The evening world. Newspaper, July 6, 1911, Page 2

Wand sald to me: Po as we tell you and }to her, ‘Lian, when I gave you $200— pe Conrad replied, “Then make him pay.’ ters that I wanted and stepped out of! ‘All right, & rear door, In a minute she came| dressing mo again, she back. She closed the door and bolted| there and write » check for $95,000 and eo #%t and then stood facing me tn this, you can go.’ | “Withdut moving an inch I eald, ‘Do Saying #he would go and get the te! attitude,” and the witness erected him: self to hie full height and threw out his chest, at the sam picture he made, While the two pretty brisoners smiled their appreciation and| “Migs Graham #aid, ‘If T have to shoot y 1 was crazy and 4idn't know A Mias Con- we'll both awear that you came almost clapped thelr hands, “A moment before rhe had reappeared T had heard her talking () some one in the next room,” continued Mr. Stok As he sat down again. “Before either of us could speak f{ bean! a sound be- hind me, and, turning, 1 saw Miss Grayam stealing along the hallway close to the hall with a revolver pointed toward me. I waa standing near a lounge which crossed the west side of the room. Milas Conrad was standing guard at the door and Miss Graham was approashing me along the only route which I could get out of the place. So I naturally remained where 1 was “Miss Graham was greatly excited. She came up close, shoved her pistol right| Against my side and aatd you, you —— —-, you! I'll teach you whether you can insult the memory of that my mother ran an tmmoral resort in Seattle, that One of my sisters fan an immoral resort in Cincinnati, that my | other sister rah on immoral resort 19 Los Angeles, and that I had been an) inmate of one here in New York.’ “LL KILL YOU LIKE A DOG," GIRL SAID. “although I 414 not move, she Rept saying, ‘Come near me and Ti Min you. I dare you to come near mef f1) ¥ill you Uke a dog!” Mr. Stokes repeated this threat with “much emphasis that a damp wisp of forelock fell down fn his ¢ He glared straight at the show girls, They stared back, amiling pleasantly and the spectators thought {t almost as good as & play. “Continue, Mr. Stokes," prompted ‘Mr. Sullivan “Then Mise Conrad. spoke up again you'll be all right. If you don't we'll wi you.’ Miss Graham nid: ‘You came here on the aly~you didn't think grrydote knew you, but that's all fixed.’ “Yes, tt ts all fixed,’ broke in Miss _ Conrad. ‘We have three witnesses dere. Three men are in the next roam taking notes of everything that 1s sald and done, They aro listening to every word.’ Up to this point I think 1 had hardly spoken a word. In fact IT gian't get much chance ‘Mise Conrad came closer to and said: ‘You had better obey us. Many a New Yorker as prominent as you hae disappeared and nobody has been the wiser for it. W. erranged to get rid of your body and you haven't a chance for your life unless you “> ap we say. ‘wins Graham sald: ‘You alt down at that desk yonder and write what I dice tate’ ‘Then turn’ said: ‘Hthel wi ot shall * tell him to write’ HE WAS HELPLESS WHILE THEY TALKED. "1 stood helplens while they were discussing wh-re I should t compelied to sign thy name. Miss Conrad, as if quoting som legal document, began ‘Atnesseth that this person having made malicious, false, fclonious and slanderous statements.’ “Then she halted and said to moe: ‘You know what we want you 0 fetract. Zilla put the revolver to hie: heed.ar..maxe him sit down and tell him what to write, and Tl stand alongride him’ and soe that he does it.’ | ‘By this time 1 had recovered myself. | Tanta to Miss Conrad, ‘I thought you 101d ‘me Lila had fone on the Ba |) They both wughed and Miss Conrad sald, ‘I'm the Ite Freneh maid that | fooled you.! “T sald to her, ‘Mise Conrad, when T fenve you $0 for nursing Mi Graham | when she was sic I had faith in you.’ “Then, turning to Miss wrahen 1 sald $4150 to pay your fare abroad and $80 for \Lexpenses after you joined your stater, 1 | falth In you (oo. T expected to get Dack the eighteen letters which T wrote) you years ago. And instead T And you doing this. Itt a pretty trick.’ ‘Then both these young ladies"—=Mr. | Stokes put a lot of scorn into his Words-sthen both these young ladies I ertd: “‘Lilllan, I never made any state- | ments reflecting upon you, your mother | or your sisters to Mtss Conrad or any- | body , and 1 will not retract words 1 never uttered. You might as well end this thing one way or the other rigut| now. 1 won't sign anybhing.” TOLD TO WRITE A CHECK FOR $25,000, “)fiss Graham, who was holding her I rad and I heard her say, ‘If he sa) won't, I_ know he won't’ To this Mi World Ads. Best Solve Three of Life’s Greatest Problems 18T—WHERE TO LIVE 133,733 World “To Let” ads, printed during last six months— 68,354 more than the Herald, 2D—WHERE TO WORK 83,025 World “Business Oppor- tants ads. during last six months— {828 more than the Herald, agin TO REST 29,345 World “Summer Resort” ads. during last six months— 19,555 more than the Herald, In these three classes of advertise- ing alone The World published 196,- 103 ads. during the first six months of 1914—-MOKE THAN DOUBLE the 90,366 in the Herald. Convincing Evidence That Yo Should Read World Ads. for Vari ety of Opportunities. —*} | | | id Mise Graham, {4 and, ad- it down you gitle realive that thfw ts blackmail ime placing hi8) and that for it you may be sent Nande behind his back, Some of the! prison and irreverent in the crowd tittered at the| murder and you will both go to the electric chair? you I'll what I was doing.’ ‘No, rad here and attacked Lillian and that killed you in self-defense. We have wit- | nesses and you have none.’ | “Then Mies Graham, who wae wetting more violent in her manner all the tii |, ‘Ets death or | $296,000." oh? well, if 1 T choose death. As he repeated th | and went on with his atory: ow T'vo got | THEN LILLIAN BEGAN TO SHOOT AT HIM. “Then Mi did wo, ag if to @hut off any means of! escape. 1 Juinped to the angio of the! | door, trying to mhelter myself behind it. | Lal sting In my right Jeg and realized that | Thad been hit, I turned around. Mine) Graham pressed the muszie of the gun Against my stomach. I grabbed the re Then 1 heard a report and f volver by the barre! and forced it aside, Tt went off again and the flash burned my face, I think that bullet went through my hat which was on my head T hay time, tut that would be impossible. “We wrestled for possession of the eapon. 1 4i@ not want to kill any e, and I didn't want to be killed my- pelt. 1 jerked the revolver muzzle downward and {t fired again. Miss Graham hung on, dragging me slong the hall. She was screaming at the top of her votce. I got the revolver away from her amd dropped it into my over- | coat pocket. She threw herself on my back and jung On, screaming. "L was growing weak from loss of blood but T managed to reach the door leading into the Jublic hall. As T threw Graham dragged me down sand, lyirg on my back, she the bolt Mi togmy knee! acteamed out “‘Bthel, you sald you would Rill Rim if I Gidn’t. Come, shoot him now.’ MI88 CONRAD GETS A PISTOL AND SHOOTS. “Mise Conrad, who had been bshind us al] the time, ran from the inner hall f came up Clon to Miss Conrad she | Of the leg, “Miss Conrad then ran back into the reception room, threw up a window and called out ‘Hetp! murder! police Aw TIny there on the floor I said ‘You can't get the police any too soon to sult me." Just then T managed to get the door open, and I crawled out into the cor- ridor and collapred. “A door in another apartment onened and out came three Japaneso men, who Pounded me and Bicked me ae I lay helpless, Miss Graham and Mise Con- rad had fokowed me out, and Miss Gra- ham said: ‘Ethel, go get the gua and blow Ris head of.’ Mise Conrad said, ‘Z the door is locked and the keys are on the inside.’ “Thinking the Japs would kill me, 1 ‘called for help, 1 could see @ stout man in his shirtsleeves and two other men near the elevator shaft and I app led to them, ut not one of them inter- fered, and GET HIS PISTOL, “Then @ man who said he was the superintendent of the bullding ran up the steps and asked me for the pistol. you are the superintendent wet a policeman and doctors here and T raid, “If atch those women.’ ‘A man who # Fischer, an accountant asked me some question: both shot me'* Clarke Jordan, sentor attorney for the | defense, begun the cross-examination by asking Mr. Btokes his age. “About fifty-seven, I think, millionaire, haltingly “Don't you know for eure?” “LT eay I think I'm fifty-seven.” tol at my head, turned to Miss Con-| “Now, Mr. Stokes, as & matter of fact, aren't you sixty-four years old?” nantly, “Nearly alxty-four, then?" Mr. St He said, reptying to Mr. Jordai questions, that he was fina introduc to B | sonia, where Mrs, @ingleton was th ving. He admitted that ho aubsequent- and that he wrote letters to her, Bho had been « guest at his stoek farm n @ave a houne party there tn her honor. . TELEGRAM. mand upon the other aide for Stoke: The telegram had been sent trom Le! | of #20 a week |@Along here Mr. Jordan, in arguing | hoping to find Miss Conrad atone, and wae wounded in a struggle. ‘ that {f you kil me ft will be def Mr. Stokes | stood up and faired @ long arm aloft. | The two young women giggied audibly and a fringe of apparent sympethizers | | wimgled too. So Mr. Stokes sat down iraham jumped ee my dead mother. You told Ethel here | jevetied her pinto! at me and pulled the | Pees It missed fire--I heard the bammer enap. She recocked the! weapon, backing into the hall as she) hoard it claimed that 1 wae holding my hat in my hand at thie o the kitchen and out again. Ap she reappeared she carried a revolver. She and shot me tn the calf The stout man came up to me 14, ‘Give me Buss Graham's revol- | ver.’ Although very weak, I refused. SUPERINTENDENT TRIED TO 4 he was Walter ppeared and and then a little boy ran up and said he knew me laughed. 1 continued to addrosa them. | ang would notify the Ansonia and se- \cure doctors. About this time Policeman came and I gave him Mise n's pistol and told him they had said the | ©, alt," Doomed the witness indig- “I repeat, alr—no, sir! fairly bellowed od hel Graham fy her sister, Mra. | Singleton, tn the fall of 1906 at the An- | 1y met her many times at many places. Lexington, Ky., but he dented that he| A court attend Mr. Jordan here made a formal de- Iitere to Mise Graham which were ized as evidence after her arrest | After @ squabble Mr. Sullivan handed ington to Miss Graham at Memphta, Tenn, and in tt her elderly correspond. | ent advised hd to come to Lexington | adding that he would gaurantee to get place for Miss Graham and her slster in the Anna Heki company at salaries point, rather intimated that his clenta’ | defense would be based upon a claim| Washington (Pa.) Recor, and ©, that Stekes came to the apartment be- | Guthrie, chav | Meving Miss Graham to be absent and | jured to-day ‘She came to my office on the Gixteenth Noor of the Ansonia on June 15,” answered Stokes. “She Gemanded $500 for the return of the letters, saying if I refused she would mail one of them each day, for fifteen daye to my present wife, I told her that I would pay her nothin, HAD A ROLL. tol me that she crossed on the same #hip with Téllan Graham, and taht 1 Man had confessed to her that she had had given her $30 and other men had @iven the remaining $1,700, asd also that she had taken my letters to lawyers who advised her #he could not use them against me. When 1 taxed Miss Graham with these admissions she went away. “Who wae this Countess?” asked Mr, sald Stokes, “but I thik she was from Austria. I re- member meeting her and having talks with her, but nothing All sorts and conditio people, but all in @ uniform state of perspiry mis- ery, packed the Police Court to hear the testimony But after sweltering for more than an hour in an atmosphere that seemed a compound of the subway, the stokehole of an ocean liner and the fumigation ward of a free hospital, the audience had ‘& Gisappointment. Magistrate Fresclet was called away for a conference with Mayor Gaynor and he put off beginning the hearing unt!l noon time. But for all thelr suffering most of the assembled spectators chose to walt for the promised entertainment—and wa't they did, while sweat ran down faces many of which fad not been otherwise treated with water for days—maybe ‘’eeks. CROWD SAW GIRLS, BEFORE IT DID STOKES. ‘The complainant and the complained of arrived at the Criminal Courts Bulld- ing almost simultaneously, but by dit- ferent routes, Mr, Stokes with his law- yers wont upstaira to the District-At- torney’s office, ao the crowd which swe tered and distilled strong essences of midsummer had a glimpse at the girl gun-fightera first. Mrs, Stella Singleton, —‘Lalllan Graham's older alster, who hurried back from Paris to give comfort and ald to the palr after thelr arrest, had come with them from thelt present place of retirement at No, 235 Hust Fifty yenth street, At 10.10 amid a bustle of interest from the spectators which must have been soothing to the professional instinct of persons of the play-acting trade, @ small procession entered the chamber. First came the attorney for the de- fense, Robert W, Moore, bearing an arm load of law calf, Then came Mrs, Singleton in baby blue nen, with a tri-colored millinery confection upon her head which looked strikingly like Neapolitan tce cream and produced a joothing, cooling effect upon the eye and mind, | Miss Graham and Mies Conrad, who | followed in the order named, both wore white Norfolk jackets with exceedingly | low sailor ¢ ars and white duck Miss Graham's hat was of tan straw, | Superimp do owith larg antities of white lace ani held ce by many hatpins ha h ne 9 dangling seemed Inwar denying that out really very, very w CHILDREN DIRTIED COSTUMES OF THE GIRLS, | the Mulberry ivend district who, fol- |iowing the cu now get: — NEWSPAPER MAN KILLED | CANONSBURG, Pa,, July 6. man of New Y ‘ Highborn Brooklyn Burglar: Photos of Girls Found in' Room r-olds and up ‘op Note, 99 (Beli), | and even, won by head; 100 (Wrispen), y Sybil, 105 (Sweeney), | six furlongs Steeplechase; handi- r-olds and upward; ot Leave, WA (Kenneth), and 2 to 6, third. y and Osage also un and finishe o—Three-year-olds 1m (Pickens), to 1 and 2 to 1, es and Montcalm also ran and fin- Niagara stakes; | All Over Baby’s y's Body, He Head and Face, two-year-olds; five furlongs. 