The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-05-03
PHOTOS ENTER
STOKES CASE
Witness Says Hotel Man Used
Revolving Pictures to 0efame
Wife's Character.

edy, Northumberland of all
these have been staged since the
Stokes divorce trial opened two
months ago-but the day closed yes
terday with a line Of testimony
grisly in its realism.
PRODUCED BY LIT-rLETON.
Martin Lttleton. chief counsel for
Mrs. Helen Elwood Stokes, brought IL
out to show the depths to which he
said William Earl Dodge stokes had
sunk to besmirch the character Of his
young wife.
Littleton wanted to put Stokes per
sonalIy on the witness stand to ex-
plain It, but the millionaire clubman
sent word that ne was Ill with pleurisy
and could not attend court.
He professed further that he was
unwilling TO testify against his wife
and would not take the stand volun-
tarily. Whereupon Littleton promised
that he would go to the nnanciers
bedside. IL necessary, to complete the
record.
Then he put on the stand instead a
lawyer, Bernard II. Sander. counsel
for Henry williams a former Pull
man porter. accused of criminally re-
ceivinR $40. 900 worth OF jewels stolen
from Mrs. Stokes three years ago.
Williams was to have been called TO
trial today, but postponement was
granted pending a settlement of the
Stokes divorce case. Littleton
brought out from Sander that Stokes
had sent him list OF questions to ask
Mrs. Stokes and showed him batch
OF photographs on which to cross
examine her when she took the stand
against the former porter.
PHOTOGRAPHS IN NUDE.
The photographs included two OF
nude women, whom Sander said he.
was told were Mrs. Stokes. Another
was a picture OF Mrs. Stokes with
child in her arms. This, Sander ex-
planned, he had been informed was a
baby OF another race.
A nude picture was declared by one
OF Stokes messengers. according 10
the witness. to be Mrs. stokes posing
in the studio of Samuel Roosevelt, the
correspondent, now dead.
The questions from Stokes which
were to be asked the young wife on
the witness stand in the Pullman
porters prosecution. according to
Sander, included these:
ASK her IL VIII n. Myer was not
her lover before her marriage and
since.
ASK her II she did not go to a
beauty parlor kept by woman Of
another race to get her red haiv
tinted. III she says her hair Is not
tinted, make her take of her hat so
you can see It, That will make her
mad and she will swear at you.
ASK her II she was not in the
house of Dom Paul, the OmnipotenI,
when IL was rsided at 25s West
Seventy-fourth street, and II she did
not visit there frequently.
ASK her IL she had not hidden in
a safe in her Denver home bunch
OF mems letters to be used in get
ting money in lawsuits.
ASK her II she ever dined with
men called Nick Old Nick and
Sydney and others and receive
money.
ROAD HOUSE PARTIES.
ASK her II she did not go out in
disguise at night with old Nick 10
road houses and cabarets, at parties
that generally wound up in Mrs.
kesrney's apartment at 3 or or 5
in the morning.
ASK her IL she did not leave her
husbands home disguised as little
old woman collecting money for pr.
Taylor's church and at one time even
collected money from her husband in
that disguise.
Ask her IL she did not try to put
up job on her husband so that she
could get a divorce from him.
ASK her IL she did not dine and
carouse with the lawyers she has
retained in this case.
Ask her IL she was not intimate
with Detective Campbell OF the Pull
man Company, ana when she lived
In Chicago and with whom"
Sander "a i'd that he had talked over
the questions with Stokes three or
four times, and that the pictures had
been delivered to him by Hattie John
son. a colorcd woman employed as
detective by Stokes, and by other in
vestigators on the Stokes staff. The
lawyer was reluctant witness,
claiming privilege on many questions.
MRS. STOKES PALEs.
Mrs. Stokes listened, Whitehead, to
the revolving recital. In the crowded