Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-01-22
ASKED SISTERS AID
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Attorney Edwards, counsel for
Spellman, then took up the cross
examination. He told him he was born
at Martha's Vineyard.
Heals Letter to Edwards
Heals admitted writing a letter to
Attorney. Edwards while he was in
Jail. The letter was identified by the
The letter was dated Oct H.
1915, after Heals had turned states
evidence. It read as follows:
providence County Jail, Oct. II,
1915.
"Mr. Edwards.
Dear SIR
Il am writing you to ask You what
do you think about me changing law
yer, If you and Mr.. Lewis, think it a
good move and will help me and the
ether to boys. Will you kindly call
and talk it over with my brother
witch is at 112 West Exvhange street,
Herbert B. Heals, or call out and see
me.
yours truly,
GEORGE w. HEALS"
And you meant by that letter that
You wanted to change your story"
asked Mr.. Edwards.
mo, SIR" replied Heals.
WAS it in consequence of a talk
YOU had with the attorney general
that you wrote that letter to Mr.. Ed
wards?" asked Attorney Lewis.
mo, sir"
Were you willing to tell Mr.. Ed
wards different story than that you
told to the attorney general?"
mo, SIR
Assistant Attorney General Phillips
asked Heals if he wrote it as a re-
suit of talk he had with Victor
Grown at the Jail and the witness said
it was.
Admittance Cards
Owing to the crowds, that have be-
sieged the courthouse and the many de-
ceptions practiced to get by the officers.
admission cards were issued today to all
those. including. the press. who have bus
mess at the trial. II -
ION the night of your arrest did you
tell those people who talked to you what
Mrs. Mohr told you to tell?" Heals was
asked in redirect
Yes, sir"
why didn't you tell Chief Robbins
that Mrs. Mohr was in it?"
Because she told me not to mention
her name'
what caused you to exclaims oh, my
God! the night of the shooting?"
Because I saw blood on the doctors
head"
Heals said he was given a cell apart
from Brown and Spellman because they
were bothering him ''to stick by them"
Ibid you tell Mrs. Mohr that Miss Bur-
ger was going down with the doctor that
night?"
Eyes, and Mrs. Mohr said that it made
no difference-to get both her and the
DOCTOR"
Mrs. Florence Barney. landlady of the
house in which Mrs. Mohr lived on Reser-
voir avenue, was next called. She said
she lived in the same house herself.
The witness said she saw Heals in the
hallway at Mrs. Mohr's door about 6
o'clock on the night Of the shooting At
another time she saw another colored
man sitting in the hammock on the
piazza
She admitted Mrs. Mohr told her Brown
had come to her after his discharge.
":You are a reluctant witness-you still
live in the same house with Mrs. Mohr?'
I'm telling what / remember
Attorney General Rice asked Mrs.
Barney if she did not tell him that
Heals was in Mrs. Mohr's room at
o'clock the night of the shooting and
that Miss Clifford was waiting for Mrs.
Mohr on the piazza.
II couldn't remember"
The attorney general stated it was
apparent that she was a hostile wit
ness. She couldn't remember whether
she told Mr.. Rice that while Heals was
in the hallway another Negro was in
the piazza hammock.
Former, Housekeeper
Miss Elsa Mueller of New York City,
was the first witness called this aft
ernoon. She said she used to work
for Dr.. Mohr as housekeeper, from
May. 1914 to August. 1915. Just be-
fore that she was employed by Mrs.
Mohr.
Miss Mueller said that she had con-
versations with Mrs. Mohr about her
husband in April Of 1914.
"She told me she didn't wish to have
anything more to do with the doctor
that she had closed her doors against
him for at least two years." said the
witness.
In July Of 1914, Miss Mueller tes.i-
fed that she had another talk with
Mrs. Mohr.
Mrs. Mohr was talking about Miss
Burger nearly all the time. She said
Miss Burger had broken up her home
and that il she ever came into the
Newport house she would give her q
couple Of bullets"
The witness said she saw Mrs Mohr
talking to Victor Brown in this city
several times.
One day. she said. just before she
left the doctors employ. she went into
the garage and saw Brown, Heals and
Spellman talking together. They stop
ped when she entered.
Fraternities at the University of
California will be prohibited in the
future from constructing houses cost
ing more than $4,000. according to
resolution passed by trustees Of the