4Gold Moisant also ss FORT ERIE ENTRIES. RACH TRACK, FORT ERIE, Valley ae en) saw Littan Graham prior to the shoot- Piridas’ Beauty, GUBS NOW GUESTS. AT POLO GROUNDS BATTING ORDER. COUNTESS SAID MISS GRAHAM) “I also told her that a Countess had | and Ointm 2,000 when she went abroad, of which I . i en att Snodgrass, cf. “ime of fire pounds, dat Salah LATONIA ENTRIES. RACE TRACK, Latonta, Ky., July 6. es for to-morrow's races ars | PITTSBURGS BEG WITH BROOKLYNS BATTING ORDER. Davidson, cf. Umpires—Brennan and Kiem. POLO GROUNDS, NEW YORK, July | Grounds this afterno: crackled | as with the heat, the diistering rays to see the Glants and {t out broiled and more of the faithful thetr years and stayed at ! RCE. Selling fy i me in the | ¥ k momentous | Wor chs that were being established up Notwithstanding place depended on this game Zimmerman, 8b. whether the old Anyway Wiltse ald the p! r jumped off. | ‘ub comedian, Umptres—O'Day and 1 did business fo | having played ih Original and Genuine HORLICK’S MALTED MILK The Food-drink for All — Forlafants, Invalids,and ue HBeithliteretiadin ae ba tes thenursing: oo with Atthur Dev- Arthur Fletcher played WASHINGTON PAR teburg team, Sheckard got a walk to start who 1s still disabled as a result of be- game, and went to sec ing hit on the head by came to the grounds to-day and began | a series of four gam nd on Schutte's to short and Sheckard was caught on the line, well then threw out Goode. ‘The Giants got away to a good start, ‘but ran into a streak of hard luck rm off the reel. walked, but Snodgrass squarely into J. vore was doubled at singled to left, weather was a trifle too hot for bases put up with the terrific heat and came out in good sized num- Dahlen “sent Targer to do the twirling for his team, Manager Clarke Camnitsz could beat the Both sides were blanked ball the fans iinet ined @slzzler Aafia mele eevee ' Aa fave miaste, “—~ (n No Combine or Trust Vacation Specials In Trunks and Leather Goods Chas. W. Wolf Largest Retail and Wholesale Leather Goods Dealers in City. Bathing sult Etittn but Merkle flied out two runs on a base 6n Miller's single and Da Hummel's throw in trying to get Miller first and second and Wils ntre for two bases. —<———= LATONIA FINISHES, FIRST. RACE—Selling; Is to Wagner, ert’s muff on drive to deep righ maiden colts Sale, 114 (Koerner), third , Do Nothing, , Captain Bravo, Clear Mutuels pala: ints. | 20:00 to 180.03 arkhuret & Sone. an kes of wardrobe trunks, as big as door | knobs, .Miss Conrad liad a long white | at. All three t there was no ardly they were Our entire line of factory and showroom wan At 14 to 4 Off Our Regular Prices. MAIN STORE 22 CORTLANDT ST. 8 Cortlandt St., 102 Nassau § 21 Maiden Lan Chalice and Loyal Ma BRANCHES- WRITE FOR CATALOGUES, » 16 Beaver St., 2NTION TO MAIL ORDERS, carved out a place | for them on a long bench, Their near- |FOURTEEN LETTERS AND A) {# Deikhvor was a soiled matron from n of her set, had | brought with her three exceedingly # small, active and dirty children, These youthful spectasors manifested @ @o- |eclable turn of mind and Miss Conrad, Who Sat nearest them, soon had black over fourteen letters and a telegram, | smudges on her Ph Your Liver is Clogged u, That’ ¥ 'e Nha Ne hone Tired—Out of 6th |Special A ates ERRY CREAMED TIL POUND Box DRTED CHOCO. - POUND BOX POUND BOX Park Row and Cortlandt Street stores open All Saturday evening unt Mail and Express Our candies can be shipped either by mail or expr: IN AUTOMOBILE SMASH. orRe Brown, aged thirty-five, a newspaper was killed, and i Palmer, sporting editor of the ur, were seriously tn- a nen their automobdile turned turtle near here, Brown's neck that in his disappointment he flew into | was broken, a a M of rage, attacked Miss Graham SMALL PILL, sMALL Gencine oui Signature to any part of If you cannot call per- sonally write us, and we will give you every attention. 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