New-York tribune., 1915-09-07
Message, Written by Wife,
Said to Have Been
Found on Body.
FISHERMEN FAIL
TO IDENTIFY MEN
Uncertain Prisoners Are Those
They Saw Fleeing on Cycle
from Scene of Murder.
fr-om a s,.r Correspondent Of rle Tribuno.l J

c. Franklin Mohr, murdered last Tues
day night, contained a note addressed
to c. Victor Brown, one Of the negroes
under arrest on a charge of killing the
It is stated that the note was in
Mrs. Mohr's handwriting and read:
"Come TO sea me Immediately"
Police officials here tonight refuse
to admis the finding of such a note. It
has been intimated several times since
Mrs. Morris arrest on the charge of in
stigatinp the murder of DR.. Mohr and
the wounding Of his secretary, Miss
Emily G. Burger, that she was in the
habit of communicating with Brown. a
negro, formerly employed By DR.. Mohr,
and Healis, his negro chauffeur. with a
view 20 keeDing a watch on her hus-
bands movements.
In the face of new evidence which the
police say will help to substantiate the
charge that she entered into a con-
spiracy with three negroes to murder
her husband, Mrs. Mohr maintains
calmly but firmly her innocence.
Refuses to Answer Queries.
While she was saying to-day, through
her attorneys, that she had nothing TO
do with the murder OF DR.. c. Franklin
Mohr last Tuesday night, Chief Of
Police, Thomas F. Robbins of Barring
ton was establishing possible identi-
fcation of Cecil Victor Brown and
Henry Spellman through two fishermen
who heard the shots and saw two men
trundle motorcycle along the road
that skirts Echo Lake.
Arthur Cushing and James F. McCar-
tin, attorneys for the accused widow,
had their first long conference with
her on the case this evening. Through
them, Mrs. Mohr refused to answer
any of the following questions submit
ted 20 her by newspaper men:
as il true. as Cecil Victor Brown
SAYS, that Mrs. Mohr directed him to
purchase a motorcycle that was used
for the assassins 10 ride to the scene
Of the murder?
as it true, as Brown says. that she
personally telephoned to the B. & w.
Motor Company about lights for the
machine?
as it true, as the negroes have
told the police officials, that she i'm
poverished herself to keep them in
funds while they were waiting for a
favorable opportunity to kill the
doctor?
rs it true the she constantly com
municated with Brown through notes
delivered by her son, {. Franklin
Mohr, jr.
'Is it true that through these notes
she arranged conferences with Brown
with view of planning the murder,
as he charges?
Fishermen May Have Clew.
"Mrs. Mohr has decided that it would
not be advisable for her 10 discuss
anv of these matters at the present
time" said Mr.. Cushing when he re-
turned from the boarding house at !
Reservoir Avenue, where she is living
81 am so confident Of my clients com
plete innocence that | would hardly
consider such questions"
Tue,"ay night. when DR.. MOhr and
his young secretary. Miss Emily G..
Burge., wer. speeding along the Wash
ingtOn Road, near Nyatt, OF their way
to Newport, with George W. Heals at
the wheel. two fishermen had cast their
lines in Zero Lake and were waiting
for the eels to bite. Samuel Selley, a
carpen,sr. of So Salina Street. this
city, and Albert Ducharme, foreman:
of Nyatt. were startled by the sound OF
shots heard from the highway.
StanC hg just outside the Bristol
County all this afternoon. where he
could see Heals, Brown and Spellman
by the bright September sunlight
filtered through the abrred window.
Selley told this story:
First | heard shots like this-one,
two in quick succession. Then after
a slight pause, one, two again. what
fooled me and made me think some
boys were experimenting with blank
cartridges was the fifth shot, which
came thirty seconds after the second
group of two. Ducharme and left ou.
lines,-we hadn't had any bites any
way-and walked up to the town road
that runs around the lake. Understand
now that the spot where we were fish
ing was almost exactly opposite where
the shots had been fired.
"As we reached the road ! noticed
what looked like two negroes, one tall
and the other shorter, trundling a
motorcycle between them. They passed
under bright incandescent electric
street light not five feet from where
| stood.
After they were about forty or
fifty feet from US they cranked up
the motorcycle; it sputtered a little,
and they disappeared down the road.
| turned to Ducharme and said: That
couldn't have been explosions from the
gas engine that we heard a moment
ago. They must be the fellows that
fired those shots
Shots About 9 O'clock.
What time did you see these men ?"
asked Chief Robbins of the Barring
ton police.
well. il must have been about 9