The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
NEGROES ARE
FOUND GUILTY
Woman SWoons While Fore
man of the Trial Jury An
nounces the verdicts.
STILL OTHER CHARGES
However, the Attorney General
Will Not Say When They
Will Be Taken Up.

PROVIDENCE, r. L., Feb. s.
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Mohr was acquit-
ted tonight by jury in the superior
court Of charge of having instiga-
ted the murder of her husband, Dr..
G. Franklin Mohr. G. Victor Brown
and Henry H.. Spellman, negroes,
who were accused of the actual kill
ing were found guilty. The jury
reported at 6:07 o'clock, after hav-
ing been out since 10:50 o'clock this
morning.
Mrs. Mohr swooned while the fore
man announced the verdicts. Her
head dropped forward and she was
slipping from the chair when her at
torneys grasped and supported her,
while a court officer rushed for a
glass of water.
"Is there any other charge against
these defendants?" inquired Justice
Stcarns.
Other Charge Yet.
There is, your honor" replied At
torney General Rice, but Mrs, Mohr
is on bail on the other charge
THE defendants Brown and Spell
man are committed without bal"
said the court. "and Mrs. Mohr is
discharged from custody on this COM
plant"
The other charge against Mrs.
NTUhr and the two negroes is that
they committed an assault on Miss
Emily Burger, with intent to kill.
Miss Burger was shot while riding
with DR.. Mohr on the night he was
attacked. Brown and Spellman are
accused of actually firing the shots
at Miss Burger, while Mrs. Mohr is
charged with being an accessory be-
fore the fact of the crime.
The first word received from the
grand jury after it took the case
came at 5:25, when 1t was announced
that further instructions were de-
sired. Half an hour later the prison.
ers had been brought to the court
room, but a deputy sheriff inform
ed the Judge that the jury had de-
cided that the instructions asked for
were not needed.
Out Only Ten Minutes.
less than ten minutes elapsed
when word came that the jury was
ready to report. The jurymen look
ed tired and worn as they passed into
the court room. After each man had
taken his place in the jury box, the
clerk asked the foreman:
DO you find the defendant, Cecil
Victor Brown, guilty or not guilty?"
As the foreman replied guilty"
Mrs Mohr collapsed. While her
counsel were assisting her the clerk
continued:
"Do you find the defendant, Henry
Spellman guilty or not guilty?"
Guilty"
do you find the defendant. Eliza
beth +. Mohr, guilty or not gullty?"
"Not guilty"
Mrs. Mohr in Stupor.
Mrs. Mohr apparently was In a
stupor when the foreman pronounc-
ed the words mot guilty" She
recovered quickly, however. News
papermen began to surround her, but
were told by her counsel, John ].
Fitzgerald, that she was not in any
condition to talk.
"The fight has only begun" was
the comment of William H. Lewis,
counsel for Brown Mr.. Lewis has
taken numerous exceptions during
the trial and said that he might carry
the case to the supreme court.
Attorney General Rice declined to
comment on the verdict. He would
not say when the other charges
against Mrs. Mohr would be tried, If
at all,
The trial began January 10, and
the jury had been kept together all
the tine. They went to their re-
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