New Britain herald., 1916-01-20
|DHR CHAUFFEUR
 UNDER GROSS FIRE
lliS Admits He Made Two
 Statements Of Murder

Providence, R. l., Jan. 2O.-The Ne in the Mohr murder trial today finued it's efforts to show that Mrs S8abeth F. Mohr hired two negroes, Fictor Brown and Henry H. Spell 2h, to murder her husband, Dr. c. Anklin Mohr. George w. Healis, a physician's negro chauffeur, who Ned states evidence after being in Red, had not completed his testi- s#y when court adjourned yester- .8 resuming his testimony today. 8liS said that on the night of zust 27 he was urged by Brown to with him to Mrs. Mohr's house and s# he did so. Mrs. Mohr, he said, 8 alone when they arrived.
 s Favored Newport Side" xfrs. Mohr asked Brown how &gs were," Healis testified, "and &vn said o. K. She asked where Hwere going to pull it off. She #ght it would be better on The Hport side because she knew all #police of Newport. Mrs Mohr Fly said she would leave that to us. said: All you've got to do, George, Y stop the car She told Brown vould get $2,000, that I was to
 2, 1000 and Spellman $1,0GO told Mrs. Mohr I didn't want to
 She told me not to be afraid, I could say it was a hold-up and
 u up the nearest house and tell hG Mand shot. The murder was #ned for the next night
 M Picked Spot for Murder.
 Ealis said he and Brown picked #he spot for the murder, that they Fed to throw the guns into a lake # that Brown showed him where @ould leave his motorcycle.
 alis told of driving Dr. Mohr to MOl ferry on the night of August nd how he '1ost his nerve and #nued faster when he reached 8pot where Brown and Spellman # waiting in ambush. He ex- Ned that another reason why he Mot stop was because Miss Flor # Ornsby and Miss Martha Wilson M with the doctor and Miss Burger. 1 M States Witness III.
 ss Wilson, who was pr. Mohr's
 keeper and regarded as a lead l zitness for the state, is said to be | M Chicago.
 @ met Brown in Newport the next | @ continued Healis, land he asked | M hy I did not stop. I promised to | # on the following Tuesday night"
 Encouraged by Mrs. Mohr.
 In the evening of the shooting"
 vitness said, T saw Mrs. Mohr
 she asked me why I didn't stop
 y night. I said I didn't want to. @5aid, Don't be afraid. You can M is a hold up.' This was the last
 ce, she said, as she had a divorce IF coming up the first of the month. M1 her I'd stop. She told me if I Mnto trouble to stick to it that it
 hold up and not to mention her
 and that she would spend her M ollar on me-
 Malis then told of driving Dr. Mohr |
 diss Burger to Bristol on Aug.31, 1
 ight of the murder.
 Said It Was Hold Up.
 1hen I got to a hush in the road
 half way between two lights
 estified, "I stopped my car and
 ut, turned out my headlights and Eny side lights on so I could see Mngine. Then I hear two shots # aw Dr. Mohr leaning toward Miss
 er, his head covered with blood.
 v Miss Burger start to get out
 fall into the roadway. I picked
 1p. A bullet whiZzed over my
 houIder and struck her. She fell
 and I picked her up and carried So the side of the road I recogn1z- M ellman behind the car to the left M I stopped the first machine that M along and told the people there
 peen a hold up."
 lis said he purposely stalled his
 e on the spot where the shoot
 Hook place.
 W Under Cross Examination.
 &e witness was then turned over #e defense for cross examination.
 estioned by Wm. H. Lewis, for
 efense, Healis admitted he could
 e sure that he saw Spellman-im-
 Rtely after the shooting, but that
 ough it was Spellman's shadow
 dn't you find at one time a let 8 the doctors automobile in which
 E writer threatened to kill the doc
 he didn't leave his wife alone?" Eewis asked.
 M Two Different statements.
 &o. sir the witness replied.
 a1is also admitted he had made @ different statements about the ing the first relating to a hold