The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-05-13
.KATHITHI0 WROTE
20septlS IFWFn
IIEL LJEED LULH
PORE IN HIS SKIN
Indian Guide Sells Four Letters
for $4,000
APPEAR IN DIVORCE CASE
Placed in Evidence by Attorneys
for James L. Stillman
of New York

Poughkeepsie, N. Y. May 13-The
hearing OF testimony in the Stillman
divorce case closed with sensation
yesterday when a detective hired by
James A. Stillman, New York banker
and plaintiff testified that he and
Outerbridge Horsey, one OF Mr.. Still
mans lawyers had paid $4,000 to
Fred Beauvais Indian guide named
as correspondent, for four letters al.
legged to have been written to Beau
yais by Mrs Anne u. stillman.
The purchase CT the letters from
Beauvais who Mr.. St.llman contends
is TIE father OF three-year-old Guy
Stillman. was made I'm Montreal this
week the detective, Edmund Leigh,
said. It was arranged through James
Shean, a New York newspaper man,
Leigh explained
The letters, rep'ete with terms OF
endearment and such expressions as
81 love every pore OF your skin and
when can we get married. were
accepted in evidence after Mrs. Still
man had denied ever having written
them. She swore the handwriting
was not her own, but Harriet Hib-
bard housekeeper for Mr.. Stillman
locked at them and said that to the
lost OF her recollection the 'handwrit-
ing was Mrs. Stillmans
Beauyais demanded $4,000 for the
letters, Leigh testified, but after sew
,eral days Of negotiations he accepted
'$l5 900. He described dramatic con-
ferences with the guide and Shean.
and said he promised Beauvais that
he would say the letters were among
those stolen some time ago when a
packet kept by the guide was rihed.
The letters We're considered by
Stilmans lawyers as among the
strongest evidence they have intro
duced 10 prove their contention that
Guy Stillman is illegltimate and to
cinch their allegation that Mrs. Still
man was uufaithful to her husband
in her relations with the Indian.
But Mrs. Stillman seemed unruf-
fed wher, with her oldest boy. Bud"
and Fow er Mccormick. son Of the
Chicago harvester manufacturer, she
departed by automobile for New
York She referred to the letters as
-four worthless scraps of paper"
Cuc of the letters said to have been
bought from Beauyais read:
Dear Dearling:-
The wedding is over and it Is
12.45 p. m. and | have just had hot
bath and am in bed, but just had to
write you letter There never will
be and there never has been anyone
like you. | love every pore OF your
skin. | love the dear ground you
stand on. love you better each day
and every day shows me how foolish
It Is to live without you. | love you
beyond words. | love you forever
and ever through this world on to all
the others. want you more than
anything on this earth My uncle
said last night: AS we get old
er II doesn't so much matter
where We are but who we are with
When viii you be down. dear, and
when can we get married? That is
all | think of. Then nothing will
ever take me away.
Write me dear how you. are, won't
you. am so tired o. everything, so
tired | just want to rest and res: IN
your dear arms 1t frightens me when
don't hear from you. Let me hear
soon. oh, my dear, am dead for
you; just dead
Your Kathitho.
sunday.
Guy has Just been in. He is
lovely, but always when IL is hot he
willis a little. Good morning, dear
est, darling, dear"