Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-06

last September.
Strangely enough, the prison van
which carried the negroes from the
court house to their cell passed the
Mohr residence on Elmwood avenue.
Mohr Homo Is Happy.
Bright lights shone from the house.
There was a ring of children's laugh
ter. Outside. through the snowstorm.
passed the van, the negroes shackled
to their keepers.
The van had difficulty making its
way to the court house gate to take
the prisoners away. AS they emerged
from the court house door. under GUS
tody of five deputy sheriffs the crowd
hooted. Life for you! Hang them"
were the shouts from the throng.
Neither Brown nor Spellman showed
any emotion when the verdict was
announced. Spellman blinked his eyes
and half turned to speak to Brown,
but the sobbing of Mrs. Mohr evidently
caused him to change his mind, and he
turned away.
Mrs. Mohr sat in the living room of
her home tonight with her children,
Charlie and Virginia, clinging to her
side. Relatives and friends formed
procession in the house, but Mrs. Mohr
denied herself to all except immediate
members of the family. so many
kilograms of congratulation have ar
rived we. have not been able to count
them" said Miss Ellen Hanlon, niece
of Mrs Mohr, to the United Press cor
respondent
Flowers From Friends.
Flowers from friends were banked
around the room and others were piled
Lob ha f,r IN, tba
hall. God bless the jury" Mrs. Mohr
said when asked for a statement.
Il have been prosecuted, but / was
confident l would be freed. l am home
again, with the dearest children in the
world, and 1 hope to devote the rest of
my life to them"
Mrs. Mohr did not personally thank
the jury when the verdict was re-
turned. Uncle Gus" Mohr of Nc
Evansville, Pa, with whom she expects
to make her future home, attended to
that. shaking the hands of each juror.
Mrs. Mohr is still under bond on the
charge of assault against Miss Burger,
but the general belief tonight was that
Attorney General Rice will not prose-
cute this case.
Attorney Lewis made the customary
motions for a new trial for Brown and
Spellman.
Attorney General Rice had nothing
to say following the return of the ver-
dict. He was obviously surprised.
Now that she is free, Mrs. Mohr will
receive one third of the estate of her
dead husband, estimated to be worth
about $4,000.
Emily Burger, the other woman"
whose relations with the physician
were declared to have led up to the
tragedy of last August, was not in
court when the verdict freeing Mrs.
Mohr was returned. Neither was
George Rocks, her brother in law
Florence Ormsby, Ellen Hamm or John
McAndrews, who appeared against the
accused woman. 1t was this coterie
whom Fitzgerald described as crying,
Cruelty her! Cruelty herr" after they
had murdered her love.
Trial Was Sensational.
The trial which ended today after
, being in progress for four weeks closed
one of the most sensational chapters
in Rhode Islands criminal history.
DR.. Charles +. Mohr and Emily Bur-
ger were shot as they sat in a stalled
automobile on Washington park road
o nthe night of Aug. 81, 1915.
George Heals, the negro chauffeur,
was apparently endeavoring to repair
the engine when the shots were fired
from ambush. DR.. Mohr was Vflled
and Miss Burger seriously wounded.
On Sept. Heals was arrested. La
ter the negroes, Brown and Spellman,
were arrested when stories were told
of two negroes having been seen flee
ing from the scene of the crime on a
motorcycle. The shooting was first
reported as a hold-up. A few days
later the negroes made a confession.
They declared they were hired by Mrs.
Mohr to kill the doctor and Miss Bur-
$ ger. Heals was to get $1,000 for stop
ping the automobile at a secluded spot
in the road and Brown and Spellman
were to get $4,000 each for the actual
shooting, according to their confess
sions. Later these confessions were
! repudiated.
Mrs Mohr was arrested on Sept 49,
and indicted for instigating the murder
of her husband. Motions for a separate
trial were overruled and Mrs. Mohr
was ordered to be tried with the ne
groes on Jan. s. A few days before
the trial date Heals pleaded nolo con-
tendere to a charge of manslaughter
making it certain he would appear dis
d a states witness
= Confession Of Heals.
1t was understood Heals sentence
was to be governed by the value OF
the story he told on the stand. Heals
testimony was in line with his orig-
nal confession. Brown and Spellman
denied his story. The defense claimed
the state failed to show a motive for
Mrs. Mohr's alleged instigation of the
: murder plot. Mrs. Mohr spent three
days on the stand in her own defense
She told of beatings administered her
: by the doctor. one of the occasions
being when she had gone to Emily
I Burger and asked her to keep away
from DIR. Mohr.
: Despite his cruelty and drunkenness
Mrs. Mohr insisted she still loved him