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Show MOES REPUDIATE ALLEGED CONFESSION Men Who Implicated Woman Wo-man in Murder Case Withdraw Charge. GUNS ARE NOT FOUND Officers Fail in Efforts to Corroborate Statements of Accusers. rROVrPEXCE, K. L, Sept. 4. A complete repudiation of the alleged confessions con-fessions of three nepro accomplices gave a new turn today to the case of Mrs. Elizabeth Tiffany Blair Mohr, at whose door the police had laid the death of her husband, Dr. C. Franklin Mohr. The arrest of Mrs. Mohr, according to the police, followed admissions by George W. Healis, chauffeur for Dr. Mohr; C. Victor Brown, formerly employed em-ployed as a hostler at the physician's Newport estate, and Henry Spellman, a half-brother of Brown, that she had hired them to assassinate her husband, upon whom she sought vengeance because be-cause of personal abuse, coupled with Mb attentions to other women. But Little Success. For three days the officers have sought industriously for evidence to corroborate cor-roborate the published statements attributed at-tributed to the three negroes. So far as made known, they have met with little success. , The revolvers with which the physician phys-ician and his secretary, Miss Emily G. Burger, were shot, had not been recovered recov-ered tonight, though in their reputed confessions the owners stated that they would be found in a brook near the scene of the crime. Chief of Police Thomas F. Robbins of Barrington, in whose district the murder mur-der was committed and who has immediate im-mediate charge of the police investigation, investiga-tion, when informed that the men had denied their guilt, admitted that so far as he knew none of them had ever signed a confession. The only signed statement obtained from them was one from Healis in which he expressed the opinion that the motive of the crime was robbery. Significant Action. It was pointed out by others interested inter-ested in the case that while a retraction retrac-tion by the prisoners of any statements that could be used against them was not surprising, the significance of their action ac-tion lay in its effect upon a jury. If it could be shown that they had told two stories diametrically opposed their final testimony in court, even if against Mrs. Mohr, would be weakened by an attack on their general veracity. Mrs. Mohr from the first has stoutly maintained her innocence and explained the murder by saying that Brown -had a grudge against the doctor since his discharge from his employment at the Mohr home, and that robbery probably was an added incentive for the killing- ; Today's repudiation of the alleged confessions was made voluntarily by the three men and withont the knowledge of counsel. It was made in the form of a statement given to a newspaper man, who had been admitted to the jail yard by the warden. Healis and Brown did most of the talking, but the three were agreed on all points. Wholly Innocent. Summarized, their declaration was that they were wholly innocent of the crime, as was also Mrs. Mohr, so far as they knew: that they would be able to prove alibis; any alleged admissions were made under duress while they were subjected to "third-degree methods;" the police had put in their mouths statements state-ments to which they assented in anger or derision, and it was common report that Dr. Mohr had enemies. Healis asserted that he had found in the doctor's car a letter from a neighbor, neigh-bor, in which the latter said that, he would fill the physician full of bullets if Mohr did not cease his Attentions to the writer's wife. Mrs. Mohr, who is out ou bail, and the three men who are locked up will be given a hearing ou September 16. The penalty for first degree murder in this state is life imprisonment. |