New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
Jury Finds for Mrs. Mayer
After Six and a Half
Hours.
NO DECISION AS TO
CRIMINAL CHARGES
Counsel for Plaintiff ArraignS
HeiresS Mercilessly-She
Wins Sympathy.

The jury in the $4,000 alienation Of
affections suit brought by Mrs. Mary
Mayer against Miss Eleanor A. McGill,
daughter of a Jersey City banker,
| brought in a verdict at 1915 o'clock
| last night, awarding Mrs. Mayer $4,000.
/ The jury retired TO consider the case
at 5:45 o'clock in the afternoon. it
| took six and n half hours to reach
/ decision.
| IL is understood that the jurors did
not vote on the question Of criminal
conversation between Miss McGill and
/ Walter Mayer, for alternating whose af-
/ fcctions she was sued. One report had
/ it that a majority of the jurors for a
long time favored giving Mrs. Mayer
/ $4,000 on that count and $4,000 on
the second, or alienation count. II was
I even said that the persistence of one
juror alone prevented it.
Counsel for Mrs. Mayer said that
. they would bring another suit to-day
/ similar 10 the one just decided, and
for the same amount, for the alienation
of Mayors affections from November,
1919, to the present time.
When the jury came in neither Miss
+ McGill nor her chief counsel, Mr.. Col
Inns. was present to hear the verdict.
Her wealth has been variously esti-
mated at from 100000 to Sl,00OOOO.
The courtroom was crowded, but there
was no demonstration.
Miss McGil's grandfather was dean
OF Princeton University for many
years. Her uncle was once Chancellor
Of New jersey. Her father, DR.. John
McGill. was a prominent banker and he
was Surgeon General of New Jersey
for a generation.
Defendant Severely Arraigned.
Startling scenes interrupted the
summing up Of counsel for Mrs.
Mayer. and brought a trial already
sensational to an even more dramatic
close. Speaking with a disregard OF
the usual conventionalities OF Ian
guage, arraigning Miss McGill, who
it was evident had nerved herself for
the ordeal with brutal directness
seldom eaualled, Alexander Simpson,
By the directness Of his language,
drove women from the room and
caused many Of those who remained
10 lower their wells.
Dressed entirely in black. as she
has been throughout the trial, Miss
/ McGill clutched the sides of her chair
when Simpson rose. She listened
contemptuously to his opening re-
marks, but her lips trembled when,
shaking his finger at her, he tore to
shreds her character and reputation.
When, in ringing voice, the law
yer shouted, "That woman has chosen
20 make her own bed and his, to en-
10y that mans company" it was more
than the girlish-looking divorcee could
stand. Springing to her feet, her eyes
blazing. her hands clenched, she eX-
claimed: 81 did not. II is not true"
As he went on with his merciless
arrangement. Mrs. Gamble left the
courtroom, holding her hands to her
ears. and others followed suit. Miss
NcGill stuck it out.
She flashed back defiance with her
eyes, but her lips trembled neverthe-
less. Twice again. ignoring the warn
ing Of Judge Speer, she jumped eX-
citedly to her feet TO interrupt with
vehement denials.
Miss McGill Wins Sympathy.
Miss McGill won the sympathy Of
those watching her by the tremendous
effort she made to control herself.
Later. when her own counsel was de-
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