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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-13
MRS. MOHR HEARS
SHE HIRED NEGROES
TO KILL HUSBAND
Repudiated Confessions of AL
legged Murderers Read in
Court-Prosecution
Strongly Scores
WIFE CRIES, JURORS SAD
pRov1DENcE. R. l.. Jan. 18.

PROVIDENCE, r.. l., Jan. 1S.
Mrs. Elizabeth Frances Mohr, the most
nonchaIant woman ever the central figure
In a sensational murder trial, received
her first serious setback today.
The prosecution scored heavily when
Justice Stearns. over the prolonged pro-
tests of the defense lawyers, stuck TO his
tentative ruling of late yesterday and
said he would permit Chief Inspector
! William F. O'Neill, of the Providence
police TO tell the jury the details of al
legged statements of the negroes. Brown
and spellman, that Mrs, Mohr promised
them S5Op0 to put her husband, DR.. charles
Franklin Mohr. out of the way.
O'Neill during q preliminary. hearing in
the absence of the jury, said that when
Mrs. Mohr's attorneys were contestlf :
the admissiblity of the statements, they
said that they we're never signed
The statement of the negroes, which
had been since repudiated by Spellman
and Brown who said they were tricked,
coerced and driven into making them
dealt not so much with the shooting OF
Mohr and the defendants rival for his
affections as with the negotiations Mrs
Mohr was alleged to have carried on with
them to procure the murder.
O'Neill swore that in September 2, Spell
man and Brown admitted their guilt when
confronted with the chauffeur, Heals, al
ready under arrest.
~ asked Brown said .o'Neill. '1f he
killed Doctor Mehr and shot Miss
Burger" .
yes" Brown, said.
81 asked him why, He replied, be
cause Mrs. Mohr asked us to and she
promised us S5000.'
O'Neill swore that Spellman made a
statement similar in every way TO that
made by Brown.
The police chief said he then called in
Mrs. Mohr. He first showed her the
statement Of Heals. The defendants
objection was sustained, Heals was not
on trial.
When the state asked o'Neill what
Mrs Mohr said about the statements the
court sustained the defense's objection.
A seemingly endless debate was partlci-
pated in by counsel when Attorney
Phillips offered ONeill n card ito refresh
his memory
The court ordered the state to show
the card to the defense.
Its reading brought the first tears of
the trial to the eyes of Mrs. Mohr. 1t was
the first emotion she had betrayed. one
Juror also was seen to wipe his eyes
The card was written in 1914 to George
Rocks, brother-in-law of Miss Burger, and
said:
Dear Mr.. Rocks: / ask you to tell
your sister Miss Burger, If she goes into
my home again with Doctor Mohr she
will not come out alive, no matter what
the outcome. She will have a sad ending
IL she keeps on aggravating me. The
world is with me in my sorrow. l am
heartbroken.
MRS. ELIZABETH +. MOHR."
O'Neill said Mrs. Mohr admitted writ
ing the card when that woman aggra-
What woman" demanded Attorney
Rice.
Miss Burger" ONelll said
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-13
WOMAN AGENT NEARLY .
ASPHYXIATED BY EGGS
81 Looked Like a Big Omelette,'' y
She Tells Magistrate at
Pure Food Hearing ~

Anna Chapliski. n pure food agent, told
Magistrate Harris today that she had
been nearly asphyxiated by bad eggs on,
! December 30.
."Yetta Cohen broke them on me and
smeared them on me till 1 looked like
big bad egg omelette." she said.
"Why, what had you done to herr" q
IT hadn't done n thing to her, judge
said the agent, except complain about
the bad eggs she and her husband sold
at their grocery store at 9l9 South 9th
street. You see, Mrs. Yetta Cohen knew
me as what she considered a sort Of
bad egg spy. She knew I was going
around getting evidence against srocers .
and she didn't think 1t was fair. But itsi'
my business. " 0'i1 ~'sl'' ihaDs'
"I knew II went in and saked foreggs
that she'd know l wanted bad eggs and Z
sho. wouldn't sell 'em to me. SO i sent
another woman In and waited outside
She went in and bought two dozen eggs
and brought them out TO me. That would
do for the chemist to examine, ] said. but
I also had TO have evidence to show that
Mrs. Cohen had sold them. So | went IN
myself with the woman again, but man-
aged TO keep my back to Mrs. Cohen. SO
she wouldn't see my face. till second
two dozen was purchased. AS soon as
heard her say Here's your eggs to the
woman. | turned around and faced her 70
get the evidence. ~
AS soon as sne saw VINO IL Was she
threw the eggs at me and they broke
over the front of my dress, Judge. they
were so bad they nearly asphyxiated me-
| needed n pulmotor TO get those eggs
out of my lungs. Then she pulled my
hat off and threw my muff into the
street and broke my pocketbook and hit
me in the jaw twice, was one DIG
omelet, The chemist of the State Dairy
and Food Department analysed the eggs
that were left" .'
The chemist, Prof. Charles II, laval.
said that % of the q eggs were bad,
Max Cohen was held under 800 bail
for court for this reason and his wife
UNDER S400 bail on the same charge ana
she was held under an additional si"
on the charge of attacking the agent.
Selig Lieberman, of 1l2 Vine street. was
accused of having soda water for sale
that was sweetened with saccharine. tie
was held under $500 bail for court
Max Buschell, a grocer. of 55l North
9TH street, was held under 500 bail for
court on the charge of having bad eggs
for sale. t
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-13
GIRL STRIKERS CAUSE
PANIC In A MILL
Tear Clothing and Leap From
Windows in Struggle Fol-
lowing a Walkout

