The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-27
Although Cast off. She
Says Reconciliation Was
Her Only Aim.
ON STAND AS FIRST
DEFENCE WITNESS

hu.b. od can,c this af,srooo, u,h.p a.
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took the stand and told her story OF the
brutality she suffered at the hands OF
her husband up to the time when she
ceased to live with him.
ONLY twice wa, her c,lor,ess voice
raised from the monotone that barely
carried to tho inry nor when she denied
that she had ever Melted AGAINST D..
Mohr's life and when. with her last
words Of tho session che reached the
clinax or nor parnttye In pro,exting
that -desn,,c All the ,ndienities she had
endured she loved her husband and al.
WAYS wished for a reconciliation.
For nearly two hour. pluAkins ner.
yous,y M her suit and seeming 10 force
her words mas, her tee,h by sheer will
nower she held tho attention OF her
hearers with a narrative ths, contained
aInos, notbIns drama,ic excep, IL. ac-
cumulative descr,p,Ion OF cruelty.
Her face was nal,d. arcentua,ed nv her
black hat ana black FUR tina, came up
under her chin. Two LOCKS of her dark
hair fell down below her ears There
was a drawn look about her mouth and
recedinp chin which produces AZ times
an effect almost "a though she were
prInnins and her eyes we're opened wide
ana roved rcstleesly from tne lace OF
Mad From Drink and Drugs.
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pleased him turned to blows and threats
against her life-her own attitude as
that OF a wife trying to save her husband
from disgrace, hopinR TO win him back
and fighting 10 save property he had
given To her for her children.
She reiterated again and again her
love for her husba nd. even when relating
how she ran into the night after he had
beaten her and STAYED in the ward out
side of her house until she dared to crawl
into the cellar window. When he was
tried for an assault upon a servant In
their home she left the state In order,
she said. to avoid appearing against him.
Il didn't want anytning done 10 nun,
I'm her voice as she added "If anything
had happened 10 him II would jus. about
have killed me-
she explained her correspondence with
Healis, which the State has claimed
showed evidence Of conspiracy because or
inquiries In the letters about DR.. Mohr.
W W thoN S'"
to be reconciled with her husband. she
wanted to n what ne was doing n
wrote to his ervan to find out When
asked by Arthur Cushins. OF her coun-
sci. II she was WORKING up a piot
AGAINST her husoand with 'ne negroes
she
oh. ! certainly did not MT: 'ush,ns
MRS. Nonr was caiied 10 the s,ana al
o'lo O'CLOCK aH SOON sH M, ,uS"'"s
mad nnlshed ms introouc'ory auuiess
TO 'he jury ana p'u,keu ~ o"r n.y. -
,ne netsi's OF her WV" 'ona
ine'r ne .oseu'.I E" n"sps
ene saiu. WIG" ivy "N' wv" "' ~"
aereenIeh- , .., ..,r,.
We ,.L go 81 d-,,L.
,.. - 10 CO. ,,o !. dreadful heating
,nk Wv 90, az, 9, wanted To-
~, 7 Iidn', have . record ~ my mar
va. urur
'" o,,r.
..yes sal, was going 10 nv
uo,har ana :, dia
liar yoica became so low thai Judge
S,.ar,, haI,ed tho examination to aug.
ges, ,ha, sbe raise her Veil and had a
slsss OF water brought TO her.
or said I wouldn't live with him any
more I had a record OF my marriage.
7 was quite III and went to a private
sanitarium. until he came for me m
marriape was all right. | wouldn't go
back, and NO we wen, 70 ,.snn "nu WIZ
married again o'o u 'o' '"e SANG ~
the chiidreh'
soon after ms se.onu e-Lenho"s ~.
Mohr weht 10 No'a Soo'le "I'"" auy
friend, she saio. ana "he" NC S"n"e