Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-09-02
Providence Couple
We're Ambushed
DIR. MoHR DIED YESTERDAY AS
RESULT OF SHOOTING
CHAUFFEUR IN PLOT
Robbery is Thought to Be the Motive
for the crime-A Former EmPloye
of the Doctor is Under Suspicion.

Providence, r. l.. Sept. 1-Dr. C.
Franklin Mohr, and his secretary, Miss
Emily G. Burger, who were shot last
night during an automobile ride, as a
result of which the physician died to-
day, were led into an ambush, accord
ing to statement by the police to-
night. The announcement was based
upon an alleged story told them by
George w. Heals, the negro chauffeur
who drove DR.. Mohr's car last night.
A HoIdup Planned.
The chauffeur is said to have plac-
ed the responsibility for the plot upon
a discharged employe of Dr. Mohr.
This man, Heals is alleged to have
told the police, made arrangements
with him to stall the automobile at a
certain place and share in the pro-
ceeds Of a robbery, which the other
claimed was to be the object of the
ambush.
Stopped in Dark Spot.
Heals is said to have insisted to-
night that he actually saw no one
when the shots Were fired into the
machine, while it was stopped in a
dark spot on the Nayatt road in Bar
rfngton, which he named as the place
selected for the alleged holdup. On
the strength of the statements at
tributed to the chauffeur, the police
tonight detained Victor Brown, who
was employed on the Mohr estate at
Newport as a hostler until three weeks
ago. They questioned him until a
late hour and then locked him up for
the night. Brown denied that he had
any connection with the shooting, the
officials said, but is said to have ad-
mitted that he had passed through
Nayatt on motor cycle over the road
on which the shooting occurred.
Maid Received Warnings.
Meantime, the authorities were in
vestigating the story of Florence
Ormsby, a maid. in the physician's Of
f1ce- She claimed today according
to the police to have received for
several days warnings in person and
by telephone from woman that IL
she went in DIR. Mohr's automobile to
Newport she would be in danger of
getting shots-ssss.--r ,ss--,s1--.s
Plot as Outlined.
The story of Heals, as outlined by
the officials tonight, was to the effect
that he met Brown on Monday night
at Newport and agreed to try to stall
DR.. Mohr's car in a dark spot on the
Nayatt road at the end of the month,
a time when DIR. Mohr was believed to
carry 5000 and $500 to his Newport
home. Last night, when the physi-
clans automobile with Dr. iMohr. Miss
appointed place, Healis put out the
| lights and stopped the car, saying
there was trouble with the engine.
While he was crouched on the ground.
working by the light of a side lamp,
| the shots were fired, according to his
alleged statement.
Fled at Approach of Other Autos.
The approach of other automobiles,
he said. frustrated any attempt to rob
| the doctor. In his opinion the per-
son who fired the shots and whom he
| did not see. was afoot. This opinion
was apparently borne out by the state
ment tonight of Medical Examiner
Clifford H. Griffin. who said that the
autopsy performed on the body of DR..
Mohr today showed that the assassin
probably stood behind the machine, a
little to the left of the victim.
Miss Burger Expected to Recover.
| Miss Burger, who is expected to re-
cover although her condition Is still
serious, told the police that Heals
| could not have fired any of the four
shots which found their mark The
physician died without having regain
| ed consciousness.
Appointed Custodian of Husbands Es-
tate.
| Shortly after his death, his wife,
| Mrs. Elizabeth F. Mohr, appeared in
| the municipal court with a petition
| for appointment as custodian of er
| husbands estate. Counsel informed
| the court that the dead mans valuable
| property in this city and Newport was
unprotected. The petition was grant
ed.
Subsequently Mrs. Mohr stated that
she had always hoped for a reconci1-
iation with her husband.