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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

London silversmiths advertise tina,
they have special facilities" for mount
ing in an artistic and suitable manner
all kinds Of war trophies, ahellR,
cartridge cnses, bombs, etc.i1 and show
q fetching design Of a sshell casa
mounted az gong. What. lovel2
shuveniri
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

A paper devoted to humane societies
says it is kinder to drown kittens than
allow them to grow up into strays. It
also lends sense Of quietness to the
neighborhood.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

Il an editor ever accidentally got
into one of those, fashionable summer
resorts where the inmates dress three
times a day, his otter necktie would
do all right for the second time, bat
the third time he'd have to appear IN
his pajamas.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

Walking tight rope over yawn-
Ing chasm, or balancing on the end
of a swaying pole, is nothing COM
: pared to the position Of the smaller
nations in Europe that are trying, to
keep strictly neutral.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

Though the map Of Europe will be
somewhat changed after the war. Eu-
ropes bank account will have expert
enced the most startling transforma-
ton.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

When q man grinds his own flour
to get whole wheat bread he can make
as large loaf as he pleases, depend
ent more or less upon how strong he
feels when he turns the mill.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

War, epidemics, floods and strikes
are making this a record year for
disaster, and if all that were not
enough, q hot political campaign is
on to cap the climax.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

Though the world has never before
been SO warlike, never before has the
world been SO thoroughly convinced
OF the folly Of war.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

As rule people are sympathetic,
but the man who is carrying water
melon in his arms knows that some
where in the world there is somebody
who would like to see him drop it.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

Paper containers for soft drinks may
prevent rowdy baseball fans from 'lay-
ing out" the umpire, but until they
are forced to wear gags during a
game the job of "umpiring will be no
Sinecure.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

AS cooler weather approaches the
great American business man hopes
to become acquainted with his family
again.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

When that Zeppelin air line is estab-
ished across the Atlantic, European
: trip will cease to have terrors for
those who are afraid Of the water.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

1t Is easy enough to buy the demon
stration car, one discovers, but very
difficult to employ the demonstrating
salesman for q chauffeur.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

The English language has about 600.-
600 words, but paragraphers continue
to coin new ones about the weather.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

On the other hand, certain varieties
Of sharks are eaten by men and the
sharks never make howl about II.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

Still, the fortunes that turn out to
be smaller than they were supposed to
be are large enough.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

Aetna and Stromboli are active, but
will find there is much competition for
public notice at this time.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

No matter how hot the weather is
some of the girls keep right on fixing
their hair In the earmuff style.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

: No matter how sweet-tempered a
woman is she puts little vfciousness
into the blow when she swats q fly.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

Investigators find that c woman can
be clothed for S2s.75 a year, but can
they find a woman who Is willing?
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

Old men may say they feel as young
as ever, but they never admit feel
ing as foolish as ever.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

How nice it would be If peace ru-
mors could only capture the slogan
swatch US grow!"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

Tempus fugit, and the up-to-date
youngster Of today may be the old
fashioned man Of tomorrow.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

If they keep on cutting the price,
fivvers will be no more expensive than
a good fountain pen.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

A two weeks vacation isn't long, but
it's long time to provide spending
money enough for.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

When a chap Is in love with that
kind Of a girl, at least two people
know that red hair Is auburn.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13
Nobody likes to hear a man mum
bic corn of the cob.

The race may not be to the swift.
but it pays to step lively.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1916-12-13

China wants $1OO.0OO.0O0. Why not
get each Of them to chip In quarteri
The Washington times., 1916-01-23

hat. And while the wheels Of justice
began to grind over the track which
VIII lead to liberty or life ifnprison-
ImeeInt Tor her she dropped without oston-
thtlon INTO the niche which she since
occupied. For the first few days OF
tne trial little was seen OF her, as she
sat with her back suuarely TO the
throngs who had come TO witness her
trlai, many Of them drawn perchance
~ the likelihood Of the introduction IN
evidence OF the little red book which
tne man whose murder she Is accused
OF having instigated. used in keeping
But for all that Mrs. Mohr seemed
20 De taking her arraignment with an
AR OF indifference, Il soon became APP
parent that new characteristics had
Deen fused into her drab makeup when
the sixty veniremen from whom the
jury was picked, were called
As tNch man was questioned, Mrs.
Mohr aiSNd her lawyers selecting those
VINO are now engaged in deciding the
qvesuon OF her liberty.
when that ordeal was over! however,
sne apsed again into a composure
which has been broken since then only
Dy the introduction OF vital evidence.
she seldom glances in the direction OF
tne handsomely gowned women who
nave thronged the court upon the ex-
pectation Of hearing deciphered the ca
Danstic code In 'the little red book
which may spell a monster rafting Of
skeletons In select NewDOrt closets
The Washington times., 1916-01-23
Jealousy Soon Marks
Early Married Life

