The Washington times., 1921-03-23
SPHINX TALKS
BANKER
Quebec landIady Says She Got
100 "Siker Pieces" for Go. .
ing to New York.

GRAND ANSE, Quebec, March 90.
The silence maintained by the
ten travellers Of the Saint Maurice
who went to New York in Janu-
nary to tell the tales out of Quebec
on which James A., Stillman based
the complaint in his divorce suit
against Mrs. "Fifi" Potter is break
ing up like winter ice.
"sPHINx" TALKS.
Nine. Gregoire Guigere, the board
ing house Sphinx of twenty miles
downstream from here, tired of sec
recy yesterday and began a revela-
ton Of testimony she and others
gave by the simple defamation:
LA Fontaine. the station agent of
Grandes Piles, gave me q hundred
dollars and paid my expenses for what
told to Mr.. Stillman's New York
lawyerA"
For months II had been whispered
that La Fontaine had been the most
active of the Stillman. agents ON the
St Maurice in preparing the way for
the introduction Of the stories Of
local inhabitants into the New York
divorce suit
RUMOR IS TRUTH.
But Nine. Guigere's nat statement
was, for the river folk as well as the
reporter. the first definite assertion
that rumor was truth. Nine. Guigere
10 not pleased with La Fontaine, she
told me.
II knew he got 200 pieces. saw
him get them when we got to New
York. He took me to the office of
those gentlemen. the advocates, where
Il nj 80
pass him the 200 pieces for me. He
only gave me 100. All, Dieu miseri-
corde. have lost some few beautiful
pieces on this miserable affair. My
business Of the boarding house. which,
has come down to nothing. Who shall
pay me for that 100 pieces. Bahv''
What do you mean by pieces?" the
madame was asked.
"Pieces of silver dollars" she
answered.
Then you went to New York for
100 pieces of silver" we recapitu-
lated and asked. "And what was the
tale you told?''
Misery" spoke out the Madame
in answer. II told no tale at ALL
What did know? Nothing. A
thousand times, Monsieur La Fon-
taine, he came to me and he says,
you have seen here when Mrs. Still
man passed the night with her en-
tourage-her guide, and ail-this
Fred Beauvais.'
MY story l tell him, is no use to
Mr.. Stillman. But he insists"
NATIVES CLASH.
Madame Guigere gives the hrst in
dication that the partisans of Still
man and those of mrs. Stillman ard
about to have something definite to
fight about. She made q definite
statement of not only her own testi-
mony. but of that Of another woman
of La TuQue who testified in New
York. She refused her name
II was present when this woman
testified" she said. 'She told those
gentlemen. the advocates, that she
had accompanied her husband to the
Sti1lman estate last year when he
was hired to repair the roof there.
She claimed that she and her hus-
band went up the ladder which he
used one afternoon.
"The ladder was against the caves
just over a bedroom window Of the
house. And she said that she look ed
into the room as she was climbing up
and saw two persons in there, and
that a gown they recognized as part
Of Mrs. Stillman's wardrobe was lying
on the floor at the front Of the bed
She didn't tell who the two persons
were.
"That." said Madame Guigere with
shrug, "that Is the kind of stuff
some of the other witnesses told. But
l know, was SO foolish as to go to
New York to tell about Mrs Stillman,
which was something i know nothing
about, and lose much money. which is
somethin0 know much about"