Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-03
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Everybody crowded about Mrs. Mohr
with congratulations, but way was
quickly cleared for her and she was TAX
en- to the nearby offices of her counsel.
Here photographers stormed the doors
begging her to pose for them. After in
sistent refusals she yielded .;nd in a dark
corridor. with her counsel beside her,
she posed for a tashlight picture, jump
ing nervously as the powder was touched
off and admitting, with q laugh, that she
was frightened.
To all requests for a statement from
her or from her counsel refusals were
given. Mr.. Gushing said that his client
was too tired and he had been too busy
trying to get bail to become thoroughly
acquainted with her story.
Notwithstanding the sensational dis
closures of the three Negroes that they
had agreed for $1,000 to kill Dr. Mohr. and
that the smallest details of the ambush
had been carefully gone over, little sur
prise was felt at Mrs. Mohr's release.
The facts regarding her separating from
her husband had been we'll known
through the court proceedings in connec-
ton with her suit, which is still pending,
and also in the suit for assault brought
against the doctor by Mrs. Mohrs maid.
DR.. Mohr was found probably guilty
of this charge in a lower court, but was
acquitted when he carried tAe case high
er.
An examination of his books today
showed that he had an income of $4,000
a year from his medical practice. his
f1;cta from
the fashionable residential streets.
To substantiate their claim that the
motive for the alleged implication OF
Mrs. Mohr in the death plot was due TO
jealousy, the police gave out letter
written by her to George Rookie. brother
in-law of Miss Burger. the doctors Sec
rotary. In this letter the writer warned
Rookie that if his sister "dares to go to
my Newport home she will never come
out alive"
For some time Mrs. Mohr had not
been living with her husband.
With her two children she had TAX
en- up a residence nearly opposite the
doctors home, in quiet neighborhood.
Yesterday, she was appointed trustee
of the doctors property by her own re-
quCSt, Dul lILlS u OSl SIG sOANteAAAAJ ~
signed today and the court appointed
her attorney. Mr.. Cushing. in his place.
Mrs. Mohr took this step when Charles
NJ. Mohr, son Of DR.. Mohr by for
mer marriage. petitioned for an an
nullment Of her appointment. When
MIR. Gushing opened the doctors strong
box he said he found no WILL only
crudely prepared memorandum which
was apparently a draft Of will, but
not in legal form.
The Charges
Throughout the trying time today
Mrs. Mohr remained calm. At 5 o'clock
in the morning she was aroused by po-
lice officers and accompanied them to
police headquarters. There she was
confronted by the confessions which
had been secured separately from her
three alleged accomplices. She enter
ed ali emphatic denial when the three
men who were brought before her de-
clared that their stories were true.
Their stories in effect were that Mrs.
Mohr had hired them to kill the doctor
saying if they did not do it, she would
have to. They told of the plot to am
bush the physician. Heals. the chauf-
feur was to stall the engine in a dark
spot on the road to Newport Brown
and Spellman were to creep from the
bushes nearby and shoot the doctor
and his companion whoever she might
be. When Heals. the chauffeur, was
first arrested he declared that there
had been a plot to ambush and rob his
employer. Under persistent question
ing he broke down and the arrests and
confessions Of his alleged accomplices
followed in rapid succession. The
greater part Of the day was spent by
Mrs. Mohr in trying to secure bail. dur
ing which she rode past the spot where
her husband was killed. Late tonight.