Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-20 | Page 1 | Chauffeur Tells of Mohr Murder

CHAUFFEURTEELS OF MOHR MURDER Turns State's Evidence and Recites D.etails of Scheme to Kill Doctor. Providence, R. I . Jan. 20. The prosecution in the Mohr murder trial today continued its efforts to show that Mrs. Elizabeth Mohr hired two nogrocs, Cecil Brown and Henry Spellman, to murder her husband. Dr. C. Franklin Mohr. George W. Heais, tho physician's negro chauffeur, who turned state's evidence after being indicted, in-dicted, had not completed his testimony testi-mony when court adjourned yesterday- In resuming his testimony today, Healis said on the night of August 27 he went with Brown to Mrs. Mohr's house. Deliberate Murder Planned. "Mrs. Mohr asked Brown how things were," Healis testified, "and Brown said 'O. K.' She asked where wo were going to pull it off. She thought it would be better on 'the Newport side,' because she knew all the police of Newport. Mrs. Mohr finnlly said she would leave that to us. She finally said, 'All you have got to do, is to stop tho car.' She told Brown he would get $2000 and I was to get ?2000 and Spellman S1000. "I told Mrs. Mohr I didn't want to do it. She told me not to be afraid, that rcould say it was a hold up aud to call up tho nearest house and tell them that tho doctor had been held up and shot. The murder was planned plan-ned for tho next night. Brown said we could throw our guns into the water." Healis said ho and Brown picked out tho spot for the murder, that they agreed to throw tho guns Into a lake and that Brown showed him where ho would leavo his motorcycle.