Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-30
REFEREE DECISION COMPLETE
 VICTORY FOR MRS. sTILLAfAN \

[armeis N. l., Sept. z5.--NBX Ine A. F. )-James A. Stillman. nulti-million aire banker of New York, today lost his
 fight to divorce Mrs Anne t. Stillman and adisown Baby Guy Stillman, and was himself found guilty of the same charge he made against his wife-the parentage of an tilegtimate child.
 Mr. Stillman, 1t was indicated tonight, has not given up the fight. His lawyers would not say whether they would ap- peal from the findings of the referee,
 should these be, upheld by supreme court justice, but they were reported to have made move which seemingly makes clear that they have not conceded
 defeat.
 As soon as this announcement was given
 out 1t was learned that the plaintiff will seek to have the matter placed be-
 fore Supreme Court Justice Tompkins tR-
 stead of Justice Morschauser on the same date.
 It was announced by John E Mack.
 guardian ad Item for Guy Stillman, that he would ask Justice Morschauser to
 confirm Referee Gleaskn's findings at Poughkeepsie week from tomorrow.
 Most of the open court hearings in the case have, in the past, been before Jus tice Morschauser. IL was he who granted Mrs. Stillmau record alimony of s90 ,000 a year, and 1t was Justice Morschauser who granted, over protest, the shifting of the trial to Montreal last spring. There Mrs. Stillman presented some of her most damagaging evidence.
 The report of the case filed here this | morning hy Daniel J. Gleason, the ref seree, gave to Mrs. Stillman a complete l victory in ner defense of her own npnor and the good name of Guy. her three \ year old son. She was also victorious in the counter-attack she urged against Mfr Stiilman. The referee upheld her ac- cusation that the banker had livSu with
 a former Broadway show girl Florence II.
 Leeds in the manner of husband and wife
 and that he had acknowledged himselr the father of two children born to Mrs. Leeds.
 ! Mir. Gleason ruled that Mir Stillman l had not proved his allegation that Mrs. IStiIlnian had violated her marriage VOWS I in her conduct with Fred Beauvais, half
 breed Indian guide formerly employed by fthe StiIimans at their summer camp in | Canada, on the banks Of the St. Maurice
 river He also found Guy StiIlman so be the legitimate son of Mir. and Mrs. Stillman. The banker, in impugning the
 legitimacy of little Guy, born in Noven- Iber. 1918, had charged that Beauvais twas the baby's father.
 As a result of today's victory Guy I Stillman retains his. right to share with his two older brothers and his sister in the $s,0O0,0oo trust fund established ff5T
 them by their grandfather, the late James Stillman, and in a s27,0eo. 900 fund te
 be distributed when James A. Stillman idfes,
 I The referee not only found Guy stiA.
 man not to be the son of Beauvais, hut
 said he did not discover either sufficient
 or substantial proof on which to base
 any finding of adultery on the part ot Mrs. Stiliman.
 Mir. StiIlman failed to overcome tle
 presumption of legitimacy, one of tn. strongest known to the law, the repor said. The evidence presented by tht , plaintiff to show there had been no con 5 jugal relations between himself and Mrs Stillman in the year preceding Guyi l l birth was held by the referee to be un l convincing and unsatisfactory. } i MT. Stiliman's ewn misconduct wa : in itself sufficient to preclude his eura...
 ing divorce. the report indicated. Mrs : Stillman did not ask for a divorce. It clearly appeared without contradic 3 tion Mir. Gleason found that since a least as early as 1918 and ever sine . then, even while the divorce trial was Il e S4io PtaAiheih mas DeeH 1ntimdt f with woman not his wife, known a
 Florence H. Leeds.
 Tt clearly appears" said the report T l "that Mir. Stillnan has supplied an ! maintained her as his wife that dIirin the period she has given birth 10 tw [ children who have been recognized b a him as his children that he has support l ed her with motor cars and iewelry, sup eryises her bank account and has born 3 the same relations with her as a ma, Q ordinarily does to his own wife" According to testimony offered durin 5 the trial, one of the children born [ : Mrs. Leeds died in infancy, the other ' Jay Ward Leeds. born two months be ' fore Guy Stillnan came into the worlc 2 is still living.