Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-05
MILLIONARES DUAL
LIFE Is LAID BARE BY
SUICIDE OF GIRL, Is
Search for Missing Stenog-
rapher Reveals Fac t
That R ich Employer
Maintained Two Homes.
Girl Knew of Duplicity.

NEW HAVEN. Conn. March SAN
hour after the body Of Lillian May Cook
the 1S-year-old stenographer Of Virginius
j. Mayo millionaire head Of the Mayo
Radiator Company, had been discovered
n lonely spot on top West Rock Noun
tain, four miles from New Haven and
overlooking the city yesterday afternoon,
q limousine arrived at the crest of the
hill and Mayo, accompanied " Police
Captain Doherty. got out, He walked to
the circle OF people about the body, took
a look over their shoulders and turned
away with his hands to his face.
bullet had pierced the girls heart and
under her body lay revolver with one
chamber empty. For a week she had
been missing from this city.
There was dramatic little story about
the dead girl after having been melan-
choly for a year. But accompanying
that story there came to light another,
far more dramatic, involving two living
women and a man.
It wns revealed by an investigation
OF Miss Cooks life that Mayo for four
years has been living a double life. He
haa been maintaining a costly home on
DiSwell avenue, this city. with n middle
aged, childless wife, and at the same time
has bEs<s keeping up a still more eX-
pensive home at 5i6 4th st, Brooklyn,
with a younger and attractive woman, !
who has borne him two children. There |
ne was KNOWN as JHtD@3 Ouuley ara lne /
woman as Mrs. Dudley Until four years !
ago she had been employed at Mayo's !
factory In the same position as Miss |
Cook occupied later. She then was known /
as Lois Waterbury.
GIRL KNEW OF DUAL LIFE.
Two years ago Miss Cook had been em-
plnyed as nursegirl at the home of the
Brooklyn womsn. The girl knew OF
Mayo's dual life and kept silent, suffer-
ing under some sorrow of her own, until
she ended everything by suicide.
Just a short time before the girls body
was found Mayo admitted to police de-
tective that he was James Dudley" of
the Brooklyn address.
II am no angel" he said 81 do not
pose as one. ! have made my mistakes.
1t would be foolish of me to deny them.
because they are known to many living
here. but let me say that there was never
a better girl living than Miss Cook There
was absolutely nothing about our rela-
tions that could be questioned, and any
rumor of that kind that the absence of
the girl has given rise to is a terrible in
Justice to her."
Captain of Detectives James NJ. Dom
nelly, of the New Haven police, who has
investigated the case for week, said
there was no reason to doubt the story
of Mayo
The girl lived at the Y. w. c. A. here,
spent three nights week at the Butler
Business College, few blocks away from
the Y. w. c. A., and was during the rest
OF her time almost constantly in the
company of Miss Ellen Wilson, her room
mate and fellow clerk at Mayo's factory
CORONER CALLS MAYO.
After States Attorney Alllng had con-
Icr-Hd with Coroner Mix today, Mayo
WAS summoned to appear before the local
|
Coroner Mix also examined Frank
Cook, the dead girls father, and her
roommate at the local Y. w. c. A., Miss
Ellen Wilson, before he sent for Mayo. I
formed.
The father is confident this will show
no physical condition that might have /
ornmnted the girl to kill herself l
Lillian was one of the finest girls i'm S
he world he said. except that she was ]
ubjeet TO fits of deepest melancholia. I
Ne never knew the cause of these She I
vas as pure and noble a girl as ever I
wed. | am confident the autopsy will a
how that 1t was her mental and not
er physical condition that caused ner L
o take her life"
Cook said his daughter had never told &
i'm she knew Mayo as Dudley" and Fl
eclared he was perpIexed at her silence 81
! the case. h
OPENED WAIST FOR SHOT. Ii
The body was found by Raymond Phil =,
ps. l9-year-old youth who was search
q little way of the main road near -,
le top of West Rock. The girl had w
irown open her blue chnchilla coat and ~
'ened her shirtwaist before firing the
lot. placing the muzzle against her M
art. so that the bullet went straight. pl
rom the condition of the body, II is be- al
wed she had killed herself on the after TO
ION she disappeared. cf
For year Miss Cook had been melan- w
oily. and her friends all knew her as
odd little girl. The fact that she had OF
en- found killed with revolver caused ST
surprise. The day before she disap- tn
ared the girl came into the office from wi
E factory with revolver in her hana, M
wing: a
I am going to kill myself with this"
The fact that the Mays of New Haven
3 the Dudley" of Brooklyn was made
own through a number of anonymous ov
ters sent to the police of New Haven -
of Brooklyn and to several New al
rk newspapers. One letter said an in co
stigation would show this to be a his
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