The Washington times., 1921-05-17
BANKER GAVE
/ FLO FORTUNE.
Mrs. StiIIman's Detectives Find
Banks Where Her Husband
Kept Money for Mrs. Leeds.

L
NEW YORK, May l7.--Has Mrs
Florence Lawlor Leeds, named as Co.
respondent by Mrs. James A. Stiii-
man. received nearly one million
dollars from the recently resigneJ
president OF the National City bank
This is the question that tnvest:-
/ gators for Mrs. Stillmsn now are
trying to answer.
HEAR MRS. LEEDS BOAsTED.
Their information is that Mrs.
Leeds. who WAS Titian-haired
beauty In the chorus of the Century
had boasted to her friends that she
and fascinated Stillman, frequently
had bboasted to her friends that she
would get million"
The Information continues to the
effect that she nearly has reached
her mark"
Investigators for Mrs. Stillman
have learned OF two different banks
] in Manhattan in which 1t IL asserted
Stillman kept accounts for Mrs
Leeds. They also have been tracing
stories of the purchase OF various
motor cars of the most luxurious
sort.
| They are also investigating in
| formation that Mrs. Leeds was In
the Sloan Maternity Hospital ealry
| in November. 1919. for treatment
| The Information on which detcc-
tives are working continues to the
effect that Mrs. Leeds left the hos
pitaI on Thanksgiving eve. 1919.
and returned to her home at "a East
Eighty-sixth street. The private
hA. NJ hat xay1 he
Lenox sos.
JAY BORN IN 1918.
Jay Leeds. alleged to be the son
! of Stillman by Mrs. Leeds, II viii be
Remembered. was born In September,
l191s.
| Mrs. Stillman's detectives up to
| the present have been unable to find
| either Mrs. Leeds or her son. A
close friend of Mrs. Stillman said
yesterday:
"They certainly are keeping her
under cover. aren't they? II would
be surprising IL she couldn't be
found to be subpoened as witness
for Mrs. Stillman."
| Further Information received by
Mrs. Stillman--and much of II has
come from letters sent to. her and
her counsel by friends and those
who feel hostile to Mrs. Leeds and
to Stillman-is that Mrs. Leeds went
abroad last spring, without warning
| oven to her intimates. II Is said
she left young Jay with relatives.
| James s. Lawler. a plumber, OF
s35 sixth avenue. 1t will be re-
called, is the father of Mrs. Leeds.
| According to Mrs. Stillman's Q
friends, a photograph of Mrs. Leeds
for, long last winter was on exhibi-
tion in the show windows of q Fifth
avenue photographer.
| Still another woman. also a
plump blond. with a refined South
ern voice and manners" came into
the already muddled situation yes
terday.
| With the entrance Of the blond's
name came also stories of high life
in uptown apartments.
FORCED FROM HOME
The story is that the blonde South
ern beauty was so gay that she was
forced to relinquish her apartme mt
near Central Park and take holiday
in Easthampton, L. 1.
She is an entirely new figure in the
case so far as the public is concerned.
She is not one OF the ten women thus
| FAR mentioned as Deng either IN the
position of being named as correspond
ents by Mrs. Stiilman or of being in
vestigated by her detectives.
She is now said to be living in an
uptown apartment.
Mrs Stillman. Is was learned, Is
personally handling deal of the
sympathetic and helpful correspond
ence that is flowing to her daily from
all parts of this country and from
| abroad.
The letters that are being received
| by her and her lawyers have proved
one thing, IL nothing else. That is,
that mothers believe in her and are
extending to her their sympathy.
! Baby Guy. who is the most tragic
figure in the domestic night between
his mother and James A. Stillman, is
exercising to the utmost his recently
acquired vocabulary.
He is bright little chap and talks
volubly on most of the topics OF child
hood. 1t is sad fact. however, that
there is one word that he never uses
That is Father"