Although marred by occasional con-
flicts, which sprang from her jealousy,
the early married life OF DR.. Mohr and
his second wife was happy, although he
has been described as a man cold and
hard as steel, but potential of engen-
dering the most unreasoning interest in
most of The women with whom he came
in contact
By 1905. DR.. Mohr was in the first flush
of his late prosperity and the foundat ton
OF his fortune, which has been estimaI-
ed at $5OO0OO was laid. In IJB. after
two children had been born to them-C.
and Virginia Blair Mohr, seven years
old-he bought a modest little house IN
Newport 1t was soon after that that
the hand of domestic tragedy settled
upon the Mohr household. Apparently
unmoVed by the memory of 1t, the frali
little woman. after her husbands death.
told of the rift in the Lutte of her happI-
ness. She said
Early in 1899 the doctor struck me
without warning. while we were at dim
ner. lie gave me a terrible beating. 1
had to go to a sanitarum The day
after my mother died, i'm June, 1909. ne
gave me another beating because 1 re-
mained at my mothers bedside instead
or Keeping an appointment with him.
Hardly had she realized that whatever
dreams OF happiness she had fostered
were doomed to bitter disSipation the
ugly specter of differences over imam
cial matters reared its head in the
Mohr household. At his marriage, Mrs.
Mohr says, he had placed his property
IN her name. Lately he demanded that
she return 1t to him, and. she says,
threatened her with bodily harm until
she complied. In June, 1911. a brier in
terlude of good feeling reigned between
the physician and his wife, 1t was Tnen
with the lean years of small practice
behind him. that c. Franklin Mohr. Nv
then the much sought after society doc
tor, purchased as a Christmas present
Tor his wife, the magnificent estate at
Newport, toward which he was speed
ing win the other Woman on the night
that he met red death.
From Christmas. 1911. until late in 1915.
mrs. Mohr became more and more firm
ly convinced that her husband was
plunging into affairs Of the heart with
other women. and II was during this
Burger riDened.
AS time went by the changes which have
been so unexpectedly manifested in the
character of the frail little woman be-
gan to germinate. Separated from her
husband early in 1914. Elizabeth Blair
Mohr, outwardly still the charity worker
and churchgoer. and apparently existing
uncomplainingly beneath the Sights
which had been put upon her. moved
to q little house across the street from
DR.. Mohr's town residence. There she
became a feminine Mordecai sitting at
the gate of her king. a constant though
silent reminder of all that had gone
before.
A commonplace enough situation. and
one which still lacked aught to raise it
above a thousand other such domestic
tragedies; vet the State of Rhode Island
claims that in the little house across the
street from the doctors residence
frail and commonplace woman during
long days and nights of vigil changed
gradually to a vengeful being swayed
by an insane love for the man who
had neglected her. and by an unreason-
The Washington times., 1916-01-23

Ing hate OF The other Woman. who on
the witness stand has claimed that
there was nothing culpable In her
friendship for DR.. Mohr
The prosecutors OF the Commonwealth
go even farther. Under the biting acid
on wrong, they declare. the colorless
wife OF popular physician IN May. 1915.
began to consider the death OF the doc
TOT as q gateway to release from her
intolerable position. That even then the
death plot had germinated far enough
for her to give, to the negro brown
money with which 20 buy the motorcycle
he rode on the night, according to his
confession. he shot the doctor. and that
that followed was due to the almost un-
believable and unsupported cunning Of
the one-time helpless wife,
When Elizabeth Blair Mohr appeared
in court on January 10. arraiEned side
by side with the two negroes whom the
police say confessed to having murdered
DR.. Mohr at her bidding. and confronted
by the testimony OF Heals, who drove
the death car. the little woman pleaded
mot guilty" quietly and without emo
tlon.
Always fond of jewelry she took her
place before the twelve good men and
true" who are, to decide her fate with
the sombreness OF her commonplace ap-
pearance unrelieved by a single orna-
ment; sharp contrast to The Other
Woman who took the stand a few days
gllttering and expensive gems.
or her appearance, Mrs. Mohr has
spoken but once since the murder. then
It developed In the testimony OF james
p. wallace, constable, who took her
from Providence to Warren, that she
said:
II have had a lot of trouble. The
public doesn't know what I've suffered I;
what I've been through. / didn't xiii
the doctor. but If anyone else had suf-
tered as have they would have killed
him long ago."
What kind of a girl Is Miss Bur-
ger?" the constable asked her.
She's a bleached blond. / used to be
a good looking woman before my trou-
BILE, but I've failed a lot now"
When she first entered the courtroom
she was silhouetted, frail tense sha-
dow against the glarIng lights. She
wore a dark Norfolk suit of severely
plain cut and trimmed with fur. Her
face was shadowed by a black sailor
The Washington times., 1916-01-23
Her Personality Repels
As L EnIists Sympathy

