Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-05-11
.ST|LLMAN' CHARGES
ARE DENIED BY Wife
Testifles Reports OF Wrong
Doing With Guide Are
Wholly False.


Poughkeepsie, n. Y, May 1i.--Mrs.
Anna U. Stillman took the witness
stand In her own defense under direct
examination before Referee Daniel ].
Gleason here yesterday and denied
every charge her husband had made.
II made a straightforward denial of
'cvery particular charge" she told re-
porters when the long session under
the friendly questioning Of John II.
Mack. guardian al lltem for her in
fant son Guy. came TO close late
yesterday afternoon. Tomorrow I'm
not afraid. l Will have what two-fist-
ed men call n punch in both hands"
/ Mr.. Mack took up James A. Still
mans charges IN chronological order
when ho called Mrs. Stillman to the
stand shortly before noon. She testi-
/ fed that she first met Fred X.
Bcauvais when she went to Canada
at Mr. Stillman's request in 1916, talk
ing her children 10 escape the epidemic
of infantilo paralysis in Now York.
She went first TO Lake Dawson. There
she found she would need a guide and
learning that Beauvais was the crack
woodsman OF the North County, she
employed him.
/ Next she denied emphatically the
testimony OF S,illman witnesses that
she had remained over night with
gold pencil from Mr.. stillman. and he
IN Decembor, 1915. She explained
that with Beauvais as her guido, she
had visited the little lake TO look at a
piece Of poetry. but returned to Big
Lake Wyagamao and remained with
her children at the local Fish and
Game Club.
As 10 the testimony Of George
Adams. who said he had peeked
through n curtain in Blackburn House
and had seen her and Beauvais to-
gether. Mrs Stillman said that Adams
statements were impossible, in the
first place because there was no cur
tain through which he could have
peeked. She added that Adams and
Rcauvais slept together In the kitchen
a. night. while she occupied the only
bedroom I'm the house.
Nothing that could be construed as
improper occurred during the period
Y,
1915, when she spent much time in
Canada, Mrs. Stillman told the referee.
She was not permitted to answer a
question as 10 whether Mr.. Stillman
visited her at Mondanne, Pleasantville,
the Stillman Westchester country
estate, on January 26 and January q,
1918. This referred 10 tho testimony
, OF J. Earle Clauson OF Buffalo 70 the
effect that Mr.. and Mrs. Stillman ap-
parently were living happily together
when he visited them during tha;
. year.
Referee Gleason also ruled out a
question by Mr.. Mack as to whether
the Stillmans occupied the same room
, at the Hotel St Regis from Feb. Il
20 Feb. &c. 1918. During the next
, month. while on trip to Canada. she
Was accompanied by her son Bud
who slept in the next room during
/, their stay at blackburn house.
Il will be recalled that two so-called
? "ladder-andkeyhole" witnesses testi-
fed that they saw Mrs. Stillman and
? Beauvais together IN the same room
during this visit TO Blackburn house
; days there. She said that her visi-
> was not longer than three days anC
that the place was only a camp. Ther,
was no scafiolding and no paintins
was being done. She had ordered tn,
place painted, but this work was no
% commenced until after her departure
Mrs. Sti,lman denied authorship o.
the "katithio" letters which endet
with much Canadian love-" ant
which at last weeks hearing Mis-.
Harriet Hibhard. one-time house
keeper at Mondanne. identified as IL
Mrs. Stillman's handwriting. TIL
letters were. incomplete and bore Il,
evidence OF having passed through
the mails.
To the best Of my knowledge, thes
letters were never at any time il
my apartment" Mrs. Stillman said.
Miss Hibbard, who completed he
testimony before Mrs. Stillman tool
the stand. said under cross-examina
tion that she had not seen the letter
until they were shown TO her b,
Colonel Rand before the last hearing
Mrs. Sullmen then declaring tina
5 never at anytime had she been guilt,
- z holding hands. kissing or any un
e wifely conduct" with Beauvais. Re
u ferring 70 the plain gold ring whic,
Mary Kelley said Beauvais had give,
!. her. she admitted that this ring ex
: listed and held II up.
This ring was supposed 10 be use
!. 10 fasten a neckue." she said -
lob a. Z.
my son Bud"
Next her attorneys brought ou
that Mr.. StilIman had made severs
: presents 10 Beauva1s, among them a
. automatic pistol. "a handsome calen
) dar and picture" on which was in
h scribed "To Fred from Father
q Beauvais at Little Lake Wyagana
. gold pencil from Mt. Stnlman, and h
q made several presents 10 Anne, Blu
J. and Alexander. TO whom he was de
+ voted. Mrs. Stillman said.
y why he lunched with Mr.. Stillma
d and Mrs. Percy Rockefeller" she tol
Is the referee.
Miss Ida NJ. Oliver the last witnes
2. called, told Of friendly relations be
l. tween Mr.. Sullman and his wife ju.
l. after she was employed as q nurse fc
l. Guy Stillman. four days after the lar
.e tcr's birth. Miss Oliver said that IL
boys father often stroked his head
h in fact. every time he entered III
'f house. and that she had seen Mr.. Still
~ man playing the Victrola while Mr.
Stilman fondled the baby near b.
II Mr.. Sullman invariably used the teri
9 Mudsky" as "a pet name for his wifi
% Miss Oliver said.