The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1916, Page 1

ee ! Didn't Advise vee Git, Who Ac- cused Her Husband, to Shoot Him, She Testifies. NOT AFTER SYMPATHY Admts Unfaithfulness Was Charged in Doctor’s Cross Divorce Suit. ad Staff Garrespendent cmt, The Evening World. PROVIDENCE, R. I, Jan, 28—This was by far the most trying day Mrs Elizabeth Mohr has had in her trial for the murder of her husband. At- torney General Rice subjected her to @ continuance of cross-examination #0 coldly calculated, so insistently prying that it seemed every moment she must break under it. There was not one element of mercy in It, save the frequent and pointed pauses of the questioner while he Mrs. Mohr to gather herself for an Yewer, and these very pauses had thelr harassing effect u the witness chair. Again and again Mr. Rico thrust his questions beneath Mrs. Mohr's guard and provoked conflicting ans and these were quite waited fo! » the woman In wers from her, evident attacks upon her truthfulness But before he made contradict | herself he made her the truth of an answer that set all at her reiterate naught a moment later It seemed that no event in life of this distraught woman had escaped investigation by the State's attorney and leaf by leaf he unfolded the book of her years over which she #0 distressingly fumbled Most of all Mr. Rice attacked her) vaunted love for her slain husband, the man she swore beat her cruelly Many times a ome. Tle recounted each beating f@» had received at Dr. Mohr's hands ag made her ery, "but still T loved ‘@." 4 recurring echo in the minds of the jury. Mrs, Mohr gave the lie direct to several police offigers who swo; the negroes accused with mitted the truth of their confe: n in her presence at police headquarters | when she was taken there soon after the murder, When recess came Mrs. ho stand wetting her dry yes weary and face drawn oMx, Rice inquired first Mohr's ‘court experiences in litigations. Q@. When did, you have your first agplous quarrel with Dr. Mohr? A In February, 1909, @. What was it about? A. The @octor was taking drugs and liquor and gave me a severe beating, I eald I was going to leave him. He blacked my eye and bruised my arm. Q. When next did he severely beat you? A. I think it was in September, 1908, Q. What was the occasion of this beating? A. I. don't remember, Q. Now, Mrs, Mohr, when you were 4n Providence, in 1909, did not your | nephew, Joseph Hannon, live with | you? A. Yes, | Q. Didn't you insure his lite for | $5,000? A. Yer. | * Q. Your mother was insured by you also,"wasn't she? A. Yes, @. Do you remember trying to col ng fal Mohr left lips, her} as to Mrs. various | | (Continued Sn Fourth Page.) ct 7 EDITION __ PRICE ONE CENT. {pam are all the, lturned her out of his|{n 1913 at | | Che “ Circulation Books Open to All.”’ Cony eight Hy by The Press Publish! cw York Werle ne NEW YORK, FRiIAY, JANUARY 2b, ‘BRANDEIS FIRST JEW APPOINTED ON SUPREME BENCH WEATHER—Unesttled to-night and Saturday. Colden DAVE EDITION “Cirenlation Books Open to All.”” ‘1916. 18 PAGES =D PRICE ONE CENT. | STEAMER WITH | BRITISH OFFICIALS (5 BELIEVED LOST Battered Lifeboat Only Trace of Appam, Overdue on Trip ) From Africa to England. LONDON, Jan. 28 felt regarding the British steamship Appam, which left Daker for Ply- |mouth on Jan. 11 With 166 passeng: nd 134 in the crew. When about four days out wireless communteation with the suddenly ceased. A de- | «patch from jthe British ports having 4 16 a lifeboat with the painted on the knocked away For several been manifested in shipping circles regarding the fate of the Appam on her ten-day trip from Dakar in the} vessel gantle re: ved at sea on Ja name Appa stern and the boy mship ‘Treg days past concern has French Colony of Senegal, West At- | mane th rica In the insuranee market hope | '"® who said they were opposed to was nearly abando: and it was/ the apy ment were willing to be AiMeult to effect reinsurances even| (Woted to that effect, however