Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-07 | Page 16 | Admits Story of Robbery Untrue

ADMITS STDRY OF ' BOBMf IMTRUEj I Mrs. Maud E. Mohr Con-' Con-' fesses That She Was Not I Held ..Up. I Mrs. Mand 13. Mohr, who early yesterday yes-terday ' morning told a .story of being robbod by tugs near Pioneer park, ad-i ad-i mil tol before the day was finished that he had concocted tho story lcnuc ! no wits behind in her room rent at the I Hex hote.i. War ory accomplished nothing, ex-i-rpl that ft furnished aovcrnl hours ot .hard work for Detective George b. i-levoland utiil C. C. Caratonson, cmbar-i cmbar-i ra.-wl an innocent man and resulted in her being given twenty-four hours to got out of town to avoid being arrested arrest-ed as a agrant. To the detectives Mrs. Mohr ad inittcd that hc was a user of morphine, mor-phine, and turned over to them a hypodermic hypo-dermic svringc and a quantity of morphine. mor-phine. The jcwolrv that she claimed had been stolen from her was tound by the detectives in a pawnshop. Dennis O'Brien, a professional boxer, arretted ar-retted bv Sergeant B. D. Scigfus ou the lomplaint of Mrs. Mohr, wai released re-leased after the woman had con Leased that her storv was not true. O'Brien won the regard ot all wiioso attention was drawn lo the case by his behavior, even when confronted by tho woman, who deliberately protended that she recognized "him as one of tho men whom sho cla'imcd robbed her. bar-Iv bar-Iv in the investigation, yesterday, Detectives De-tectives Cleveland aii'i Carsteuscn became be-came convinced that the woman s storv sto-rv was not true and did not rest until thev bad secured evidence that wrung a complete confession from her when they hurried lo arrange for the release of O'Brien, who was mot at police headquarters bv a crowd of friends who had called there to enter protest against thts injustice that they felt had bceu dono to him.