Show 9 V V Y V V Y II 0 Stokes Bares Charges REPORT CRAND JURY INDICTS TWO m NEGROES mm Wife of Wealthy Hotel Owner Weeps Often During Narrative OLD OLD PH PHOTOS PHOTOS TOS SHOWN Mrs Stokes Declares She Fights for Children Not Wealth CHICAGO Oct 4 Two Two ChIcago men both negroes were reported to h have he e been named In a true tru bill charging conspiracy after Mrs Irs Helen Elwood Stokes had testified before the th grand frand jury today con con- concerning con her charges char cs of ot a conspiracy to ruin her reputation In connection connection tion with tho the New NevI York di div dl orce Bult auit of her husband W E D B StOkes Stoke Stokes wealthy hotel man manTh manThe manThe Th The two negroes reported to have been named by th the gland giand jUry although no Indictment has been returned In court court were al- al alleged alleged al to have solicited false affi- affi affidavits davils davits concerning Mrs Mr Stokes BEEPS OFTEN The Th Stokes divorce contest reached Its Ita most sensational phase several days ago aco when Mrs Stokes I personally led an ot of her charges charcos that a I conspiracy to I represent her falsely as a former inmate of ot a notorious resort In Chi Chicago's cagos cago's time one-time segregated vice district had been hatched by per per- persons sons berI sons she h alleged were agents of ot her ber I husband Mrs Stokes was In the th grand frand jury room about 30 20 minutes and during that period her testimony was v as sev several eral ral times by weeping weeping She She was said to have testified that charges and Insinuations made against her were nero wholly false She has declared d that she was fIghting for her two children and cared nothIng herself for the tho millions ot of other her husband Her charges In- In Included In Included eluded allegations that an attempt had been made to connect her with Ith the th degraded phases ot of Ice ico life and that an effort was be- be beIng being ins be-ins Ing made to produce perjured tes- tes testimony testimony tes testimony that she had been an nn hab- hab hab of ot the Everleigh club one ot of the th most notorious resorts which during its c Included many w men among amone its lis frequenters ASKED ABOUT CLUB While before the th grand crand jury she Is said to have testified regarding reg I various photographs some of ot which v I were ere of hr and which she ih alleges I were used by her enemies in of- of ef efforts forts toa to have hae a ae e former Ice vie ice distrIct identify Identity as of ot those of ot a anoman I oman they had known in the thc I South side resort I When asked about the tho club she sh is said to hM ha have e 0 testified that she sir had ne never neer or heard hearl of It until she came to Chicago a short time ago Us to begin beg her fight against the alleged conspiracy I i Concerning an electric ic automo- automo automobile automobile automo bile a photograph of ot which showed I a her at the lever said Baid to have been circulated in the th old underworld dl district In an effort to have it Iden Iden- iden- iden identified Identified I titled as a a picture of ot I a former I club Mrs Irs Stokes Stoke testified it was reported that It was a gift from her father and that she is ts In possessIon of ot a 11 cheek check tor for representing representing- the I payment her father made mad on onI the car I Sho She was wa said to have hav answered directly all questions asked while before th the grand Jury and stated that she sho he never had known any colored man In Chicago An at- at attempt attempt at tempt had bad been ben made she sh has charged to represent her as once friendly with a negro nefro of ot the th name ot of Wallace Wallac T ler Mrs Mra Stoke was wa reported to have gone gono ono through all of ot tho the alleged efforts to besmirch b her and to have made mado denials denial of ot all charges Ono One photograph of a a group of ot o tl the tle e girls which it is was we wasu used ed In an attempt to have hav It Iden Iden- as a it a 1 e of ot Inmates inmate of a resort was wa shown her hr It was w a photograph she h Is I said to have test fled of herself herselt and four other girls while they were attending the National Park Part seminary In WAsh WAsh- Washington Wash I In ington on D B C After Mrs Mra Mr Stokes left lett tho grand granil jury lury room Byron Firs a negro nefro gave cave testimony and ind soon oon afterward on tho the basis of ot the tho te testimony heard the th grand frand jurors juror were reported to havo iao voted a true naming twp negroes on a charge of ot conspiracy A negro attorney she h was re- re r have base testified who claim claim- claimed claimed claimed ed he had nc with Stoke Stokes Stoke's r I attorneys offered to sell ell out to toI her tor for but the th otter offer was wa I I get refused used |