CHESTER, Pa. Jan. l3.-Men, women
and girls leaped from windows, women
tore clothing on each other and gem
eral panic reigned today when 200 oper-
atives OF the Viscose Company, manutac-
turers OF artificial silk, went out on strike
at the Marcus Hook mills
When signal that the strike was on
was given by the leaders there was a
general rush for the doors. Many girls
who wanted to remain at work hesitated.
They were mauled and dragged toward
the doors by other girls in sympathy
with the strikers. The doors were soon
cIogged with fighting employees, and eff
forts 10 restore order by the officials
were In vain. Many were cut and bruised
in the struggle. Women with skirts and
waists torn to ribbons assembled nearby
with the men and warned those who at
tempted TO take their places that they
would have to take the consequences.
The erouble started among the men en-
ployes, who threatened 10 strike some
time ago, il is said, unless their demands
for an Increase Of four cents an hour were
met by the management. This request
was refused, It Is said and the men soon
spread the Arms ultimatum among the
girl and women workers Leaders We're
quickly appointed and agreed 10 cease
work when the signal was gwen. Those
who declared that they would not join
the strikers we're singled out In advance
and forced to leave the building,
The mill was compelled 10 suspend OPP
eFations and hurry call for police was
sent here this afternoon.
We offered the workmen raise OF 10
per cent" said an Official Of the mill.
"and il was apparent many Of the men
were satisfied, and We had not thought
of any OF them walking out this morning.
We invited the committee into the Office
and asked the men 10 resume their work
and place their grievances la the hands Of
a committee for adjustment; Instead they
ualked out ae tod The men our olfer
af y per ffuI. ineFease holds good, nal
z alll ngt entertaIn their demands
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-13
MASS sAIDsFoR McNICHoL
Requiem Service Held for Victim of
Trunk Murder -

Solemn Requiem Mass was held today al
81. Francis Xayier's Catholic Church. Gath
and Green streets, for Daniel j. Me-
HiehOl. the kensington trunk murder vie
tim and relative OF, Senator James p Nc
Nichoi. for whose murder Edward Keller
Is under indictment.
The services were held quietly and were
attended only by relatives. less than two
dozen persons being present Passers-by
were unawaTe' what was going ON within
the church. The mass was conducted by
Father Keely. assistant pastor OF the
church The murdered mans mother,
wife and sisters we're In deep mourning.
The body was buried In Cathedral Gene
terry q week ago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-13
GRAHAME.WHITE'S WIFE WINS
RIGHT TO SUE FOE. DIVORCE
Court Grants Plea for Restitution of
Coniugal Rights

LONDON Jan. 13.-An ordep granting
Airs Claude Grahame- White. wife of the
famous aviator. restitution OF her con-
jugal rights. was handed down in divorce
court today. According to the English
law a wife must obtain such an order be-
fore she can sue for divorce.
Mr.. Grahame-White was not repre-
sented by, counsel f"
II. developed at the hearing that Mr.
and Mrs GTahame-White have been lv-
ing apart since 1914 as a result OF diff
ferences over thsF husbands conduct
1t was agreed that Mr.. and Mrs. Gra-
hanie-White should live apart for six
months" declared counsel for the petit
toner, "and Mrs. Grahame-W White went
to the United States TO live"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-13
SIX BITTEN BY MAD DOG
Hospital Takes Early PreeautiOn
Against Hydrophobia


