The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-01-10
Mrs. MOhr, Wealthy Widow Of Prominent
Physician, Faces Court on Charge Of
Completely in Killing Of
Husband
MYSTERIOUSLY SHOT
WHEN AUTO STOPPED
Young Woman in Car Who Also Wounded;
Negro Chauffeur Makes Confession;
Alleged Plot to Kill Doctor;
Grand Jury Indicts
By United Press.

By United Press.
PROVIDENCE, R. l., Jan. 1O-Mrs.
c. Franklin Mohr and three alleged
negro accomplices we're to oe placed
on trial in superior court here today
on the charge of numbering DR.. c.
Franklin Mohr as he rode with
young woman in his automobile. past
a lonely spot near Wyatt. R. l., on
the night of August 10, 1915.
The Mohr family is wealthy and So
cially prominent in the summer colo
nies hereabout. DIR. Mohr of Provi-
dence. we'll known in Newport and
New York, was murdered 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
recovered. Dr. Mohr and Miss Burger
were on their way to DR.. Mohr's New
port home. Their machine was oper-
ated by George w. Heals. negro,
who had been in the employ OF the
doctor 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 all she could remember of
the shooting. She said that soon
after the car left Providence, Heals
complained that the motor was work
ing badly. When the car reached the
top of the hill, at the bottom of which
the crime was committed, she thought
Healis flashed the lights. He stopped
the machine in spot overhung by
trees. according to Miss Burger, got
out and lifted the hood. Then, she
said, there was a cracking in the
underbrush followed by flashes and
revolver shots. The doctor stood up,
half turned and fell across the back
of the machine. She tried to get out
of the car. There were more flashes
and then she knew no more until just
before she was lifted into the ambu-
lance.
Heals denied flashing his lights.
He said he stopped at the bottom Of
the incline to adjust his carburetor.
He said he heard no noise prior to the
revolver shots and did not see the
person or persons who fired them.
The negro chauffeur next morning at
Providence, after many hours grilling.
is said to have confessed to having
knowledge of plot to rob DR.. Mohr.
who. he said, was known to be carry
ing considerable money.
Heals is said to have implicated
another negro, Cecil Victor Brown,
who had been discharged from DR..
Mohr's employ three weeks before.
Heals said that he was not in the
plot. All he was supposed to do, he
is said to have said, was to stop the
car when Brown held it up between
Wyatt and West Harrington. He, it is
said. said Brown was to trail the Mohr
auto on his motorcycle. which Mrs.
Mohr is said to have purchased for
Brown. Brown was arrested at the
house of George Daley on Sarle street
Brown denied that he knew anything
about the crime and said he coIld
prove an alibi. He said the reason for
his discharge by DR.. Mohr was that he
had held a two-minute conversation
with Mrs. Mohr in the barn OF the
Newport estate. In DIR. Mohr's pockets
after the murder, were found two
blcod-stained envelopes addressed to
Brown and containing pleas for an
immediate interview with him. They
we're written in a woman's hand aud
signed with woman's name. These
letters. IL developed later, were inter-
cepted at the Mohr home and given to
DR.. Mohr. Brown denied ever having
received notes from Mrs. Mohr
through her son. After an allnight