Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-28

and used drugs?"
mo. sir"
The attorney general tried to bring
Lynn. Mass. was performed for the
purpose of permitting Mrs. Mohr to
be able to testify as the wife of the
doctor in law suit against an insur-
ance company, but this the witness
Denies the Charge.
Didn't you take DR.. Mohr to Lynn
influence OF liquor?"
IT did not"
Didn't DR.. Mohr always say that II
he ever did marry you it was while he
was intoxicated?"
mo. sir: because he was not intoxi-
Gated when he was married"
Didn't you know that in this Cross
petition for divorce he charged you
with extreme cruelty and adultery"
Yes, sir"
nesses that he admitted his marriage
to you excepting your word?"
my word is the TRUTH" she replied.
Her Cross-Examination.
Mrs. Mohr's direct examination was
ended in a few minutes after the aft
ernoon session opened yesterday and
Attorney General Rice began the cross
examination.
Mrs. Mohr said that she had never
seen any love letters written by her
husband to Miss Burger and did not
know that he had written any, but did
know that he had sent postals to her.
She had received letters from the doc
tor herself. but not frequently. as he
usually communicated with her by
telephone.
Mrs. Mohr said she was born at Bel
fast, Ireland. and was brought to this
country by her family, who settled in
Norwich. Conn. She gave her age as
the youngest of. ten children.
Through choice, rather than neces-
sity. she began work at seventeen.
learning the millinery trade. Later
she became a clerk and buyer of art
goods.
First Marriage to DR.. Mohr.
She began to receive attention from
DR.. Mohr in March. 1902, against the
wishes of her family. She said that
the doctor wished her to marry him,
but her folks would not give their
consent.
She subsequently went to New York
and obtained a position in a millinery
store. She was there not quite three
months. DR.. Mohr visited her only
once in New York and that was when
he came to marry her.
Did you contract a common law
marriage or ritual marriage in New
York." the witness was asked.
II left it to my husband" she re-
Mrs Mohr said she was past twenty
when she was married.
TT says in your divorce petition you
were married on or about May Is,
1902"
yes; but my attorney knew it was
the 18th"
when you brought that divorce ac-
ton did you not intend to prove a COM
mon law marriage in New York;"
II did not"
Ceremony in Brooklyn.
Mrs Mohr said she told tht doctor
that she wanted to be married by a
priest, but that the doctor had a min
lister friend in Brooklyn and she agreed
to have him perform the ceremony.
She did not recall whether the minis
ter gave a certificate.
"I never saw one," she explained. and
added that she took the doctors word
for everything"
Didn't Dr. Mohr always deny that
he was married to you?"
mot that I know of. excepting the
time he was under the influence OF
drugs and told me 1 could not prove
there was a marriage, as the minister
was dead"
This was in 1902. Mrs Mohr declared.
md she then went home and told her
mother what the doctor had said. and
hat it broke her mothers heart.
And the news caused your mothers
death?" she was asked
Ana yet your mother died in 1907.
two years before:
First Quarrel of the Mohrs.
Thu first serious break in the marital
relations of the late DR.. Mohr and his
wife occurred at the time she told her
husband of her friendship for a man
..m.d Samuel A. McDougall. who is
now a minister in Ptctou, Nova Scotia
This statement was elected from Mrs.
uohr during q severe cross-examina-
ION Yesterday afternoon by Attorney
5eneraI Rice. Step by step the prose-
.aiis Of Mrs. Mohr's life. Occasionally
dmring the examination she seemed
UNUSED as to dates and facts given
:, her direct testimony. and several
times broke down and sobbed.
toid Dr.. Mohr about McDougall. The
sector. she admitted. was incensed and |
vent to Nova Scotia to try to have the |
rinister unfrocked. The attorney gen |
raj then reminded her that in her
direct testimony she SAID that her
a e 81 s Rand 5cn' ito the provinces
g .s'srs 6ocfer WAS under the influence