The Washington times., 1915-09-05
MEN SWORE TO KILL
Z MOHR FOR AFFAIRS"
NEGROES Held for Murder Say
Many Threatened Wealthy
Newport Doctor.
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epeihnsn ana George Heals. said 10
James r. Wallace. the police head OF
Warren township:
We are all In this together. and
whatever Is coming We will take all
together. but Mrs. Mohr must go With
US because she was with US all the
way through this affair"
The negroes now tell a story that
whatever they said against themselves
or Mrs. Mohr was under duress-that
they were under the pressure of the
police when they incriminated her and
themselves. They have a new story
now. q story that calls to mind the de-
fense that was offered in the Carman
ease on Long Island.
Heaiis. who was chauffeur Of the, car
shots were fired from a machine that
passed close beside his stalled car on
the washington road. The assailants
fed after they had made their murder
To this story Brown adds. and Spell
man echoes that there was at least one
man in Providence who swore to kill
the physician because Of his loose code
'of morals. As to the name OF this man
all the negroes remain silent they are
under advice Of counsel now.
Found Threatening Letter.
"Dr Mohr. to my knowledge, has
Rhode Island people," Heals declared
today. II found a letter in his car from
a man living on Elmwood avenue. in
which he threa tened the doctor and said
that II he did not cease his attentions to
his wife he would All him full Of bull
Undoubtedly the backrush Of feeling
In favor OF Mrs. Mohr Is due principally
to the facts about his life that have
come to light since his murder Some
of these have been told by Mrs. Mohr
TO the police. others are Incorporated In
the bill of particulars that she iled
when she was granted a separation from
her husband.
Once by poison and once by pistol was
the life OF Mrs. Mohr threatened by her
bill.
This paper was filed more than a year
ago. The State contends that 1t gives
ceaseless jealousy. Her attorneys In
tend to show through he paper that.
despite her many disputes with Or.
Mohr. she continued to live with him.
TINS ' they say. proves the boundless-
To strengthen her position on this
score. to gain further facts about the
physician's amo'lrs., a detective agency
woman. No small part of the work as
signed to the private sleuths Is that Of
gaining Information tending to discredit
tue ne8TOeS, provision against tne
possible appearance Of any one of then,
a. State's witness.
Police Also Help Her.
While these factors are serving to help
Mrs. Mohr. the police. through thei"
own officials inertia. are UNCONSCIOUS
agents to her advantage.
A conflict Of authority has come up
between the department heads OF War.
rem township. where the crime was conf
mitted. and Providence. where the
negroes made their confessions 1t is
not clash as to which has the right
10 proceed In the gathering of evidence.
Rather it is an evasion of that necessary
duty.
In Providence the police say that all
activity rests with the township where
~ the ethical ground that they cannot
usurp the functions OF their neighbors,
even though those functions require the
to get their evidence together
The Warren police take the stand
that as the confessions were made in
Providence and the network of proof
will have to be warped there 1t would
be an intrusion on their part to inter-
fere.
Already the private detectives for
Mrs. Mohr have gone into the field
that the police have left. The result
naturally has been In the favor Of the
woman. Today when reporters went
among those persons. who In the regu-
lar sequence of proceedings. would be-
come witnesses, they found that where
absolute conviction was in the minds
few days ago a strange loss of mem
ory or complete reversal has come.
Mrs. Mohr will not be called into
court again until September l6 when
she will be given preliminary hear
Ing. The coroner's jury will sit the
II the whole case lapsed without an
ind ment against the woman