New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-23
SAY MISS M'GILL
GOT MANY KISSES
Witnesses Tell of Chauf-
feur's Acts with Fair
Employer.
WIFE ASKS $4,000
FOR LOST AFFECTION
Ex.Coachman Alleges He Tried
10 End Affair and Was
Told to Quit.

Plaintiff and defendant testified yes
terday when the suit for S5O.Ooo FOR
alienation of her husbands affections,
brought by Mrs. Mary Nayer against
Miss Eleanor A. McGill, came to trial
tefore Judge Speer in Jersey City yes
terday.
They presented a striking contrast IN
personal appearance the millionaire
daughter Of one of New Jerseys mo :
prominent families and the wife OF her
chauffeur. Extensively gowred and
wearing large black picture hat, Miss
McGill, with her slight figure and great
masses of golden brown hair and vivid
complexion, looked more like a school
girl than divorced woman of thirty
two.
Mrs. Mayer was dressed in a ready
made skirt and shirtwaist, and a small,
unframed straw hat She was stout and
worn looking. Her hands chowed signs
of hard work and her expression was
careworn. Her counsel gave her age as
twenty-four. Walter Mayer, her hus-
band, never once glanced at her or
their four-year-Old son, who was with
her
With unchanged expression Miss Nc
Gill listened &C. former maids tell OF
bringing eggnogg to her boudOir and
finding Mayersthere combing her hair
and kissing her and of serving coffee"
for two in her room frequently in the
mornings.
With the same impersonal attitude
she listened to the reading of a number
of her chauffeurs letters to his wife,
in one of which ne said: This sport
ing life is h -, drinking, eating and
smoking. The McGills are the kind of
people | like to work for" And to
another which read in part: every
thing | have IS paid for and costs me
nothing, drinks, candy, fruit and all
that; and in third ne wrote: Il am
living like king"
The story of the egg-nogg and the
kiss was told on the witness stand by
Pauline Merrick, once a maid in the
McGil home. The substance Of her
testimony was this:
zone day Miss McGill ordered me 10
bring an egsnogg to her boudo:r
Mayer was there; he was combing her
hair. He did not hear me when | err
tered. and just as | did he kissed ner.
Then he saw me and suddenly straight
ened up, but Miss McGill just looked
at me and laughed and said: Don't
you think it is terrible for him to kiss
me -"
81 frequently saw Miss McGill in his
room, both early and late" the witness
added.
Anna Maioney, whom Miss McGill
had employed as chambermaid at one
time. testified that she took up coffee
for two to her room almost every
morning, and Henry Meyer. a former
coachman. said he was discharged BE-
bo b..l ht 10
ectng his wife and child.
Meyer. after saying he had been dis
charged for demonstrating with Mayer.
testified that Miss McGill and the
chauffeur would enter the McGill home
through the porte cochere; that the
latter would stay all night and would
leave the house the next morning by
the front door and walk around
through Clifford ay, the Boulevard and
Belmont av. TO the stables.
"You know you arc going wrong"
the witness said he told Mayer. you
ought to go back to your wife and
child. for there is a God in heaven
who will punish you. With the tears
streaming down his face he said TO
me: i want to go back. but don't know
how to 20 about it. Ny wife is good
woman"
Mrs. Mayer told of a visit TO Miss
McGill, in which she told her that her
husband was neglecting her and stay
ing away from home at night. Miss
NcGill when she took the stand ad
mitted the visit.
81 kept Mayer in my employ as my
chauffeur even after | knew that Mrs.
Mayer had begun some sort Of proceed
ings involving me-" she said. because
he was a good chauffeur and could not
get another job. | was innocent and
he was innocent, and | was advised to
retain him"
Don't you think If you had dis
charged him after you learned his do
nestle difficulty he would have been
reconcled to his wife," she was asked.
s.Tb.t ,vas nonp If my a fair"