Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-29
Mrs. Mohr Takes Stand.

Mrs. Mohr went to the stand today
to be further cross examined by At
torney General Rice.
She was asked about the incident
she described in direct about her fur
coat being thrown out the bathroom
window at Newport
Did you call in the police"
"An officer nearby"
Mrs. Mohr admitted knowing Chief
OF Police Crowley of Newport.
"Hevent you entertained. him at
Your home?" 49,,
/. Mr.. and Mrs Crowley have, been
TO N.Y. house several times. Mrs.
Crowley was. very good friend Of
mine"
Weren't you intimate with him o''
No SIR
Knew Police Chief.
"Then you did know the police chief
Of Newport"
Yes sir"
The alleged confessions of the Ne
groes had it that Mrs. Mohr told them
not to be afraid as she stood in, with
the police. .l
Attorney General Rice questioned
the witness relative to all the court
matters in which she had been in
volved in the past including the trial
OF a. suit which she brought against
an insurance company to recover on
a policy. q, y"
Replying to- further questions, Mrs
Mohr said the first serious quarrel
| with the doctor" occurred in February
| 1909. 1t started when the doctor be.
gan taking drugs and giving her Sc
we're beatings she said.
Il understand you to say he drove
You out Of the house?"
! Yes; told him was going to leave
him."
And there was no occasion for the
beatings other than he got drunk and
used drugs:"
mo, SIR"
Quarrel in September
| The next quarrel occurred in Sep.
TENDER, 1909. the witness said She die
not live with the doctor from the time
of the trouble in February. 1909. til
the second marriage was performed il
May Of that year, she testified.
Mrs. Mohr said her mother died IL
February. 1909. She changed thi!
later to June, 1909. ,.'-
Again taking up the witness sui
against life insurance compan,
which she said was brought in an at
tempt to recover on a $4,000 polio!
which she had placed on the life o
her nephew Joseph Hennon, the attor
ney general asked:
why did they refuse to pay you?
Her counsel objected.
How is that material?' asked tn
court.
Il want to show later the reason 70
the marriage in Lynn" said Attor
ney General Rice. .
The court excluded the question 70
the present. Mrs. Mohr could not re
member whether the suit was brough
in. February. 1903.
wasn't this suit pending when yo
had the first trouble with the doc
tor:' f; .'.''
II don't remember"
Mrs. Mohr's counsel objected to tn
line Of inquiry and Attorney Genera
Rice explained that he was trying {
show that the trial was several time
postponed and did not come up unit
June, 1909, after the Lynn marriag,
Mrs. Mohr said that she did not kno,
that in that suit she would have t
testify that she was the wife Of D
Mohr and denied that the Lynn maj
riage was performed for the expires
purpose Of enabling her to so test
fy. ,--*.
Not intoxicated
Didn't you take DR.. Mohr to Lyn
to be married while he was under tt
. influence of liquor?'
81 did not" }'
Didn't DR.. Mohr always. say that
| he ever did marry you, it was viii
. he was intoxicated?' ~
mo sir. because he was not intoxica
ed when he was married"
, The attorney. general then took I
j, the question Of DR.. Mohr's cross p
i tition for divorce but Mrs. MohE,s .