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was living in a hotel on Lexington Avenue just off 34th Street - in that area - with an elevator and an attendant to wheel her back and forth. Everybody thought she was such a lovely girl. Everybody felt sorry for her. It was a residential hotel and everybody in the hotel was so kind to her, so helpful to her - “That lovely, brave girl, so paralyzed.”

It was all true. She was paralyzed, but she was an hysterical case. There was nothing about her physical condition that she couldn't walk. This had gone on for two or three years before the insurance company began to wonder if perhaps Stella was pulling something on them. They began to look into it. I didn't let them go to Mrs. Goericke, but I put her onto it. I said, “It's diagnosed as hysterical paralysis. Our doctors here think it's hysterical. Perhaps you can think of some way of getting Stella out of this situation.” She did think of something. I've forgotten what she did, but literally, within a year after Mrs. Goericke took that case over Stella came to the commission on crutches. She graduated from the wheel chair, could walk a little, and if you would give her a hand she could walk. She came on a cane afterwards. Then she disappeared. It was several months before she wrote to Sam Kaltman of the Aetna Life Insurance Company, I think, and said, “You've been so kind