The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-01-27
Stated She Was Frantic at
News of Doctors
Death
NEVER INTENDED
TO GET DIVORCE
Felt That In His Heart Her Husband
Loved Her Denied Giving Heals
Money to Buy a Motorcycle = Still
Testifying.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Jan. Pillow |
she kept in almost constant touch with the |
hospital where her husband lay dying and |
was frantic when she was told of his |
death was described on the witness stand |
today by Mrs Elizabeth F. Mohr, who |
with two Negroes, Cecil V Brown and |
Henry H. Spellman, is being tried on the
charge of plotting the death of DR. c. f.
Mohr. Mrs Mohr told of how she spent
the evening of Aug 81, the night the doc
tor was shot at her home with her chill
dren She retired, she said, shortly after
10 o'clock.
Sometime in the night, she said someone
raped at the door. 1t was officer. He
said Mrs. Mohr, | am sorry to bring
you this news, but the doctor was shot on
his way to Newport
"When he told me | almost collapsed
After calling up the police to find out if
her husband was still alive the witness said
she visited the hospital, but was unable TO
see the patient. She went home and sat up
! all night, receiving word OF Dr. Mohr's
condition every half hour, she said. Asked
what she did when she heard of his death
Mrs Mohr, with her voice choking with
emotion, replied, Il don't know what | did
for Il minutes. | was frantic.
The witness said she had not been very
friendly with the doctor for a few days
prior to Christmas of 1913, but that about
8 o'clock on Christmas Eve the doctor
came home and complimented her on dec
! Grating so beautifully and told her ''it
takes you toix things nicely.
" DIR. Mohr said TO me at that time,
= Elizabeth, | don't want to be on the outs
t with you on Christmas Eve. Let's make
Q up, and l did
g Mrs. Mohr testified that at the time
! she filed her suit for separate maintenance
: the doctor was earning 1000 year, but
! that she asked for an allowance of only
y 500 a month.
DR. Mohr was under the influence oi
q drugs" asserted Mrs Aohr, "and
IS thought if the divorce papers were served
es on him il might bring him to his senses.
u The witness further stated she signed
10 over her property to the doctor as the re
lie suit of his threat Il thought ! had {
right to get it back again because he was
re so cruel to me, she said.
ng Did you ever intend to get an absolute
Il divorce from him." she was asked.
ar NO, sir, I never would have divorced
% my husband she replied. Il wanted n
TO one else and cared for no one else. ] fel
r that deep down in his heart he loved me
"a. no matter who he went around with
r. Mrs Mohr denied the testimony o
en- George w Heals, the Negro chauffeu
ds who has turned states evidence, that sh
at gave him money to buy a motorcycle 0
ed that he and Brown We're at her home o
the night that Heals claimed the murde
plot was hatched. Brown, she said, tol
her of his discharge from the doctors en-
- ploy on the night of the tragedy.
IL Between 6 and O'Clock that night,
said Mrs Mohr, "Healis came to my hou:
and asked me to let Charles go down
to Newport with the doctor. Heals told n
the doctor didn't intend to have anyor
else. | refused and then Heals spoke L
and said, Well it may be just well
ms am going to call for Miss Burger.
,ht Miss Burger, the doctors secretary, WI
80 in the car at the time of the shooting al
la1 was shot, but not fatally.
-, - Mrs. Mohr then told of her first wol
~ of the shooting: of the hours of waiting
Sas "a her husband lay in the hospital She th'
'il : told of being taken to the police station
y the morning of Sept and asserted tn
inu she was denied the privilege of having b
Is attorney present while the police we
'om questioning her. Mrs. Mohr denied tn
she had said to Constable Wallace viii
under examination, "F some had go
}. through what I've gone through th
would have killed the doctor long age
at She admitted saying to Wallace that S
felt sorry for those boys, meaning the
groes
.on- Telling Of the first meeting with Floren
who Ormsbee, office girl for the doctor, Nj
lay, Mohr said that Miss Ormsbee SAID 10 n
the 4 suppose, Mrs Mohr, that you Wo'
sol think m good glrl "orkihg TOT tiie u
l.. tor" Miss Ormsbee told her, Mrs. Mo
that said, that the doctor was all right, that
was mean while under the influence
drugs, but that ne had big heart. NJ
Mohr said she had every reason to snat
the monthly pay check the doctor paid
Po- when Miss Burger brought it to her hou
because my niece had told me of see
Miss Ormsbee sitting in the hammt
1t of with the doctor at Newport on Decorat
t of Day"
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