Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-27

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] don't care when you leave. I've been
putting on sham front all summer
for YOU. hut can do Il no longer
II am tottering now. VIII have no
| more OF IT."
COERCED INTO DECIDING;
PROPERTY TO HUSBAND
Mrs. Moh- made tho assertion that
DR.. Mohr wanted heY TO get OUT and
shift for herself" and that ne urged
her to 90 West and got Il divorce but
that shc refused DR.. Mohr threatened
10 kill her because she would not give
him her jcwelry, according 70 her tcs-
timony. She also said tina, the doctor
coerccd her into deciding her property
TO him. and that up to 1912 all his
earnings had been put In her name.
Continuing, Mrs. Mohr said tina, she
received many heatinEs from her hus-
hand because of her attempts to keep
; Miss Emily Burger away from him
She asserted that Dr.. Mohr was adj
dicted 70 tho use of liquor and drugs,
and while under their influence was
| dangerous.
She did not deny writing letters to
Heals, Or. Mchr's chauffeur. while she
was visiting tho doctors relatives IN
| McEwensvilie. Pa. explaining that she
wanted 20 know what tho doctor was
'loing-that he was her husband and
she was interested In what he did
She asserted that her correspondence
with Heals was not carried on in pur-
! suance of an impending plot to kill
the doctor.
Several times in hcr story tho widow
| phaszcd her undyinr affection
| the doctor. and two or three times az
| Armed that she had wanted TO become
! rcconCilcd TO him.
| She denied furnishing the defendant.
! Brown. with money for "A motorcycle
| In May. 1919 in furthcrance OF the
/ alleged plot against her husband.
!
myself and two children to get along
on" she said.
! when were you first marricd?"
/ asked Attorney Cushing.
! MAY IL. 1909. at Brooklyn. We
; first roomed on Aborn Street. taking
our meals outside" replied Mrs. Mohr.
| She said that Charles Mohr. Jr., was
born In 1905. and Virginia Mohr in
1905
! when did YOU have your first Sc
rious disagreement with the doctor?'
I'm February. 1909. the doctor had
been drinking and taking drugs and he
gave me dreadful beating. told
him 7 was going 10 leave him. He told
me ] had no record OF my marriage
and he told me TO get out. | got out
the next day.
second Ceremony Performed In InOn.
Mrs. Mohr told OF a second marriage
ceremony being performed on May "a.
! 1909. at Lynn, Mass. copy Of the
marriage record at that time was in
troduccd in evidence She gave her
name ~ that time rs Frances z. Blair.
aged twenty-nine. and described her
self as a drcssmakcr, born in Hartford
Conn.
i Mrs. Mohr said that at the second
ceremony Or. Mohr made all the state
! ments and that she did not know
whether he had made any misstatc-
/ ments.
Did Mr.. Mohr in laoa-1o-11-1e treat
/ YOU abusively?" asked Mr.. Gushing.
YES, sir
| Did he trea, you with violence in
! June and July. after the second cere-
mony""
! YES. he had been to Nova Scotia
/ | had found letter in his pocket while
, he was gone and asked him about It
; when he returned. He got angry and
! beat me"
! Mrs. Mohr said he heat her again as
! a result OF quarrel he started over
her mothers Insurance policy
when did the doctor get acqua ed
with Miss Burger"
! lin ia1l."
How"
/ she was 81 patient Of the Doctors
! She kept company with the doctor for
year. | overlooked good many
things. but ! did not want them seen
! In public SO much"
| Il spoke to Miss Burger about it one
| night. I overheard Il telephone con-
versation between Or. Mohr and Miss
/ Burger. They were making date for
/ that night. After they finished I went
( to the telephone and called up Miss
, Burger and told her I was Mrs. Mohr
: and asked her 10 keep away from my
| husband. I told her had two children
and wouldn't she please not go out in
public with Dr. Mohr. She hcsitated.
! but finally said i will.
| "Dr. Mohr returned home that nigh;
about 1:l5. was in the living room
and when he came in he struck me
over the right eye and on my arm lie
knock ed me to the door and said: Now
viii YOU leave my friend alone?'"
! Mrs. Mohr said the doctor put her
out OF the house and that she had TO
climb in through cellar window nj;
! . o'clock I'm the morning after things
! had Gained down.
| Mrs. Mohr was still under direct cx-
animation when court adjourned until
| tomorrow. The early part Of the days
| session was occupied with the testi-
mony OF George Monahan. n police cap
! tain, tho last witness for the state
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