New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-08
.MOHR SECRETARY
SUFFERSRELAPSE
Miss Burger, Shot with
Physician, in Serious
Condition at Hospital.
CASE AGAINST
WIDOW WEAKENS
Confessions Of Negro, Note and
Two Telephone Talks Only
Evidence Police Have.

From a star Correspondent, NJ The Tribune
Providence. r. l.. Sept. After n
week Of investigation the police OF
Darlington and this city have discov-
cred three pegs upon which 70 hans
the confession Of three young negroes
who implicate Mrs. Elizabeth Tiffany
Blair Mohr in the murder Of her nus
band, Or. c. Franklin Mohr, a week ago
tonight. And it appears that two Of
the pegs may slip when submitted TO
the stress of expert legal talent.
Outside Of the verbal confession By
Cecil Victor Brown, discharged
hostler formerly in the physicians
employ, here is the case against Mrs.
Mohr:
A letter in her handwriting and ad-
dressed 10 Miss Emily G.. Burger, DR..
Mohr's companion The night he was
killed, shows that Mrs. Mohr threat
ened the young secretary with harm
If she continued 20 visit the doctor 5
Newport home There is no date on
the letter and no envelope 10 show a
postmark. Neither Miss Burger nor
her brother-in-law George Rocks, cen
remember when il was received. ~
a guess they say thirteen months ago.
Girls Condition Serious.
Surgeons at the Rhode Island Nos
tital said tonight that Miss Burger
ha 2 relapse to-day, and that her con-
ditiIn was serious. She has not been
stront enough to withstand the opera
ton of probing for the bullets in her
jaw and shoulder.
She has not been told that DR.. Mohr
was killed when she was wounded. AS
the only witness of the shooting not
held under criminal charge Miss Bur
ger is expected to figure prominently in
the trial. 1t is certain that she will
not be able to appear at the preiml-
nary hearing in Warren.
! Miss Florence Ormsby, clerk In D..
Nohr's office. at SO Stewart Street, makes
( oath in a ten-page typewriter state
ment to Chief Inspector William +.
/ O'Neil that Mrs. Mohr called her on 'he
/ telephone last Tuesday afternoon and
warned her not to ride to Bristol ferry
, in the doctors automobile that night.
In his confession Brown said Mrs
/ Mohr bought from the b. & W. Motor
/ Company the motorcycle that carried
/ himself and Henry Spellman to the
scene of the murder But Samuel
/ Bryant. of 326 Broad Street, owner OF
the store where the machine was pur-
chased, knows Of no such transaction
He says Brown told him Mrs. Mohr
would pay for the machine gladly "it
she had the money, but she hasn't"
II las been reported that Mrs. Mohi
herself talephoned TO Bryant 10 make
arrangements for putting headlight
on tire mot orcycle. Bryant's version o
the convtfsat!cn as told TO Tribune
reporter - day is:
about two weeks after Brow
bought tht motorcycle here ! wa
called t. tie telephone and a woman
voi,. asked rs this the store wher
young man recently purchased
mot cycle and there is some question
about a light for it, She did not men
ton Browns name or her own name.
Not Certain Mrs. Mohr Talked.
"She wanted to know why the younI
man ,ould not get the light, and ex
planned that lights were not on the
market vet for the new model ma
chine. She said. Thank you very
much, and hung up. When | read IT
the newspapers about the murder anC
the charge that Mrs. Mohr was sus
pected naturally concluded the woman
who tailed TO me that day might have
been Mrs. Mohr. That's all | car
swear 20"
Mrs Nohr did not buy the machine
Bryant says When he found out that
Brown mad steady iot with DR.. Mohl
he agreed to permit Brown to pay sol
down and the balance in monthly in
stalments until the entire s295 wa: