The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-03-05
CORONER PROPOSES
FURTHER INQUIRY
Besides Tracing Course of Bullet and
Establishing the Immediate Cause
of Lillian Cooks Death.

New Haven, Conn, March Coroner
Eli Mix, investigating the circumstances
surrounding the suicide of Lillian May
Cook the ls-year-old Brooklyn girl stG-
nographer whose body was found at
West Rock park yesterday, said to-day
that as a result Of report made to him
by physicians, be believed there were
sufficient indications to warrant prolong
ing the animation beyond the mere
tracing of the course of the bullet and
establishing the immediate cause of
death.
Mr.. Mix had at his Office for confer
cnces to-day the girls father; Helen
Wilson, her roommate; physicians and
Others. 1t was said at the odce that
Virginius }. Mayo has been asked to
call on the coroner, Mayo was the em-
ployer of the dead girl, and is the man
who while living here with his wife,
maintained in house in Brooklyn q
Young woman who formerly held the
position that Miss Cook held at the
time OF her death. Mayo, according to
the police, is known in Brooklyn as
James Dudley. 1t was said by the po-
lice to-day that detective, acting upon
instructions, had searched all the cess
pools in the neighborhood of Mayo's
radiator plant, but information as to
what they were searching for was lack
ing.
The body was found in clump Of
bushes in lonely part OF West Rock.
The girl had shot herself to death with
a revolver she took from the Office OF
the MAYO Radiator Co. OF this city,
where she was employed. Medical Ex-
aminer Scarborough said she had been
dead apparently for a week.
Twenty minutes after the body was
found yirginius j. Mayo arrived upon
the scene Mayo is the man who brought
Miss Cook here from Brooklyn TO work
in his office and who according TO the
police, had admitted that while he was
living with his wife in this city, he
maintained a home in Brooklyn for a
woman who formerly occupied similar
position to that which Miss Cook held
at the time Of her disappearance.
Friends OF Miss Cook said she was
in poor health Miss Helen Wilson,
with whom she roomed in the Young
Women's association, told the police
that about six months ago sie found
Miss Cook standing in front of mirror
pointing a revolver al her breast.
Mayo. while admitting according to
the police, that he was the possessor
Of dual personality and that Miss
Cook had formerly been the employe and
companion OF Miss Lois Waterbury, who
as Mrs James Dudley" was maintained
in a handsome home by him in Brook
lyn, had denied emphstically that he
knew of the whereabouts OF his stenog
rapher II was Miss Waterbury who,
according 20 Mayo's story, is the moth
or of his two children and who WAS his
stenographer until he had her moved
TO Brooklyn. In this city Mayo main
tanned another establishment next door
TO his radiator plant, which is presided
over by his legal wife.
II was while Miss Cook was employed
in the Dudley" household that Mayo,
according to the policies version Of the
story. first met her. After taking a
course Of stenography in Brooklyn, she
came 10 this city and WAS Installed in
the Office of MAYO. She knew that
Mayo and james Dudley were one
and the same person, the police as
sert
The medical examiner said last night
that SO far as he could determine at
this time the physical condition Of
Miss Cook was normal when she died.