There are frequent excursions today to
fhe Pennsylyania Hospital BY six young
fox. 9Ho were bitten BY dog last night
a. Doek and Howard streets. All OF them
HsTe treated and when discharged were
tqld 70 report frequently so that the
doetofs could watch for signs Of hydro
fHehia.
Roiicenian Denny. Of the 4th and De
l-sHefy streets police station. shot the
1ns 49, its head has been sent 10 the
I-z|4elslly Of Pennsylvania for examina-
$50.
4t ostien BY the dog we're;
--zzz1le=4 seHILEHER. 20 years old Of
l1zH leIh atreef. bitten on leg.
~ 44Rof son. years old 0f l3J Pine
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Ez|4I| EzF4Frs tItftn en ar1.
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H Ii4HNnEs 9ffeEff 1i1ter ca l4E.
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-13
WetherilI Buys Zinc Lands

Samuel p. Wetherill, of this city. has
purchased 1900 acres of zinc property in
Hancock County, Tenn, for about 500 =
900. A plant of 10000 tons daily capacity
and the building Of a town at an outlay
of $4,000 are contemplated, A railroad,
26 miles in length. will be bulk from the
Southern Railway at Lone Mountain TO
Sneedville and later extended to Speers
Ferry. Va
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-13
Director Commends Policeman Fon

Director OF Public Safety Wilson COM
mended Policeman Edward Fox, OF lhs
10th and ButtonwOod streets police station,
in a letter today for the arrest of George
Anderson, of Akron, Ohio. as Anderson
was breaking into pawnshop owned py
AlexandSr .brahamson. at 18th and Ml;.
Vernon streets. on the morning of Deeeh-
ber 30. Fox crept up behind Anderson
and covered him with his revolver. Wnsa
the robber turned he was placed Under
arrest. I.eutesant Singer. of the nsa.
and Buttonwood streets station, also eom-
mended Fox.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-13
TOO LATE FOR CLASSIFICATION
DEATHS

IAN j. ALEXANDER. Relatives ls sti
friends are Invited 10 attend the fp4srs fpn4srsi
services on Monday afternoon, at o.sloee'
al his late residence, 1882 Hancock s'fes''
wIffTsI 5InIGImsnl el' First Month 18th. 1915,
IABBOTT, husband Of Harriet X. and soii NJ =
Samuel A. and Abigail r Willis IN H. fis 70 to
attend the funeral on seventh Gay Ftafe
month 18th at t;45 ?. M fr95n ,aao ~ ,,si. ia
n j. Train leaves Market street SIlAli66 .a ID
Philadelphia, l255 ,. m; tTolleys nsy,sate siyat
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-13
TROLLEY VICTIM UNIDENTIFIED
Body of Aged Woman, Struck in West
Philadelphia, Is Unclaimed

An unidentified woman is dead at the
University Hospital today as a result OF
being struck by a trolley car. Accord
ing 10 the police she was crossing Wood
land avenue at 4sth street late yesterday
when she stepped IN front Of an east
bound car.
Her left leg was cut off and it was
necessary to jack up the car 10 release
her, She died just as she, was being
taken into the hospital. ss
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-13
LOGAN IMPROVEMENT LEAGUE
Mayor Smith Among Speakers at To-
,Lnight,s Meeting

Mayor Smith. Director OF Public Safety
Wilson, and Recorder of Deeds James NJ.
HazIett will make addresses at the
January meeting OF the Logan Improve
ment League tonight The Logan League
expects to enlist the Il residents needed
to reach the 1900 membership mark. A
silver loving cup will be given the MEM
ber bringing the 13OOth member
Edwin. j. Lafferty. president of the or
sanization., will ANNOUNCE his committee
men for 1916, r ,4 IN
A Thousand residents are expected to
attend the meeting, which viii be held at
the Logan Drawing Rooms, Broad and
Ruscomb streets. The organization
started over three years ago by forty
residents of Logan. is no doubt the
largest of its kind in the State. About
80 per cent. of the home owners in
Logan are members of the association.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-13
SERVICE m AMERICAN
AMBULANCE CORPS AT
FRONT NO JOY RIDE
John H. McFadden, Jr., Back
From France, Describes Dan
gers and Hardships En-
tailed in Work
SEEKS RECRUITS HERE
Drivers Qualifications
for Ambulance Corps

An applicant must know how to
drive an automobile.
He must know the fundamentals
of the mechanism of car.
He must pay his own expenses to
Europe; his board and lodging
there will be paid.
He must pay about s75 for his
equipment.
He must be willing to work under
fire.
Six applicants out of 30 passed
these tests.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-13
WILL HONOR FRANKLIN
Poor Richard Club Plans Elaborate
Observance for Next Monday

