Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-08 | Page 7 | Stokes Case is Nearing the End

STOKES CASE IS NEARING THE' END New York, July S. For lack of the last witness, wanted a further hearing hear-ing of the Stokes shooting case was postponed today until Tuesday, On that date Magistrate Freschi will decide de-cide whether the evidence warrants holding Lillian Graham and Ethel Conrad for the grand Jury on a charge of trying to murder W E. D. Stokes, the hotel man. The missing man is Wilfred Hart, tho elevator operator who took Stokes up to tho defendants' apartment apart-ment on the evening of June G, when he was shot. Hart's testimony will be briof, but the defense explained that It is important im-portant because through him they ox-pect ox-pect to prove that, Instead or Hart Baying to Stokes. "Go right up; you are expected." Stokes said to the elevator boy, "You needn't announce me, I am expected," Indicating that Stokes wished to arrive without warning. warn-ing. Everybody interested in the case waited at the court house for two hours while subpoenaos servers wore hunting In vain for Hart. Stokes spent most of the time wandering about the court room, occasionally diking with his lawyers. The two girls waited In an ante-room. In the course of an Informal statement, state-ment, the attorney declared that the principal argument for the girls' dismissal dis-missal was the anxietv shown by Stokes to recover the letters he wrote to Miss Graham "Tho evidence that tome one in Mr. Stokes employ stole those letters let-ters from my clients' rooms," said the attorney, "shows that this shooting shoot-ing was justifiable. "