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    1. Aged Infidelity, 1894
    2. The Blount County News-Dispatch, Thursday, June 14, 1894 A Cullman Muddle. The beautiful and enterprising city of Cullman, Ala., has a sensation on hand at present. It is a Breckenridge scandal of a different kind. An old German Lothario of over three score and ten became enamored with the wife of Jacob Stucker a fellow exile from "Faderland," a man bordering on three score. Mohr visited Stucker's house so often that old man Stucker began to "smell a mouse," so he warned Mohr to come no more there, but the old fellow did not heed the warning, and kept visiting his inamorata more than ever. Stucker made determination to protect his marital rights, and his domicile from invasion, so that next time he found old Mohr there he belabored him with a board, giving him what Paddy gave the drum, "a devil of a licking." The old libertine had him indicted for assault with intent to kill, and employed an array of counsel equipped to assist the Solicitor in prosecuting the case. At the May session of the circuit court, Stucker put in a plea of justification as Mohr had been robbing him of his rights as a married man. Mohr denied the charge, but Stucker's wife was in court, and wished to testify, but the privilege was denied her. When Mohr denied the illicit relations existing between himself and Stucker's wife, the latter jumped up in court, and made a five minute's speech in German, declaring herself and Mohr guilty, and husband justifiable in what he did. The Court and Sheriff were so astounded at the woman's action that it was some time before the woman's harangue could be stopped. S.L. Fuller, Esq., for the defense, in his address to the jury scored, skinned and showed up the hoary old reprobate in his true colors. To defend himself, Mohr had written and published in the "People's Protest," a Cullman paper, a slanderous article defaming fuller as a citizen and a lawyer. Prof. Wood, the editor, endorsed Mohr's article in his columns, and on the 8th inst., Lawyer Fuller filed two suits for damages, claiming $10,000 in each case. One is against Paul Mohr; the other against William M. Wood. Eminent lawyers will be employed, and many queer things are expected to follow.

    07/29/2006 04:12:36