The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-27
Mrs. Mohr Tells Jury
 Doctor Loved Her
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 asked me to let Charles go to New port with the doctor. I refused. Hea- lis told me the doctor did not intend tc have anyone else going down. I decided not to let Charles go. Hea1is then said, Well, maype it's just as well. I'm going to call for Miss Burger at five minutes of eight
 Where were you the rest of the evening of August 31.''
 "At my home A woman friend left me at 9:15 and gave both the 7children a bath. I retired about 1O:20 p. m. Some time in the night some one rapped on my door. and two nurses who lived in the house re- sponded. It was an officer. He said: Mrs. Mohr, I'm sorry to bring you this news, but the doctor was shot on his way to Newport I almost col la psed.'
 Mrs. Mohr was now speaking In a trembling voice.
 e.I called up Chief O'Nei1," she went on, ssand asked if the doctor was dead. He said he wasn't. I got on my clothes and went to the hos pita1 with Charles and the two nurses"
 Mrs. Mohr> said the matron told her the doctor was unconscious and advis- ed her not to see him.
 ''I went home and sat up all night" she said ''I got word of his condition every hair hour.
 When did, you first hear of the doctors death ?''
 'sAs soon as he passed away"
 What did you do?"
 tI Cont know what I did for 5 nainutes1I was frantic"
 Mrs. Mohr then told of applying for the custodianship of the children and her husbands property, by advice of counsel and of going with friends to the doctors office,
 Florence (the doctors office girD and George Rocks were in the off1ce.'' the witness said. Miss Orms-. ,gby shrieked out My God! Mrs. Mohr!' asked her what the matter was. She +saids Let me out. s Give me that key I told her to leave the key alone"
 Mrs. Mohr said that on the after noon of that day she called up an undertaken and arranged for the fu- neral. She spent the night of Sept. at home The next morning, she said, Capt Monahan and Inspector Ahern came to the house "and asked me to go to police headquarters.''
 Mrs. fMohr told of calling up her attorney, MT. Carroll, and that he ad- wised her not to talk to1-the po- lice.
 The witness asserted that she was denied the privilege of having her attorney present while the police were questioning her.
 She denied that on the way to the court house in Warren she had said to Constable Wallace, fIf some had gone through what I've gone through they would have killed the doctor long ago.
 "Mr. Wallace said to me- she went on, Gee No one will believe those - niggerS.' I did not say such a thing, and it was MT. Wallace, not I, who said that Miss Burger was a peach blonde. MT. Wallace told me there were two men down his way who had it in' for the doctor because of black mail at the time the doctor was treat ing their daughters
 Mrs. Mohr denied that she told Miss Orrnsby she was bitter toward the doctor.
 She denied having talked to Miss Ormsby about Miss Burger She said Miss Ormsby once told her of a row. she had with the doctor because he had bought a corduroy suit for Miss Burger. The witness also denied ask ing Miss Ormsby if she could find out whether the doctor had put any per sonal property in Miss Burgers name.l
 On the Monday before the shoot ing, Mrs. Mohr admitted, she talked over the telephone with Miss Ormsby telling the latter she Twas as bad as Miss BUrger,'' but denied that she said If you go with the doctor in the ma chine you'll have to take the conse- quences-E give you fair warming
 Did you on the morning of the night of the shooting say to her that someone would get a trimming?'' ''I did not-''
 Miss Ormsby called me up We'd nesday morning. g went on Mrs Mohr. and when I told her the doctor had been shot she let out one shriek and hung up the receiver dsDid v0II fell | that you loved the doctor that he | was the father of your children and did Wallace say the doctor was a | scoundreI?''
 Mrs Mohr was sobbing as she re-
 She admitted talking to George Rocks.
 Did you express yourself to him as bitter toward your husband?" ''No, appealed to him to help me keep Miss Burger from my husband g She denied she had told Rocks she could hire "a couple of thugs to kill the doctor, that she had prayed he would be killed in his automobile or saying that Miss Burger would nev- CT. live to marry him.
 Mrs. Mohr explained that she met Rocks at the South Station in Bos- | ton one day and that he had advised her to go out to luncheon with men and make the doctor jealous. The witness said that her husband | treated her with more consideration in the summer of 1915 when she re- l ceiVed three checks representing an | allowance of $100 month. Before that she had had difficulty in getting her allowance from the doctor Ask l ed whether the receipt of this money affected her mental attitude toward | her husband she replied: "Yes, I felt | happy and thought he was generous l and was going to be good to me-