at the high rate of 75 guineas per| ® ming tion & to the Judiciary cent, Committee, where, If there is a fight, Two or three other steamships com- ing in the same direction as the Ap- also overdue. Among the 166 passengers on board the Appam were colonial officials A report from Lisbon recently an- nounced that mines had been dis- wered in the Bay of Biscay The lifeboat with the name Appam | painted on the stern reported by the steamship Trogantle was ed by | that vessel in north, | longitude 14.32 w: The Appam, of 7,781 tons gross, 425 feet long and'57 feet beam, was butte | 1 & Wolff at Bel- was owned by the fast British and Afric gation Company AUSTRIAN EMPEROR IS GROWING WEAKER |Suffers Severe Chill, Says ( Jopen- | hagen Report—Archduke Karl in Attendance, LONDON, Jan, 28. ov} Jovef of Austria has suffered a sever chill and is growing weaker and mo depressed, according to a Copenhagen fternoon. Copenha pt_of Vienna despatche ring that the Archduke Karl wa atten ree at the pstant bn peror's bedside | CLEAN CONSCIENCE WILL WIN WAR, THE KAISER ASSURES KING LUDWIG BERLIN, Jan, 28 (via London). Replying to a message of birth day congratulations from King Ludwig of Bavaria, Emperor Will iam sent the following telegram: “Receive my heartiest thanks for your friendly congratulations on my birthday.. Trusting in God, in the will of our heroic troops to win the victory and the spirit of self-sacrifice of the entire Ger man people, we can look forward with confidence to a victorious end of the bloodiest struggle of all times. “All hostile assaults will break to pieces upon the power of a clean conscience, with which Ger. together with her faithfu: is waging war for the ox of honor and liberty.” Grave anxiety Is | Hull Wo Lioyds says that | to be appointed to the Supreme Court “SUCCEEDS LAMAR SUPREME COURT » Sit in a Highest ( Sourt of United States. Ww ILSON. BY President Had Given No Hint of Appointing Man Long Prominent in Law, SURPRISE WASHINGTON, Jan, 28.—President Louis D. ton to be Assoclate Wilson to-day selected Brandeis of Be Justice of the Supreme Court, to suc- ceed the late Justice Lamar. Mr. Brandeis's nomination went to * Senate to-day. It was a surprise official circles, Mr. never been mentioned everywhere in Brandeis has for the vacaney Nhe announcement of the nomina- tion created @ sensation in the Senate, where almost every Democratic mem- ber had committed himself in favor f one candidate or another for the Senators, ¢ Southern who be lieved the place would go to some South Justice Lamar hav- ng ‘ the South, were es- jally stirred 4 Mr, Bran is’ nomi. pived than Se tors bey ssing informally the pros- yf his confirmation it will first develop Louls D, Brandeis is the first Jow of the United States. My, Brandeis came most not 1 on Second F vbly be Continue ) ONE DEAD, 4 HURT ‘ ASBICTRUCK HITS. AUTOAT CROSSING |Harry R, Katie Court Librar- ‘an of White Plains, Killed in Collision Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Who Will Accompany The President on His Western Speaking Tour from the historle policy of his party and the traditiona of the nation. “If be can convince the people, he Will be entitled to thelr upport; if his reasons fail to convince, he will have no excuse for golng farther with bis programme.” opposing preparedness, Bryan sald: “Tho sum which the President asks for the army and navy would absorb almost the entire tacome of all United States farmers. An adoption of the Vresident’s programme would work « complete revolution in our national ideals, in our governmental methods b BRYAN THROWS and invite barbarism ‘Tho question is not could or would attacked. We not only could but , but our preparedness i# in- hi ww TWO NEWARK PAPERS AGAIN CHANGE HANDS, “Cordially C “Commends Plan to Lay Before Voters Reasons for Urging Preparedness.” are to exert upon the world, There whether we W. W. Chapin Sells Star and Eagle to Owners of Toledo, O., Paper solves, ‘A large part of the Democratic