The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-01-10
MURDER TRIAL
STARTED TODAY
WIDOW OF DIR. MOHR, PROMINENT
PROVIDENCE DOCTOR, CHARG-
ED WITH CRIME
Aided by Two Negroes Great Crowds
Gathered at Court Room to Hear
The Case Aired
By the United Press Associations.

The Case Aired
By the United Press Associations.
PROVIDENCE, R. l., Jan. 10. - TIL
jury was completed this afternoon i
the trial of Mrs. c. Franklin Mohr an
two negroes, charged with murderin
DR.. c. Franklin Mohr as he rode wit
a young woman in his AUTOMOBILE
past a lonely spot near Hyatt, R. l., OF
the night of August 10, 1915. TIL
Mohr family is wealthy and social,
profinent in the summer colonie,
|hereabout. Thousands of person.
gathered outside the court room be-
fore daybreak and the police were
forced to break through in bringing
Mrs. Mohr and the negroes.
Mrs. Mohr demanded a separate
trial. Attorneys for the negroes ask
ed permission to withdraw but their
request was not granted The widows
attorney sprung sensation, forcing
Joseph Aldrich to admit visiting sew
eral talesmen. One juror was excused
because of this.
DR. Mohr, of Providence, well-known
in Newport and New York, was MUIR
dered about o'clock. He was shot
in the head and right shoulder and
died at the Rhode Island hospital few
hours later.
With DR.. Mohr at the time of the
murder was Miss Emily G. Burger,
young and pretty, for several years his
housekeeper. She also was shot in
the head and right shoulder. She re-
covered. DR.. Hohr and Miss Burger
were on their way to DR.. Mohr's New
port home. Their machine was oper-
ated by George w. Heals, a negro,
who had been in the employ of the
doctor a short time. Heals called for
help and gave the police the first story
Of the crime.
During her ride to the hospital Miss
Burger told alp she could remember of
the shooting. She said that soon af=
ter the car left Providence, Heals
that the motor was work
ing badly. When the car reached the
top of the hill, at the bottom of which
he crime was committed, she thought
Heals flashed the lights. He stopped
he machine in a spot Overhung by
rees, according to Miss Burger, got |
tut and lifted the hood. Then, she |
;aid, there was cracking in the |
followed by flashes and re-
oliver shots. The doctor stood up, /
lalf turned and fell. across the back T
# the machine. She tried to get out
f the car. There were more flashes
nd then she knew no more until just
efore she was lifted into the ambul-
nee.
Heals denied flashing his lights. He
aid he stopped at the bottom of the
feline to adjust his carburetor. He
aid he heard no noise prior to the
evolver shots and did not see the
erson or persons who fired them. The
egro chauffeur next morning at I
rovidence, after many hours grilling, Il
said to have confessed to having
Of a plot to rob Dr. Mohr,
hO he said was known TO he car
ing considerable money. Heals is
lid to have implicated another negro,
cell Victor Brown, who had been dis
larged from Dr. Mohr's employ three
eek before.
DR.. Mohr had large practice, both : |
Providence and in Newport, where |
was we'll known by the members Of |
e New York summer colony. His +, \
nual income was estimated to be
$4,000 and his estate
considered to be worth in the neigh :
rhood of 100000. DR.. Mohr was
arried twice, being divorced from
5 first wife. BY his first wife he had
o children, Charles Manning Mohr
d Mrs. Edward Mari, both of whom
W live in Baltimore, Nd BY his sec
d wife, Dr. Mohr had two children,
aries Franklin Mohr, Jr., and Vir-
Tia Vlair Mohr, both of whom live
tn Mrs. Mohr in Providence.