Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-05
fESTlFIES MRS.
MAYR KISSED MAN.
EIGHB0R SAYS SHE WIT
MESSED FOND FAREWELL
lDN'T KNOW HIM; THINKS HE
WAS SHORT AND DARK
decorative Artist is Called In the
Divorce Suit to Tell of Amor
GUS Action with a
Stranger

Lying in such proximity that she
ould view with perhaps critical eye
ie daily movements of the occupant
( a little yard cottage at 2OS Thorne
rect which she had rented to Mrs.
mn Eta Mayr and could hear dis
nctly any unusual nightly sounds,
tiss Caroline A. Moore, who says she
a decorative artist, yesterday test
ed in the divorce trial of Mrs. Mayr
gainst Walter A. Mayr of Chicago
nat she had seen Mrs. Mayr kiss
ian as the two bade each other an
nectionate good night one evening III
ctober last.
Miss Moore could not identify the
ian because of the twilight shadows,
ut believed he was short and dark.
Mayr Is Rather Tall
The osculatory farewell, said Miss
Ioore, occurred near the head OF
horne street, and was plainly dis
ernible to the uniptentional watcher.
"And one morning in July, last
ear" said Miss Moore, IT saw a man
.oing to the cottage with Mrs. Mayr.
overheard only a scrap of their con-
iersation when the man said: MY
iod! if 1 was married to such a man
IS that!"
An Elusive Witness
BY far the most elusive witness thus
ar placed on the stand was Mrs. Jane
lauphin, in whose home, 229 Thorne
treet, Mrs. Mayr was at one time a
esident. Mrs. Mauphin said she Is
very busy woman and pays little or
10 attention to what transpires in the
.partments of her roomers. Neverthe-
-I,a hox IN
lignant when ]. 7. Critics, an orator
whose talks had edited the members
IF the Liberal and Progressive clubs
bf Los Angeles. called frequently at
the apartment of Mrs. Mayr, and she
ehided the latter upon her disregard
of the proprietieS while her suit for
divorce was pending.
The same man was seen with Mrs.
Mayr riding on a street car by DIR.
Emma Dawson, a prominent member
of the two clubs mentioned, but the
could see nothing wrong in
this, as Critics and Mrs. Mayr lived
in the same neighborhood and she ap-
peared to De somewhat nonpluSed over
the necessity for her testimony.
Miss Marguerite Mayr, sister of the
defendant was again on the stand dur
ing the forenoon, beginning her testi-
mony with a statement which was evil
IDENTIFY made for the purpose of quiet
ing the doubtful mind of her Sister-in-
laws attorney.
81 want to say" declared Miss Mayr,
not without feeling, that 1 have as
much affection for Mrs. Mayr as l
would have for my own sister, had I
one. 1 have as much affection for her
as l have for my brother"
Miss Mayr again dwelt upon the do
nestle life of her brother and his
wife and told Of Mrs. Mayr's anxiety
her husbands S education,
giving much time to teaching him for
eign languages.
Attorney Britt objected strongly
against this line of cross-exanination
bringing forth the retort from Attor-
ney Earl Rogers that it had as much
relevancy as the reflection upon Mrs.
Mayr's state of mind contained in the
statements by witnesses for the de-
tense that Mrs. Mayr had played a
piano at a dance hall, while, In fact,
the dance hall was'a highly respectable
dancing academy.
Literary Fest
The examination then developed into
q somewhat lengthy dissertation and
1elving into literature, attorneys and
witnesses discoursing with apparent
and the twelve apostles.
And it all grew out of the word
affinity" and ended in a conflict be-
tween witness and attorney in regard
10 the correct derivation of this ex-
preston which has operated so gem
lrously during the past two years to
listurb the peace of many firesides
ind bring together In blissful disre-
ard of the eternal fitness of things as
emanded by the marriage VOW men
nd women throughout the country.
Miss Mayr declared her sister-in-law
,ad described Joseph Calm as "her
ffinity," but the apparent harmful
ess of this expression was greatly
lodified when the witness, refreshing
er memory by means of a deposition
he had made some months ago, ac-
Enowledged that Mrs. Mayr had stated
he musicians artistic tastes were sin
lffinity with her own"
\ The trial will be resumed at o'clock
pday.
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