The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-04
Witness

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ternoon before Justice of the
Peace Frank E. Jeanette ir
Mount Clemens.
Justice Parent, expressing
himself as pleased to cooperate
in the matter. said II am sure
that from what the prosecutor
has told me he has a much bet.
ter case than in the past and
am happy to see the matter
heard before another court ir
order that even the faintest
charge of partisanship on my
part could not be voiced. ! an
confident that the matter will
go forward smoothly and I am
satisfied that the ends of JUS
tice will continue to be served
in this matter"
Mohr'S astonishing testimony
came to light Tuesday afternoon
when he made a detailed state
ment to Prosecutor Held in
which he told of the events i'm
mediately following the fatal &C.
cident at Van Dyke avenue and
Orchard street in which Baldwin
was fatally injured.
According to Police Chief
Fred Maletta, of Warren town.
ship, who was present while
the prose cutor Intercepted
Mohr, his statement was sub
stantially as follows:
"At approximately 8;25 p. m
on Oct. %, 1913, / was on duty
at the Macpherson plant when
MacPhersons car pulled up
nearby and / saw G.. Boyd Mac
Pherson get out from behind
the wheel. Another man, small
and slight, accompanied him as
they ran into the plant.
Macpherson had a top coat
on which was covered with filth
and it appeared that he had
been sick to his stomach. Both
men appeared to be drunk.
Macpherson said I've just
killed a man, please hide me, "
Mohr continued. He said he
was going to call the state police
and say he had just discovered
that his car had been stolen but
I warned him he would land in
Jail if he did.
However" Mohr continued
Macpherson and his companion
persuaded me to hide them and
l helped him take off his stain.
ed coat and put on a leather
jacket. Then I hid MACPHERSON
down in the boiler room and
his companion in the office
They were there, within 10 feet
of the officers, when Chief Ma.
letta stopped by a few minute:
later and asked if I had seer
any men leave the car which
had been followed by passersby
from the scene of the crash.
LIED TO POLICE
81 told Maletta that I saw two
men get out and run but that
did not know them.
Later, after the police ha6
left, I drove the two men to q
bus stop and they went into De-
troit."
The mans key-witness role in.
cluded his assertion that he had
received indirect threats against
his life thereafter and that they
coupled with his need for a job
had resulted in his failure to
come forward with what he
knew about the case at an
earlier date.
That he finally decided to
talk" Mohr attributed to his
quitting his job one week age
and his consequent freedom from
obligation in holding his en-
ployment.
FIGHT DESCRIBED
He said that fight in which
he was attacked by Irving G.
Little Can employee of Mac.
Pherson's) on Monday led to hi!
having been treated for seriou.
head decorations and was the
immediate forerunner of his Wis
it to Warren township police.
Mohr told the prosecutor anc
Maletta that on Monday wher
he called at the Macpherson
plant to pick up a kit of tool!
the oil man refused to give then
to him claiming that they were
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