The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-04-04
FORMER WELL KNOWN
EUREKA COUPLE SEPARATE
The Tonopah Bonanza's Story Of
MI. and Mrs. Ernest Mau's
Marital Troubles

III eureka laSC week from MIS-. En-
nest Mau at T~onopah asking if her
husband was in Eureka, or if his
whereabouts were known by his re-
latives or friends here. Letters have
since been received containing in
formation regarding the separation
of the couple. The Tonopah
Bonanza of March q has the fol-
lowing to say of them during
their residence at Tonopah. Mr..
Mau's disappearance, and the d.
vorce proceedings commenced by
his wife:
H.sreputed domestic relations,
abandonment of business. threats of
suicide and sudden disappearance
form the sequel toa simple little suit
for divorce filed last Tuesday after
noon by Mrs. Ernest Mau against her
husband, who has been engaged in
business here for the last six months.
The melodramatic staging was due
to the fact that the plaintiff failed to
keep her own counsels after decid-
ing upon a divorce and was not salts
fled until she told all about her plans.
Mau was taken by surprise and ex-
pressed himself unable to survive the
separation, with a threat that he
would not be found alive when her
attorney came to serve the summons.
He is still alive. but he has not been
found. The store in the Palace Ho-
tel building, after remaining closed
for two days, was taken possession
of this morning by H. S. Adelstein,
representative of the San Francisco
Board of Trade. Mau's business was
prosperous. He carried a stock
worth $4,000 and his liabilities were
not more than $4,000. The coming
of the agent of the Board of Trade
is shrewdly surmised to have been d.
rected by Mau.
Suit was filed last Tuesday asking
for absolute divorce on the ground of
cruelty, with almony of $50 a week.
The allegation was a surprise to most
people as the couple had been mar
ried only a scant year. having been
united in wedlock in San Francisco
March IL, 1913. At the time Mau
was a merchant at Eureka, but that
place was too narrow for the soaring
ambitions of the couple, who resolved
to come to live camp and according
ly moved here, where Mau established
himself with a complete new stock
of mems furnishings. He rented a
house on Florence avenue and most
of the time the couple took their
meals at the Mizpah grill, where Mrs.
Mau was greatly admired. She was
the junior of her husband by a few
years and her fondness for diamonds
and other feminine Injuries was the
subject of much gossip. Last on
day the couple quarreled and the
wife is said to have told her spouse
that she was tired of the union and
would ask for a legal separation. Mau
thereupon protested his devotion and
remarked that only death could d.
vide them, and he would furnish the
corpse, so plaintiff alleges in her
complaint.
This had no effect on the lady, who
proceeded to employ Attorney Cooke
and then to enjoy a bit of womanly
revenge, she thought she would go
around and tell of what she had done.
That is where she put her foot in it
and where hubby got wise to a better
scheme than a sudden call for the
curtain. He got busy and disappeared.
Next morning Sheriff Malley went IN
person to serve the papers and found
the store closed and shades down.
At the house there was no answer to
repeated knocks and then the sheriff
thought that Mau had carried his
threat into execution. Summoning
Deputy Billy Walker for a witness,
Malley forced an entrance but failed
to find the CORY remains of the mer-
chant little sleuthing convinced him
that Mau had gone out the previous
evening by auto to Eureka to adjust
his business at the old home, and
therefore there were no duties de-
volving on the officers of Nye County.
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