The Washington times., 1921-03-24
RATTLE
TO FLO'S' BABY
Mrs. StiIIman Accuses Husband
of Making Gift to Mrs.
Leeds Son.


est in the now famous Stillmar
double divorce action was intensi-
fed today when it was reported
Mrs. Anne Urquhart Potter Still
ma had come to New York and
taken personal charge of her case
against her husband, James A. Still
man, president Of the National City
Bank.
FULL PUBLICITY EXPECTED.
All hopes on the part OF friends
that the sensational charges and
counter charges might be kept secret
or dropped altogether were blasted
through the accusation in open court
at White Plains by Mr.. Stillman's at
torneys that Mrs. Stillman, "a gentle
woman, took as her lover an Indian
guide" and that Guy, her youngest
son. was not the legitimate issue OF
her marriage with Stillman.
Mrs. Stillmsn Immediately retail
.ated by filing with Justice Nor.
schauser an amended answer to her
husbands suit. In it she submitted
six affidavits detailing specific in
stances of alleged intimacy between
her husband and Florence Leeds. a
former chorus girl. more frequently
referred to in the Stillman divorce
case as Mrs. Florence II. Leeds.
An Ivory handled rattle with silver
bells which StiIiman Is alleged 10
have presented to little Jay Leeds.
son Of Nrs. Ffor~nce HS Leed-. figures
prominently In Mrs. stilIp,an's
counter charges, II was discIosed to-
day. Mrs. StiIlmsn hss accused her
husband Of b~ing jays father.
In tn, IL he
name OF another member OF the Leeds
household was injected into the case
today, namely that OF Mrs. Della
Murphy. who is said to have been
with little Jay for a year from the
day of his birth.
The news that Mrs. Stillman was
in New York. taking personal charge
OF her case was followed by reports
that she had gone to Middletown,
Conn, on a visit to her daughter at
tending school there.
CONFESSION Is ALLEGED.
Most sensational among the fresh
charges brought by Delaney Nicholl
chief counsel for the banker, was the
assertion that Mrs. Stillman "in a mo-
ment of hysteria had confessed her
guilt" Shortly before little Guy was
born, 1t is charged. Mrs. Stillmsn
wrote a letter to her husband which
the latter's attorneys profess to inter
pret as a confession of criminal inti-
macy between her and the Indian
guide"
Mrs. Stillman fatty denies that she
ever wrote such a confession"
Mrs. Stillman, in her counter-accu-
sing answer. made categorical denial
of all old and new charges, and de-
clared "solemnly under oath" that
she had had no improper relations
with any one at any time.
Hints were made by Mrs. Stillman's
attorneys that other women will be
named in addition to Mrs. Leeds" as
her husband.
These are the principal develop
ments in the divorce scandal:
Coming into an open forum for the
first time, attorneys for James A.
Stillman yesterday publicly charged
Mrs. Stllman--the former vivacious
social leader "Fif" Potter-with mis-
conduct with an Indian guide over a
period of three years. Further. De
Lancey Nicoll, for Stillman, attack ed
the legitimacy of twenty-eig hit =
months old Guy Stillman.
DENIES ALL CHARGES.
Mrs. Stillman, in her answer. signed
an affidavit, the substance Of which
was made public last night, in which
she solemnly denied her Husbands $
astounding charges, and accused her
husband OF intimacy with FLORENCE
Helena Leeds"
Florence Erickson. a trained nurse,
who attended Mrs. Leeds" flew TO
the defense Of Mrs. Stillman and as
serted James A. Stillman is none other
than Franklin Harold Leeds" father
OF "Flo" Leeds thirty-months-o old son,
Jay Ward Leeds"
Frank Murphy. until few days
ago chief steward on James A. Still
mans palatial yacht, the "Modesty.- -
gave further details OF the financier's
Leeds"
sTILLMAN's CHARGES.
Here are the direct charges made
in open court yesterday by Mr.. Still
mans attorneys appearing before
Supreme Court Justice Morschauser
in White Plains:
Mrs. Anne Urquhart Stillman, wife
OF James A. Stillman, president of
the National City Bank, carried on
an Illicit love affair with Fred Reau-
walls, half-breed guide, from 1915 un-
til 1919.
Beauvais, twenty-six years old. is
the father OF twenty-eight-month
old Guy Stillman.
'Tn a moment of hysteria," Mrs.
Stillman made that Implication her
self, by confessing her guilt"
Mr.. Stillman only brought a divorce,
action against his wife, naming Guy
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