The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-03
MAYO ARRESTED
 ONBiGAMY PLANT
Accused by Miss Meyer, Who Got 5 100000 Judg- ment and Says He Wed Her When He Had a Wife in Scranton.

New York, March 3--Virginius St J. Mayo, wealthy New Haven manu- facturer and inventor, whose matri- uonial adventures have kept him be- fore the public for more than ten years was arrested at the Grand Central Terminal last night as he was about to board a train for Stamford. charged with higany.
 A warrant for Sis arrest was ob- taiued from Magistrate GroehI in tF- Norhyiue court by Wilhelmina Meyer Mayo of NO. 4O2 West 153u street. who he married in 1915, after she had obtained a judgment for s1oO,O0O against him for breach of promise.
 This Mrs. Mayo, who was repre- sented by Ralph Gillette of No. 99 Nassau street. told the magistrate the elderly manufa cturer-he Is more than sixty-married her when he had a wife living in Scranton who. since divorced him. He would be in New H-ork. the lawyer added, because it was Tayo's custom to visit a third wife, Lois Waterbury Mayo, at No. 5@- Fourth street, Brooklyn.
 Finger Printed at Headquarters.
 The warrant was placed in the hands of Detectives Hauser and HoR- ker, who arrested Mayo after an all day wait He vas taken to police headquarters and finger printed. He refused to answer any questions.
 MT. Gillette said last night tha. Mrs. Lois Waterbury Mayo was not mentioned when the warrant was asked for because under the laws O1 New York her marriage to the 1nanu- facturer was legal and that of Mrs Meyer Mayo's was Illegal because oi the fact his Scranton wife was living at the time the ceremony was per formed
 Miss Meyer and Mayo" he added, were married in the NT0ravian church, Brooklyn, in April, 1904. by the Rev. Paul d. Greider. They went to New Haven to live and there he 'adoptd' Miss Waterbury, his 13-year- old stenographer. Tn 1915 his Scran- ton wife, by whom he has grown daughters obtained a divorce and in lieu of alimony he gave her S10,O0O ir cash. In 1918, while still living with my client as his wife. he married the Waterbury birl by whom he Drevi- ously- had had three children He took her to the Brooklyn address to live where she was known as Mrs. Dud- ley'".
 His Typlst Committed Suicide.
 Miss Meyer, like Miss Waterbury Ihad been a stenographer in Mayo'S employ. In 1915 Lillian May Cook, 2 1 i15-yaar-old Brooklyn. girl then ern- ployed by him as 9. typist, committed suicide by shooting in New Haven The name of Mayo was linked witt the mystery and after an autopsy ht WAS urarroued before the coroner When ne had told his story the au thorities decided he could not be helt legally despite an investigation whicl showed what the girls condition hat been.
 1 The suicide created a sensation, ana when the newspapers referred to th' manufacturer they said he was hvinf with his wife and children in Brook ! Iyn. This came as shock to tht former Miss Meyer, who was unaware 1 he was possessed of any other wife ! She left him al the time, but 1t is saiC l a reconciliation was effected later af ter he had explained matters to her. ! The investigation into Miss Cook: death continued for many weeks ana ] although it was reported from tim to time that an arrest would be mad L4illiaus parents refused to make { complaint because of lack of evidence