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Show IBEAUVAIS SOLD LETTERS, CLAIM Stillman Paid $15,000 to Indian, In-dian, Detective Testifies POUGHKEEPSIE. V Y . May IS. Ths hearing of testimony In the Still-man Still-man divorce case closed with ;i sensation sen-sation Friday when a detective hired by James A Stillman New York banker and plaintiff, testified that he ntui Cuter Bridge Horsey, one or Mr. BUUman's lawyers, bod paid 116,000 Ito Fred Beauvals, Indian amide named afl CO-respondent 10r four letters alleged al-leged to have been written to Beauvals by Mrs. Anne U. 8tlllman. The purchase of the letters from BeauyaJs, who Mr. Stlllmun contends la the father Of three-year-old Guvi Stillman, was made In Montreal lest Week, the- detective, Edmund l-iKh. said it was arranged throuph Jam Shean a New Vnrk newspaper man Lelnh explained. i Tho letters, replete with terms of endearment and such expressions as "I love every pore of your skin" and, I'Whon can we get married"" were: I accepted in evidence after Mrs still-! man had denied ever having written I them She swore the handwriting; was not her own. but Harriet Hibbard, housekeeper for Mi. Stillman. looked at them and then said that to the Pes. of her recollection the handwriting was Mrs StiUman's. Beauvals demanded 25.000 for th letters. Leigh testified, but after several sev-eral days of negotiations he accepted $15,000. Many times during the trial of the case Beauvals was active in Keltlnn witnesses to testify lu his behalf and that of Mrs. Stillman. In Canada only ii few weeks ago he corralled witnesses wit-nesses to contradict testimony that he and Mrs Stillman had been guilty of misconduct. WIFE DNR1 FPIED. The letters were considered by Mr Scillman's law vers, it was learned, as among the strongest evidence they have introduced to prove their contention con-tention that Guy stillman is Illegitimate Illegiti-mate and to cinch their allegation thai Mrs. Stlllmnn was unfaithful to her husband in her relations with tho Indian. In-dian. But Mrs Stillman seemed unruffled a.k.1, n nl.lnul !-.- ' R 1 1 rl ' I n rl TTftW- ler McCormicki son of the Chicago harvester manufacturer departed by automobile for New York She referred refer-red to the letters as 'Tour worthless scraps of paper." "I have rested by case." she said. "1 am content to rest It with the testimony testi-mony of a gentleman who stands, or j who did stand at the head of finance of the greatest bank in the greatest city in the world, and he fought with Igold. The testimony of Ills own witness wit-ness as he closed his case wo.h that he paid $15,000 for four worthless scraps of paper I have nothing further to ay I am content to await tho verdict." ver-dict." Tl T F LH7FTER. One of the lettors said to have been bought from Beauvals read: "Dear Darling- "Th wedding Is over and it is 12 45 p, m. and 1 )iae just had a hot bath and am in bed, but I Jutst had to write you a letter. There never will bo and there never has been any one like you. I love every pore in your skin. I love tlv dear ground ou stand on. I love you better each day and ever., day shows me how foolish It Is to live without you. 1 love you beyond words. 1 love you forever nnd ever, through this world on to all the others. I want v on more than anything on this eartn My uncle said last night As we get older It doesn't so much matter whero WO are but who we arc with ' When will you be down, dear, and when can we get married" That Is all I think of. Then nothing will ever take me away. 'Write me. d'ar. how you are won't you? i am so tired of everything so tired I just want to rest and rest In your dear urnis It frightens me when 1 don't h( -:r from you. let me hear soon. uh. my dear, I was dead for )ou, Just dead. "Your Kathllic" Sunday." "Guy has just been in. lie is loe-iy, loe-iy, but always when it Is hot he wilts, a little Good morning, dearest, darling, darl-ing, dear" ENDEARING noi i Anoiner lener wnn ine auurpss "270 Park avenue." engraved at the top began "Dearest Freddie," and In rart said "I thought jou would be here Monday, Mon-day, so that I sent Bud to meet you. Al.so Kelly, at Harmon for the day train I am tir-d. dear, but your lat letter rested me a lot. I don't want to write much as I don't trust the malls or the people In the postofflce. but I have oni been perfeotly happy when with you In the Beau Bols Vort . . . 1 love you in spite of all your faults arid mistakes. . I am not well because I can't bo until you are as I want you to be My pride, I am sick of everything and eerone. No one really loves me but ou and the children. chil-dren. I s,ill November 21 or 23 Como vnd spend a few days with me at Pleasantvllle Come in the week, when there Is only Gu and get off at Harmon Har-mon and come soon and love mc so I can go on this terrible lonely road a little longer I will tell you about the work up there when I see ou. Come soon and nurse me. Done homo." It was signed "Awarl" and thera whr a design of a four-leaf clover drawn with pen and near it a large cross, over a smaller crosy TELLS OF PURCHASE. Leigh, formerly of the New York police department, said he went to Montreal May fi, saw Shean. subsequently subse-quently conversed several times with' Beauvals, and on Wednesday IuhI, the day the hearing opened In Poughkeop-sle Poughkeop-sle before lteferee Gleasoh, he and Mr Horsey, who had como to Montreal Mon-treal after learning that Beauvals was holding out for $25,000, bought the letters. Beauvals gave Shean $200, he said The Indian. Delgh dc-clan. d. claimed claim-ed the money was "marked' when it was shown to him. Leigh tried to convince Beauvals that the greenbacks were the real stuff, "Beauvals told me T would never get out of town r ., if I double cross-e, cross-e, him." said Lelch. Again, after tho money and letters had been exchanged the guide re- marked, according to Leigh "Now if anything goes wronp you won't leave the town alive. I've got thre men watching you." The day of his nrrhal In Montreal Leigh said he went to Shean's room at the i:ty. Carlton Afterwards Bhean told him Beauvals had hidden in the clothes closet and overheard their conversation. Ho explained that the gulJ "wanted to get r look at Ixdgh and see If he could trust him." i Three days later. Lelcii added, he 'took Shean to meet ii. ,r es' in a prl-ivate prl-ivate room In tho Bank of Montreal, land a short time afterwards the exchange ex-change of letters for money wa con-sumijtate con-sumijtate 1 In an office building across the street II VND WRITING TESTED. There was prolonged argument over Mrs. StiUman's handwriting. She wrote to dictation from Colonel Band who crOSS-ezamlped her, and her penmanship pen-manship was put In evidence. The plaintiff had a handwriting expert ex-pert ready to testify. He was not called, call-ed, the defense giving notice that if he were Mrs Stillman would ask a delay of i month to hire a similar expert ex-pert and furthermore would ask for additional allowance money from Mr Stillman. lteferee Olenson fold the lawyers be could judge handwriting without experts. ex-perts. So both sides rested and agreed to close the trial next Wednesdas at noon unless the defense by then gave notice that it wanted to call another witness. |