Norwich bulletin., 1915-03-05
Miss Cook s Body Found WestRoCk
YOUNG WOMAN HAD BEEN DEAD
 A WEEK.
SUICIDE BY SHOOTING
Finding of Body Revealed Dual Life of Married Man Who Had Been In- strumental in Securing Position for the Unfortunate Girl,

New Haven, Conn.,, March 4-The body of Lillian May Cook, the pretty 18-year-old Brooklyn stenographer for whom the police of three states have been searching fol, week, was found in a clump of bushes in lonely part Of West Rock park here this afternoon.
 Had Been Dead Week.
 The young woman had shot herself to death with a revolver she had taken from the office of the Mayo Radiator company of this city, where she was employed. Medical Examiner Scar borough, who examined the body, said Miss Cook apparently had been dead a week.
 Autopsy to Be Performed.
 The body was taken to a. morgue attached to a local undertaking es- tablishment. Coroner Eli Mix said that an autopsy would be performed upon the body tomorrow morning.
 Twenty minutes after the body had been found Virginius 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 has admitted that while he was living with his wife in this city, he maintained a home in Brooklyn for a woman who formerly occupied a similar position Miss Cook held at the time of his disappearance.
 School Children CircIed Body. Half Q hundred school children who had been attracted to the spot were standing in a circle around the body. Mayo looked into the center of the circle. He then placed his hands to his eyes and returned immediately to his automobile. Tonight it was said at his home that he was not in and that it was not known where he had gone.
 About the same time the police an nounced that as the result of their investigation they had learned that Miss Cook was seen on her way to West Rock park on the day she dis appeared. An investigation of the ground disclosed, the police say, that Miss Cook fell to her knees Then she opened her coat and her shirtwaist and pointed the revolver she had taken | at her breast. One bullet was fired: it entered her heart --AfisS-Gook.- it ap- peared, fell upon her face. the revolver under her. She died instantly. Had Threatened to Kill Herself.
 After the body had been taken to | the morgue detectives found that in | the young woman's pocketbook there | was a diamond shaped tablet marked | Poison" Then the. detectives found friends of the dead girl who told them that she had threatened to kill herself many times. She was in poor health they said. One of her friends, Miss Helen Wilson, with whom she roomed | in the Young Women's Christian asso- ciation, told the police that about, six months ago she came upon Miss Cook | suddenly in her room and that she 1 found her standing in front of mirror | pointing a revolver at her breast T am just looking for a good place to shoot" Miss Cook was quoted as having said.
 l On Thursday last Miss Cook dropped from sight
 l The place where the body was found was about 200 feet away from the known to almost every sightseer to visit New Haven during the summer months. In the winter, however, the l place is deserted and desolate. Mayo 1 had offered a reward of $500 for in- formation concerning the whereabouts of the girl.
 Since Miss Cook dropped from sight l the police of this city, Brooklyn an6 | Springfield, Mass, had been looking fol
 her. Her father, Frank Cook, had ask l ed the Brooklyn police to drag the
 lake in Prospect park in~the hope o1 | finding the body.
 Revealed Dual Personality of a Man
 Mayo. while admitting, according tc the police, that he was the possessol
 of a dual personality and that Mis- Cook had formerly been the employt and companion of Miss Lois Water.
 bury, who as Mrs James Dudley
 was maintained in handsome home | owned by him in Brooklyn, denied em. phatically that he knew anything
 about the whereabouts of his sten. | ographer It was Miss Waterbury l who, according to Mayos story. is the mother of his two children and who was his stenographer until he had hel move to Brooklyn. In this city Mayt I maintained another establishment
 next door. to his radiator plant, whicI is presided over by his legal wife.