The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-08
MISS M'GILLPAYS
CHAUFFRUR'S WIFE
Charges in Divorce Suit With
drawn on Promise Of 3d.
500 for Mrs. Mayer.
MORE THAN JURY GAVE
Case on Trial Now NarrOws to
Husbands Accusation
Mother on Stand.
MORE THAN JURY GAVE

Miss Eleanor A. McGill OF Is CLIFFORD
avenue. Jersey City. who was named as
correspondent by Mrs. Mary Mayer in a
cross petition after the husband, Walter
Mayer. had sued for divorce, succeeded in
having the charge against her withdrawn
when the trial was resumed yesterday
before Nice-Chancellor Lewis In Jersey
city
Miss McGill offered to pay at once the
$4,000 verdict obtained against her by
Mrs. Mayer In her alienation suit two
weeks ago and an additional $4,000. This
was accepted and the cross petition was
Withdrawn. Mrs Mayer had charged
that Miss McGill and Mayer. Miss Nc
Gills chauffeur. were indiscreet at the
McGill home in Jersey City, in Platts-
burg. at the Witherhll House near BY and
In Boston.
When the case opened yesterday the
absence of Miss McGill and her chauffeur
created the first suspicion that the case
might take a new turn. Ex-Justice Gil.
bert Collins counsel for the correspondent
filed an answer in which Miss McGill
denied all charges made against her.
Peter Bentley. Mrs. Mayors lawyer.
then asked permission to withdraw the
cross petition naming Miss McGil He
said that the failure of the Jury in the
recent alienation suit TO find Miss McGill
guilty of wrong doing led him to believe
that he might have hard time proving
his case. There was no intimation to the
court that 1t had been a cash settlement
which caused Mrs. Mayer to Withdraw her
cross petition
Mayer charged his wife with mis-
conduct with a young German named
otto Dickow. This suit was not COM
menced, however, until after Mrs. Mayer
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against Miss McGill.
Testfying Yesterday Mrs. MAYER vehe-
mently denied that she had ever been in
discreet with Dickow. She said 1t was n
frame up" by her husband and that
Dickow had told her so.
In corroboration OF the "frameup"
charge Mrs. Mayer produced as witnesses
James Butler Robert q. Brown, Charles
Newkirk. Miss Anna Jackson. Mrs Mary
Ensign and Miss Elizabeth Ensign. all of
whom testified that they had heard Dckow
tell Mrs. Mayer or that he confessed TO
them that the charges against Mrs. Mayer
We're false and tnade up by Mayer.
Mrs Louise Mayer of l07 Charles street,
mother OF the chauffeur husband was A.
witness for Mrs. MaSer. She was sub
pTnaed by the defence after much trouble.
She said that she had never seen anything
improper and contradicted In part the
stories OF two of her sons, Leon and
Stanley Mayer
II never knew anything about this story
OF my daughter-in-laws misconduct until
I read 1t In the papers six weeks ago when
the divorce trial first started" said
Mayors mother. II made him leave my
house Immediately. lie had been a
boarder with me until then"
Only once was the name OF Miss McGill
mentioned That was when Mrs Mayer
was telling of her troubles with her hus-
band. She said that the first quarrel
they ever had was caused through his
having picture OF Miss McGll In his
possession.
81 took him to task for having Miss
McG!ll's photo" Mrs. Mayer said, land
ne left me"
The case will be continued this morn.
ihe.