Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-02
DOCTORS WIFE
|NC|TES MURDER
Three Negroes Confess to
Staying Physician For
Money.
DIR. MOHR DEAD,
COMPANION SHOT
Wealthy Physician Of Providence and
Nswport Victim Of Plot Of Jealous
wife - Woman Under Arrest on
charas Of Inoltins Murder and Three
Nsaross HsId-eay They Were to Be
paid 5000 When Widow Got Estate.

Char1o OF J0olvDO9 MO1oSV S"o sS
Negroes HsId-say They Were to Be
Paid 5000 When Widow Got Estate.
Providence, r. l.. Sept. 2. = Mrs.
elizabeth F. Mohr, wife Of DR.. =.
FRANKLIN Mohr, who was fatally shot
while on an automobile trip from this
city TO Newport on Tuesday evening"
was arrested today after three negroes
had sirned q confession saying that
Mrs. Mohr had hired them to kill the
doctor. The negroes arc charged with
murder. They are George w. Healis'
the chauffeur, who was driving DR..
Mohr,s car q. the time Of the shooting;
Cecil ". Brown, formerly employed as
a hostler by Dr.. Mohr. and henry
Stellman, half brother OF Brown. NO
specific charge has been prousnt
against Mrs, Mohr. who venemently
denied the accusation, which she cna'
acterized as absurd.
Heals had been detained by the JoHce
since the shooting, as his account OF
the affair conflicted with that gwen
by Miss Emily G. Burger. the doctors
assistant, who was IN the auto1hooae
and also was wounded.
Miss Burxer said she and DR.. Mohr
were on the way to Newport, and that
their automobile stopped In Barring
tnn because Of engine trouble. While
the chauffeur was repairing the engine
.ha and DIR. Mohr remained In the tom
neam. She said she saw another car
s ar,noraching from the rear. ana as II
csme alongside several shots were
fired at Dr. Mohr and herself. Both
we're wounded in the head and shoul-
der. Miss Burger could give no ex-
planAtion for the assault
Z r,r Mohr vas q native OF ExchAnSe,
pa. : graduate Of Johns Hopkins Uni
.veraity. ana was 47 ye4ss old 49ae was
married twelve years ago. but his WIe
had sued him for separation. ne na0s
entered a counter suit.
Miss Burger Is the daughter OF q
.aaloonkeeper Of this city and had been
employed by DR.. Mohr as an onice as
sistant for about three years.
rwice recently DIR. Mohr had ap-
reared az 4 defendant in court here.
Dnce he was charged with assault
,,non a domestic employed in his nome.
and on another occasion he was nneo
800 and costs for recklessly driving
his motor car.
- Held Without Bail.
Mrs. Mohr was held without bail on
tbe charge OF having melted the
murder Of her husband. DR.. c. Frank
I'm Mohr, a wealthy and weL-known
nhvsician Of this city and Newport.
The arraignment was at Warren.
brown at first denied that he had
anv connection with the AFFAIR. he
said he passed over the Nayatt ROAD
where the shooting occurred, on
nnotorcycle. explaining that he was on
nj, way to visit friend at Riverside.
Detectives who went to Riverside 70
investigate his story, returned Win
Spellman In custody.
spellman said there was plot
against DR.. Mohr, and when Brown
heard this declaration he made q de-
tailed confession.
Offered 5000 For Killing.
According to Browns story, as given
mt by the police. Mrs Mohr proposed
several weeks ago that he kill DR..
Mohr. promising to pay him $4,000
nine days after the killing was ac-
complished. He said he asked Spell
man to help him out and brought his
half brother up to talk it over with
Mn. Mohr. Heals was present at
this interview by request OF Mrs.
;Mohr. Brown said. Spellman was to
receive $1,000 and Brown and Heals
5000 each.
Tho arrangements for the shooting
were carried out In detail according to
the confession. At q designated spot
on the Nyatt road. Heals stalled the
engine Of tho automobile, and Brown
and spellman. who had approached on
motorcycles, crept thru the bushes
and flred at the occupants Of the car.
Brown said he shot DR.. Mohr and
Spellman wounded Miss Burger.
~ Told 70 Shoot All.
After the shooting Brown and SPELL
man went back to the motorcycles.
They threw the revolvers into q
brook.
Brown declared that Mrs. Mohr told
him to be sure to kill the doctor and
to kill Miss Burger II he could. His
instructions were to shoot anybody in
the tonneau. he said, whether it was
Miss Burger or Florence Ormsby. a
n,aid employed In DR.. Mohrs Office.
After Spellman and Heals had cor.
roborated Browns story, two police
detectives went to Mrs. Mohr's house
and brought her to police headquarters.
where later she was formally placed
under arrest. She made vigorous
denial Of the charges.
Immediately after her arrest Mrs.
Mohr sent for her attorney, Arthur
ferred against her there, as the murder
$AA In Atr0 49,