Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-25
at her house at 9.15 o'clock on the
night of the shooting?" asked Mr..

~ HSA AAooSS dt $40 CLOCK on the
night of the shooting?" asked Mr..
Lewis.
Yes, sir" replied Mr.. Hedlund.
"Mightn't 1t have been that he said,
Tell my sister not to forget that |
was at her house at 915?"
May have"
DO you remember telling Mr.. Sabate
of the Providence Tribune that the in
terview was very unsatisfactory-that tn.
prisoners refused to TALK"
81 don't remember saying anything like
that
Thomas Sharp. who runs a garage al
Trinity square. this city. testified thai
Victor Brown came to his place about
Ills O'Clock on the night of Aug 81. the
night of the shooting, with his motor.
cycle.
Robert c. Root, assistant clerk of the
court. was called as witness and ident,.
fed the divorce petition filed by Eliza.
beth F. Mohr against Charles F. Mob,
on Feb. Z, 1914.
Attorney Fitzgerald objected to further
documents going in. but Judge Stearns
ruled that the evidence was competent
to show the relations that existed be.
tween Mrs. Mohr and Dr. Mohr.
Attorney General Rice read the divorce
petition to the jury. 1t showed that
Mrs. Mohr averred that she was married
! to DR.. Mohr ION or about May Is, 1903;
that she charged him with extreme cru
city. In an amended petition filed july
o. 1914. she charged DR. Mohr with gross
misbehavior and improper association
with other women, continued drunken
ness and incorporate and excessive use
of drugs. A supplemental petition show
ed that an injunction was issued by the
court enjoining DR.. Mohr from trans
ferring his real estate till the parties
could be heard on the matter Of own.
ership.
The amended petition asked for sepa-
rate maintenance, not absolute divorce
and for the custody of two children
Charles Franklin Mohr, Jr. aged Q, and
Elizabeth Blair Mohr, aged 6.
Separate maintenance for the wife. In
stead of absolute divorce, was asked in
the amended bill The documents were
brought into the records of the case
through identification by Robert C. Root
assistant clerk of court.
Newspaper reporters were the other
witnesses at the forenoon session Mrs.
Gertrude Stevenson. who testified Fri
day regarding an interview with the
Negroes in jail, in which one was quot
ed as saying Tell Mrs. Mohr we will
SUCK by her il she will support u.s."
was subjected to sharp cross-examina-
ton by William H. Lewis, counsel for
Brown. Attorney General Rice criticize
ed the attorney for the method Of his
attack. The Temperance of Miss
stevenson was made the occasion for
the Introduction Of memorandum
credited to Brown which purported to
be an alibi, precluding possibility Of
his having had any part in the crime.
After the petition was presented the
court ordered a recess for luncheon.
Attorney General Rice at the OPEN
Ing Of court this afternoon, asked Rob-
ert Root, assistant court clerk. on the
witness stand, what DR.. Mohr sought
to restrain Mrs. Mohr from doing by
his petition filed March 80, 1914. Mrs.
Mohr's counsel objected, but the court
allowed the witness to state the char.
acter Of the petition"
ut is about the household furniture
at The Montpelier at Newport" ex,
planned Mr.. Root.
THE Montpelier" was DR.. Mohr's
Newport home. A consent decree was
entered in the case it was stated. Wit.
ness was not allowed to state what the
injunction enjoined.
Judge Stearns precluded the state
from showing what DR.. Mohr charged
his wife with in his cross motion for
divorce.
The attorney general declared that
this was extremely important"
Mr.. Rice asserted he wanted to show
what Mrs. Mohr's mental attitude was
after DR.. Mohr filed this cross motion
The court would not change its ruling.
Does that petition Of DR.. Mohr's ask
FOR absolute divorce or from bed and
board?" asked Mr.. Rice.
Absolute divorce"
The court excluded on objection tes-
timony as to whether the cross motion
shows when the Mohrs were married
Counsel for defence accused the attor-
ney general Of attaching a sinister
meaning to his question"
1t was brought out that DR.. Mohr
asked the court to adjudge his wife in
contempt for alleged violation OF the
injunction.