And while the dreary round of wit
nesses-fifty of them have been called
by the prosecution-drags along on
leaden feet, a far-away look comes
over her tired face, and she turns to
, her child for the sympathy which she
has been denied elsewhere.
The woman who sits on trial for her
liberty today in the superior court, a
curious admiXture of traits which re-
the product of many years filled with
domestic tragedy. If she is an unusual
woman today, in her sorrow and trou-
BILE. woman whose characteristics are
often contradictory in the face of the
evidence against her. she is none the
less one of the members of a sorrowful
sisterhood-the women who are the
wives of fascinating men.
And so her story, because ii Is also
the story of others, ceases to the in
dividual chronicle of Elizabeth Blair
Mohr, one-time the joyous Lizzie"
Blair, to be held and kept from the
The very fact that there are so many
other women who, suffering very much
as Lizzie Blair has done, will yet never
hnd themselves in the plight which en-
gulfs her, makes of it a preachment.
Therefore the saga Of her misery must
be told in full before full understand
ing Of the frail little prisoner may be
obtained.
The Elizabeth Blair Mohr. accused
accessory to murder. of today. was born
in Norwich, Conn. Her family moving
to Taunton soon after her birth. settled
in the "Weir Village" end of the town
Her parents were moderately prosper
Gus. and Lizzie had the same sort OF
carefully protected Eirlhood as thou
sands OF other children. Nor was there
anything in her early life which could
forecast the legacy Of trial and sorrow
which has fallen upon her. save that
needlessly Lizzie Blair determined to go
TO work for herself.
Although her parents were amply able
and willing to take care of her. she OBJ
tatned employment in a number of
The Washington times., 1916-01-23
CALOMEL IS
VERY SELDOM SOLD NOW
It Makes You Sick and isOFabo-knOcks You All 0uiHays
Liver Health Acts Much Better Than GaIOme and Is Harmless Too

sale of calome in our stores, the Peoples Drug
Stores say Hays Liver Health is taking its place
almost always.
Calomel is dangerous and people know it,
while Hays Liver Health is safe and gives much
better results. We guarantee Hays Liver Health
because We know it's good. large bottle costs
only SO cents and if you find it doesn't take the
place of dangerous, salivating calomel, you have
only to ask us for your money back.
Hays Liver Health is pleasant, purely veg
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grown-upS Take spoonful at night and wake
up feeling fine; no sick headache, k:iiousness,
sour stomach or clogged bowels. 1t doesn't grpe
The Washington times., 1916-01-23
Mrs. Mohr Is Unn1Oped
As She AWaitS Verdict
of Social Outlawry-Her Word Pitted Against
That of Colored Men.

Taunton stores. and then. tiring OF
home ties. went to Providence. to COM
plete her education.
Out Of school at last Lizzie Blair did
not return to the little town where her
parents still lived. but instead obtained
work In the larger city--the same city
where today she faces Jury who may
take away from her all of the coming
years Of her natural life.
ana It was shortly after this that her
path and that of the man whose murder
she is now accused of instigating first
She was then in the comeliness of her
mliadie Iiit teens. better looking say those
S,ibSnS,ew bi0 nnew her: than at any time of her
ir. Mohr. the fascinating. was a
netive OF McEwensville. Pa. A graduate
OF Johns Hopkins, he practiced first in
pIaca Irei where his first marriage took
Josephine Hastry. OF that union two
children were born.
evidence that DR.. Mohr's life with his
the ups' ,Snt %Ite was was not happy is found in
YORK physician on charge of having
alenated his wifes affections
Shortly thereafter the man whose prac-
CGe was destined to become SO closely
allied with the fashionable life of New
port. moved to that social center aud
attempted to establish a practice. He
Ialled, however. and set I'D an office in
providence instead. where, still bound
10 MS hrst wife, he met and fascinated
q young department store buyer.
Details of Lizzie Blair's marriage to
the young physician are shrouded more
or less In mystery. and during the
trial both the prosecution and the de-
tense have limited that each might rely
strongly upon a disclosure of the cir
cumStanceS in evidence. This much
however. Is clear; Dr. Mohr. although
married when he met her. awoke in the
girl mad devotion which reckoned Of
nothing save its own desires, anu which
carried her to his side when he was
free to marry her in spite of all Opposi-
ton; and 1t Is this same blind love
which the State of Rhode Island today
contends was responsible through jeal-
ousy for the plot which eliminated in
the tragedy on the Darlington road.
The Washington times., 1916-01-23

