The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-26
FIGHT FOR CHILDREN
WIFE OF HOBOKEN BREWER
ALLEGES CONSPIRACY.
Says Her Revels Were Due to vermuth
and Hypnotism, by Which She
Was Entrapped.

When Eugene Koehler, a prosperous
Hoboken brewer, takes the stand next
Monday in Vice-Chancellor Emery's
court in the habeas corpus proceed
ings brought by his wife, Mrs. Will
helmina K1ehler. of 6 New street, Ho-
boken, to recover her four children,
counsel for the wife will endeavor to
make the husband admit the conspir-
acy charge which she has made against
him and the private detectives he en-
ployed.
During her two and a half hours
testimony yesterday Mrs. Koehler told
a story of an alleged conspiracy and
repudiated charges that she entered
willingly INTO the spirit of alleged mis-
deeds. Her defense for her acts was
that her mind became a blank, due to
something that was placed in a glass
of vermuth which she had drunk.
Her visits to drinking resorts, she
said, We're due to her being lured there
under false pretenses and hypnotic in
fuence on the part of Mrs. Johanna di
Lorenzo. This woman, she says, was
In the employ of her husband. Eugene
Koehler, who made an effort to entrap
her.
The proceedings will be continued
next Monday, when Koehler will prob
ably testify.
The gist of the story told by Mrs.
Koehler yesterday was that on August
30 last Ernest and Edward, her 6 and
2 year old sons, were taken from the
street while she was sick in the house,
after h had made a series of visits to
several Hudson County resorts at the
request of Mrs. di Lorenzo. She told
of a visit to her house of a man who
said he was Frank Meyers" who later
proved to be Charles Geisler, a friend of
her husband. She said hat she had
rented to him a furnished room for two
days. He told her he was a surveyor
on the Pennsylvania tunnel work
Through the alleged hypnotic in
fuence of Mrs. di Lorenzo, Mrs.
Koehler went carriage riding with her
to a ~roadhouse, where she met Meyers,
she said. She said Meyers had
written love letters to her, which she
denied answering, making appoint
ments with her. She did not want to
keep them, but the first engagement
was kept. She then told Mrs. di
Lorenzo, who lived with her, that she
would not meet Meyers again. In the
AOoi2 &c VI q nCGh dtlOll1I lStltI Cdi1G
from Meyers to Mrs. di Lorenzo, max
ing another engagement. Mrs. di Lo-
renzo asked Mrs. Koehler to go along
to protect her.
She finally consented Mrs. di
Lorenzo, by a trick, she said, left her
alone with Meyers, who took her home
in his carriage late at night.
Mrs. di Lorenzo got Mrs. Koehler to
pn O1f in a narrios pn with her IN
August 30. They visited several places.
Mrs. Koehler drank vermuth.
She said that she remembered very
little until daylight the next day, when
she found Mrs. di Lorenzo standing
over her trying to keep her awake in
front of Grove Church, Hoboken.
Mrs. Koehler said that Mrs. di Lo-
renzo told her that she had damaging
evidence against both her and her hus-
band in order to get $4,000 from her to
buy a ~roadhouse.
The $4,000, she said, had been prom
ised by Koehler to be paid to her for
permitting Mrs. di Lorenzo to gather
the necessary evidence for a divorce.
Mrs. di Lorenzo told Mrs. Koehler that
story.
Mrs. di Lorenzo, who was in the
court room but did not testify, made an
affidavit in which she told of receiving
$500 for her part in the affair. She SAID
she deposited $3.50 of that in the Hudson
Trust Company.
Counsel for Koehler tried to show
that Mrs. Koehler had neglected her
children repeatedly while she was on
the trips with Mrs. di Lorenzo.
In Jun of this year the marital trou-
bles of the Koehlers were aired FOR
the first time when Mrs. Koehler was
allowed $125 a month for the support of
herself and her two younger children
by Vice-Chancellor Emery on an appli-
cation for separate maintenance.