Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-03
CALM THREATENS
FORMER FRIEND
MRS. MAYR RECEIVES LETTER
FROM MUSICIAN
MIssIVE GOES INTO RECORDS OF
DIVORCE TRIAL
Brother of Complaining Husband Goes
on the Stand and Provokes
Smiles on Every

IF the expression contained in let
ter, evidently written in the stress OF
anger, are to be regarded in the nghl
of an avowed purpose, Charles II. hee-
| fer. one of the principal witnesses for
| Walter A. Mayr, now contestlng MS
wife's divorce suit in the superior court,
will receive a greeting several degrees
lacking the coolest formality when ne
again meets Joseph Calm, his one-time
| friend and instructor in music.
Almost at the last moment of the
trial Calm has been heard from, a
| letter having been received from him
by Mrs. Mayr Tuesday night, and Whlie
not read in court yesterday was made
| part of the record.
Gahm's letter is dated Wenzburg,
August 18, ten days prior to his SAILING
from Europe for America. II have
just heard about your trial" ne says,
land about Keefer'S testimony" HIS
frame of mind, he continues, is such
that were he present he would Kill
Mayrs witness.
ITO take the name of lady like Miss
Amy Fay is TERRIBLE says Gahm
There never was a woman anywhere
possessed of nobler character, and
am proud to claim her friendship. l
am at a loss as to who the Miss Ham
ilton referred to is supposed to be. Can
he not be arrested for such Infamous
slander?"
Accuses keefer
Calm charges Keefer with fa1sehood
and insists that he must be punished
The name of Miss Fay, he says, ought
to suffice as a contradiction to his state
ments. "How could be invent such
atrocities?" he asks. "I dare say he
took names at random without realiz-
ing at the time that he was making
an effort to ruin the reputation Of a
OIlo Rfn n
questioned"
Concluding, Calm says: "I am in
such a rage that I cannot work any
more today. trust you come out with
flying colors and that Keefer has been
arrested for perjury" Calm expresses
deep sympathy for Mrs. Mayr and best
wishes for her deserved triumph"
Owing to the fact that the letter was
received at this time, it was evidently
regarded with some suspicion by
Mayrs attorney who objected strenu-
ously to its introduction and was sus-
tanned, the letter, however, being made
part of the record in the case.
The monotony incident to the discus
sion of domestic finance as exemplified
in the Mayr household was relieved
yesterday when julius Mayr, brother of
Walter A. Mayr, took the witness
stand. julius Mayr was smiling cheer
lily when he entered the court room,
and he smiled cheerily when he left.
The spectators and even the principals
not only smiled in sympathy, but so
infectious was the good nature of the
witness that smiles broadened into
grins and emerged thence into laughs.
julius Mayr is a ranchman of River
side county. where he has lived three
and a half years. While answering
the questions of Mr.. Mayr's attorney
he leaned forward in the witness chair
confidentially. like man discussing a
pleasant subject over the delights of a
mint julep. He was called to disprove
statements contained in depositions
given by other members of the Mayr
family in which the mother and three
sons said they would not believe Wal
ter A. Mayr under oath.
He would believe his brother he said,
Notwithstanding the dispositions. In