The evening world., 1922-05-02
MAYO RUINED MANY
| 0THERLWES, SAYS
Y WOMANON STAND
Miss Meyer, Who Won Suit
Against Him, Testifies at
Bigamy Trial.
LETTER GAVE HER CLUE.
Was From Other Wife to
} Him and Asked Aid for
Their Children.
LETTER GAVE HER CLUE.

Wilhelmina Meyer, who sued Ntr-
ginius Mayo, wealthy manufacturer,
for $3.50. 900 in a breach Of promise
action and got 500, 900 after, she testi-
fled, she was married to him and
learned he already had a wife, was the
first witness against him to-day in the
resumption Of his trial for bigamy be-
ktfore Justice Finch and a jury in the
Supreme Court Criminal Branch.
! Mrs. Florence Weeks Chamberlain,
l formerly Mrs. Florence Weeks Mayo
testified last week that she was mar
ried TO Mayo at Binghamton in 1890
and divorced him in June, 1915, after
thinking for many years that he was
dead. She learned, she stated, he was
alive through newspaper accounts
mentioning his name in connection
with the suicide of one Of his stenog-
raphers.
Miss Meyer, a pretty blonde, testt-
ned she was married to Mayo in
March. 1904, in Brooklyn. She said
Mayo told her he rad no other wife.
Just after the ceremony, she stated.
she went to live with her, grand
mother at Newark, but on May J..
1904, she went to Hartford. Conn, TO
live with her husband. In September.
N1eo4, she went back to her grand
tulother because. she testified, Mayo
ld her he was going to travel on
business. She joined him again after
the holidays and lived with him at
ENo. 20+ Columbia Heights, Brooklyn.
lThen, she continued, she lived with
1.-THE defendant at New Haven as his
9Wife until March. 1915.
~ In March, 1915, she stated, a letter
came to him from Florence Weeks
Mayo, which she read. Recital of the
contents of the letter was excluded.
II asked him what 1t meant" she
aaid. He said, 1T means you'll have
- be at Newark to o-morrow or I'll be
Jail for bigamy."
y "I asked him If he had married her
ie said no. 1t was a bluff game, bu,
hat I'd have to get out of Connect
ut.
~ asked him then what he was
oing to do about me. He said he'd
10 the right thing about me-"
Had you ever heard of Florence
Weeks Mayo before that time?
sised District Attorney wintner.
No" replied the witness.
Mr.. Mayo sat listening negligently
kIhiie Miss Meyer testified, and wher
Nne made this reply he turned arount
nd smiled at some one in the back o.
he court room.
K IAfter this, Miss Meyer continued
he went to Newark and never livet
Es,n with Mayo.
"T told him there was one way h,
buld do the right thing by me-" sh,
AntfAfiad ssoT1d hat hxy
AkJing me, but he didn't offer to do So
Here Miss Meyer testified she reat
the letter from Florence Weeks
Mayo to her husband and she wa
allowed to repeat it from memory. l
read. she stated:
"This Is my time. What pro-
vision are you going TO make for
your>daughters, Carlotta, Dorothy
and Marion2"
On cross examination by Georg
Z Gordon Battle she identified a mar
- rlage certificate as hers, but state
y didn't notice that the name on /
with hers was "V. Julian May"
az signed 1t first" she added
She was excused temporarily I
permit an out of town witness, Joh
b. Murphy of New Haven, to testify
IuO btdtCu hNGu meat uOOT W III
MaYos In New Haven and that Mis-
Meyer left her husband in March
1si6.
ON resuming her testimony o
rrbss- examination Miss Meyer denie
Mayo had lived for five years in Ne,
York after their marriage. She ais
dehied she knew that If she testifie
1e} had the statute of limitations coul
be- invoked to aid him. She denie
HEY ever lived together in New Yor
Cbunty, and that she has directed he
=. alwyer to use money in the prosecu
lion of the present case.
l. care you not pressing this case
e4rce Mr.. Mayo to pay that judG
kent?" Mr.. Battle asked.
ONO, am pressing it," sf
answered, because he ruined tn
ives of many other women"
Tho 500, 900 judgment has not bee
paid, sho testified.
On redirect examination she test
lied that she didn't know the nan
~ Julian May was on the maj
|lage certificate until it was show
ID her in the Magistrates Court.