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Show oo ETHEL CONRAD TESTIFIES IN STOKES CASE 44444-44444-4-44444 4 4 4- NEW YORK. Dec. 12. While 4 4- W. E. D. Stokes was under a 4 4 surgeon's knife Ethel Conrad, 4 4 charged with Lillian Graham, of 4 4 attempting to murder him last 4 4 June, was on the witness stand 4- 4 this afternoon corroborating 4 4 every feature of the testimony 4 4 of her chum that they had shot 4- 4 the millionaire in self-defense. 4 4 4- 4444444-44-4- 44-4-4-4 Mr. Stokes' operntion was for an absceK. pn tho kidneys and It was said tonight that It had been successful. success-ful. Miss Conrad, statuesque In appearance, appear-ance, well-poised in manner and clear of voice, made a striking contrast to the older, but weakor-volced and less self-contained Miss Graham. Miss Conrad was smiling much of the time and convulsed the Bpectat-ois Bpectat-ois by several of her sharp replies. "1 wl6h,'' shq said, when her cross-examination cross-examination was reached, "that Prosecutor Pros-ecutor Buckner would stop making me laugh. I don't want to laugh." . Stokes Said Mls6 Graham Was Dangerous. Dan-gerous. I Miss Conrad told of telling Stokes J of Miss Graham's attempt at suicide, j "MIks Conrad", she is a dangerous i v.oman," the witness testified Stokes said when ho heard tho news, "You are a beautiful girl and you mut get awny from her Influence. Now, Miss ) Conrad, you 0 home and nurse her.' "I suggested that ho send her to a i sanitarium," ibe witness went on, "but he said 'Oh, no, I can't be mixed up In this thing.' ( " 'The Baltic,' he said, 'sails to-i to-i morrow, Sho must bo sent away on 1 that boat. I'll give you $200 for her expenses. I'd give you "more, only sho might commit suicide on tho way over and the money would bo lost' " Then, she said, Stokes spoke of his boy and how proud he was of him. Wish Witness Was Boy's Mother. " 'Do you know, Miss Conrad, I'd give $100,000 to a young girl like you to have a son like that for me,' Stokes said," the girl testified. "I thought It pretty queer of him to talk Hko that," she remarked. The noxt day, Miss Conrad said, she called up Stokes. "He asked if 1 had the letters he had asked me to get from Miss Graham, and when 1 told him 1 had not, ho said he was coming for thorn next evening." she testified. Miss Conrad then' gave her story of the s,hooting. Sho corroborated Miss Graham's version of Stokes' aleged attack, at-tack, tho struggle for tho weapon and the wounding of Stokes. |