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Show 10 SOLVE mm Lost Letters in Stokes . Shooting Case Being Searched For New York, July 10. The police, aided by the defendants, redoubled their efforts today to solve tho mystery mys-tery of the lost letters In the Stokes shooting case Tomorrow the court wHl receive the last evidence to show j whether or not Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad should be held to the 1 grand jury on the charge of trying 1 to murder W E. D. Stokes, the millionaire mil-lionaire hotelman, and without these letters, the young women say their cause is badly handicapped. They admit they shot Stokes, but declare the circumstances which these letters would help reveal were such as to make the "shooting justifiable. The superintendent of the apartment apart-ment house where the shooting occurred oc-curred is Interested in the case, on account of charges that some, of his men permitted Stokes' private detective detec-tive to ransack Miss Graham's suite . .and. carry. va way the bundle oMetters, "whife Hiecity detectives "were p"re'sr ent. The defendants say that the letters let-ters already made public were included includ-ed with eight or nine more which were taken from the collection, Lawyers said that when the examination exami-nation is resumed tomorrow they would bring charges against the Stokes detective who admitted on the ! stand that he had carried away the letters. Whether the charge would bo larceny or the suppression of evi I dence, they have nave not decided. Magistrate Freschl, who has been conducting the preliminary hearings and District Attorney Whitman will confer today with a view to deciding what action ought to be taken about the disappearance of the letters. At the close of the examination tomorrow to-morrow the magistrate probably will issue a summons for James Cum-mings, Cum-mings, Stokes' private house detective. detec-tive. Formal proceedings will then j begin to determine whether or not a crime has been committee. Cummings ' swore he found the letters while the j city detectives who accompanied him in his search of the girls' apartment were not looking The new superintendent superin-tendent of the apartment has told the police commissioner that all letters In the apartment were removed by city officials on the night Stokes was shot, June 6 Therefore, If Cummings Cum-mings In a second search three days later found the letters produced in evidence, as he swore in court, the commissioner believes some one must have "planted" them there, in the meantime having renioved the eight or more letters missing. |
