Omaha daily bee., 1921-05-06
Physician
.TakesStand
.ForStillnlall
Secrets of Hyslerical Woman
Related by Buffalo Doctor
In Divorce Trial of
Banker.
Letters Also Admitted
| By A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
Chicago Tribune -Omuhn Bee Leased Wire.

Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire
New York, May 5.-Secrets of q
hystcrical woman confessed TO her
family physician, were used agains,
Mrs. "Fih' Stillman today in the
divorce hearing OF the suit OF James
A. Stilman.
DR.. Hugh Russell OF Buffalo
physician for the Stillman family
and the Rockeiellers, related that
Mrs. Stillman told him Fred
Beauvais, the Canadian Indian guide,
was the father OF the then unborn
Guy Stillman.
DR.. Russell told = Stillman visit
ing Mrs. Stillman at Buffalo hotel
while she was under his treatment,
when DR.. Russell and Mrs. Still
man consulted about her admission
that the child to be bern in about
six months was not Stillman's, but
the child OF the Indian guide.
Stillman's visit to DR.. Russell and
Mrs. Stilman evidently was the re-
suit of Mrs, Stillman's "hysterical"
letter to Stillman.
Letter Admitted.
Another setback was suffered by
Mrs. Stillnan's defense when Ref
cree Gleason allowed exhibit "B" of
the Beauvais letters to Mrs. Still
man to be introduced in evidence and
become part Of the record The ''B"
letter Fegins, Dear Honey" and
contains endearings phrases.
The other letters from Beauvais to
Mrs. Stillman have not yet been adj
mitted to the record Mrs. Still
man heard the accusing testimony by
her family physician. She is said
to have shown no emotion during the
recital.
For hours her attorneys resisted
with every legal weapon at their
command, the plans of Stillman's
lawyers to have DR.. Russell bare the
professional secrets.
Referee Gleason finally ruled that
DR.. Russell could testify because of
a clause in the state code providing
a doctor can give information not
necessary to treatment of a case.
Dr.. Russell is an osteopath and
the rich Of New York state are
among his clients. He
testified that he was called into the
Stillman family to attend Mrs. Still
man about five years ago. and that
in April of 1918 Mrs, Stillman came
In his offices II, Buffalo.
Reluctant to Testify.
1t was there that Mrs. Stillman
told him. according TO the physician,
that Stillinan was not the father OF
her child.
In Buffalo, Mrs. Stillman stopped
at the Iroquois hotel. 1t was on
the second visit that Mrs. Stillman
made the statement involving the
legitimacy of her child, according 10
DR.. Russell.
The alleged confession was
brought out in the divorce hearing
during the direct examination OF
DR.. Russell. He was reluctant, ap-
parcntly, to testify. He was pinned
down to the legitimacy issue by the
point blank question by one OF the
Stillman attorneys.
DR.. Russell explained that Mrs.
Stillman was in hysterlcal nervous
condition at the time.
Mrs. Stillman stayed at the lro-
quois hotel several days. Mr.. Still
man appeared one day at the hotel
and met DR.. Russell and Mrs. Still
man. it is said, evidently in response
10 Mrs. Stillman's so-called "hysterl-
car letter to Mr.. Stillman. This
letter has been barred from the court
records as privileged communlca-
ton between husband and wife.
DIR. and Mrs. Russell and Mr.. and
Mrs. Stillman made trip to Niagara
Falls during that visit of Mr.. Still
man. :.
Charles r. Kellar, clerk at the
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