The New York herald., 1921-05-26
Responsibility DiscIa i'm e d. i.


the negotiations failed. it was said.
When told that the failure meant re-
sumption of the hearings and the con-
tinuation Of the case throughout the
summer he is said to have said:
well. I can't help that
John NJ. Mack. legal guardian for Guy
Stillman. let it be known that no matter
what statement Mr.. Stillman made re-
earding the boy, the latter's status would
be settled by the court. Mr.. Mack said
that he intended that no doubt would be
left concerning the parenta2e of his cl-
ent. A court order would make the
bankers Acknowledgement final and le-
gally binding. the lawyer pointed out
So there is every reason to expect that
the hearings will be continued Wednes-
day and Thursday. The first witness
will be DR.. Hugh l.. Russell, the Buffalo
osteopath. who win continue his direct
examination and then be subjected to
terrific cross examination by John b.
Stanchfield. Next Bernard Kelly. for
mer superintendent of the Pleasantville
estate of the Stillmans. will come in for
cross examination. 1t is thought that
Mr.. Stilman's case will be completed
Thursday night.
Then Mrs. Stillman will begin pro-
ducing her witnesses. Last night it was
said that IL is a possibility that Mr.. Still
man will be called to face several of
these women and to gaze upon letters
and coded kilograms alleged to have
passed between him and Florence Leeds.
Simplicity of the Code.
The code is quite simple, merely SUBJ
stituting the numbers from one to twen-
ty-six for the corresponding letters in
the alphabet. The kilograms from Flor
ence Leeds are alleged to have come
from Quogue. l.. /. Ballston Spa. n. y.
Southport. Conn. and Miami. Fla. They
will be subpoenaed from the telegraph
companies. These kilograms are alleged
to indicate that the former chorus girl
was squirting the banker on to divorce
his wife.
A person identified with Mrs. Still
mans interests predicted that Mrs. Still
man was about to try her hand at Jour-
palism. 1t was said that she has almost
| accepted a large amount OF money to
write for certain newspapers her own
version of the future hearings. In addi-
tion to this she is said to be Fastening
the conversion of her diary into manu-
script. which is to be published in serial
! form.
The news that his wife was seriously
considering a proposition OF going into
| the movies and enriching herself by
other bad day, II was said. But the
likelihood of Mrs. Stillman signing any
such contract was shown to be rather
remote by a statement made yesterday
by one of the most prominent moving
| picture officials i'm New York.
| This man said that all the large move
Y producers in New York and officials OF
/ the National Association Of the Motion
Picture Industry would meet tonight in
\ Delmonico's. and there, along with other
subjects. take up the matter OF Mrs.
Stillman's possible entry into the cinema.
1 The authority making this known de-
| clared that II was almost a certainty
that the movie men would condemn any
effort to put Mrs. Stillman on the screen.
| I'm the first place." he said. we would
be brazenly defying the spirit OF the
4 new censorship bill were VIC to condone
such a thing and In the second place
\ the producer trying to put on such A
| picture would not only meet with the
I public condemnation experienced by the
4 company desiring to flm Clara Smith
/ Hamon. but would have mighty slim
\ chances OF getting his film past tho
I board of ccnsors. But aside from all
I ,hat the big movie men viii condemn
! tho project on general principles,"