The Washington times., 1922-05-07
women ROBBED
H|M0FF0RTUNE,
DECLARES MAYO
Modern Don Juan SHES at
Questions During Trial on
Bigamy Charge.
DECLARES GIRL PROPOSED
Now She Holds Unpaid Judg-
mont Of $1o1, 900 Against
Him for Damages.


women with whom Virginius st
Julian Mayo amused himself in his
active life have cost him a hard.
earned fortune and his honorable
position. 's
Mayo sat all through yesterday s
session Of his trial for bigamy in gen.
eral sessions man Of sixty-two,
bald and gray-and admitted he had
maintained two women in separate
establishments simultaneously. divid-
ing his time between them, whilo his
legal wife and three children lived in
Pennsylvania .
How many women have you be.
trayed?" demanded Hugo Mintner,
Assistant District Attorney.
'I decline TO answer" imm ediately
replied Mayo.
One detail Of his numerous affairs
after the other WAS wrung from Mayo
until the stories of his relations with
Mrs. Florence Weeks Mayo. Miss
wilhelrnina Meyer and Mrs. Lois
Waterbury, now his wife. had been
hAred. ,
Woman Glares at Tim.
As he testified, Miss wilhelmina
Mayer, with whom he went through
amarriags ceremony in 1904, which
Mayo insists she knew was a fraud,
sat beside the prosecutor, glaring
hAlefully At the man she called hus-
band for eleven years.
1t was developed how Mayo. as
q young inventor, lost his first wife
In death and in 1890 married Flor
ehce. Three children were born and
then he left her. He came to New
York and Connecticut and promoted
his automobile radiator, which made
him a fortune.
but that's gone now" he sail.
fees have taken nearly everything
I had"
Judgnsnnt Unpaid
A judgment for slol, ,0oo obtained
by Miss Meyer against Mayo for
breach of promise and fraud has
never been paid.
While still an impecunious in
ventor, he said, he met Wilhelmina
Meyer, a tall, brown-eyed blond.
She proposed to him, Mayo insist
ed, entreating him TO marry her, and
finally they went together from the
Brooklyn boarding house where both
were living and obtained a marriage
license. To this license Mayo signed
tho name V. Julian May. They
went through a ceremony April 2,
1904, at the Moravian Church in
Brooklyn and retired TO New Haven
TO live.
."She knew IL was only a form
marriage" related Mayo. We went
through tho ceremony merely to
piacate her relatives. Miss Meyer
knew I could not marry her legally.
rs I had not been divorced from my
wife in Pennsylvania OF which she
was aware"
Schooldays' Sweetheart.
They lived together IN New Haven
until 1910. Years before Mayo had
known and given pennies TO the
little girl who later became known
as Lois Waterbury. She went 10
school, at his expense, il Is said.
and when she returned became intt
mate with her benefactor, who was
growing rich through the manufac-
ture OF his invention.
Where did you first seduce Lois
Waterbury," thundered Wintner.
II decline to answer
do you remember the day. Miss
Meyer. or Mrs. Mayo, as she was
then known. came TO your factory
and found you with the Waterbury
Sir?"
Again Mayo refused to answer On
the ground that , reply might de
grade and incriminate him. Miss
Waterbury was in a delicate condi-
tion and MAYO installed her IN the
house at 546 F'ourt street, BROOKLYN.
after buying that property. He
spent four nights a week at the
house, he testified. and she bore him
three children.
Married IN 1918.
These children were legitimatized
in 1918 when Mayo married Miss
waterbury. In the houses in Con
necticut and Brooklyn. Mayo kept
his two loves beautifully. with serv-
ants and motor cars.
Why did you wait three years TO
marry your mistress?' he was asked
and replied 1t was a matter OF
legality.
FINALLY the br~sk between Mayo
and Miss Meyer came, he said. 1t
was agreed that he should buy her
. house in one Of the New Jersey
Oranges and give her $50 a week
for life. But. he raid, she dems nded
a house costing s50.000 and he re-
fused 20 buy Il. he had already
given her. he said. jewelry worth be-
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