New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-06
Lillian Cooks Father
VOWS TO SOlpe Mystery

in the streets, he hears, Eyes, / remem-
Der when tho Waterbury girl" or,
81 was I'D on West Rock last Wednes.
day." or, mayor is good hearted
chap"
To get back to Mayo himself, the
idea seems to prevail here that the
radiator manufacturer is very gen.
erous man, although a very foolish one
in some particulars. IL was said OF
him t-day that so far as the employees
of his factory are concerned, the
workers for no one fare better. lie
is said TO take a personal interest in
them all Mayo owns fourteen motor
cars, and they are said TO be largely
at the disposal of many Of his employees
when they are i'll or the night Is
stormy.
Called Quiet Philanthropist.
"He has done good deal more
for charity than great many So
called philanthropists, and done il in
a quiet way. too said one who knew
Mayo very we'll
The same persons, however, who
laud Mayo for his generosity, and
praise him for his business acemen
do not spare him in other particulars.
His affair with Lois Waterbury meets
with much condemnation. He lives in
a nice, but not at all ostentatious
house, near his factory, which is long
red brick building, and which produces
for him the largest part of his income.
Some of this income, though, is said
to be derived from valuable patents he
owns.
He is a member of the New York
Al Al
the Motor Boat Association. His first
wife is dead She left a daughter,
who lives in Pelham. and is the wife Of
an artist.
He and his second wife have been
married about nine years. and have no
children. Mayo was perfectly willing
to talk yesterday, but he suddenly re-
versed his position about noon to-day
and refused to see newspaper men
About his factory gates were gathered
several strong arm men, willing and
ready TO repel invaders, so they said.
Fred Waterbury, brother Of Louis,
said to-day he was in Texas when his
sister liaison with Mayo began and
that he knew nothing of it until he re-
turned. He said he had tried TO find
her at times, but had failed and had
heard nothing Of her for long time.
Young Waterbury implied that his
family wanted to be left entirely out
of the matter, that the girl was out of
their lives. Their father, who was a
doctor, left New Haven about five years
ago, after a divorce. He is now prac-
Using medicine in the Middle West.
Reward Not Yet Paid.
Raymond Phillips has not yet re-
ccived the $500 reward for finding the
girls body. He visited Mr.. Mayo, but
it was necessary first to obtain the po-
lice yeriticaton that Phillips had actu-
ally stumbled over the dead girl lying
there in the woods. He will receive the
check TO day.
The body, by the way, was In a good
state of preservation. 1t is believed
implicitly here that Lilly Cook shot
: herself the very day she left the fac
tory to go to luncheon.
The morning of that day, it is said,
some disgruntled former Italian en-
ployes were lurking about the factory,
and it was feared they meant trouble.
a search was made for the night
watchman's revolver so the Italians
might be Frightened away Many of the
girls in the office looked for the re-
volver, Lilly Cook among them. 1t is
said that all the time she knew where
the weapon was; indeed. it may have
even then been in her room at the Y.
". c. A.
The Rev. g. Danforth Lewis, pastor
of the Hamden Methodist Church, said
this afternoon that Mayo was a regular
contributor to his church and had dis
played charity toward the poor in more
than one instance.