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Show MRS. Nil WILL GO ON WIMSS STAND Woman Accused of Com-plicity Com-plicity in Murder of Husband Hus-band Shows No Fear. STATE RESTS MONDAY Much Curiosity Exists as to What Can Be Advanced in Defense. By SOPHIE TREADWELL. By International News Service. PROVIDENCE, E. I., Jan. 22. Mrs. Elizabeth E. Mohr will take the stand next week in her own defense. What is she going to say? This is a question that is interesting everyone who has followed her case. Also shewill be accused of hiring two negroes to murder her husband. In the two weeks she has been before the court it has seemed that the prosecution prosecu-tion has built up an almost attack-proof case against her. They have shown by witness after witness that she met in secret these colored hostlers that she wrote them letters. They have shown that for two years she threatened the life of her husband. hus-band. But Mrs. Mohr has sat hearing this damaging testimony with almost perfect per-fect calmness. She has the ail- of a woman who is quite sure of herself. Only twico has she shown any emotion and only once could this emotion be interpreted in-terpreted as anything like fear. That was when George W. Eookes, brother-in-law of Mrs. Mohr's rival for the affections af-fections of her husband, told in detail the threats Mrs. Mohr had made against Emily Burger's life. Claims of Defense. Her attorneys promise that the story she will tell next veek will clear away all the damaging testimony the prosecution prose-cution has presented against her. And the calmness with which she; listened to the story of George Healis would seem to give the impression that she was not afraid of it. Healis is the colored chauf-fuer chauf-fuer who drove Dr. Mohr's car the night he was murdered and who afterward confessed being a party to the plot which he said was devised by Mrs. Mohr. Mrs. Mohr's attorneys say she can easily show that if eho was talking to her husband's colored servants she was doing so merely to give orders regarding re-garding the care of her children. It was Dr. Mohr's habit to send his chauffeur, chauf-feur, Healis, and his stable boy, Brown, to take the children, Charlie and Virginia, Vir-ginia, on rides. This, Mrs. Mohr's lawyers law-yers say, was her sole reason for talking with the servants. The defense lawyers hint rather strongly that their main line of defense will be to prove that the whole fabric of accusation against their client is the result of a conspiracy of which the colored col-ored boys are not the originators, but the tools. Will Deny Threats. Following this line, it is thought they will not attompt to disprove the almost overwhelming testimony of state's witnesses wit-nesses that Mrs. Mohr threatened the life of her husband and Emily Burger, but they will try to show that threats were merely the idle talk of a hysterical and helpless woman. Mrs. Mohr's two children, Charlie and Virginia, will also take the stand. It is expected that thoir appearance will be valuable to their mother, not only through the facts of their testimony, but through tho sentimental sen-timental and emotional appeal they naturally nat-urally will create. More interest attaches at-taches to the appearance of the little boy, Charlie, than to Virginia, for Charlie's name has been prominent in the case. It was Charlie that his mother moth-er trained to spy on his father. It was Charlie who was often taken along by his father in the company of Miss Burger, Bur-ger, and sometimes other women, for automobilo rides. It was little Charlie who then came home and told his mother moth-er everything he saw and heard. He is S years old. State to Rest Monday. The prosecutiou will probably rest its case Monday. Just which wing of the defense will then begin is not yet decided. de-cided. This case is virtually two trials. There are the colored boys, Brown and Spellman, on trial for murder, with George Edwards and William H. Lewis to defend their interests, and then there is the central figure, Mrs. Mohr, accused ac-cused of complicity, and her two lawyers, law-yers, Arthur Cusliirg and John J. Fitzgerald. |