Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-12-09 | Page 1 | Trail of Two Show Girls Replete with Sensation

TRIAL OF TWO SHOW GIRLS REPLETE WITH SENSATION LilliAN GRAHAM Y CONSTANTLY ON STANO Declares Millionaire Stokes Tried to Choke Her He Before She and arid Friend Shot Him New York yoli December 8 S.-An S. An almost constant flow of tears tear accompanied the recital which Lillian Graham gave to today today to- to da day of or the thc sordid romance that led up to her hr shooting W. W y Io K F. D D. StokeS Stokt-s millionaire mil mU- hotel proprietor on the night of June Junt j T. T The hearing was waR punctuated with sensations One camo calno when tho time young oung woman omun W was lJ asked If her tt-r tt Mrs Stella ton Iton had ever talked to her about bout Stokes She told me mime that I should tm bo very cry I careful and und not iCe see fee him an any more than 1 I had t to replied the time witness s b because e eho II ho 10 was a aver very dangerous man and not nut noto notI I Ilo I lo o trust tJust him She told lod me mime too not to enrage him aim because she had good oo reason rea rca son on to believe he ha had murdered Al 1 I On the tIme nl night hl that Mr A Adams ams was Murdered red In my sister said she saw baw Mr e como come out of or tho back entrance of the thc he An Ansonia onla between 11 and 1 12 She said sad that Mr h Stokes said next morning morning- ho lad had been In bed at S o'clock the he night before She wild maId a cJ that when whon I Hilt alto he opened tIme the door dour she saw Stokes rushing lushing Ill down muttering some some- thIng Al AI Adams the time policy king died at the time Ansonia October 1 I 1907 and ond the death was recorded as aM a case caso of suicide Time The young woman tol told of oC having been lured to Mr 11 stock farmand farm farmand and of or having been detained there for two nights und and of or having been forced to in sign defamatory self letters re releasing releasing releasing re- re leasing h him him m from responsibility In order order or- or der doria to be allowed to go away In She testified that in h her r acquaintance with ith Stokes Stoles he paid her which she bhe aMerl asserted full foil 00 short of oC 1700 which he lie said raid alt she sue had hind given gl him kin for Investment and which she declared h he had reported had hod been ben lost lust In telling the tIme story of oC the shooting the girl denied d that sue shu laud hud invited rt Stol Stokes cs to her apartment lIe He grabbed me by the Limo throat and tried to choke me she he saidI wild said 1111 I thou thought ht he ho was going to kill me I opened d the time drawer h where re tho the revolver was lIe He seized and struggled with me fur Cur forit It it At last I got my nw r on the trigger and mind It Jt went off orr got ot the time gun a away from Crom me and andI I 1 ran into the front room Miss s Conrad cried to alto nim Drop that gun un or Ill I'll shoot Then she simo shot h l. l The next thin I remember I 1 ran out Into Into the hall screaming tom foi help