Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-20
CHAUFFEUR TELLS
| OF MOHR MURDER
Heals Resumes Testimony
duplicating Wife of the
Slain Physician.
SAYS $1,000 WAS TO BE
THE PRICE FOR THE JOB
Declares That the First Attempt
Was Failure Because He Lost
His Nerve.

| PROVIDENCE, R. l., January
2O.-The manner in which DR.. &.
Franklin Mohr was shot to death
and the alleged insistence of his
wife that he be killed. were de-
scribed in detail today by George
| w. Heals, negro chauffeur for
DR.. Mohr, at the trial of Mrs.
Elizabeth F. Mohr, Cecil Brown
and Henry Spellman charged with
the murder.
Heals said it was at the bid
ding OF Mrs. Mohr that he
stopped the car at lonely spot
agreed upon with Brown and
Spelman. whom the state charges
with having shot the physician as
he sat with Miss Emily Burger,
of whom Mrs. Mohr was Jealous.
| 'All you will have to do is stop the
| car, George" the witness declared Mrs
Mohr told him. He said that when he
had failed to stop the automobile as
! agreed, two nights before the murder,
Mrs. Iohr babe him hurry up with the
| killing, saying: This isl my last
chance. My suit for divorce comes up
the LIST of the month
Heals retained his composure during
the cross-eXamination conducted by
William III. Lewis, for the defense, and
frankly admitted that he had stopped
the car in order that his employ er
might be shot
Heals, the physicians negro chauf-
feur, who turned states evidence after
being indicted, today resumed his teSti-
mony. which was begun yesterday. He
testified that on the night of August 81
30 went with Brown to Mrs. Mohr's
house.
Mrs. Mohr asked Brown how things
WERE" Heals testified. land Brown
said o. X She asked him where we
were going to pull it off. She thought
it would be better on the Newport side,
because she knew all the police OF
Newport Mrs Mohr finally said she
would leave that to US. She said. All
you've got to do. George. is to stop the
car She told Brown he would get
$4,000, that / was to get $4,000 and
Spellman $1,000.
Picked Place for Murder.
Il told Mrs N.ohr I didn't want to
do it, She told me not to be afraid.
that ] could say it was a hold-up. and
to call up the nearest house and fell
them that the doctor had been held up
and shot The murder was planned for
the next night. Brown said we could
throw our guns into the water"
Heals said he and Brown picked
out the spot for the murder. that they
agreed to throw the guns into lake
and that Brown showed him where he
would leave his motor cycle.
Heals told of driving. DR.. Mohr to
Bristol ferry the night of August rs,
and how he lost his nerve and con-
tinued faster when he reached the
spot where Brown and Spellman were
waiting in ambush. He explained that
another reason why he did not stop
was because Miss Florence Ormsby
and Miss Martha Wilson were with
the doctor and Miss Burger Miss Will
son. who was DR.. Mohr's housekeeper
and regarded as a leading witness for
the state, is said to be i'll in Chicago.
u met Brown in Newport the next
day." continued Heals, land he asked
me why l did not stop. L promised
to stop on the following Tuesday
night"
Persuaded by Mrs. Mohr.
ron the evening of the shooting" the
witness said. Il saw Mrs. Mohr and she
asked me why l did not stop Friday
night. She said she thought / haG
gone back on her, and told me to be
sure to stop that night ] said didn't
want to. She said, Don't be afraid.
You can say it is a hold-up. This
was the last chance. she said, as she
had a divorce suit coming up the first
of the month. l told her I'd stop. She
told me if l got into trouble to stick
! to it that it was hold-up and not to
mention her name and that she would
spend her last dollar for me-"
1 Heals then told of driving DR.. Mohr
and Miss Burger to Bristol August 81
the night of the murder.
| When / got to bush in the road
about halfway between two lights" he
testified Il stopped my car and got out,
turned out my headlights and put my
lsidelights on so l could see the engine.
Then / heard two shots and | saw Dr..
Mohr leaning toward Miss Burger with
his head covered with blood. Then I saw
Miss Burger start TO get out and she
fell into the roadway l picked her up.