Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-20

| Monr. He corroborated the testimony
of the preceding witness.
! Neither Of the OrderlieS could re-
member whether Mohrs watch was
running or not
| George Bowling. also an orderly,
told of seeing the bloody envelopes
pockets. AS the witness described
how he helped put Mohr to bed. Mrs.
Mohr let out a deep sigh and dropped
her head on her chest. Mr.. Bowling
| said the blood spots on the envelopes
were new, not old.
| George w. Rocks
George w. Rocks, brother-in-law to
/ Miss Emily Burger, was next called.
| He identified the threatening letter
card Mrs. Mohr wrote him, urging him
! to persuade his sister-in-law to keep
away from her husband.
Rocks identified a letter he received
/ from Mrs. Mohr on Dec. 8. 1913. It
was allowed to go in against the oh
! lection of counsel for the defence. IT
read in part as follows: My son
| Charles has told me that his father has
! taken him three times to call on Miss
| Burger. l am going to get after her
| She is not going to get the best of me.
l will kill her before I'm through with
the whole matter She is a low per-
! son. when she won't listen to a good
! woman like me who asks her to stay
away from my husband. She will he
sorry before many days. | just want
/ to let you know how your sister in law
is deceiving you. I'm not going to put
| up with it. Please look into this mat
ter and don't let her jolly you. l give
her fair warning
Mr.. Rocks then told of converse tons
lie had with Mrs. Mohr between Decenl-
Der 1913, and June 1914. He said lie
talked to her at his Office. at the post
Office. at the South Station. Boston.
How did Mrs. Mohr express her
self toward her husband?"
Very bitter
What did she say?"
she said she could hire couple #
thugs to murder her husband
when"
I'm January. 1914"
she also said she hoped he would
get killed by his automobile.
Did she say anything about Miss
! Burgcr?'
Yes, she said she would kill her be-
fore she'd let her marry her husband"
Mrs. Mohr said Miss Burger would
never live to marry her husband, wit
ness said.
Did she say anything abou,
money!"
Yes, she said she would give her
husband a divorce if he would give her
100000 and the Middletown estate"
Did you do anything about the
threats?"
Eyes, 1 went to see Attorney Arthur
Gushing about them." replied Rocks.
Mr. Gushing is one of Mrs. Mohrs at
torneys.
An attempt to get into the case, mat
tiers which were characterized as SLAM
derous and irrelevant by the prosecu-
ton failed.
Didn't you tell Mrs. Mohr in 1912 that
you could control Miss Burger" asked
Mr.. Fitzgerald in cross-examination
"No, SIR
Didn't you tell Mrs. Mohr not to tell
Miss Burgers folks?"
Il asked her not to-
Didn't you tell her you were her
AIiCiu oHu " Sdll SOu uP ttt any tIIHe.
Yes, sir"
Didn't you meet Mrs. Mohr on Elm
wood avenue and didn't she tell you she
loved her husband and didn't you tell
her "a nice girl like you shouldn't waste
your time with a fellow like him?''
mo, sir"
Didn't Mrs. Mohr tell you she called
up Miss Burger and asked her to stop
going around with her husband and that
Miss Burger had promised to keep away,
and didn't Miss Burger tell DR.. Mohr
and didn't Mrs. Mohr tell you that as
consequence the doctor beat her?''
IT think she showed me some marks"
Rocks denied emphatically that he tried
to get Mrs. Mohr to go to dinner with
him in Boston. He also denied telling
Attorney Gushing that he was laying for
Mrs Mohr and that he had dictoA
graph.
Didn't you tell Mr.. Cushing in Sep.
TENDER, 1914, that you had put a listen
ing instrument on Mrs. Mohr and that
you had enough evidence on her to get
a divorce for the doctor?"
mo, sir
Didn't you tell Mrs. Mohr that DR..
Mohr was scoundrel and that you
would like to see him put off the face of
the earth?'
mo, SIR
s.Didn't you tell her on another occa-
sion that you'd like to put a couple of
bullets into him?'
mo, SIR
"And that if he didn't keep away from
Miss Burger you'd get him.
mo, SIR
weren't you jealous of him."
mo, sir"
Prayers for Death
Mrs. Mohr seemed to shrink back in
her seat when Mr.. Rocks testified that
she had told him she had prayed in
church that DR.. Mohr would get killed
by his automobile" Rocks appeared
nervous under cross-examination.
On crosse examination by John J.
Fitzgerald, Mr.. Rocks denied he said