The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-06-11
Joyce W|NCESAS
HE'S PAINTED VAMP
ANDSTAGE JOHNNY
Loses Easy Calm and Smile as
Attorneys Rip Into
His Past.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, June ll-Jahes
Stanley Joyce. lumber prince. who
is fighting the demand of his pretty
wife, Peggy, for $4,000 a month
alimony. WINGED In court as he heard
himself referred TO as a he vamp
and stage-door Johnny"
He lost his easy. calm smile when
attorneys for his golden butterfly
wife ripped into his past and scored
his affair with Charlotte Johnson,
alleged affinity.
Before we are done with this
case we are going to paint Joyce
in his true colors," shouted Attor-
ney Weymouth Kirkland.
II tell you IL there were no Joyces
there wouldn't be any Charlotte
Johnsons or kept women. His at
torneys are going TO paint Peggy
Hopkins Joyce as black as they can.
But when they're trying to make
out charlatan, an adventures,
when they are picturing her as
vampire, as a siren, as an enchant-
ress of innocent young men, re-
member that when James Stanley
Joyce left the arms and caresses
of Charlotte Johnson to take up bis
new plaything he wasn't the poor
siHpietoH lie mas fcpi cSShNN' A'
self to be-"
ON BASIS OF s3.OOO,OOO FORTUNE.
The only consolation that Joyce
could possibly have gotten out of the
events in court was when Attorney
Kirkland stated he would not press
Peggy's demand for $4,000 month.
but would accept alimony on the
basis of Joyce's statement that his
personal fortune is only S3,O0O,OOO.
MY advice to this unsophisticated
business man." Kirkland went on,
who says he was robbed by his wife,
is that the next time he goes counting
he take his auditor with him"
In pleading for the 100000 suit ex-
penses and solicitors fees, kirkland
argued that Peggy has as much right
to prepare her case at Joyce's expense
as she did to bring suit.
"We are going to need more than
that 100000" he said. IL Is more
than has ever been allowed in any
divorce case in the United States. But
1t must be kept in mind that the
charges of misconduct in this case
are more elaborate than any other
case in the United States.
Joyce started this thing and he'll
have to finish IL. He has made
elaborate preparations. He has en-
ployed an army of spies and detec-
tives and subsidized bellhops, cham
bermaids and taxi drivers on both
sides of the Atlantic.
WITNESSES FROM EUROPE.
1--WE are entitled to spend an equal
amount of money TO prove false the
charges he brings. We have a right
10 locate Letillier. with whom Peggy
Is alleged to have taken a journey to
Venice. We are entitled to bring
over as witnesses the employees OF
hotels in which they are alleged to
have stopped. We are entitled to
locate Prince Vliora and ali the other
persons mentioned in his suit and
get all the witnesses we need at his
expense"
This was the irst intimation that
witnesses would be brought from
Europe when the divorce case is
heard in the fall. Pleading for the
alimony Kirkland said:
"She is entitled to enough money
to live as he taught her and as he
lives. She is paying 5000 a month
for a fiat in New York. He picked
out that fat for her. He cannot OBJ
ject to her living in 1t now at his
expense.
she is entitled to a maid. He
furnished her with one when they
were living together.
"She is entitled to a chauffeur He
has one.
"She is entitled to an automobile.
He has four.
she is entitled to live in the same
manner in which she lived with him,
and at his expense"
The case was continued until next
Wednesday. When II will be an
nounced whether Peggy will be
brought on the stand 80 that the
court may have a birds-eye view OF