Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-17
Yacht Trips Down Potomac
FIGURE in Declaration.
FEARS LOSS OF FORTUNE
Mrs. Mayer Alleges That Estate Is
Being Dissipated.
HAD SEPARATION AGREEMENT
Complainant Alarmed Lest There Be
Nothing Left to Pay Her
Allowance.

Mrs. Roberta W. Mayer has filed suit
In the District supreme Court for an
absolute divorce from Theodore a.
Mayer. son of the late Theodore j.
Mayer OF this city. The suit promises
many sensational Developments, and is
creating no little interest on account
of the prominence of the persons in
vo1ved.
in her petition for divorce Mrs. Mayer
charges her husband with reckless eX-
travaganCe, with entertaining another
woman, who is named as correspondent
in the case. aboard his yacht. the CT
coma. during long journeys which he
claimed were hunting and fishing trips
with few of his men friends. Accord
ing to the petition Mr.. Mayer has been
going through the large fortune his
father left him at as rapid a pace as he
could.
BY the terms of his fathers will, MIR.
Mayer does not come into his fortune.
which amounts to several hundred thou
sand dollars until. he is forty-eight years
old. but he is allowed a large income
from the estate. But his wife charges
that he is obtaining money on real es-
tate and in other ways is making way
with his fortune.
Alleges Trips on Yacht.
The correspondent named in the case is
Frances E. Lord of this city, and Mr..
Mayer is charged in the petition with
having taken her on frequent trips on his
yacht in the past year
Mrs. Mayer. first learned of her hus-
bands attentions to Mrs Lord, she says
in her petition. when number of letters
written by Mrs. Lord to Mr.. Mayer came
into her hands. Since Mrs. Mayer made
this discovery she has not lived with .ier
husband.
They drew up an agreement whereby
they should separate, and he was to pay
her s1OO a month for her support until
1911, and then $50 month until 1914.
There was "a stipulation in the agreement
whereby it was to become null and void
If either party should sue for an absO-
lutte divorce.
Married in Alexandria.
Mrs. Mayer. who was formerly Miss
Roberta W. SomervelI. was married to
Theodore A. Mayer in Alexandria, and
they lived together until May. 1909, when
Mrs. Mayer says she discovered the let
ters from Mrs Lord to her husband.
At her home in the Plaza apartment
house today Mrs. Mayer said she prefer
red not TO enter into the details of the
case, but that she had the necessary
proof to win her divorce
She is an attractive little woman, with
lark hair and dark eyes. She said she
vas willing 10 spare her husband as
much as possible, but that matters had
come To such a pass that she felt COM
pciied to act.
Mr.. Mayer was not at his residence, PA
- street southeast. when reporter call
eel on him this morning, and il was said
mat he was out of the city.
Left Fortune by Father.
By the will of the elder Mayer, who
died in 1897. the young man received
$4,000 in personal property and real
estate valued at 10000, in addition to
monthly income of $500 An ad-
ditional $4,000 is payable TO him in
1911. another like sum in 1914, and
thereafter he is to receive $4,000 every
three years until he is forty-eight
years old. when he comes into an estate
valued at several hundred thousand
dollars.
The wife complains that by
his alleged reckless extravaganza
Mr. Mayer has been obliged to incum-
ber his real estate. and she Tears lnat
a6diJiOnal loans may ne secured on his
real estate, 10 the detriment of her right
TO have Her support made first nen
on the estate.
Attorneys Leckie, Fulton q Cox rep
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