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Show T"1 THE SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY. APRIL 4. 192- 6- PAGE FOUR V ' - ' - - '. 4 . srm 6f oorrai.se?: OvVSS 8 i, ' ,r'-.-- - . ? ' - - ' ; . An t it Ultra-Mode- Br low f A TypkI Sreae . OuUide a big Nw York Oihce Buildiaf at Until Hour HtvereMea r aad Woaiea Art $v : V ' 7- V i MJK. WMV - ' ' 4 i . re- - -- . " ' . A -- f r lv - ' w, ff - , t;' nW ' , ' ' , k' 4 the Kank Sxtretary Who Was Murdered by Walter tier ii- SMheort - . f vn- - - She ToW Vim That He Wa Err , - - ' r-rjrr r,:- - " - , v jr t " -I- J nftrlor-juui w V li "i its and Was '""f,' - - v- 'U Vt n Spurned Him As Inferior Therefore ' - - World, Outstripped Her Clerk Sweetheart, Who Uaworthyol , ' the II L. i ek rSfty.Dollar-'-We- . I V Study of Pretty Shirley Mclirty i J J Portr.lt -- All ' ' - r 1. I r . . t Ny""! 'V v " L-- v . " .:-"- " ' ' , m..iW ... 'h"'' - - , A1 rK VtVrP . ' - - 1 . J y;-,.f 'X HI W 'f'RCW' ? r : UJWB Cotnpetitioa for Placet in Jr ' the Gifled Secretary I; - I m ! :M ''"VfM'' :: Slain, ' r , -- V i'.v. s Vs. ,$ ' j v - ' What Doris Stevens Jhoubht About the "Paz; Envelop? Tragedy, w r , doesn't surprise me that'the world is interested In the destiiiy of. one .man who found; himself, attached to a womafi whose earning capacity .was greater than his. .There are millions of women whose earning capacity! is equal to that of the men beside, them' and who do not receive eoual eompensatlort'wlth their, men colleagues.; Some' day, when the majority of women ae economically independent' they will. What will happen then we can nly speculate about. As for Walter Mayer he probably felt himself Inferior" to the girl because centuries of tradition have, caused him to feel that he should earn more. Knowing nothing of the relative merits of thesa two persons Lcannot Judge of Mi Dnii 8tvM,r love at the LntT ttton thent But in any case one cannot" demand and ruwu Feminist. .v ' point of a gun. TT . , """" hifActt t r W li St" sUtr "ij' - " t' -- Is f,fF iSA I KpjC 'I I r i'" y riv . r T! K ii i-- f,.i H , v l. uJS -4 1 n 16ve " , - i : if! , , - . ....:.. - II jii I 'd r - X' I - nWA ' I II Pia H M. 'Am 1 min I fyf'tW'i - , Sweetheart. r'v i 4 i i t' iii III r" t - UiWW4 rjm ' . ) . ' , III i .j- - ' ll i a J S.J s . ..j as "Inferior" by Hit Sweetheart; Shot and Killed a Mayer,ThenWho,TriedBranded to Kill HimaelfHe It Shown Here in a CHtieal 111 r - . . r. iJIJWIWI'1 ( . . dainT He would have liked it better if she 1 didn't But still she wis one girl in 'a Walter million. Ij'l onarth. and, good luck. ; WALTER." "V To. Albert Reichert, a friend and fellow 'em."l v ploye at tha bank, Mayer1 wrote: i ; DearA!:', j". ' !'My sudden affair may surprise 'youj ut the last insult came today when1 she said I wa in ferior to her ana could not pe taken seriously by" her, this- after telling ma I 'was too good fot feer. . . "WALTER," ' '. Students of modern life, interested In i the social effects af. tha rapidly improving economic condition of womenbaliev the men mutt thange their attitude if such tragedies am in bo avoided til theQTOMMlSS H Orli SteVehsmaJe'TIie" foT- -' lowing analysis of the case: T" f "Shirley Mclntyre probablv did not love Walter Ma,yer in the first place for himself. Rather she unconsciously accented him as a suitor because centuries of tradition forced her into look who could support her. Ast she -. for a mate ing . . . L Al. -J t 1J suvauceu ui t:ie uujjiiohs wuriu Kna iounai xnai she could support herself better thaif'he; could she lest the feeling for him that she had thought "' , . H . , was love." . "At the, same time Walter Mayer, through tra--. dition; f eft that he should earn more than she. shouldIt be"t. the auvivor.ln the business..j, . that. he. .... -J i! lj r many Jlt.'.L . was aj 1oeiter i aiie reuiEeo mat sne..... ' business woman than he was a business man.; He Inferior to subconsciously realized that j ' her in man' own field. ,When told What he i w .Jcnew to ha the truth y the woman he wis mad j ..i about it resulted in a conflict between the most fundamental emotions ox mankind. He was a 1 failure in beta love and the struggle for exist-"Good-by- e - lMm!l ........ . v - . to. the. last- .. "I am praying that she will receive the tender care and happiness to which she. is entitled more than any one . - . Handa of . Her. Rejected . ' - et t r' Condition in a New York HtxqrfuL If He Raeorers Ha . . GrtdUaliy her charm won Tier .contacS Twith spoke of marriage busy, executives who found time to explain the which was in her.. When nnderlvinsr laws of monev to now, broad In terms of the difference in their salaries. . pher. showed herself able to grasp the principle , creasingly often, he found her always evasive. She did not know her own mind. They were too He warned her that aha must not despise him of banking they in turn showed their appreclation ; of her capacity by rapid nromotion. She- - young to: be married.' Perhaps they weren't ' and that if she did thacouaqueno to both of to,eacn'Cther-Sh- e would care 4o scrimp - them might bfe violent. "Won the post of scretaryto oneof the mosl im officiala of the bank and the salary of At that time Miss Mclntyre was living with along on part of "his fifty dollars a week, while tportant now she had sixty all to herself. ? -- . In Brooklyn. .Outwardly the ragua ; . sixty dollars a week. But.her .talent would have ' threats of her suitor had no effect on her But - carried her into an executive Bosition in the continued to ask tha crirl.to bank in the belief of her friends. according to a statement made later by her sister, .Finally he began to use threats pf suicide. And But even an ambitious business girl has to have one day, according to his own admission, she Anna, she became afraid of Wm. When her some emotional outlet Shirley had hers in mother sailed for a visit to Scotland she took adtold him frankly what she thought. She called: him "inferior." She implied that he 'was a fail'Walter Mayer. He was also employed in the vantage of the change to move to a new apart-.me- nt Chase National Bank and had been her suitor at No. 100 Lefferta Place, Brooklyn,- with-o- ut ure. Whether justly or not Mayer now interV for a long time. 'When Shirley first started telling Mayer her new .address. preted his whole failure with the girl he loved f if r-- ., " - 1 i .bk . r i -- them-aUr'an- -- would be his bride. What if she did treat him now with a certain condescension, that in business L,r; hQimL-.be- -- Shjrtey had'itarted wo ?anij m a small stenographic position, cut soon the broader applications of finance on daily life gripped her imagination. The work fascinated her fan d she took to studying it in her leisure . JE sweetheart's business knowledge in the light of her own. One day she expressed the belief that she knew more about banking than Mayer did. It would not have been unusual under the circumstances if a note of patronage had crept into her conversation. Mayer at least complained of such. At the same time still remained . he persistently hopeful. He looked forward to the day when she. con-jecty- re j' U were close to her she also began to measure her WhtA Walter Mayer thought is revealed in the i letters, he' wrote just before his- - dreadful act. What "millions of. other men of the cities may think who find themselves in growing business ' I comjfotition with .women they are doomed to love :if they love at all-c- an only be a mattor of just now. Meanwhile Shirley Mclntyre is dead killed by the man she loved. And Mayer, if ho recovers from; the wound he Inflicted ofl himself, must I answer to a charge pf murder. i Shirley Mclntyre was the kind of girl who al? ways gets a long, second look' from passing men. She was strikingly pretty, she had. a vivacious and charming manner and like most professional women she appreciated the value of smart clothes . and" Wore then gracefully. '' .,; But even mora than her place in the world of beauty Shirley valued her place in the world of Her. good looks had been given to her. v brains.But her job she had had to win in lair fight " 6fthos-wm- According , to Walter Mayer's statement, the girl taunted; him again with revoi- h inferiority, ,i J-. ver and fired three shots into her body. i "WAIyTER." Then he turned it on himself and fired To - hk - brother - Robert L- .