Arizona republican., 1921-04-07
EPISODE 6

Winter came and passed. and 1918 found Stillman engaged in balE-~< battle to attain the presidency of tfez institution. then held by Frank Van ' derlip.
 Suddenly Vanderlip resigned with out giving a reason, and Suliman was immediately named as president of the National City bank. The chair manship of the board of directors, the only position that rfvaled the presidency, was left open. Stillman won 1t.
 It was commented on at the birth of Guy Stillman that his name had not been given a place in the Social Register and that when Stiliman was asked by that publication to attest. by his signature that the boy was his child, he refused to do so. offering no explanation.
 Mrs Leeds however. rode out daily in her new Pierce Arrow car, calling on personal friends, say the affi- davits, exhibiting her baby, proudly to some, cautiously to others. The name of little Jay Leeds did not of course, reach the Social Reg ister, despite the affluence and friendship of Stillman, because Mrs. Leeds was not of society. EPISODE In June. 1920, society was suddenly startled by the publication Of two anonymous letters one beIng an an swer to the other A society journal I surrounded these letters with ques- | ton marks, and they were traced to | the Stillnan home.
 Pinned down by swarm of report CTS, Mrs. Stillman issued statement
 in which she said simply that both letters were hers and that they nao been stolen from a wall safe in her room.
 | Immediately after the first two let ters had been published. Stillman started a secret action for divorce against his talented wife. He denied
 the paternity of Guy Stillman, and | named Beauvais as correspondent. i Thinking to avoid notoriety, he left | the Jurisdiction of New York city
 courts and filed his complaint in the obscure county of WestcheSter.
 Mrs. Stillman immediately brought l counter suit, naming Florence Leeds as correspondent and saying official
 ly in her answer that Mrs. Leeds | is the inamorata of my huScand, ana her child. Jay, is my husbands child Although astute attorneys for Still man succeeded in having the papers
 sealed and filed in remote Dutchess county, reporters succeeded in lind ing the papers, studying them and making their contents known.
 
 Mrs. Stillman succeeded in obtaining
 court order which compels her hus-
 band to provide her with s6o,0o0
 yearly alimony. pending the trial or her suit.
 Il Mrs. Leeds has hurried to Florida, ! accompanied by her maids. Jap serv- ants. four automobiles. doctor. a : : nurse and three lawyers. Eff" Potter Stillman has secluded herself at Lakewood. N. J., and has with her the three children-Guy. AL } exander and Anne-The two latter ? children have turned against their
 father, and are prociaiming gleir loy- ' alty to their talented mother. : Stillman remains at the Union n League club.
 : The palatiai steam yacht, Modesty : owned by Stillman, has dropped an . chor in the Bay of Biseayne. just of s Miami Fla, and active preparations
 are being made to equip her for ( e long cruise.
 nj Meanwhile, Mrs. Leeds occupies thu e Cleveland villa. a palatiai mansion e adjoining the F'lamingo hotel, a ' Miami. and is guarded night and da,
 by private detectives.