Franklin. Day celebration at the Poor
Richard Club, 239 South Camac street,
next Monday win be the greatest in the
history of the organization. which was
founded on the principles of the renowned
patriot
to attend luncheon, including Givernor
Brumbaugh. Mayor Smith and Provost
Smith, of the University of Pennsylvania
After luncheon the members and guests
will go in automobiles TO the Friends
Cemetery, 9TH and Arch streets, where
they will deposit a wreath on Franklin's
grave. A prayer viii be said by the Rev.
DR.. l.. c. Washburn, rector of Christ
Church, the church i'm which Franklin
worshipped
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-09-28
Big Fireproof Garage at Minot

Minot, Sept ga $4,000 rein.
forced concrete garage will be erect
ed by Eby & Young at the corner OF
First street and Fourth avenue S. w.
Plans for the structure are being pre-
pared by Architect R. B. Stacy-Judd
and include all the latest develop
ments in garage architecture and con-
veniences. The structure will front
Is feet on Fifth street and 140 feet
on Fourth avenue. The plans provide
for full basement and one story with
provisions for another story in the
future. The basement will be COM
pleted this fall, but the superstructure
will not be built until next spring. 1t
will be ready for the trade in the
early automobile season of 1917.
The building will be fire proof
throughout. Instead of elevators for
transferring cars from one floor to an
other, there will be elevation drive
ways so constructed that the cars can
be driven from the one to the other
floor without more trouble than is
experienced in driving along an ord
mary street. There will be no pillars
in the entire structure, the roof be-
ing carried by heavy truss work
which will leave the entire floor space
entirely free of distractions.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-09-28
Genoa Woman Is Suicide;
Jealousy Given as Cause

Genoa, Sept. 26. - Miss Margaret
Skalton of this city, committed sui
eide by taking strychnine, the deed
being caused, according to letters she
left, by her jealousy over another
woman and the man she loved. She
was a housekeeper for William Meier
and the notes she left were addressed
to him and stated that he was the
cause of her taking her life. The body
was shipped to the old home of the
woman in Indiana for interment.
She had been on a two weeks trip
to her old home in Indiana and re-
turned on Saturday, and expected to
resume her position as housekeeper in
the Meier home. He refused to take
her back and when she went to the
home found two other women, one Of
them her sister, at the place. She
went to the home of neighbor and
was spending the time there She
stated to the family just at supper
time that she had to take some head
ache pills and proceeded to take some
medicine. The family, of course,
thought nothing of it, until few
minutes later when she was thrown
into commissions. She then told them
she had taken poison. Medical aid
was summoned with all possible
haste, but she died in 20 minutes
after taking the poison and before
help could be rendered, even had it
been possible, with the large amount
of POISON she had taken.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-09-28
BISHOP SHAHAN REELECTED
CATHOLIC CHARITIES HEAD

Washington, Sept. rs. 49, Bishop
Thomas ]. Shahan, rector Of the Catho'
lie university, was reelected president
of the National Conference of CathO.
lie Charities at the closing session of
the biennial meeting of the conference.
Cardinal Gibbons was reelected hon
orary president. 1t was announced
that the St. Vincent de Paul Society
soon would erect a building on the
grounds of the Catholic university to
be used as headquarters for all Catho-
lie charities in the United States.
The conference has been in session
discussing a wide range Of subjects
and planning the coordination and ex-
tension of charity work.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-09-28
CHICAGO WOMAN SPANks
DAUGHTER, TWENTY YEARS
OLD, ON PUBLIC STREET

Chicago, Sept. 26.-Miss Marjorie
Bretz, 20 years old, and pretty, was
spanked by her mother, Mrs. Eliza
beth Bretz, Thursday, to the amuse-
ment OF a large crowd.
The spanking took place at the cor
ner of State and Washington streets,
just when thousands of clerks were
pouring out of the stores for luncheon,
and other thousands of shoppers were
beginning to come off the elevated and
other trains.
Mother and daughter were taken to
the central station and eventually to
morals court.
1T all started over a loan shark"
said Mrs. Bretz. "A year ago Mar
jorie borrowed $35 from one of them
and has paid back more than $100.
She arranged with ner employers to
hold out 81 week, and just found
it out. So chastised her."
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-09-28
NOBODY WANTS OIL
ON MANDAN STREETS

