The New York herald., 1922-02-01
STOKES'S LANGUAGE
VULGAR, SAYS WIFE
His Lawyer Took Her Riding
to Test Her Character,
She Testifies.
MAN WITH HER IN HOME
Accounting i'm Suit for Dover
Rights Purports to Show
Small Income.
MAN WITH HER IN HOME

W. Z. ID. Stokes used terribly vulgar
language" according to Mrs. Stokes,
who recently won a legal separation
from him. Mrs. Stokes. who is suing
for her dover rights, which she con-
tends were taken from her fraudu-
lently. resumed the stand when the
trial was continued yesterday befora
Justice Cohalan In Supreme Court.
DO you remember an occasion In
July. 1911. when there was trouble be-
tween you and Mr.. Stekas?" asked Sam
uel Untermyer. her counsel.
"Oh. yes" she replied Mr.. Stokes
was angry because ! went to Phiiddel-
phia. He swone around and abused me
when / returned"
What did he say"
well, he just used terrible language
like he always did when he flew INTO
a tantrum."
''Is it language you can repaat?"
well" oegan the witness.
She was not pressed to continue.
DO you remember an automobile ride
you took in the fall Of 1911 with Albert
II. Gleason (Mr. Stokes's lawyer) and
another MANI"
yes" said Mrs. Stokes. when I re-
turned Mr.. Stokes asked how they had
treated me. l told him All right. Then
he laughed at me and told me Mr. Giea-
son had suggested the ride to see If
smoked cigarettes or drank or was inn
moral"
do you remember another occasion
In November, 1913, when Mr.. Stokes
vas away and had a strange man come
and stay in your apartment at the
Ansonia ?"
"His Money Hard to Get"
Yes, do" replied the plaintiff in
dignantly. II told him not ever again to
send a man to our apartment when he
vas not there. He said he had been a
bachelor so long that he thought it was
all right. ] didn't even know the man
was in the apartment until next morn
ing. Then I put him out"
Was he a man you had ever seen
before?"
mo. had never seen him. Mr..
Stokes said he was a friend of his from
Chicago"
The examination turned to a discus
sion OF the money settlement.
"Mr. Stokes" said the plaintiff, told
me that Mrs. Lydig (his former wife)
asked him to put $250,000 in Weddy's
(his son's) name. so / thought / had
better look out for my own babies. Be
fore our marriage he told me his income
was greater than he could possibly
spend. He said it was more than $780,
900 a year."
What were your difficulties as to
money!" inquired Mr.. Untermyer.
"It was hard to get anything out of
him." Mrs. Stokes replied
Most of the afternoon session was
given over to the examination of Leslie
s. Petrie. Mr.. Stokes's confidential man
OF business. He gave his address as 302
West Seventy-ninth street and his occu-
ration as secretary TO Mr.. Stokes. with
an office in the Ansonia, which Mr..
Stokes owns.
Small Profits shown.
Mr.. Petrie had with him the books
CT the Mcrwyn Realty Company, which
Owns forty-nine pieces of real estate in
which Mrs. Stokes claims a dover in
tcrest. Examined by J. Gainsburg Mr.
Stokes's counsel, he showed statements
that the net income from this property
In 1911 was s5,963 and in 1912 only
S1,434.
Under cross examination by Mr.. I'm
tCrmyer he admitted that no trial
balance had been taken in The COM
pony's accounts since September 30.
1918. The property consists of dwelling
houses on the upper West Side, he said
Addressing the court. Mr.. Untermyer
said there was no length to which he
would not go to discredit any attempt
or the defense to prove Mr. Stokes's in
come from his property was not large.
30 many persons sought admission to
the court room that Justice Coharan had
the doors CLOSED soon after the trial
started. The case Will be continued to-
cay ana IL Is expected that Mr.. Ssckes
will be called 20 the stand. II wS,y bo
the first time he has been n witness
either at this or the preceding trial.