Show Secret Sect of Stolen v U So S Code Bared In Stokes Case NEW N MEW EW YORK Oct Horace 29 29 Horace G Knowles former United States diplomat anda and a witness for W E D Stokes in the retrial of his divorce suit today admitted on the stand that a secret United States diplomatic code had be been bean n lost several years ago when he was minister to Bulgaria had been offered to the Japanese government for and had been bought back for by byI I Elihu Root then secretary of state NEW YORK YORE Oct 29 Edgar Edgar T TW V respondent co In the Iho re- re rc TI ii 1 ml ial 0 of tr the divorce suit Instituted b by W E C D Stokes testify II Ire g again denied that the photograph I of a 11 woman seen In his rooms was as astI tI Li at f t Mrs Airs Helen Elwood DI Stokes Ho told the court the th picture v VAS ns tha that t o of a friend who whose I name I lie he did HI not care to disclose also testified that he asked JosephA Joseph A A Thorn Thorn- ton Thorn OD nero janitor In the East Ea t I Thir I fifth ty-fifth street pM he once 1 II to call any ta tads ta Is for Cor hini fn von women en I I allacc admitted under cross I that he had once I land Mis Ms Stokes a diamond alue at al 1009 1000 1000 I he Juu about testimony Lad 11 risen en at the previous trial to toI toLl toLI toll Ll LI c e that he had been been out I wIth her ber a few times hu said he meant he had never Dever been out ot of Ito o Waldorf aldor hotel with her hei Asked seed It if It were not true that tilE the ren rel on he ho had stopped speakIng 0 0 her n 1917 7 was as as that ho did not want ta t be with her any 1101 u Ie h emd ead cs en alter after I got my ring back IIo Ito He denied that he ever r asked rb r Stokes tokes to marry him H HP lip mid he had bad originally pur- pur pur purchased chased the diamond ring for lor an l Iy ly lady as a wedding anni aunt anniversary anniversary present but that she de- de delred de desired sired something more practical so 80 he bought a tea set set and and thus was with the diamond rl r i He Stokes tore vore ore It for ortin co or tour lour months Wallace ce admitted ho had torn up a picture of Mrs Stokes then hen henho ho hod d to close their acquaintance acquaint acquaint- acquaintance acquaintance ance ance He could not recall ever given Alven a picture of himself to Mis hc Stokes l a D photograph album the respondent theco co re cu-re found round fI the h c pictures of himself on a western estern trip to d and California He was ath d I It if he gave gao the photographs t Mr Ir Stokes It Ic 1 I 1 did I dont don't remember he led I I sent sets of these to friends all 1111 over o the country |