Show NEGROES DENY CONFESSING TO MOHR MURDER Men Mn Said to Have Implicated Widow Widow of Wealthy Rhode Island Is Island Island Is- Is land Physician in His Death Repudiate Alleged Statement POLICE ADMIT THEY HAVE NO SIGNATURES Prisoners Charge That Any Statement They Made W Was s Obtained Under Duress and Say They Will Prove Alibis I EFFECT ON JURY FEARED PROVIDENCE R. R i. i Sept i A A f- f complete repudiation of the al alleged al- al leg ell con confessions c.- c. of three ee negro ro accomplices accomplices ac ac- ac- ac gave a new m turn t today to the case of MiSs Mis Eliza Elizabeth bet It Tiffany Blair at It whose door tho the police had laid the death cath of her husband Dr C C. l. l Franklin Mohr Tho arrest of Mrs Mohr accord according Ins Ins- to 0 the police followed admissions tJ by ty George V. chauffeur for or Dr Ir Mohr rohr C C. Victor Blown formerly cm- cm as a hostler at the tho physicians physician's Newport estate and Henr Henry Spellman a haIC- haIC half brother of ot Brown that that sho she had hired hl-ed them theta to assassinate II her husband upon whom she sho sought vengeance nce be because he- he cause of oC personal abuse coupled with sith his attentions to other women For For- three days the officers have sought Industriously for tor evidence e to corroborate the lie published statements attributed to the three negroes So 80 tart far farias tartas faras as made known they havo met ct with little success The revolvers rc with which the physician cla clan cian and his hla secretary Miss Emil Emily G G. Burger Burs Ver were shot had not been recovered cred ered tonight ht though In Their reputed confessions the thc owners stated that the they would be found In a brook near tho the scene of ot the crime Xo 9 SI Signed Couff Chief of ot Polio Police Thomas F F. Robbins of ot n In whose district the murder was committed and who has hns Immediate Charge chane of ot the police Investigation In estl gation galon when wilen Informed that tho the men had d denied their guilt admitted that Sotar so far tar as ns he knew none hone of ot them had ever evor signed a confession The on only I signed statement obtained from rom them was one ono from tram In which he expressed tho the opinion that the motive of ut yio tho crime I was robber robbery h Ice on J Judy ud It was pointed out by br others Interested Interested Inter Intel ested In the case That while a retraction tion b by the tho an any statements that could be bo u used cd against them was not surprising the significance of ot their action lay In lu Its effect upon a Jury If It It could be lie shown that they the had told tw two 0 S stories I 0 rI es diametrically 13 me t y o opposed their final thull testimony In court even en against Mrs lIra Mohr would be weakened by an nn attack on their general veracity Mrs In Mohr from the first has hils stoutly maintained her Innocence and explained ex ex- cx- cx the murder by saying that Brown had a Il grudge rud lI against ag the doctor since his discharge l chargo from his employment employment employ employ- ment meat at the tho Mohr home and that robbery robbery robbery rob rob- bery pro probably h l was as an nit added I Incentive for tor the tho killing killing- Today's repudiation of the tho alleged ed confessions was made mario voluntarily h bythe by bythe the three men and without tho thu knowledge knowl knowl- edge of ot counsel It was made In the thc form of a i statement given to a l newsPaPer newspaper news news- paper man who had been a admitted to tho Jail yard by tho the warden Bealls and Brown Drown did most of tho the talking but tho three were agreed on all points Allege Third Summarized their thel- declaration was as that th they tiler were wholly Innocent nt of or the e crime crImo ns as was also Mrs Mohr lohr so far fara farL ar aras a as they knew that the they would be bo able to prove alibis any alleged ed admissions sero made under duress while were subjected to third degree methods methods meth moth the police had put mit in their lr mouths statements t to fl- which the they assented as as- In anger or derision and It was common rep report rt that Dr Mohr had enemies ene ene- mies mice asserted that he lie ha had found III In tho the doctors doctor's car a letter from a 0 neighbor neighbor neighbor neigh neigh- bor III In which the latter said nl that ho he would fill till the tho physician n full tull of or bullets I If Mohr did lcJ not lIot cease his attentions to the writers writer's wife Mrs Mohr who ho Is cut ut on ball bail an and I the thc three men who are aro locked up will willbo Ill be bo given a hearing hearing- on September IG Tho The penalty for 01 first degree murder In Inthis Inthis inthis this state tate is life lIa imprisonment |