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Show CQOlyllCEd IIHffl Impressive Testimony Given Giv-en at Trial of Elizabeth F. Mohr for Murder. QUICK ACTION TAKEN Village Policeman Instrumental Instru-mental in Solving Mystery in Record Time. By SOPHIE TEEADWELL. Hy 1 n tern H.uo rial News Service, PROVIDENCE, R. 1., Jan. 14. A country coun-try policeman today proved the most Impressive Im-pressive witness the stale 1ms yet produced pro-duced in the trial of .Elizabeth F. Mohr, accused of hiring the two negro boys on Lriai on the charge of murdering her hus- j band. Dr. Slohr, on August 31. j Dr. Mohr was ambushed and murdered about a mile from the little town of Harrington, Har-rington, which is about ten miles from ! Providence, on the road to Newport. tine of the first persons to reach the Fcene of the crime was the village chief ; of police. Thomas E. Uobbins. His testi- ' mony was the most srniiprhtforwaM. con- j vmcing bit of evidence that has yet been heard. I Chief Rob bins said he learned of the , crime just a -few minutes after i ; o'clock. i Went to Scene at Once. "I tli'.-n went to the scene to find out whwt had happened," he said. "Did you give any directions to the Providence police?" "Yes, I called them on the telephone and told them to hold a ehaffeur who had driven a man to the hospital. I told them k the chauffeur was employed by the man V.J who was shot. 1 then took the train to .Providence to pet Healis, .the chauffeur, and took him back to Harrington with IMC."' "Did you give any further instructions to the police here?" Secured Confession. "Yes, the next evening I called up the cliief'nnd told him Healis had confessed and 1 directed him to arrest Brown for the actual murder of Dr. Mohr. The next morning - I avent to Providence where Brown and Spellman were confronted by 1 rails. Chir-f O'Neill asked Brown: 'Is . it t;ue, Brown, that Mrs. Mohr promised K t-ive you $2000 lo kill Dr. Mohr; that -&H would set you up in the parage busi-nas; busi-nas; that she would give you $70ij extra if there was any money left; that she sent you to Boston to buy a revolver?' and Brown said it was true." It was established that Mrs. Mohr was I not present and. the court instructed the jury that this testimony could not be utir-d against her. "Did you do anything that morning with Brown and SpeUman?" Ordered Woman Held. "Yes, after Mrs. Mohr had been brought in. Chief O'Neill asked me what was my pleasure and I said I believed she should be held. . The four were taken to War- ren for arraignment. I took the three , boys down." I . - "Did they say anything on: the way djwn?" "Yes. I said lo them 'What did you do with the gun? and they said if they wf-i'e ii'iir the place they could tell where tln'v threw it away, so I told the chauf-!'! chauf-!'! i drive to, Washington road, to the scone of the shooting." "1 opened, the door of the car and said: 'You fellows get out and show me how you made your escape.' They got out and jimipptl over a barbed wire fence and went th roii uli. the -"woods to Echo lake until un-til spellman said, 'Right here it was I threw my gun.' "Thf n I asked Brown where he had thrown his gun. He pointed to a spot across I he pond on Lake Drive and said it was there." Testimony Not Shaken. . Cm? s-exam i nation that lasted almost all day was unable to shake the testi-' testi-' mnnv of the village chief nor to destroy aiiyUimtr of the deep impression it created cre-ated of simple common sense honesty. The first witneVs this morning was Po-lire Po-lire Commissioner Banj P. Moulton. He testified to the arrest of Brown and i Spollmnn and what was said and done at v police headquarters upon the morning of September .2. when the two men con-lossed. con-lossed. Monitor's testimony contradicted that given Vy Chief O'Neil yesterday. o'Noil paid .that the reason the so-railed so-railed written confessions of Brown and ' Spell man wore never finished or signed bv them was because Mrs, Mohr was brought Into the room and, interrupted the proceedings.' "I was sitting with Chief O'Neil in his room at the time," Moulton said. "and. so far as I remember, nothing happened to Interrupt htm." As thore will be no session tomorrow, M rp. Mohr will have two days in which in recuperate from the nervous strain she tins been under since the trial began. |
