Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-20
WANTED TO KNOW
ABOUT BABYBAND
MAYR DIVORCE SUIT DRAGS
THROUGH COURT
LETTER OF WIFE GIVES FURTHER
INSIGHT
EpistIe Shows Wcman's Viewpoint
When She Asked Her Husband
for Some Necessaries
of Life

Apparently refreshed by one days
tnferrnission Walter A. Mayr, whose
wife, Ann Eta Mayr, is suing him
for divorce in the superior court, yes
terday returned to the witness chair
to tell further the story of his do
nestle troubles.
While a great part of the cross-ax-
animation related to the financial diff
ficulties between this mismated couple,
other things were also touched upon,
lightly by Mayr in some instances,
and with some show of angry remem-
brance in others, while Mrs. Mayrs
attorney indicated his disapprobation
at times to such a degree that a Wig
orous protest was called forth from
Mayr's attorney, in which he referred
to the provision Of the statutes that
witnesses shall be protected against
harsh treatment by counsel
That Joseph Calm, the musician,
whom Mrs Mayr is alleged to have
addressed as Dear Brown Eyes" was
but one of those for whom she ex-
pressed admiration, notwithstanding
her husbands disapprovaI, was learned
yesterday. Chief among these men is
a Chinese, a waiter at the Shanghai
restaurant in Chicago, where Mrs.
Mayr and her bosom friend, Miss Laura
Elliott, frequently took their meals.
returning to the Mayr home with tales
aU6uI I1e tl1c appearance Vi liz ~
lestial and envious comments gem
orally upon the manner of Chinese life.
Letter from Lawyer
"And you believed at that time that
your wife was infatuated with Chi
nese waiter?" asked Mrs. Mayrs law
yer.
NO" replied Mayr, "I can't say as
to that. But from the fact that the
waiter had not given those two ladies
a check for their meals I imagined
there was something improper when
they would accept this courtesy from
a Chinese waiter"
Mayr also protested, he said, against
the visits to his home during his alb
sence of an italian music teacher, and
later said his wife had received a
letter from a Los Angeles lawyer
which twas not of a nature she would
care to have published"
Mayr said his wife dubbed him
dumb Dutchman" because he OBJ
jected to these men, and also because
he could not understand how she
wished to live. 81 lived in rut, she
said, while she was ambitious"
The paternity of the Mayr baby was
touched upon occasionally, Mayr again
referring to the fact that he had pur-
chased cigars to celebrate the arrival
of Mrs. Mayrs child.
More Letters introduced
"And you believed it proper to cele-
brate the arrival of your wife's baby?"
asked the attorney.
well, I was not as well informed
then as 1 am at present" was the
reply
Mayr also said he feared that his
wife and her brother would chloroform
him in order that they might possess
certain valuable papers, giving as his
reason for this fear that he met the
two on a Chicago street one day and
they passed without salutation.
Another sheaf of the correspondence
between the husband and wife, in
which Mrs Mayr protested vigorously
against the placing before the public
their domestic tribulations and took
exception to his interference in house.
hold affairs of which he could have but
little insight, made up a part of the
days proceedings. The letter is in
reply to one written by Mayr, in which
he demanded a list of things needed by
his wife, and was written in Febru-
airy, 1906.
"You ask and insist" Mrs. Mayr
says, that 1 shall tell you for what
I need money and then. as ofttimes
Judgment upon things about which
you have at most a very limited knowl-
edge For instance, baby's bands are
little now-necked, sleeveless shirts,
knitted out of silk and wool. 1 might.
of course, succeed in making them If
necessary, but knitting went out OF
fashion with our grandmothers. | can,
of course, use your umbrella. although
it is rathert clumsy. I could, if neces-