The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-04-27
SIOKES WHIPPED
HER, WIFE SAYS
Cruelty Started Within
a Month After Wedding
She Testifies
CAN'T RECALL DATES
pnt Relates Numerous Incl
dents of Mistreatment at
Hands of Millionaire

vrW YORK, April 26.--Barcly a
Nth after her marriage to W T.
y stokes. elderly millionaire hotel
t,onor. February II, 1911. her hus-
s,,a struck her on several occasions.
T,s Helen Elwood Stokes testified
,,Aay in the continuation of her tes-
,,mony in the sensational divorce
,n,t Before she gave her testimony
- tho alleged Crueltics she suffered
=, her husbands 3 hands. her attor-
sev Martin Littleton, informed jus
.,e Finch that his client was about
"a o'fcr evidence In her counter suit
for divorce.
oMr stokes struck me on the head
and knocked me against a dresser"
N-s. stokes replied. when asked IL
no remembered an incident that oC-
,urred I'm March, 1911.
~ "Wc had an argument" continued
Mrs stokes, and as I stepped from
me bed he struck me. He had held
ne In bed several hours. not letting
mo move. had asked him IL he were
going TO pay for some clothes had
ordered and when | got up he rushed
toward me and struck me.
'Then he held me UP against the
maid came in and gave me a glass of
water,
"Mr. Stokes said he would teach
me who was boss in the family and
the quicker / learned the better il
would be for me"
Attorney Herbert c. Smythe, for
Mrs. Stokes, then asked Mrs. Stokes
Nshe remembered the date on which
L.. - a
rot place It definitely and then Mr..
;nythe suggested that It might be
A the diary she kept.
on another occasion a short time
later, stokes struck her again. Mrs.
Stokes testified. This was because
she objected TO her husbands broth
r Tom taking his meals with them,
she said.
She testified that her husband in
listed on having his brother dine
with them and when sho declared
that she would not cat with Tom
Stokes because OF his language, Mr..
Stokes struck her. He held her
against the wall until his brother
had finished his meal in their apart
ment at the Ansonia hotel, Mrs.
stokes testified.
DO you remember your husband
Ringing some one to your apart
nent?' asked Mr.. Littleton.
yes. He said he would get even
With me. He said he would Fix
ne. lie said he would bring a big
black negro into my room. This
'rightened me for months. Every
Rght before retired l would look
into closets and under the beds"
Mrs, Stokes was asked IL she re
called time when her husband
came home with acid burns on his
clothes She said she did and thai
stokes remarked that one of his for.
mer women friends had thrown Il
a. him because he had married her
In May. 1911. Mrs. Stokes said Al.
bert Gleason, attorney for Stokes
oameI 10 their apartment with hei
husband and asked her IL she haC
signed deed. She said she told hin
she had signed a paper her husba ne
mad asked her to. but she didn'
know what It was.
Mrs Stokes said that when sh,
asked her husband what the papel
was he told her he didn't have tim,
explain his business to women.
since then, Mrs. Stokes said, sh,
ad learned that she signed a deec
conveying her rights TO 40 per cen
oI New York realty to the Merwli
realty company, concern con
rolled by her husband. Mr.. Little
,on asked for the deed and Mr.
s'okes produced IL from his papers
was received In evidence.