The San Francisco call., 1908-09-21

Los Angeles newspapers at that time
of having planned the trouble for
Mayne. and with having furnished the
money which was used freely by the
prosecution in an endeayor to obtain
conviction. The testimony adduced at
the trial was of the most salacious ma
ture, but the question of Mayne's guilt
hinged upon the age of Elsie Shipton-
Mayne was found guilty in November.
1895. and sentenced by Judge Smith to
% years in San Quentin. He took an
appeal, but was forced to remain in the
county Jail, being unable to furnish
bonds. A year later Mrs. Shipton and
her daughters. who had slipped away
across the border into Mexico and were
finally found at the home of Mr. Sabine
at Tia Juana, made affidavits that all
the testimony given against Mayne at
the trial was untrue and the result of
a conspiracy to secure his conviction.
On the strength of these affidavits the
charges against Mayne were dismissed
and he was released from custody.
In the meantime Mrs. Mayne, who had
remained at her home in San Diego,
sued for a divorce from Mayne and it
was granted on the ground of cruelty,
the defendant being awarded $4,000
alimony and allowed to take the name
of Dumouriez. The $4,000 was alleged
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Mayne to her husband. but as Mayne
was then practically penniless the judg-
ment was never recovered. Mayne came
north again and is said to be living
now in Nevada.
After securing her divorce from
Mayne but before the affldavits of the
Shipton girls had absolved him from
the charge upon which he had been
convicted and sentenced, some lingering
regard in the heart of Mrs. Mayne for
her ex-husband caused her to begin
an endeavor to saveshlm from the peni-
tentiary. for it then seemed that there
was no hope of reversal of the judg-
ment against him by the supreme court.
Then, in 1907 Mrs. Mayne-or Mrs.
Dumouriez. as she had heconle-quietly
disposed of her interests in San Diego
and came to San Francisco, where Gov
ernor Budd- was staying, to plead per-
sonally with the states chief execu-
tive for ciemency for Mayne.
ROMANCE FOLLOWS
EARLY MEETING
From the day that Mrs. Dumouriez
first called upon Governor Budd at his
offices in this city there began the ro-
nance. which was to continue until his
death-whieh was to exert an all pow
erful influence over practically, his
every act; which was to estrange him
in his latter years from his own family;
which was to cause him to withhold a
strange secret from even his dearest
friends, and which finally was to haunt
his memory when his body had been
laid at final rest.
But did this powerful attachment
which bound Governor .Budd and Mrs
Dunlouriez together for so many years
actually begin at that meeting?
To the mother of Governor Budd the
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be believed Years ago she opened her,
arms to Mrs Dumouriez and ciasped
her to her heart. They became fast
friends. close companions, and between
them there has never arisen the ques-
ton of the right of wrong of subse-
quent events. The mother has accepted
unchallenged the hazy, unverified whis-
pers of an existing kinship and she
has taken as final answer the
personal loveliness of Mrs. Dumouriez
and pledged her loyalty to the woman
who disrupted her sons home and left
her sons wife miserable and lonely for
decade
Soon after her first meeting with
Governor Budd, Mrs. Dumouriez became
identified I'm a slight way with state
affairs. and her influence over Governor
Budd asserted itself through the favors
she publicly received at his hands. BY
him she was made Secretary of the
state debris commission under General
Kidder and served for several months
I in this official capacity. Then she re-
turned from Sacramento to San Fran
cisco and made her residence for a time
at the Palace hotel.
LIVED IN HOME
BOUGHT By BUDD
Later Governor Budd purchased for
Mrs. Dunouriez a house In Page street
in this city and for years she and her
daughter lived quietly there, receiving
and only when closely questioned re-
peating some of the stories that hinged
on the alleged kinship. To some of her
friends Mrs. Dumouriez asserted that
she was niece Of General Kidder.
while to others she gave vague hints