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Show oo MRS. MOHR HAD WARNED A GIRL Providence, R. I., Sept. 7. Who was the woman who warned Miss Florence Ormsby, stenographer for Dr. C. Franklin Mohr. not to ride with the doctor on the night of August 31 when he was shot while motoring from Newport with his secretary, Miss Emily G. Burger? Miss Ormsby today in a ten-page sworn statement declared that it was Mrs. Elizabeth Tiffany Blair Mohr. wife of the doctor, who is charged with conspiring to accomplish tho destruction de-struction of her husband. Who was the woman who, a few days before the murder, telephoned Samuel Bryant, from whom Cecil Victor Brown, the negro who confessed to the actual murder of the doctor, purchased the motorcycle on which ho and Harry Spellman fled after tho shooting and wanted to know why a headlight was not provided for the machine? Bryant says he doesn't know. Was It tho person who gave the penniless Brown S17 50 tho next day to purchase the much-desired light? Bryant says that Brown was lamenting la-menting the fact that ho didn't have enough money for the lamp just before be-fore tho woman called up. While Mrs. Mohr and her lawyers maintained a steadfast silence today, the, state of Rhode Island took its first decisive stops to avenge the death of Dr. Mohr. Miss Orrasby's signed statement was taken by Chief Robblns to the office of the attorney general, as a nucelus of tho state's case against Mrs. Mohr and the three negroes. All the evidence which the state has against tho negroes and Mrs. Mohr will be presented to the grand jury on September 20. oo |