The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-29
LOVED HER
HUSBAND
Even Though He Beat Her,
Says Mrs. Mohr in Cross
Examination
DESPITE ACTIONS
WITH OTHER WOMEN
Attorney General Brin G S
Tears to Her Eyes by
His Questions

Providence, r. l., Jan. 29.Again yes
terday Mrs. Elizabeth +. Mohr was un
der an insistent cross examination in TIN
trial in which she is charged jointly witt
two negroes with the murder of her hus
band, DIR. G. Franklin Mohr
She described anew the alleged brutal
, tiles of her husband, yet asserted that
! she loved him still.
81 loved him from the bottom OF my
heart. He almost killed me one day, but
he loved me the next" she declared.
Sobbing at times, Mrs. Mohr related
the story as suggested by the prosecu-
tor.
The witness admitted that she had
corresponded with stable boys and other
servants for the purpose of keeping
watch on her husband
Among these boys was G. Victor
Brown, who, with his half brother,
Henry II. Spellman, is joint defendant
with Mrs. Mohr. The widow was still
on the stand when luncheon recess was
taken.
She declared she never intended to
carry her divorce suit through and in
sisted that the doctor had no intention
of divorcing her. 1t almost killed her
when she was arrested, she said.
Attorney General Rice questioned Mrs.
Mohr about the incident she described in
direct examination Of her fur coat being
thrown out of the bathroom window at
Newport.
IL,
"An officer nearby"
Mrs Mohr admitted knowing Chief of
Police Crowley of Newport. saying Mr..
and Mrs. Crowley had been in her house
several times. Mrs. Crowley was a
good friend of mine" she said. She did
know the police chief of Newport, but
denied that she was intimate with him
The alleged confessions Of the negroes
had il that Mrs. Mohr told them not to
be afraid, as she "stood in" with the po-
lice.
Mr.. Rice took up Mrs. Mohr's sufr
against a life insurance company, which
she said was brought in an attempt to
recover on $4,000 policy which she had
placed on the life of her nephew, Joseph |
Hennon, but the court excluded questions |
on this point for the present.
Mr.. Rice explained that he was trying |
to show that the insurance suit was sew |
eral times postponed and did not come |
up until June, 1909, after the remarriage |
Of Doctor and Mrs. Mohr at Lynn, Mass. /
Mrs. Mohr said that she did not know
that in that suit she would have to tes-
tify that she was the wife of Doctor
Mohr and denied that the Lynn marriage |
was performed for the express purpose
Of enabling her to so testify.
Mrs. AIohr said the ''first serious quar-
rel with the Doctor occurred in Febru-
sry, 1900. IL started when the doctor
began taking drugs and giving her severe
oeatings, she said.
4 understand you to say he drove you
tut of the housed"
Yes; / told him | was going to leave
lim."
And there vas no occasion for the
,eatings other than he got drunk and
Ised drugs r
No, sir"
Mr.. Mohr did not live with the doctor
rom the time OF this trouble in Febru
ny, 1909, till the second marriage was
in May of that year, she ties
iied She denied that she took Doctor
iohr to Lynn to be married while he
7as under the influence OF liquor and
lso denied that the doctor always said
hat ii he ever had married her it was
lille he was intoxicated He was not
ltoxicated when he was married, she de-
AIRED. She thought his word was suffi
ent proof Of the marriage.
She described the terrible beatings Civ p
} her by the doctor, and sobbed as she
lid:
81 loved him always"
rs it because you loved him SO much v
rat you have told of all these beatings
RET" she was asked. !.
~Yes; | loved him. | am here and u
i've to tell the TRUTH re
"And haven't you told this tale of &C
oe to get the sympathy of the juryf' "a
"No, sir" =
The prosecutor introduced the subject
an alleged assault by Doctor Mohr
ION Mary McConville, a servant en-
Dyed by the doctor at Providence in
IA.
did you take Mary MeConville to the
ctor?" he asked Mrs. Mohr.
"A stable man telephoned for a physi-
IN before ! got there, she answered.
Doctor Mohr was like mad man
,m drink and drugs upstairs and / was
raid Mr. Bennett, the physician who
Is summoned, might have him arrest
| was trying to protect my hus
nd"
Doctor Mohr was subsequently arrest
for criminal assault on Miss Neon
le, but was acquitted. The doctor at
At trial claimed his wife framed" the
le on him.
Didn't you tell Mary McConviIle to 4
BOT Doctor Mohr3" \
No. ] never did"
Didn't You tell Julia Duffy and other 4
wants that you would never see Doe 4
Mohr again-that Mary McConville ;.
: going to shoot him ="
No, sir. did not" =
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