The Washington herald., 1915-10-24

TXACTLY how. provided the court
~ finds Mrs. Elizabeth Tiffany
Blair Mohr not guilty Of muir
dering Dr. c. Franklin Mohr, is
she going to capitalize the long columns
OF publicity her arrest has brought and
her trial will bring? VIII she go on the
stage, take to sculpturing-or write arti-
cles for the newspapers?
It's inevitable, of course, that she wifi
capitalize. Everybody's doing it. Didn't
Mrs. Florence Carman journey all the
way to Providence for the purpose of OBJ
tanning 1rst-hand views on the Mohr af-
fair. which views she wrote at length for
the newspapers? And doesn't everybody
know that not so many. many months
ago Mrs. Carman herself was anguish
ing at the beck and call OF a similar
charge? Herself the wife of doctor.
she furnished the kind Of copy that
space-writers love when her trial for the
mysterious murder of Mrs Louise Bailey
was in progress in July, 1914. at Mineo-
la, L. /. That she had installed a dicto-
graph in her husbands office, that she
refused to enter the office in her own
home were some of the thrills brought
out in testimony. When she was &C
quilted Mrs. Carman announced her in
tentiOn of earning money with which to
retrench the fortune spent in her defense
and to pay attorney bills and other debts.
Il have placed the disposition Of my
services for Professional work in the
hands of a reputable New York manager.
and ! feel that he will wisely shape a
course for me to aid me to honestly re-
turn the money that an unjust accuse
ton has cost my relatives and friends"
was the statement Mrs Carman made
last May. What became of her profess
sional career isn't known exactly. But
1t wasn't long afterward that her name
began to appear at the head of newspaper
features. Her literary bent has now
taken the form of virisecting the Mohr
situation, analyzing the psychological
processes of the chief of police. and
symPathizing with the accused woman.
Mrs. Jennie May Eaton was not a doc
tors wife But she also capitalized the
roar engendered by her trial for the
murder of Rear Admiral Joseph Giles
Eaton. at Plymouth. Mass, in October,
1918. She also sold her name to the
press. She indited some amazing love
tales amazing of execution. and effect
Held on six counts for alleged admins
tering of arsenic to her husband, her
trial was about as sensational as anything
kh,@
for some time. After her acquittal she
remarked the man whom she divorced
to marry Admiral Eaton, and retired to
farm at Assinippi, Mass. where her
nteraturing began.
The love idylls were read Cat least one
assumes they were read) and printed by
q sanguine eastern editor, who explained
in a note that they perfectly expressed
Mrs. Eaton's love of romance.
Fiction was only her curtain-raiser.
however. During Mrs. Carman's trial
she broke forth in protest, loud and
high, against the governments manner
of handling murder cases. especially
against women. ~
THE courts and district attorneys are
so carried away in their lust to win
either by hook or crook that they entirely
forget the sensitive soul of the perhaps
innocent prisoner whom they are pillory-
ing in the dock" she wrote. at is Dos
sible for the innocent to be made to
undergo a living death for weeks anu
months, while a cold-blooded and lazy
court leisurely makes up its mind tif II
has one), whether or not there is sufh-
Giant evidence on which to hold the