MIAMI, Fla In another | The Newark Fvening Star New party and a considerable portion of —— | ‘ “God bless you" to President Wilson| the Republican party are satisfied Special to ‘The Riven! ark Hagia were purchased to-day by nila eahaiure toe an:* 1 to] With our nation as 1 Is, and prefer WHI PLAINS, Jat An o| Nathaniel C. Wright, A. 8. ‘Thathelm. | U20® ble departu «oe “appeal to} > continue the present scale of pre- 7 , i - the country" preparedness, former | paredneas, with any risks which it & colliston hetw . brew-/er and H. FE. Halste Wright and) ae. Or may involve, rather than riak a ery automobile truck and a lihousine}Thalheimer are the publishers of the) CeHArY ule Bryan to-day | change to the European plan with ita] tial By ARONA T { Ine} Phe ' 4 & statement challenging the, oppressive taxes and its menace to iwa O'Brlen of this| Toledo Blade and Halsted ts V : © and international friendship.” y rniag Marry R.| President of the Paul flock Corpora at to outline his reasons for] me Koster, County Librarian sol ulen ot New. ¥ ek ae nutiona: arfonse measures | THREE HURT IN THEATRE. lead and four young men ef this city | papers, und r propertie n gave no hint aa to bis future! suffering from ere injuries. |of former & from Will- | ogonal thet Fireman Averte Fante When Pine The aceldent occur n the White|iam W. Chapin rrotiaged thom] ey Pine: 18 thet connection ter Falla Into Audtence, Plains Post Road 1 the tnterwecs (Tan. 1 at 4. tru er cordially commend the Presi-| Momentary excitement was created tion of Mama k Avenue |paid by the naw ow wa t An to lay before the voters|in Proctor's Fifty-elghth Street ‘Thea O'Brien was 16 the car and In} announced his rea sald Bryan, “The people (tte, Pifty-eighth Street and ‘Third he front seat him wos Edward) tt was stated 1 tar and) are entit all the Itght p ° this afternoon when a plece Fitzgerald, a reat estat ker, In} wagie will t ' Mt as to in order that they may intelligently feet square foll fr the rear seat sat Mr. Koster, City| polities and general policies” Wright advise their public servants the orchestra seate Marshal’ Pranks J nd Edward} anu ‘Taath an They have heard from the manu “eorge Grimm, the freman, who was Kenney, a prictor age thelr facturers of munitions, to whom pre-!on duty behind the scenes, quickiy were return nner at New| paredness ts a aort of ‘outdoor relief; siepped into a box und aawured th: Rochelle | troe Phey rd from the big cor-| audience that © was no fre and Just a 1s about to turn} {IKE porationa w want a large army | no danger n the Lt wery auto- | Abraham Dacke torman in t rawe thelr employees; they! Mra wa, of N mobile, Koln we he car | employ of the Poughkeer t 1 have a rd from army and navy | Third abra with « ver and | Ware ks bs iW xp 1 vir call ing pla 1 n wanty:| Mee eenetrocy a F MAKIDADIO| Mes Wise Kahaint ' 1 ‘ which are! Avenue “ ntly Injiurod in he iN fractured ) ux Wit of probabilit 1 and Mrs Was bh 6 White Plains Ht H nal No We fk were badly injured J WINTER CRUISES TO WAROERE CUIMES Gooey ema ne ‘ Kost t ight yeur | a aw M eT | # w 1 lead old, jonven wile, and on intent mon, | ie, bk. Gils, Teleiuie booms HOW. —adn, Ma LO Lge 60 radical & departure Further outlining Wis reasons for | and in the character of influence we | is interest in knowing whether pro- | defend ourselves it| relatively more rapidly as| © belilgerent nations exhaust them. | -WILSON TO AROUSE PEOPLE FOR DEFENSE BELIEVE 300 WERE LOST ON BRITISH SHIP NIRS. MOHR FALTERS UNDER 0S. BRANDES FIERCE INQUIRY BY STATE; HER MARRIAGE IS ATTACKED. atic WILSON ADDS MORE TOWNS “TO HIS LST FOR SPEECHES ON NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS |His Declaration in New ¥ in New York That a. Crisis Might Come To-Morrow and Nation Must Be Ready, Chief Points in All Speeches. |BIG ROW IN CONGRESS OVER NEW YORK SPEECH. WASHINGTON, Jan, 28.