Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-05-13
GUIDES LOVE LETTERS
BOUGHT BY ST|LLMAN
Beauvais Sells Missives for
$4,000 to be Used Against
Bankers Wife.

Pouphksepsie, N. Y, May 13.-Four
letters alleged 20 have been written by
Mrs Anne U. Stillman TO Fred Beau
vais, indian guide correspondent, were
suddenly introduced against her late
yesterday ut the hearing here, coupled
with the statement of witness that
they had been bought for $4,000 from
Beauvais on May 7 at Montreal,
Canada. This witness said that Beau
vsis had conducted his negotiations
through a New York newspaper man,
and that he had held out stoutly for
s25,OO0.
The sudden reversal OF Beauvais'
stand in the case, as related by the wit
ness, took the counsel for the defense
by surprise, but did not disconcert Mrs
Stilman. In q statement that she was
willing to leave her case to the referee
for n verdict, she charged that James
A. Stillman fought with gold" and
that he had paid $4,000 for four
worthless scraps of paper" She denied
authorship of the letters.
The testimony was an eleventh-hour
surprise, both sides tentatively closed
their cases shortly after it was presented,
Mrs. Stilman,who, was not in the
hearing at the time. said, Outrage
Gus, prepostcrous, when informed of
the report, and added, its framing by
detectives"
In all previous hearings Beauvsis has
lent every assistance to Mrs Stillman
In disproving her husbands charges
The so-caIlcd confession letter" al
legged TO have been written by Mrs. Still
man 10 her husband six months before
the birth of Guy Stillman in 1913, again
was rejected yesterday as evidence.
II was ruled out while Mrs. Stlllmar
was under cross-examination,b but another
letter, written at the same priod n
Buffalo, where she was under treatment
Of an osteopath and addressed tc
Dear Family" was received in evi
dence.
This note was reported to have com.
planned of her depression and worn-ouf
feeling, and to have said that If she "hac
taken Fred Beauvais' advice" she woulc
not have been so troubled.
In the Dear Family" letter, it wa,
said, Mrs. Stillman told of making small
purchases and of becoming acquainted
with a policeman in wandering about
Buffalo.
During the cross-examination sh,
admitted that several other letter.
shown TO her looked like" her hand
writing, but declined positively to accep
authorship of them.
On redirect examination Mrs. Still
man told Of her fondness for life in th,
open, and said she and MIR. Stillmal
once planned huntingl trip in Labra
dor. Then she wanted to go to Alaski
to kill bear for its pelt.
1--WE always quarreled about money,
she said, discussing her relations witt
Mr.. Stillman. 81 wanted tennis court
and swimming pool on the estate an,
more clothes for the children. Mr.. Still
man objected to the amount of none,
spent in keeping up our homes"
The postscript to one of the letter
reads:
write me often, l love the brow
stamp, and go deep into the wood
, and dream and dream for me. Then ge
up and make it come true. Don't b
sorry for words, Freddie, dear. We al
can be that and just think what yor
have got to thank God for l do
lot before | leave this earth. All tn
beauty He put into my soul and jo
and the hope"
Just before she left for her home i
New York Mrs. Stillman instructed he
attorneys to rest her case. She sal
she was supremely confident of winnin
John f. Mack, guardian for Gu
Stillman and John F. Brennan an
: former Justice Mills, defense attorney
said they would decide between now an
e Wednesday whether to let the case go I
:. Referee Daniel J.Gleason for verdic
1t was intimated that the lawyers woul
heed Mrs. Stillman's directions.