or make you feel miserable and all in next day
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Hays Liver Health is real liver medicine
You'll know it next morning, because you will
wake up with your head clear, your liver active,
bowels clean, breath sweet and stomach regu-
lated You will be cheerful and full of vgor and
ready for hard days work.
You can eat without risk of salivating your
self or your children.
Come in and get a bottle of Hays Liver
Health today We are selling lots of it. too, on
our guarantee that it's satisfactory to every one
Try it on our guarantee-PeopleS Drug Stores
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The Washington times., 1916-01-23
Spectator At Own Trial
And Real Mother At Home

She never looks toward her co-defend-
ants at all. For all that is apparent
10 the contrary during most of the
time she might be the veriest disin-
terested spectator at the trial which
means so much to her.
At liberty at least temporarily upon
heavy bond, she spends the interim be-
tween the sessions of the court at her
home. where Elizabeth Blair Mohr. the
mother, is uppermost.
Last night she sat in the living room
with her two children. Out beyond the
Continued on Page Fourteen.)
The Washington times., 1916-01-23

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The Washington times., 1916-01-23
Strength of Character
Developed By Trials

The difference between the Lizzie"
Mohr of the days when, madlv in love
with the man who now lies dead. and
the physicians widow of today is one of
personally and character rather than Of
face or form.
It is the difference between a young
girl, plant to the will of the man who
has awakened in her and famed to an
all consuming flame the love she bore
for him, and that same woman tenSed
with disappointment, and reckless in the
knowledge that her love, in spite of its
strength which swayed her unthinking-
ly at first to her husbands Will, was
not quite strong enough to hold him at
her side.
A reed broken in the gales of domestic
adversely, she has developed unsus-
pected strength. Looked upon as a SUBJ
missive wife, ready and anxious to
caress the hand which struck her. she
is now charged with vindictiveness
seldom equaled, a cunning which took
into consideration the slightest detail,
a desire for vengeance like that of Luz
cTetia Borgia.
Looked upon as a slave to the conven-
ton of exclusive Newport. she is
charged with having so far forgotten
herself under the strain of her wrongs
as to bring the men said to be her muir
der-hirelings into her house, receive
them on a plane of equality and prepare
made too stolid by neglect to be dis
turbed by slight or injury, she has
since the first day of the trial. run
every octave of human emotion and
misery.
She has been like frozen Medusa one
moment, and like a fearful Niobe the
next. She was like a brooding tigress.
for all her slender weakness, when she
faced the other Woman on the witness
stand. She sobbed quietly with the
tears of resignation when the old felt
hat-the one worn by her husband on
the night of his death-was shown in
court. But she gazed with stony eyes
upon a hospital orderly who described
how his garments had been drenched by
the life blood of her husband.
Yet, even now, whenever the testi-
mony fails to hold her avid attention,
Elizabeth Blair Mohr, the accused slay-
er. the woman of complexities. the
vengeful victim of neglect. momentarily
fades away and "Lizzy" Mohr. the
mother of the olden and more golden
days, comes to the surface. Then she
turns to a slight lad of ten who sits
beside her, the constant companion of
her hours of trial. He is named for his
FV1VYHSara6 father
The Washington times., 1916-01-23
CONTINUED from First Page)

heels of long and tedious illness, there
Is little physical difference between
Elizabeth Blair Mohr. Of Newport So
ciety, bowling beneath the inevitable,
and Elizabeth Blair Mohr, the vengeful,
the clever. the emotional standing to-
day upon the brink of social outlawry.
AS of old, she is still a woman of girl
ish build. Her friends say that in spite
OF the marks which her sorrow has left
upon her, she is only in her early thir-
oval face of not unpleasant feature,
where still lurk traces of a certain
comeliness of youth. Her eyes are big
and dark. Yet even in the heyday OF
her prime. she was never a woman, say
her friends, to hold to heel, with physi-
cal charm the vagrant fancies of man
inclined to wander far afield.