- Mayer.Walter-wrote- j twicer " . , .; ,;. Police who rushed Mayer J. "to the hospital fonnd the ."Dear Bob: .he sixty. He loved "Just a few lines before I give up the game.. following letters in his poc-kher- - She spurned him The first'was "written ; You know all about my indifference at home be--' Mc-' cause of a lady, and since leaving home I have to a friend, Terrence Grath, who is soon to marry gone through nothing but ostracism from the the ister of the murdered girl I thought would give Bp everything for me. "Her h&ad swelled and It girl. It reads in part: hopeless for me to merit any further attention,- from her. "Dear Terry: "Please forgive me for " More than anything else that hurts me is her insinuation that" waB Hotgeod enough. causing you any trouble.. I can't stand it any lange.i" ' . "The rest of iiiy salaryraf lar paying rnydebtsr goes to ISe'greatest, most tender loving mother" that, God ever created. Please BoJj, ti. ary last Below; Another Photo of wish, be good to her and try to give her all the ease and kindness you are capable of, and. as she Shirley McIntyreP the is getting older every day, my foolishness may Unfortanste Bank upset her, so take it easy in telling her.J Give Secretary, Taken Just Before Her Death at the her a kiss for me, as my thoughts will be of her , Wil JT-- r respect, but h,Bproi ress seemed halted,' for the time .being at any rat;e. It was not long before Shirley's salary topped that of her suitor bji ten doHars a week. Shirley began.' to hear her friends' say that she was a girl with too much talent to marry any .ordinary - fellow such aa Walter Mayer and according to the evidence contemplated; passingOutalonejhuttQdajf Shirley tells me my drawback in her eyes is my inferiority;. This after months of promise and expressions of an entirely opposite nature. v, "Now it is not a question of being disillusioned,' but openly- - and rottenly insulted. I hope for forgiveness in heaven, but, of course, blood ties will bring, condensation on my soul from Shirj 4 '.. ley's folks. a a a last request to fw "IJove I would suggest, an early marriage to Anna. ' manded- - at first !Th'en one day Walter followed the girl A scene took home from ' the office. place, j Walte was driven out pf the apartment by the girl's biting words. He returned to, his home, wrote a few last letters, secured hisrevolver and returned to Shirley' apartment. was'-abTe- stifled by a girl s busmessjudg-iMTlf- e "TjftserVera of the fast "changing sodaT" scene regard, the case as one of striking signif in its bearing on" he new economic re- - ' , lationship between' men and women. Miss Doris Stevens,. .wife of Dudley Field Malone and nationally celebrated as an advocate ' of ."wages for wives," looks .upon both; Mayer and the girl as victims of a false; vicious though still persisting economic standard. "According -- to this standard," says Miss Stevens, "a woman is never worth as .much as a man even though fhatrmust she perfonnsxactly the Bam a man think in that case when he finds the girl at the next desk actually making more than him- jcae;of ('11 bga4i--h.er--a- uixra-moacr- -- a ' Walter had rtarted tion In the credit department at : fifty dollars a week and it seemed like a bier job to Shirley, In fact, she told hira at the time, that she was not good enoii$o for him, .that she would noT handicap his career by marrying him. it Then Shirley vance. Walter Msjyer, on the otherhand, more orleB3 stood ' anir"com- still. "He may not recover i M Mayer had been earning-- sixty dollars a week and the girl he loved but fifty dollarB, sociologists believe tliis killinsr mieht not have occurred.. It n xna pay enveiope- an uagefly-Ja-t VJi ftnd fej-j- - IxrL vO7 r wrk fiV jailer 1 Lur ly-sSf- '"npHIT 1 a tragredy of the new New York new America, too, though to 1 a of the extent. Walter B. Mayer, a ao"af-'wec- , clerK ln WB vnaie "auonai can ' of New York. lcvid pretty .Shirley. Mclntyre.. a- secretary of , one of the bank's big executives She spumed him, called him inferior?' He killed her and then turning; on himself, inflicted a wound from which ( K.'iiflr mm r rtvt aanto, - x , 1 1 1 M s i ence" .. IMS. - ' I ' - ' ' ' ( A, 5. 1 |