Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-11

ELAN =. q,
Harry Mohr (center). co. defendant
the cigar from his mouth with the hand
that held the brief case. lie sat down,
leaning against the court rail, and his
guard got out key and undid the pad
! lock.
The defendants and their counsel
were ranged across the room beside the
! bar of the court. James Mercer Davis.
counsel for Powell, at the extreme
of the assistants to Ellis Parker.
county detective, then Mrs. Horner and
Mrs. Brunen, then Mohr and his guard =.
then Jane Harding. stenographer for
| Mr.. eKown. Miss Harding made the
one brilliantly colorful figure in the
row. wearing a flaming scarlet hat.
| When ali were seated Mr.. Kcown
and Mr.. Kelsey, with Robert Peacock
| assistant prosecutor. entered from the
Judges chambers. keown is IL youth
| full. l.looking man, and WIS dressed care =
! fully for the occasion, wearing a
| flower in his huttonhole, rs Justice
kalisch did. The prosecutor and the
attorney for the defensr shook hands
,,
keown. on the left.
Mr.. keOwn asked the clerk of the
court To annex the bill of particulars
% the Indictment. but Justice Kaliscl
informed him that this was done au-
toma tically under the court procedure.
Then the roll of jurors was called. Mr..
Keown then asked the court if the
prisoners had mnde their plea, and was
told this already had been done to
give hem chance to prepare their de-
fen>c.
More than hundred witnesses had
been summoned 10 testify. and this
morning the town Of Mount Holly
woke up to find strong force OF
nounced that they had been called in
by detective Parker to guard witnesses.
Some of the States witnesses met
,, last night in Detective Parker's Office.
Mrs. Powell. her two year old daughter
Charlotte; Mrs. Mary Miles Miller.
Mrs. Elizabeth Jaeschke, the slain $
mans sister and Hazel Brunen. his
daughter. held general conversation.
Powell was there also.
The first witnesses for the State will
include II. Il. Wills. civil cngincer
Sidney Grimes. a photographer, who
will produce photographs of the room
where Honest John met death: DR..
Stewart Maui. nr. Edward Belton,
Noschell, chief Of police of Riverside,
and Powell.
. State is Confident
Detective Parker, who is given credi
g for the copper rivot"d case the STATE
| Is said 10 hive against Mrs. Brunel
and Mohr, declared today the tria
would b" the most sensational in IT,
| legal annals Of New Jersey
= And you know "" have had som
. sensational cases." hr said. 1--WE vii
slow n conspiracy t" kill John Bruucn
The State has an unusually good cas-"
= bur Uf course We "nnno afford to tall
: It over now. it would show our han
r. 10 the defense.
; Brunen was shot and killed while sit
. ing In an easy chair. by lighted win
dow. in the kitchen Of his home. tn
' window shade was up. Mrs. Brupc
h protests that she was upstairs whe
. the shooting took place. The State
however, VIII want TO know just wh
. Rruneu was sit ing where he was. VIII
the shade was up, and why, purt!cu
larry. Mrs. Brunen. although she mus
! have heard the shot, did not notify IN
authorities Of whnt had happened unit
. seventeen minutes In er.
Mrs. Iiruncn In hrr signed statement
has declared she rushed out immediate
i Is, and notified the n"ighhors. Thrr
= are other discr"pancc, in h"r state
:, ments. IL IS charged.
/ After the shoe Ing. according t. De
d tective Parker. following IL" early Qur4
q tionlng of Mrs. Bruncn. her daughtel
n and Mohr, all tried 70 throw slIspicio
= upon George Werner, known a
"Dutchy," cook with the Bruno
show.
II quickly found that Werner lad
double, who was Powell" said Parker
"nud rs Mrs. Bruncn and the othe
Brunen home. It occurred to me the
were trying 10 throw suspicion fro!
the right nan, So Powell's arrest fol
T.. lowed.
~ Actual Slayer Confessed
,- Then Powell confessed. lie told ,
- his circus ventures, Of bis need {,
money, and Of the manner IN which /
. o"'' NNhr houndrA hin. urging him
., kill Brunen. Finally, he said, aft,
~, ~ sr,rruI VISITS TO tive l,runcn house
y, Mohr's small sedan car, and sewers
y u, refusalS to kin Brunen, he made the la
sn trip. drank a pint Of whisky Mohr ga,
ha him, and fired Mt Rrunen througA Il
~ window with n shotgun.
~
w taking the gun apart as he went. i
dropped the forearm and the shells, or
londed. one empty, as hc ran. Tn
ia part Of the gun, and the shells, De .cc
nc tive Parker found later.
L When asked the motive Of Moh
TO Powell said "Mohr told me the reas,
OF he wanted Bruncn killed was because
az was killing MOhr's mother and sister
IN. Says Gunmen Shot Brunen
at Mrs. Harry c. Mohr. wife Of one
'et the defendants, reached Mt. Holly la
er lust night.
eyes, certainly. ! am going to testi
for my husband AZ soon az the Sta
closes its case" she said. That d
he pends on how many liars they can 4
OF mp"
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