Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-27
Tells Of Repeated Beatings
When She Protested Hus-
bands UnfaithfuIness.
SAYS THEY MADE UP
NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Declares Physicians Practice
Brought Him $50, 900 a Year
and Gave Her Only $1,000.

PROVIDENCE. r. l., January 27-Mrs.
Elizabeth F. Mohr came into court to-
day prepared to renew her testimony
regarding her relations with her hus-
band, DR.. C. Franklin Mohr. for whose
murder she and two negroes, Cecil
Brown and Henry Spellman, are on
trial. Her last words at yesterday
session when she went on the stand in
sired a reconciliation with her husband
after she had left his home. because she
still loved him.
Earlier she had described a marriage
which took place in Brooklyn, N Y,
in 1903. the legality of which Dr. Mohr
later disputed. with the result that a
second ceremony was performed in
Massachusetts in 1909. She told of re-
peated beatings received from her hug
band when she objected to his atten-
tons to other women. Today, ques-
toned further by her counsel. Arthur
Cushing. she told of reconciliation in
1913, followed soon by the final break.
Made Up on Christmas Eve.
They had not been very friendly for
few days prior to Christmas eve.
when he came home and complimented
her upon having decorated their house
SO beautifully. He said: Elizabeth, /
don't want to be on the outs with you
on Christmas eve; let's make up"
They did. she said, and had Christmas
dinner together. when she 1ave him q
present.
Later the witness said he was un-
kind to her and she told him that she
was going to a convent in Newport where
boarders were taken.
Earned $751; 900 a Year.
He asked how much the board would
cost for herself and two children. and
she said $50 week. He agreed to pay
1t and babe her goodbye.
Mrs. Mohr said that at the time she
hled her suit for separate maintenance
the doctor was earning $4,000 q year.
but she asked for an allowance of only
800 month. She attached his prop
erty and refused his request to have
the attachment released. Later the
witness said she signed over her prop
erty to the doctor as a result of his
threats.
II thought I had a right to get 1t
back again because he was so cruel to
me-" she added.
Never Contemplated Divorce.
Did you ever intend to get an alb
solute divorce from him."
mo, sir: I would never have divorced
my husband. I wanted no one else
and cared for no ono else. I felt that
deep down in his heart he loved me, no
matter who he went around with"
Mrs Mohr said that the threatening
letters she sent were for the sole pur-
pose of soaring Miss Burger away
from my husband"
Mrs. Mohr said she was at home on
Reservoir avenue on the night OF Au-
gust 20, 1915, a few days before her
husband was killed.
Did Brown and Healis visit you at
Sed? n0"' '"A' "'sA'' A' '''A' ''
that night"
night or give him money for a motor
cycle at any other timer"
She denied that Brown and Healis
were present at her house about $3.50
murder plot was Matched. They were
never in my house together" she as
serted.
Between and I pm. August 81,
the night Of the tragedy" said Mrs
Mohr. "Healis came to my house and
asked me to let Charles go to New
port with the doctor. 1 refused
Spent Evening at Home.
Where were you the rest of the
evening of August 31?'
AT my home. A woman friend left
me at s:15 and I gave both the chill
dren a bath. retired about 1920
pm"
notified of the shooting and said that
she Immediately went to the hospital
with her son Charles. Mrs. Mohr said
the matron told her the doctor was un-
conscious and that his head was COW
cred with blood, and advised her not
II went home and sat up all night"
she said. II got word Of his condi-
ton every half hour"
When did you first hear Of the doc
las soon as he passed away" replied
Mrs. Mohr, weeping.
What did you doy
I don't know what I did for fifteen
minutes; was frantic"
Describes Her Arrest.
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. She also described her
arrest.
The witness asserted that she was
denied the privilege of having her at
torney present while the police were
questioning her. She denied that on the
way to court she had said to Consta-
BILE Wallace: "If some had gone through
what I have gone through they would
have killed the doctor long ago" She
admitted saying that she felt sorry for
those boys" meaning the negroes.
Mrs. Mohr denied that she told Miss
Ormsby she was bitter toward the doc
tor.
I told her." she said, that loved
the doctor and loved no one else; that
I never would divorce him. and that
some day he would return to me-"
Talked With Miss Ormsby.
The Monday before the shooting Mrs.