The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-04
MRS. MOHR CLAIMS
 ID BE A VICTIM
 OF CONSTR
Dr. Mohr's Companion Makes Statement = Says Chauf- feur Acted Strangely.
 Tragedy Described

1 Providence. R. l.. September S.-The
 defense of Mrs. Elizabeth Tiffany Blair l 4Mohr to the charge that in a jealous l rage she plotted the death of her hus- band. will be that both Dr. c. Frank lin Mohr and herself were victims of | conspiracy, unless present expectations
 are dissipated.
 In an interview today, which was terminated when she lost her com posture for the first time since her ar rest, Mrs Mohr declared her belief that the three negroes who now &C.,
 cuse her had planned to waylay Dr.
 Mohr and rob him. She holds that
 when they broke down under the grill
 ing of the police they hoped to miti-
 gate their punishment by representing
 that they had been melted by her on
 the promise of a reward
 The body of Dr. Mohr was placed in receiving tomb today Mrs Mohr and her two children were present at the service at the Mohr home and accom-. panied the body to the cemetery.
 Miss Emily G. Burger. the doctors secretary, jealousy for whom, it is al- legged inspired the crime, has not been loid of her employers death. She re- mains at the hospital recovering from bullet wounds received while on the automobile ride when Dr. Mohr was at tackled
 After visiting her today her brother in-law, George Rooke. said that Miss Burgers feelings for the physician were such that Knowledge of his death would kill her
 For long time" said Rooke, Miss Burger did all In her power to reunite Dr. Mohr and his wife. She found that he was bitter against Mrs. Mohr and would not entertain any such idea"
 Miss Burger gave Rooke state- ment for the press concerning her night ride with pr. Mohr toward Newport in substance 1t reads:
 Miss Burgers Statement
 'Dr. Mohr was suspicious during the ride. Healis ran the machine from the Sewart street office at 8 high rate of speed. Several times the doctor re- ma rked about it.
 We did not stop until the chauf- | fcur brought the machine under the trees on the Washington road. George l then switched off the headlights and | turned on the side lights, remarking | I am having trouble with the gas |
 We sat in the tonneau of the ma- chine and neither questioned him. T was startled by the first shot but | thought 1t was the car backfiring. A | second shot did not make me realize l my danger. Then three successive shots | me to feel paid behind my ear and in my shoulder. but even then | lid not realize that I was wounded l and thought some accident had oc- | cured to the car.
 "I jumped up when I saw the blood | streaming from Dr. Mohr's wounds, | put all this time l had no idea of the | rue state of things. I shrank out of | the car
 'l remember standing on the ground | and Healis grabbing me roughly by | he arm. He dragged me to the grass y the side of the car. I did not see | ,ither Brown or Spellman before or liter the shooting"
 Arthur Cushing, chief counsel for Mrs. Mohr, said it was doubtful wheth- 1T his client would make more than a ore plea of mot guilty when the | ase comes up September 16.
 Mrs. Mohr today met for the first II inc Charles NJ. Mohr. a son of Dr Iohr by former marriage. She as- ured him there was no question but hat he and his sister, who is the wife f Dr. Ernest Marr of Baltimore, would hare in their fathers estate.
 Mir. Mohr expressed his belief in the innocence of the accused woman.
 Lawyers here tonight expressed oubt whether the confessions of the hree negroes would have any stand | ng in court insofar as they tend to nplicatc Mrs. Mohr. The Rhode Island lw, they explained. does not allow he admission as evidence of a con- esson by one person tending to in- riminate another.