Mandan, Sept. 26.-What to do with
car load of crude oil that came in
yesterday for use on the streets is CIV
ing the street commissioner more or
less concern. Nobody seems to want
it put on the streets where they live,
or at least there is opposition from a
number of residents to putting it on
their streets, it is claimed it
tracks into the house and damages
rugs and carpets. Further, before
putting it on the streets they should
be thoroughly worked. Just who or
dered the oil or by what authority it
has come to the city also seems to be
a question.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-09-28
BE YOUR OWN BOSS

S. L. Frazier, the Verndale, Mimi.
banker, who writes occasionally for a
number of magazines and newspapers
to keep himself busy while passing
away the time in California, contrib
utes the following editorial on Being
Your Own Boss" in a recent issue OF
the Los Angeles Evening Herald:
always going to keep books, young
man? Why, you're getting round.
shouldered already.
Been at it ten years, you say?
well, keeping books is an honor.
able work and it isn't every lad can
keep books, and do it nicely, but is
that all you're good for?
"Just wages all your life? One can
not get ahead very fast on Just wages.
Most of us have to work for some
one else, to be sure, but why not fig
ure on having business of your own
some day?
eve have to get start, when we
have nothing to start with, by hard
work; but if we will earn and save
after a while we will be our own
bosses and young men will be working
for us.
mo boy with the right sort of spunk
and spirit, grit and gumption, but
hopes to be doing business for him
self, and while as matter of course
the books must be kept, the windows
washed and the floors scrubbed, don't
you do that kind of business any
longer than you have to.
Meantime, be the best bookkeeper,
the best window washer, and the
grandest little floor scrubber that ever
was. Whatever your work is do it
better and neater and more thorough
ly than any Of your predecessors, but
always, and you will be recognized in
due time.
Determine what you are going to
be, and no doubt you'll be one by and
by, If you have a fair allotment of
brains and are willing to work. Genius
is all right, in way, but "Old Man
Work" can beat the block off the
greatest genius that ever lived.
"Going to work for the other fellow
all your life? Shame on you.
sect the business idea into your
noodle. Be of a contented mind, but
do not be satisfied. Whistle, but keep
busy with the hoe.
Zone does not have to be a. genius
to succeed. It is not necessary to be
a college graduate either. Just an
ordinary boy with a fair education and
a lot Of good horse sense and plenty
of pluck can get up, and he doesn't
have to have pull, for, believe me,
that pull business is the twaddle of
weakling.
There is always room at the top in
any line of human endeavor, but if
all you think of is your pay check
and that everlasting round of pleas.
ure, you will never DO anything,
HAVE anything or BE anything, much
less have business Of your own, so
just put that in your cigarette and
smoke It,
Earn, save, invest, learn to be
thrifty, and some day you will have a
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-09-28
NEW ROCKFORD CAPITAL
NOT TOO PROUD TO QUIT
Found the Going So Tough It Hiked
Back to Weekly

Found the Going So Tough It liked
Back to Weekly
New Rockford Capital In the be-.
ginning we promised the people daily
newspaper full of pep, ginger and fear
lessness. How we have succeeded is
vouched for by the public, and by the
daily compliments from the state,
press.
We have at all times made our ex-
istence of as little financial oppres-
sion to the business interests of the
city as possible, and we have warned
the general public against the many
pitfalls that beset the citizens favor
ed with much or little of this worlds
goods, and the people are endowed
with the profit.
We have shown what a "pile of
junk" can do. Chased foreign adver-
Using out OF the city and corrected So
many abuses and primary offenses that
it would take an extra" to review
them all. That no great calamity is
now going to befall the public, we are
assured, and will drop back to the
Weekly Transcript, and do our utmost
to make it the standard bearer of pros,
perity, as 1t has been for SO years.
We are out for the present, and un--
til needed. We beat them to the daily
newspaper, and to the name of Daily
Capital Now We are not too proud
to beat them and the sheriff to it, and
duck before the daily newspaper game:
starts down the middle of the street
walking slow.
We have made many warm friends
and some few red hots," and we are
proud of both in their separate and
distinct alignments. We did the right
as we saw it, and are still standing on
the same destination.
We quit as we begun; with malice
toward none, and charity for our
friends.
These are our dying words: IF we
had 1t to do over again, we would hit
the same old trail"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-09-28
FARMERS ATTENTION

If you intend to make farm loan
this fall, do not overlook in calling on
the MIDDLEWEST LOAN AND
TRUST COMPANY before you place
your loan as we can quote yon a very
low rate of interest. Loan can be clos.
ed on the day the application is
TAKEN