The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-03
MRS. MOHR Is HELD
AS MURDER PLOTTER
Three Negroes Confess, Telling
of Promise Of $1,000 to
Kill Doctor.
ONLY TO WOUND GIRL
Widow Flatly Denies Compile
ity and Is. Released i'm
$4,000 Bail.

PROVIDENCE, Sept 2.-Mrs. Elizabeth
Tiffany Mohr. the attractive widow OF DR..
c. Franklin Mohr OF this city and New
port. was caught to-day In the unravel-
ling skein OF circumstances surrounding
the mysterious killing OF her husband
on Tuesday night when he was mo.oi.
Miss Emily Burger. who was shot at
the same time
Early this morning. scarcely more
than an hour after daylight, Mrs. Monr
was arrested at her home on Reservoir
avenue on a charge of conspiring TO IN
cite three negroes 20 commit the crime.
The negroes were gathered In by the
police through the night and one aftor
the other. SO the officials relate. they
accused the physicians wife of Offering
them money-S5.000 was the whole
price-to kill DIR. Mohr and his young
woman companion. according to their
story.
Mrs. Mohr and the three men were
arraigned this morning before County
Judge Frank Hammill and the negroes
were held without bail on different
charges. They are:
George w Healis Dr. Mohr's chauf-
f,ur. who according to the police. con-
fessed that he agreed at Mrs Mohr'S
bidding and for $4,000 TO stop the doc
tors automobile az a lonely spot on the
harrington road so that the other ne
groes might carry out their part Of the
alleged plot. Heals was held as an ac-
cessory before and after the fact.
Cecil v. Brown. formerly an employee
OF Dr. Mohr. who. according to the po-
lice version of a confession he Is said
to have made. was offered $4,000 to XII
DIR. Mohr and Miss Burger at the APP
pointed place. Brown was charged with
murder.
Henry Spellman, half.brother NJ
Brown. who also. the police maintain
confessed to a part in the shooting for
81, 900 promised by Mrs. Mohr.
$1,000 promised by Mrs Mohr. He was
charged with assault with a dangerous
weapon.
Mrs. Nohr Protests Her Innocence.
Mrs. Mohr. outwardly--nors- upper-
turbed than anyone else in the court
room when she and the negroes were
arra'gned, calmly protested her inno-
cence.
Confronted by the fact that for years
she has been intensely jealous of her
husbands affections for other women
she had sued him for divorce on that
ground-as well as the negroes confess
sions, reports Of threats that she had
made to kill her husband, verbally and
in writing, Mrs. Mohr insisted in the
brief statement that she made that the
negroes acted simply out OF revenge in
shooting her husband.
~ have no Idea who committed this
crime" said Mrs. Mohr while she was
detained at the police station. MY
cup Of grief is now filled to overiiowing.
| have suffered long for my husbands
love. but this is the final crushing blow"
Nrs. Nohr Attractive.
Mrs. Mohr is more attractive in fact
than Miss Burger. with whom her hus-
band was said to have been infatuated.
She is slight Of build and when she
entered the automobile to go tn Warren.
the Bristol county seat. with her Coun-
sci. Arthur Gushing. she was modishly
dressed in "A blue tailored suit and straw
hat. A brown veil almostly completely
concealed her features.
chief Inspector O'Neill began to
weave the circumstances of the shoot
ing together in a way that involved
Mrs. Mohr when Miss Florence Cram
bee, who was employed in the physi-
clans office, told him that several times
on Tuesday, the day of the shooting. "A
woman. whose voice she thought was
Mrs. Mohr's, so O'Neil said later,
called her on the telephone. warning
her not to ride with the physician to
Newport that night.
Later in the day. her story went on.
Heals asked her II she intended to go
with the doctor, and when she replied
NO the negro, she said. seemed
greatly relieved.
But the eutanglemcnts grew last
night. IIealis's first explanation. that
his engine went dead" just before two
strange holdup men fired the fatal
shots and disappeared in passing
Ford automobile, was essentially weak,
Then late last night he amended that
story and confessed. so ONein said.
that he and Brown. the discharged en-
ployce, had planned to rob the physi-
clan.
1t was a poor confession at best. but
It lead TO Browns arrest and Browns
arrest led TO Spellman's. who WAS so
surprised when suddenly accused by the
police OF committing the murder him
self that his nerve collapsed and the
details OF the alleged conspiracy flowed
freely.
When ONeln and his associates
brought Spellman back TO Providence
from Riverside. where Brown had said
he was going to visit him on his motor
cycle on the night of the shooting,
Spellman's revelations were repeated to
Brown The strain was too much for
him and he too, the police say, con-