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Show READS LETTERS OF MRS. STOKES Purport to Show She Did Not Realize Signing Property Away Nh,V YORK. Man h SB. Letters written by Mrs. Helen Elwell Stokes In October. 1911. purportlnK to show that she did not know the alRnlfi-oancs alRnlfi-oancs of papers she had slyned at the roquest of her husband. ' E. I). Stukes, elderly hotel man. were read In Tuesday's hearing of her ult against her mllllunulre hubund fof I he restoration of her dower rights Samuel l'nternieyer, her counnel, considered the letter.- the most Important Im-portant evidence he ha yet Introduced Intro-duced for his client, who is suing the millionaire hotel man fur the re- turn of 4'J pieces of Now York property prop-erty alued at 6,000a000. Ml ( SME The first letter, written a few months after her marriage, wan addressed ad-dressed to lr Stokes' mo'iler. Mrs Arthur liiller of Denver, Colo., and exi)rnsse worry conrernlnx "two papers she had signed for Will " The i letter continued: 1 ' VI hen I asked him what the paper i was, he swore and tore aiound and I thought, wh Should I slRn It ju.u fur peaee, and never thought of be- lug suspicious " Jitter Mrs stokes letter i unturned. ' when she asked her husblind and his attorney for more information. the acted queer." and her husband be- ami "ngry and "talked dreadfully, and I felt I would rather do anything I than to hear (hat talk, so I never asked a;aln ' III sr. v ,-T ,t Stoke' counsel Introduced a lett r hl( client had Written Mrs Stokes father In which he said "Helen h.ni one thought upperoiosl in her mind money, money, money. She wants money from me ,hlb I'm alive, and money after I am dead. " Mr. rntenneyer Introduced a letter 1 ha said had been written by the ho-i ho-i tel man to his former wife Mr Philip l,ydlfr. in which it was declsrod j that "we have e ldenco that your husband has been Intimate with my wife Helen." Mr- Stokes declared i she had uevcr met Mr Lydlg |