—President Wilson returned from New. York at 7.15 A. M. to-day. He went immediately to the White House. | The President spent a busy day finishing up pressing public busi- ness prior to departing to-night for Pittsburgh and the Middle West to-de~ jliver a series of speeches on national defense. He is anxious that the | “speeding up” process in Congress hould be well under way before his jreturn Feb. 4. It was indicated to-day that in the Middle West the President will devote his addresses to emphasizing the points made by him in his New York speech, although he will also discuss practically all important | question pending in Congress, including the shipping bill. | The President, it was said, will not mince words in discussing the |need for national defense and will talk very plainly about opponents of preparedness and men who want a very large standing army. ——________———® _ Tho President will deltver the firw® add) BRITISH CASUALTIES one 9% De: riers ete ts Pea burgh le TOTAL 539,467, SAYS es an en ee Cleveland to-morrow night, in Mil" ASQUITH’S LAST REPORT |) waukeo Mondar ta Chicago Mon@ay |] LONDON, Jan. British night, in Des Moines Tuesday, tn To~ casual 5 2 Jan. 0, tie, teal peka Wednesday, in Kanne Oty 639,467, Premier Aeduith faa ‘pub: || Wednesday night, in St. Louts Thum |] lished to- “day. day morning, and will return home ese sare divided as fol- || Friday afternoon. lowe: Kites. 3 woun Plans were made to-da; isl 046. y for Qe | othe divingn by field of opera: Haareny to deliver brief speeches |] tions ie as followe: rom train at Davenport and New. | ash ager tulle’ 87,268; wounded, I)ton, Ia. in addition to others already | nau) missing oe Rilled, ; || 82Dounced, It was also arranged that wounded, 78,095; missing, 11.254, latter speaking at the principal mesh ry ore Kil id, $705 ing tn Topeka the President wll wounded, 15; missing, 2,797. speak briefly at an overfiow meeting in the high schoo! auditorium. The addition of the two lowe towns t@ the Ilet of cities where the Presicont NEW GERMAN AEROPLANE. CALLED ‘‘COPPER-BELLY” the prominent part taken yester- day by Senator Kenyon of that State in the presentation of the Protest against shipment of mu- nitions to the alli On the trip West he will be accom- panied by Mrs, Wilson, Secretary Tumulty, Dr, C. 'T. Grayson, the White House physician, two stenog- raphers, a telographer and an unusu- Machine Is Heavily Armored to Permit to Ply Low Over Enemy Lines. 28,—"Copper-helly” itish troops lane put in LONDON, {a the name applied by B to the now German aerop Jan action in Northern Fran according | ally large corps of secret service to tho editor of an aviation magazine.| men, Ho will attend no banquets or The machine !s heavily armored] social affairs but will devote prac to permit 1t to fly low over the allied; tically the entire trip to speaking down by ma-|and travelling, Dr. Grayson sald to day the President is in good physical condition for the tour Prosident Wil York car Reprose | ines without boing cut chino guns. ‘DROPS DEAD AFTER n'a speech In New ntative Dies of Terns who probably will | the PiTTing TWO TO QEATH cane ee the Hous, to launch another attack Strain of Double Execution Brings] te, Administration's programme |to-day from the floor ired army on Attack of Apoplexy Fatal Jana navy officers, Mri Dies declared, to Prison Warden were largely responsible for the pre- | parednese ax AL ©, Jan, Warden!" Republican L Mann came to the defense of F dent Wilson and jrebuked Mr. Dies for making any re © to-day |imarks about Mr, Wilson's views oa- fore the President had completed his speaking tour nn declared that Wilson’ sonly 4 nae for changing on preparedness was that was right possibility th Carolina Peniten hi of danger a 1 afterward be! which prev Mr. Mann declared, ‘ we Will meet the situation, we will He ow when physictans| rise to Sponsibilities and pur reached him. T Lid that | this nator \ position where it can ; ; : ve he double | protect tself awainst any foreign | fow eae » ue edly aused his pestuous applause Froke fron deata. all sides of the chamber,