The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-30
Police Officer Denies Absolutely
Charges Made by George
j. Doerr, the Husband.
BILL RECITES MANY
VISITS TO NEW YORK
Declares Wife and Captain Have
Been Very Friendly for
More Than Four Years.

Captain Peter j. Christie one of the
most popular men in the Newark police
department. was today made eorespon-
dent in a suit for divorce filed by
George j. Doerr against Mrs Auguste
G. KoDp Doerr of 64 Emmet street.
Doerr was in business until recently
and is understood to be well off
In the voluminou~ bill filed at Tren-
ton Mr.. Doerr gees into great detail ard
describes his anguish when he disoov-
cred last Tuesday, only four days ago,
all of the facts which he charges in the
bill From the specifications enumer-
ated Mr.. Doerr learned whole lot very
suddenly.
Captain Christie this afternoon de-
MED all the allegations contained in the
bill. He said
- am perfectly innocent OF these
charges. When the case comes to trial
! will satisfactorily explain everything.
Il ask the public to suspend judg-
ment until the time of the trial. Then
the facts will come out.
u have retained no lawyer as vet, as
! have not been served with any pa
pers. | am entirely innocent of any
wrong doing"
Captain Christie has one day off in
ten. According to Mr. Doerr he discoY-
cred that each one of those one-in ten
days since January |. 1904. have been
spent in the company of Mrs. peerr.
The fact that Mrs. DoeIi WAS always
home for dinner in the evening is ac-
counted for in the petition by the ale
cation that she spent only the after
moons away. Anyway, there have been
157 days off for Captain Christie since
january | 1904, and each one OF them
Mr.. Doerr swears the handsome cap
tain deyoted to Mrs. Doelr AsseacA
date is specified Doerr repeats tlt
same details. They allege many visits
| 20 a hotel at Eighth street and rhrt
avenue New York
Mrs. Doerr left her husband less thar
week ago and could not be located
by an EVENING STAR representative
today. No answer is made. the first
papers in the case being filed in the
, office of the clerk of Chancery Court
at Trenton today by Edward S. Black
a Newark lawyer.
Mr. Black refused to discuss the case
He admitted the filing of the bill and
! declared that the papers would speak
for themselves.
Mrs. Doerr was Miss Auguste c.
Kopp before she married Doerr in this
city. May 6, 1895 The ceremony was
performed by the Rev. George Sham
bach She was then 30 years of age
She is now A.
Captain Christie has been member
of Newark's police department for over
twenty-five years. He has conducted
himself with distinction. and is held in
high esteem by members of the force
and al who know him.
Christie has been a captain of police
for about two years. He served the
department long and well in the role
of detectives sergeant previous to his
promotion.
Neghbors of the Doerrs in Emmet
street, testify to domestic troubles in
tine household during the past six
months, Mrs. Doerr's alleged desertion
of her husband is said to be the third
since last fall.
In his bill Doerr declares that he has
not voluntarily lived with his wife
since the recent discovery of her al
legged unfaithfulness. He asks tho
court for a dissolution of the marriage
bond land such further relief as may
be equitable.