The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-11
DORIS BRUEN FACES TRIAL
 FOR MURDER
Accused Slayer of Illus band, Well Known Cir GUS Proprietor, Fears Hostile Testimony by Daughter-2OO w it. nesses Summoned to Testify.

Mount Holly. N. J., Dec. 11.-
 CT. N. S.)-Tragcdy instead ot
 tinseI. horror in place of hilarfty
 furnish the motive of the act in
 which Mrs. Doris Brunch, code
 fendant with her brother, Harry
 c. Mohr, on the charge of plot
 ting the murder of her husband.
 John T. Brunch. well known clr-
 Gus proprietor, Is starring her to-
 day.
 And on the verdict of the 12 ''crit- ics'' who sit in the Jury box the trial opens hangs the issue of life or death.
 Charles Powell, whose whose weak face reflects the torture of his con science, is the other principal in the 6rama which began last March at the home of the circus magnate and which has cast its shadow over the spangled world of the Big Top"
 He has sworn that the murdered mans wife and brother-in-law plan ned for months to bring about his death because of their hatred of him md a greed for his wealth, and con- fessed that he killed Honest John" Brunch at the behest of Mohr, to whom he was in debt.
 Mrs Brunch, calm and debonaire, her blonde hair becomingly coiffed and her dress modish, asserts her in
 'I cannot understand why Powell should accuse my brother and my self of complicfty iii the murder,' man who drank like a fish, had been Int toXicated every day for a month before he was shot. I only want to
 Fears Daughters Testimony. She is worried by the attitude of her daughter. Hazel, who Is expected prosecution. On her last visit she was ''very cold,' the accused woman declared.
 A. I F@1I IAI hcP Judge Samuel Kalisch and which had its inception on March 10, when Bru- nen was shot while sitting at the win dow of his Riverside home by a man with a shotgun. On March 12 Mrs, Brunch was questioned and she said she saw three men running from the March 14, Mrs. Elizabeth Jaeschke, Brunens sister. of Cary, H.. told of a letter from her brother in which he told of an attempt to kill him by his s1 in his will. On April 29 Harry c. MRhr, brother of Mrs. Brunch, was aHested on Powe1rs confession and his charge that Mohr promised him was arrested on June 13. The three principals enterpsS pleas of not guilty and a motion for separate trials by MOhr and Mrs. Brunch was denied.
 Throng at Trial.
 Several hundred people. many of whom were women, had collected out side the courtroom at an carry hour and the crowd was constantly in creased by new arrivals. Mrs. Bru- ren and Mohr walked more than hundred feet past the onloo1ers on tkeir way from the county jail to the courthouse
 Detective Parker. who last nieNS had a conference with the state s most important witnesses. said that H. B. Wills. civil engineer, who made maps of the Brunch home and the grounds would be the first to testi- fly. The courtroom Is very small, having a total capacity of not more than geo persons.
 Mrs. Bruen appeared absolutely calm and unmoved as she entered the court room which was filled to ca pacity, about 800 curious people in cluding 50 women. Both she and Mahr were neatly dressed and ap- peared fresh despite their stay of several months in the Burlington county jail while awaiting trial.