The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-03-14
GATES LOCKED
AGAINST F|F|'
StiIIman Bars Wife From Coun-
try Estate-Met Her Apollo
There, Suit Asserts.

NEW YORK, March 14.-Mrs.
Anne Urquhart Stillman, with her
youngest child, Guy, is barred from
the great Stillman country home
near Pocantico Hills. where the
three other Stillman children. whose
rights of inheritance in the great
Stillman estate are not questioned
in the recently instituted divorce
proceedings Of James A. Stillman,
are living under strict watch.
GATES ARE PADLOCKED.
Mrs. stillman. and little Guy went to
Lakeside two months ago. when the
situation in the household reached
the breaking point Double padlocks
hold the great. iron-barred gate to
the estate. Men who are stationed
in the stables across the way from
the gate and within the interior keep
constant watch on all who come and
go.
"Mordenne." the Stillman country
place, is as q city under siege con-
ditions and 1t Is said that even
visit the old home she would not
he permitted to enter the grounds.
And 1t was her home for years.
There 1t was. according to the charge
Of Stillman, that she received visits
from Fred Beauvais. the Apollo"
of the Canadian forests. when ne
went from his weeks work in New
York to pass the week-ends far
from the city's hum.
Only employees who are loyal 20
the master of the house, say those
about the place. are continued in
service on the estate. There was
a vague rumor yesterday that the
divorce suit might be dropped oe-
cause OF the great publicity that
had come, but II seemed to have no
foundation other than the fact that
counsel for the head of the Ma
tional City Bank were not ready 10
appear Saturday for hearing when
the Supreme Court at Poughkeepsie
waited for their coming.
HANDSOME .STAGE sETTING..
"Mordenne," the handsome prop
erty from which the former mis-
tress IL kept by the husband who Is
suing her for divorce, is to be the
stage setting for much of the action
OF the divorce play which will he
staged when the court takes up the
issue.
Many giant trees shade the pretty
house which forms the chief attrac-
ton of the big place. The country
mansion lies on a hillside. and 1t Is
just out of sight of the public road. a
divide forms the natural topographi-
cal separation from the enormous
property which makes mp the country
| seat Of John ID. Rockefeller.
At one time, SO the charges assert,
Mrs. Stillnan established Beauvcis as
superintendent of the estate. often,
also says the contention on the hus-
bands part, the Stillman limousine,
with Mrs. Stillman and Besuvais as
passengers, went through the shaded
avenues on the way to long rides.
During the two years in which Mr..
and Mrs. Stillman have lived apart she
has made her home at "Mordenne."
Only two months ago she departed for
Lakeside. Then the three children
who first came to the Stillman home
were left behind the barred ard lock-
ed gates. Only little Guy. whose legal
guardian is a lawyer named by court
order to protect his interests, accom-
panied the mother.
LOYAL TO MOTHER.
Pocantico Hills folk say that the
three remaining children are loyal
to their mother; that they do not
understand the charges that have
been brought against her. and have
lived on terms of affectionate init
macy with her in the vast place.
The neighborhood information has
it that two men and a girl formerly
employed on the place will be wit
nesses in the divorce proceedings.
They are expected to tell of meetings
between Mrs. Stillman and the Indian
guide and of every little incident that
could be made part OF the geD6ral
thread OF the story of Mrs. Stillman's
friendship for her employee. Not one
of them. 1t is said. has any evidence
concerning the position of Guy Still
man in the family jar.
Those who live near the estate say
that Mrs. Stillman is the possessor of
"witching type" OF beauty. She
had. they say. tempcramental whims,
and was Of impetuous disposition. but
they agree that she is woman of
marked mental and educational at
tainmepts