The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-02

l The three male prisoners were l charged with murder and were also held without bail The four pleaded not guilty They were locked up at 1 Warren pending a hearing set TOT September Is.
 l Mrs. Mohr was arrested this morn 1 ing at the Mohr home in the exclus- i've Elmwood section of sthis city fol- 1 lowing the alleged confessions of the | negroes who told the police that they
 had been hired by Mrs. Mohr to put | her husband out of the way.
 l Accompanied by her counsel, Ar I thur Cushing, Mrs. Mohr. was taken | in an automobile to Warren, the coun- 1 ty seat, passing on the way the scene 1 of the murder Another automobile | carried her alleged aecomplices. l Mrs Mohr appeared to be not the least disturbed. She is a diminutive body and was dressed in blue tail l ored suit and a modish straw hat, the i spreading brin of which half hid her l features At the station house she ] sent out for a brown veil which she | so arranged that all but the lower portion of her face was concealed In her hands, which were covered with 1 white gloves. she carried vanity box. ! Mrs. Mohr greeted the officers and i her counsel with smiles and when told l she was to be removed to Warren rose 1 quickly from her seat and said: T am ready
 1 The police have entertained two possible mottves-5ea1ousy on the part l of Mrs. Mohr toward Miss Emily C.. Burger, the doctors secretary, and I an alleged desire by the wife to ob- tain possession of her husbands con 1 siderable estate~
 Providence. R, T., Sept Mrs. Elizabeth F. Mohr, wife of the physi- | clan who was fatally shot while on an automobile trip from this city to 1 Newport on Tuesday night, was arr
 rested today after three negroes had signed 8 written confession that Mrs. 1 MoEar had hired them to kill the doe
 tor. The negroes are charged with murder.
 They are George w, Hea1is, the chauffeuf, who was driving Dr. l Iohrss car at the time of the shoot ling; Cecil Victor Brown. formerly
 employed as a. hostler by Dr. Mohr, land Henry Spellman. half brother of Brown. No specific charge has been brought against Mrs. Mellr, who ve- 1 henently denied the accusations which she Characterized as absurd.
 Healis has been detained by the l police since the shooting, as his ac- count Of the affair conf1icted with
 that given by Miss Emily 6. Burger, l the doctors assistant, who was in the l I ed.
 BFewa was taken into custody last l night after Hea1is had told the police that he and the hestder had plotted te rob pr. Mohr on the night of the shooting The utherities did not | believe the stories of the negroes and I Brown was subjected to a searching
 examination during which he broke | down and admitted that he was con cerned in the shooting and that Mrs | Mohr had offered him $2.00e to kill
 her husband.
 Healis and spellman, questioned separately, corroborated Brown S Story. and the arrest. of Mrs. Mohr
 Brown at first denied that he had
 any connection with the affair. He
 said he passed over the Nayatt Road
 where the shooting occurred on a l motor cycle, explaining that he was
 on his way to visit a friend at River side. Detectives who went to River
 side to investigate his story returned
 with Spellman in custody. SpeIlman
 said that there was plot against Dr. Mohr and when Brown heard ot Spellman's declaration he made a de. 1 tailed confession.
 According to Browns story, Mrs Bfoiar proposed several weeks ago thai
 he kill pr. Mo4ar, promising to pax
 him S5,900 nine days after the killing : was accomplished. He said he asked
 Spellman to help him out and brought his half brother up to talk the matter , over with Mrs. MoIr. Healis wa: , present at this interview by reques of Mrs. Mohr, Brown said. SpeI1mar was to receive $1,ooo, Brown ant
 Healis S2.000 each.
 The arrangements for the shootine were carried out in detail accordins 7 to the confession. At designated spot on the Nayatt Road, Healis stall I ed the engine of the automobile ana Brown and Spe1lman, who had ap P preached on motorcycles, crep through the bushes and fired at tn, : occupants of the car. Brown said h, l shot pr. Mohr and SpelIman wound
 ed Miss Burger. After the shootin, : Brown and Spellman went back t, l the motorcycles. They threw the re I yolvers into a brook near the Rhod, Q Island Country Club.
 et Brown declared that Mrs. Mohr toIc
 him to be sure and kill the doctor ant to kill Miss Burger if he could. Hi
 instructions, he said were to shoo S anybody in the tonneau whether i = was Miss Burger or Florence Ormsby , maid employed in Dr. Mohr's office . After Spenman and Hea1is had cor
 roborated Browns story two polio
 detectives went to Mrs. Mohr's hous
 and brought her to police headquar
 ters. where later she was formaIl
 placed under arrest. She made 9 vigorous denial of the negroes charge
 and said that their confession wa
 absurd. Immediately after her ar s rest she sent for her attorney, Arthu
 Cushing. No specific charges wer
 preferred against her as the rnurde 0 was committed in Bristol County e which is out of the Jurisdiction of tn I Providence county courts. It wa : stated that she would be arraigned ol e a charge of melting to murder. Tn e charge against Brown will be the nur e der of Dr. Mohr that against Heali < 1 will be accessory to murder befor / and after the fact and Spe1lman vii ;, be charged with assault with inten