The herald., 1896-03-01
AND JUSTICE MUST PREVAIL


necessary to call DR.. Whitman. For four
days Mayne remained in bed, and on
March 26th he went back to his Office,
Mrs. Wright protesting vigorously.
During a greater part of March 81, 1895,
Mayne was at the Wright residence.
March 29th at p. m. Mayne took the
He went to San Diego on particular busi-
ness connected with . water deal which
was being put through the city council of
, that city. There he remained during the
days of the 29th and 3Oth of March.
This is q fact that cannot be gainsaid,
yet these are the two nights upon which
Elsie and Della Shipton swore that they
had criminal relations with the same man.
When Mayne arrived at the Santa Fe
depot in San Diego on the night on March
90, 1895, he was met at the depot by
George M. Harvice and Richard Goodbody.
With them he went up town and afterward
left them and went TO the house Of Coun.
Gilman Davis.
Here he remained but . short time and
then he left for his own home at the corner
of First and Fir streets. Here he remained
all of the night of March 29th and 3Oth.
During the morning and afternoon Mayne
met . number Of councilmen and again
slept that night at his own house.
Sunday. March 81, he remained In San
Diego until the departure Of tho afternoon
train, meeting at his house Councilman
George M. Harvice. At 2 p. m. March
81, he came to Los Angeles. and Monday,
April lst. returned to San Diego and came
back to Los Angeles on the 9TH of April
very much debilitated.
That same day Mayne called at the
Wright residence and was met by Della,
who greeted him with outstretched arms
in these words:
"Papa, they have put up job on you.
Mr.. Wright has got Elsie to tease you un.
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Mayne thought this merely the greeting
of an impetuous child and passed on into
the parlor and took seat.
Directly the man seated himself Elsie,
the l3-year-old girl, fell upon him and
commenced to plead with him to room
with them at Mrs. Wright's. He tod her
what u hard time Mrs. Wright was having
in caring for them, and in reply was told
how he could help Mrs. Wright out by
rooming there.
Mayne finally consented, against his
will, and Elsie ran out of the parlor. in
great exultation, shouting:
"He has agreed to take it, Mrs. Wright.
l told you I'd get him to if you'd leave it to
NO."
But ir taking the room at the Wright
place Mayne was always half.hearted, and
he did not relinquish his rooms at the
Nadeau beyond April IL, when he returned
to them.
and his wards was . folding door. Against
this folding door on their side of the room
was a foldiog bed which rested there by
Mayne's orders given to Mrs. Wright.
This door was always closed save when
Mayne was sick.
About 6:3O on the morning of April s,
and after the period Mayne was reason
ably we'll, both the girls bounded out Of
bed in their night gowns and ran into
Mayne's bedroom and attempted to kiss
him.
Mayne accepted their caresses. but was
shocked and went to Mrs. Wright about it
at once. He protested to her and told her
girls to do. To this Mrs. Wright said in
substance:
"You ought to be glad to have young
and innocent beings like they love you."
Later Mayne noticed that Elsie kept her
light burning late. He told her she should
net DO SO, as it was unhealthy. To this
she said:
''You come in and put it out.'
Mayne declined, whereupon Mrs. Wright
accused him Of being prudish.
That night Elsie cried piteously and
wanted Mayne to kiss her good night. He
did so and soon retired to his room.
May 4th Mayne left the Wright house
and looked for rooms elsewhere.
He told Mrs. Wright that il she wanted
him to room in her house with the girls she
must get place on the ground floor, where
Mr.. and Mrs. Wright could room between
them. She said she would do 30.
Mrs. Wright that night upbraided Mayne.
and as he had come to see the children she
said he could not go. and hid his overcoat.
He found it and departed. He would not
not stay. although she begged him to.
June 80, 1895, Mayne went to San
Diego. In the meantime he had been
hunting a new place for the children, hav-
ing decided that the city was not the place
for them. He had concluded to place them
in the country.
Now the plot begins to grow murky. Sew.
known.
A party named Calver, with whom Mayne
had been mixed in deals in San Francisco,
appeared on the scene at Los Angeles in
July, 1898. He had it in for Mayne.
In some way about this time Mayne's
wife at San Diego, with whom he had pre-
viously agreed to separate, learned of his
relations with the two little girls in Los
Angeles.
She was Immediately informed that there
were no improper relations, but Mr.. Calver
had done we'll his work in kindling the
flame of jealousy.
Despite Maynes denial his wife secured
the deeds he had not yet recorded bearing
her signature and cut her name out of all
of them with a pair of scissors.
Then she came at once to Los Angeles
and hunted out Mrs. Wright.
Mrs Mayne was very much worked I'D.
Mrs, Wight helped out her passion against
the formers husband. The two women
got the girl, Elsie Shipton. They had an
interview with her.
That interview will ever be memorable,
1t was held on the 9Th of July last. Elsie
denied absolutely that Mayne had ever
done her wrong. She insisted and persisted
in her denial.
Finally the girl became erased. She was
told that if she admitted that Mayne he'd
ruined her all the blame would rebound
on him, but if she insisted that he did not
she would have to bear it all.
She gave in, and made a so.called con-
fession.
Then after it was made there was a
quarrel as to whether Mrs. Wright or Mrs.
Mayne should have 1t. 1t was finally
agreed to deposit it in safety deposit
vault, and it was only to be drawn by
either of the women, to prevent Mayne
from getting possession of the girl
Mrs. Mayne had no idea that this con.
fession would be the means of sending her
husband to the penitentiary.
Wright, himself. in the meantime, had
an eye to the .'Mayne chance" for he
wired Mayne at San Diego something like
this:
bring money to square the whole thing.
Never come unless you do"
Mrs. Mayne proceeded to San Diego and
showed Mayne a copy of Elsie's alles ed
confession. Mayne read it and passed it
off as the crazy emanalion of two crazy