Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1922-10-05
BABY GUY AND
Tiff" WIN SUIT
divorce Denied StiIIman and
Child Held as Legitimate.
CHARGES RIPPED TO SHREDS
Referees Decision Upholds Mrs. Still.
mans Charge That Husband Mis-
conducted Himself With Flo
renee n. Leeds.

New York, Sept. 30.-Mrs. Anne o.
fFif) Stillman Is innocent of all
charges Of misconduct.
Guy Stiilman, legitimate. and en-
titled to one-fourth share in his
grandfather's $G,OO0,OOO trust fund,
and in a S27,OO0,OO0 fund to be dis
tributed after the death of James A.
Stillman.
James A. Stillman, proven to have
been unduly intimate with "Flo,"
Leeds, former chorus girl and the ia.
Their of her two children. one dead.
These were the conclusions reached
by Referee Daniel J. Gleason, in the
report he filed after hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars had been spent in two
years and three months by the former
president Of the National City bank OF
New York, to prove his wife had mis-
conducted herself with Fred K. Beau
Vais, halfbreed Indian guide. and that
Guy was the result Of their alleged
Illicit relations.
Sustaining all the allegations made
by Mrs. Stillman in her affirmative de-
fense-save the charges that Mr.. Still
man had been intimate will, Helen"
and "Clara"-the referee found the al
legations against the wife had not
been substantiated on single point.
Lawyers Refuse to Comment.
Counsel for Mr.. Stillman received
the sweepingly adverse verdict with
one sentence: II don't think So"
Despite their silence it was under
stood they had resolved on strenuous
fight to have the decision set aside.
Within the next few days, when Mrs.
Stillman moves to have Supreme
court Justice Morschauser confirm
the referees judgment, Mr.. Stillman's
lawyers will move to have it rejected.
Failing in this, they will carry an
appeal to the appellate division Of the
Supreme court in Brooklyn.
Tentatively the fight to set aside
the decision Is scheduled for a week
from today at Poughkeepsie before
Justice Morschauser. John e. Mack,
guardian for Guy, asked the judge to
hear a motion to confirm the verdict
on that date.
Through his associates, Col. William
Rand and Outerbridge Horsey, Mr..
Sullivan at the same time asked that
the motion be argued before Supreme
Court Justice Arthur Tompkins sit
ting at Nyack, on the same date.
It was Justice Morschauser who
granted Mrs. Stillman the record all
mony of $4,000 year and generous
counsel fees, and who presided at all
court hearings in the tangled litiga-
ton.
Neither Principal viii Talk.
Prompt relay of the news Of the
filing of the referees report at Car
mel, N. Y, the Putnam county seat,
where the suit was begun, not only
found his lawyers silent but Mr.. Still
man as well.
No statement came from Mrs. Still
man either-due to the fact that she
was en- route by motor from her sum-
mer home in Quebec and out Of touch
with her attorneys.
81 am very happy at this decision"
said Mr.. Mack, "and regard it as q
very satisfactory one. This ends the
case SO, far as Guy is concerned. Once
the issue of the infant was settled, as
it was some time back in the case, it
appeared to me that Mr.. Stillman
went on merely to besmirch his wife's
name"
Reserving more extended comment
until he received an official copy of
the referees findings, John f. Brennan
of Yonkers, who led the fight for Mrs.
Stllman, said merely that 1.-THE victory
is most gratifying and from the COM
ments I've heard it seems as If the
people were with u.s."
Both Mr.. Mack and Mr.. Brennan re-
fused to answer any questions wheth.
er Mrs. Stillman, basing her fight on
the referees decision, would sue for
divorce.
1t was indicated that she might take
such a step, but not in the immediate
future, because an appea, by her hus-
bands lawyers from Judge Gleason's
decision probably you'd not be dis
posed of until next July
In handing in his decision to Deputy
County Clerk Hazen at Carmel, Ref
cree Gleason divided it in two parts
One he labeled Findings OF Fact" a
document of nine paragraphs summar.
sizing his decision in legal forp, and
the second, his report Of findings. and
his reasons for the conclusions. =
Mrs. Stillman's victory was all the
more complete In the light OF the ref
eree's references to Stil1man's miscon-
duct with the Leeds woman.