The Washington times., 1915-03-05
CAUSE FOR SUICIDE
OF GIRL IS SOUGHT
Employer Denies Relations With
Lillian Cook Could Be Sub.
ject Of Criticism.
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other girl to New Haven from Brook
lyn. but she made no protest, She was
she took the name OF Dudley. and was
sent to Brooklyn.
An Odd Little Girl.
And so there Is wife. apparently
content: an inamorata. and an odd lit
tie girl Nor Lillian May Cook was all
OF thaD. who knew about twisted skeins
Of the mans affections, and kept silent.
suffering under some sorrow Of her
own. until she ended everything by
suicide.
Just why Miss Cook killed herself
cannot be told exactly She had been
brooding and despondent almost from
the very time she came here. Before
she vanished on last Thursday she
packed up all her little trinkets. put
them IN a fancy box. and left q note
with them: saying: please send these
Mayo frankly enough told the police
and the reporters that he met Miss
Cook In his Brooklyn home. She worked
there for time. a little over two years
ago. as nurse for his babies.
solicitation Of Frank Cook. OF Brook
lyn. the girl 8 father, he gave Lillian
employment in New Haven.
81 Am No Angel"
Il am no angel I never pretended to
be-" Mayo said. but the only relations
that ever existed between Miss Cook
and myself were those of employer and
employe.
MY affairs are being pretty we'll
aired. l will not attempt to deny many
th{nUR fhof hotr IN,
But | Want it TO be known positively
that Lillian Cook was a sweet girl. for
whom ! had the highest respect. 1t will
be found. l am sure. that she killed
herself because she had not been men,
tally right for long time.
with what the people can say about
friends. They cant say anything deti-
nit. about Miss Cook. at any rate, for
better. truer: nobler girl than sh-,
never lived, and / am willing to stake
my life on that There was absolutely
nothing about our relations that could
be questioned. and 1t is a rank injus-
tice. at least to the girl. who may now
be dead. to link her name with any.
thing but what is good and ruie."
According to the police here. Mrs.
Mayo had for years been aware OF the
existence of Mrs. Dudley. Indeed. she
knew her when she was Lois Water
oo' H pIcltS SlTl OI seventeen, SlA
years ago Mrs. Mayo knew Of the
birth OF the first baby. for. about fomr
years ago. when Miss Waterbury was
about to leave the radiator works be-
cause OF her approaching maternity
Mrs. Mayo went there one day. and In
stormy scene that came to the atten.
ton OF the police, she made public to
All Office full of employees her husband 1
relations with ihe young girl
But the wife has never separated from
Mayo. She has refused emphatically
when seen during the past day or 81
here to make single comment upon
the matter OF his two households. She
Is clinging Loyalty to him now.
Mayo seemed to pay no more atten.
ton to Miss Cook in the Office than he
did to any of the other girls. He GER.
tainly did not meet her outside to theiI
knowledge. Miss Wilson asserted tina,
it would have been impossible for him
to have done so.
Mayo is no longer a young man, but
he is stll striking in appearance, He
stands we'll above six feet in height
perhaps six feet two or three. Is slcn.
ccrly and athletically built. has large
brown eyes, n thick head of gray hail
and closely clipped grayish mustache.