Her tale of what she knew
about the alleged affair between Mrs.
stokes and Edgar T. Wallace. a Cali
fornia oil man. led her into arguments
with Martin w. Littlcton. counsel for
Mrs Stokes, who at one point asked
the witness; You are very saucy.
aren't you. little miss ?"
Addressing Justice Finch, Mr.. Little
ION added: Il have never seen in a
court Of justice such unblushing i'm
pudence on the witness stand"
Mrs de Anquinas, like Mrs. Mabel
Natteossan. who also gave testimony
in favor Of the millionaire plaintiff.
lived al Is East Thirty-ffth Street.
where Mr.. Wallace also had an apart
ment. She told Of some things she
said she observed there in the latter
par. Of 1914.
Says Mrs. Stokes Screamed
On December, shortly before Christ
mss, said the witness, Mr.. Wallace
called up our apartment on the tele-
phone and asked to see Miss DAILY. a
dog fancier, TO whom we had rented
the rear Of our apartment. He wanted
to speak 70 her about a dog she had
and which he wanted to purchase Miss
DAILY was not III, so took the dog and
went downstairs with it. In Mr.. Wal
laces apartment | saw Clarence Nc
CormscA drinking Haig & Haig. saw
10 one else. so | went into the front
room and waited with the dog, till all
at once Mrs. Stokes came forth from
doorway in an undergarment and
Wallace in an uudershirt. Mrs. Stokes
saw me, screamed and ran back into
the room | said, I gIess I'm not
wanted here and went Upstairs
Mrs pe Anquinas said she knew Mrs.
stokes by sight having first seen her
in 1911. She said she had seen the
defendant II the company of Mr.. Wal
ace more times than she could remem-
De~ The places she had seen the two to-
sether she said. were the Waldorf
Astoria. Hotel Maryland and the Hotel
Nassau. at Long Beach
Mrs De AnGuinas testified she first
net Mrs Stokes in 1911 in Peacock
Alley. in the Y WaldorfAstoria. The de
.endan' was introduced to her by Mss
Gladys Dale as Miss Wood. Mrs Stokes
was not Net married at that time. and
her maiden name was Elwood. Under
cross-exafni nation. the witness said She
say Miss Elvood, Miss Dale. Mr.. Nc
Cormack and MIR. Wallace ia d taxicab
in front Of ne Icte Maryland in Janu-
arr. leii Nr. littleton suggested that
perha.s MS De Anquinas wanted to
correct her earlier testimony. 20 which
she replied that she did not.
"TheA yoU want 1t To stand as d mis-
take ."
nbIrshiGs Empudence"
I'm telling the truth" said Mrs. De
Anqulnas with some asperity. If |
make mlstaEe when I'm telling the
truth I cant help it,. You've said q lot
Of things Nj 1T ercu, ard contradict
ed yolrseli. ! ou said Yesterday youwere
going TO get OF this case. but you
didn {. II you change YOUR mind,
guess ! can change mine
Ii was al this point that Nh Littleton
commented ON ths "unblushing impu-
cence' Of the witness.
Mrs De AnQuinas said she first called
gpon NJ Stokes I'm April. 1919. after a
detective had called at her home and
atter Mr. 81 kes called at her home in
8ayside She denied that MIR Stokes
mad compensated her for going TO New
f+oAN ~ -A.AtA ( - tAd4O WHO ndQ
worked for ner and also for Mr.. Wal
ace, but admitted that the plaintiff
mad paid her expenses.
Z. n. Matteossan, an Armenian, who
S a draughtsman in the employ of Cass
hilbert. corroborated the testimony of
MS wife, gwen on Monday, to the ex-
tent that he had seen Mrs. Stokes ar
ranging her hair at dresser near the
window Of Mr.. Wallace's apartment,
and that Mr.. Wallace pulled down the
shade
Mrs. Mabel Matteossian, wife of the
afaughtsmsu. who was taken to Mr..
Stokes by Mrs De Anquinas that she
might tell her story, was cross-examined
Yesterday by MIR. Littleton. He asked
ner many questions about her first mar
rage aud the death OF her first hus-
noand, W. j. Reilly. She became con-
used, and contradicted herself. Also
she was unable to remember what year
sne lived in Chicago.
Counsel for Mr. Stokes announced
yesterday that they had eliminated
clifford Moore from the case. He was
One OF several men mentioned by the
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