The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-09-02
SAY THEY WERE
HIRED TO KILL
Three Negroes Sign Statement, Claiming Mrs.
Mohr Was to Pay Them $4,000 for Numbering
DR.. Mohr, Who Was Fatally Shot Tuesday Night
Mrs. Mohr is Under Arrest

| PROVIDENCE, R. l., Sept. Mrs.
| Elizabeth f. Mohr, wife of the phys
ician who was fatally shot while on an
automobile trip from here to Newport
| Tuesday night, was arrested today
and three negroes have signed writ
ten confession that she had hired them
to kill the doctor. The negroes are
| charged with murder.
They are George w. Heals, the
chauffeur, who was driving Dr. Mohr S
car at the time of the shooting; Cecil
| Y. Brown, formerly employed as hos
tier by DR.. Mohr, and Henry Spellman,
half brother to Brown. No specific
charge had been preferred against Mrs.
Mohr. She vehementiy denied the ac-
cusations of the negroes, which she
characterized as absurd.
| Healis has been detained by the po-
lice since the shooting, as his account
conficted with that given Miss Emily
G. Burger, the doctor S assistant, who
was in the automobile and who also
was wounded
| Brown was taken into custody last
night after Healis had told the police
that he and the hostler had plotted to
rob Dr. Mohr on the night of the shoot
ing.
| After an examination Brown broke
down and admitted he was concerned
in the shooting and that Mrs. Mohr
had offered him $4,000 to kill her hus-
band.
Healis and Spellman were question
ed separately and they eorroborated
| Brown 5 story and Mrs. Mohr S arrest
followed.
| According to Browns story Mrs
Mohr proposed several weeks ago that
he kill DR.. AIohr, promising to pay him
| s., 900 nine days after the killing was
accomplished.
Brown asked Spellman to help him
and all three had interviews with Mrs
Mohr Spellman was to receive $1,000
and Brown and Heals each s. 600.
Arrangements designated the spot of
the Nyatt road.
l
Mohr and Miss Burger to Newport
: stalled the automobile. Brown anG
Spellman, who had come from bchinC
ON motorcycles, fired. Brown said ht
! shot DR.. Mohr and Spellman wounded
Miss Burger. After the shooting Brown
, and Spellman came back here Brown
declared Mrs. Mohr told him to be sur,
and kill the doctor and Miss Burge
or anyone else in the tonneau.
{ All three negroes said Mrs Moh
was jealous and also desired to get pos
session of the estate which she be
lieved would be denied her if she ob
tanned divorce.
f The Mohrs were married II year
$ ago, but Mrs. Mohr recently instituted
I I separation proceedings, and the doeto
! brought counter suit.
) Mrs. Mohr, whose name is Elizabetl
: Tiffany Blair Mohr, was held withou
bail on a charge of having melted tn,
murder of her husband. The thre
{ male prisoners were charged with mur
t der and were also held without bail
e All were locked up at Warren, pend
ing a hearing Sept. 16.
The police have entertained two pos
n sible motives, jealousy on the part 0
!. Mrs. Mohr toward Miss Emily I
= = Burger, the Doctors secretary, VIII
/ was his companion on the automobil
t ride which ended in his death, and a
e lalleged desire by the wife to obtai
: possession of her husband s estate bC
! fore elimination Of the counter sui
e brought by the physician in answer t
d a suit for separation instituted by Mr.
II Mohr and now pending in the suprem
= court. Shortly after her husband s deaf
It Mrs. Mohr made application in tn
municipal court for her appointmen
. as custodian of his property, which wa
!. granted.
Dr. Mohr maintained his home an
n offices both in this city and Newpor
SC His estate here is assessed at $4,000
Il Mrs. Mohr has said that their propert
( in Newport was worth $4,000 and
lg addition the doctor had small racin
le stable.
~ Mrs. Mohr has been prominent
to the Elmwood Woman s club and fr
I'd quently was a patroness at dances.
ie Three weeks ago she visited IL
~ ~ doctor S family at McEweneviue, z;
~ being entertained by his two brother
John A. and Augustus Mohr, and h