The New York herald., 1921-04-08
.STLLMAN APPEAL
EXPECTED TO-DAY
Must Act at Once or Pay the
First Instalment on Ali
mony Award.
STAY MAY BE ASKED
Detectives Make Report Oh
Alleged Activities of
Banker.
COUNSEL MORE CONFIDENT
Lawyers for Bankers Wife
Plan New Attack OH Testi-
mony From Canada.
COUNSEL MORE CONFIDENT

Unless James A. Stillman's lawyers
file with the clerk of the Appellate Di-
vision to-day notice of their decision
to appeal from Justice Morschauser's
ruling the banker will have to pay
Mrs. Stillnan SIS, ,000-two months ali
mony-b before tomorrow morning, be-
sides sl5,s33.33, which is one-third of
the com bined counsel fees and eX-
penses allowed by the Justice. Three
days were allowed the banker in which
10 make these first instalments and
the time expires tonight. Notice of
appeal, however, will include de-
nand for a stay OF payment.
However, Delaney Nicoll and Cor
neiius j. Sullivan are not optimistic
over their clients case. From trust
worthy source yesterday it became
known that Mrs. Stillman's detectives
have discovered that Mr.. Stillman had
been known under names other than
Franklin H. Leeds. The detectives re-
port that Mr.. Stillman did not take the
trouble to manufacture a new name
for himself but had other names thrust
upon him.
They report that he was known as
Mr.. Leeds at Ga East Eighty-sixth street
chiefly because Florence I.awlor Leeds
let 1t be known that he was Mr.. Leeds.
But. according to the detectives he was
known by another name when in the
company of the second woman to be
named by Mrs. Stillman. And the re-
port goes on to the effect that other
persons were found who knew Mr.. Still
man by another name. The promised
affidavits it is said will set forth the
allegation that Mr.. stillman was known
to a select few as the husband of two
other women besides Florence Leeds.
The names OF the other women have
not yet been fled with the court
While representatives OF the banker
have become more reticent than ever
regarding his side OF the case, reports
from other sources ind icate that II Is
becoming moro apparent to everybody
except Mr.. Stillman that his case suf-
fered a blow when Justice Morschauser
ruled out Mrs. Stillman's so-called
hysterical letter.
Mrs. Stillman's lawyers. it is under
stood. propose to demonstrate by photo
graphs, architects sketches and by the
Z v
with the Stillman camp In Quebec that
such are the physical conditions. the
arrangements of furniture and contour
Of walls that II would have been i'm
possible for any one 10 see through
windows or keyhoies those things some
of the Canadian witnesses declared they
saw
Briefly. there is a growing confidence
on the part of Mrs. Stllman's lawyers
that the banker has no chance OF prov
ing his contentious, and that Il will
be smooth sailing for Mrs. Stillman
when. vindicated OF her husband =
charges, she asks the courts for a d.
vorce. This. It is understood, is her
programme.
One of the strangest anecdotes yet
charged to the Stlllman case has to
do with the meeting OF two ilouseman
who may be produced as Witnesses by
Mrs. Stilman's lawyers. The rlen We're
supposed 70 be engaged in an exchange
of pleasantries on Central Park West
An open automobile occupied by man
passed.
one OF the men who was then en-
ployed in the Stillman town house.
How do you get that way?" scoffed
the other. That's my boss. Mr.. -"
Lay off," replied the first man. "I've
been in the Stillman house two years
and ought to know James a. Stil,man."
You may know James A. Stillman."
insisted the second. but I've been
houseman for Mrs. for three months
and ought to know her husband"