File:Ira Lowe (1868-1907) and Adelheid Oppenheimer (1848-1907) in The New York Times of New York City, New York on 29 January 1897.jpg

Mr. Lowe Asked Protection. Said His Wife Assaulted Him After Court Case was Adjourned, but a Witness Denied This. At the completion yesterday of the testimony in the trial of the action brought by Mrs. Adelheid Lowe to recover from her husband, Ira Lowe, property she alleges she conveyed to him while under his hypnotic influence, Justice Pryor, before whom the case was heard ln Special Term. Part V., of the Supreme Court, made an attempt to effect a reconciliation or settlement between the plaintiff and defendant. The attempt was apparently unsuccessful, for immediately after the defendant had left the court, upon the adjournment, of the case, he returned and said his wife had assaulted him with a weapon. A spectator told the Court that the woman had no weapon, and had merely run toward her husband, entreating him to return to her. Justice Pryor declined to hold Mrs. Lowe until her husband had left the building, and again urged a reconciliation. The plaintiff, formerly Mrs. George Rothgeiser, and the defendant were married in 1894, but separated In the Fall or 1895. Mrs. Lowe has six children by her former marriage and at previous sessions of The trial testified she had deeded to Lowe before the marriage, on condition that he would be kind to these children, a half interest in plaintiff and defendant, in their testimony other of drunkenness and abuse, and Lowe said his wife gave him the property in question without condition and because she loved him. Mrs. Lowe was recalled to the stand yesterday, and questioned as to her treatment of her husband. She denied having chased him with a knife, scratched his face, or pulled his hair. She said she bought poison not to give him, but to take herself to keep her from the shame and publicity of the trial. On the night of August 14, 1895 she gave him $40, and he went away, and never came back. "Did you drive Lowe away?" "No, I married him to be my husband until until he died." This closed the testimony and Justice Pryor intimated he would grant a motion to dismiss the suit. He was satisfied, he said, that the man was after the woman's money and she was after him as a husband. Joseph Kohler, counsel for the defense, then asked, admitting the defendant was after the woman's money to better his position in life. If there was anything reprehensible in that. "Then, I say, such conduct is extremely infamous." exclaimed Justice Pryor. It is infamous for a man to marry a woman simply for her money." When Mr. Kohler said he sympathized with the plaintiff. Justice Pryor told him to have her property restored to her. E. S. White, counsel for Mrs. Lowe, said she would consent to signing a decree dissolving the marriage, provided her property was restored. Justice Pryor intimated that the court could not be involved in such a proceeding, and again asked Kohler to induce Lowe to return the property to his wife. He said he would review all the evidence before deciding the case, and gave counsel a week from today to submit briefs. ; When Lowe left the courtroom he was followed by Mrs. Lowe and the a3ezed assault occurred. The suit brought by Mrs. Lowe against her husband for a separation on the ground of cruelty and abandonment was adjourned until the March term of court.

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