New Britain herald., 1919-03-03
MAYO NOW FACES
 BIGAMY CHARGES
Notorious New Haven Man Ar-
 rested in New York

New York March 3.--~Virginius St.
 faCturer and inventor, whose matri-
 monial 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 train or Stamford.
 charged with bigamy
 A warrant for his arrest was ob-
 taihed from Magistrate Groehl in the
 Yorkville Court by Wilhelmina L.
 Meyer Mayo, of 402 West 153d street,
 whom he married in 1915, after she had obtained a judgment for $1OO,00
 against him for breach of promise.
 This Mrs. Mayo, who was repre-
 scented by Ralph Gillette of 99 Nas
 sau street, told the Ma gistrate the
 elderly manufacturer--he is more than sixty-married her when he had a wife living in Scranton who since divorced him. He would be in New York. the lawyer added. because it was Mayo's custom to visit third wife, Lois Waterbury Mayo at 546 Fourth street, Brooklyn.
 Finger Printed at Headquarters. The warrant was placed in the hands of Detectives Hauser and Hok- ker, who arrested Mayo after an all day visit He was takon to police headquarters and finger printed. He refused to answer any questions. Mir. Gillette said last night that Mrs. Lois Waterbury Mayo was not mentioned when the warrant was asked for because under the laws of New York her marriage to the manu facturer was legal and that of Mrs. Meyer Mayo's was illegal because of the fact his Scranton wife was liv- ing at the time the ceremony was performed.
 Miss Meyer and Mayo" he added, \ were married in the Moravian church, Brooklyn. in April. 1904. by the Rev. Paul M. Greider. They went to New Haven to live and there q I1e- adopted Miss Waterbury. his NJ thirteen-year- stenographer In 1915 his Scranton wife, by whom he has grown daughters, obtained a di- vorce and in lieu of alimony he gave her $10,0O0 in cash. Tn 1918, while still living with my client as his wife, he married the Waterbury girl by whom he previously had had three children. He took her to the Brook 17yn address to live, where she was known as Mrs. Dudley"
 His Typist Committed Suicide Miss Meyer like Miss Waterbury, had been a stenographer in Mayo's employ. Tn 1915 Lillian May Cook, a ffteen-year- old Brooklyn girl then employed by him as a typist. com- lnitted suicide by shooting in New Haven. The name of Mayo was linked with the mystery and after an au- . topsy he was summoned before the A coroner. When he had told his story the authorities decided he could not be held legally, despite an investiga- tion which showed what the girls A condition had been.
 The suicide created a sensation and @ when the newspapers referred to the @ manufacturer they said he was liv- ing with his wife and children in Brooklyn. This came as a shock to the former Miss Meyer, who was una ware he was possessed of any other S wife. She left him at the time, but S 1t is said a reconciliation was ef- fected later after he had explained matters to her
 The investigation into Miss Cooks death continued for many weeks and @ although it was reported from time M to time that an arrest would be made N Li]iian's parents refused to make 2 N complaint because of lack of evidence.