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Show BRUN DEATH SOLVED CLAIM Suspect Confesses Relative Hired Him to Murder Circus Owner MOUNT HOLLY. N. J.. April 20 ((By the International News Service ) I "For five months Harry Mohr I hounded me. trying to get me to ktll John Brunen He offered me $1,000 if I would do the job. He tried at I ltst half a dozen times to persuade I me to kill Brunen. I ut I kept on refusing re-fusing until I was dead broke. Mohr helped me to live and I felt under ob ligation to him Finally I agreed to do the shooting " in these words, Charles i Powell, I confessed to Detective Ellis H. 1'arkcr of Camden county that he had kill) d "Honest" John Brunen, the circus owner, according to an announcement made by Detective Parker this afternoon, after-noon, who (jave on ;he lull detail i Powell confession Powell, who was a former1 employe em-ploye of the circus , rnuu. has been confined In the county Jail here for three weeks and his confession ltd to the arrest today of Harry ftfohr, who la a broth --in-law of Brunen Details ol the shooting were giv en In his onfesslon by Powell, who chargos Mo.hi ! aid for the shotgun with which Ltrunen was killed oT)Maivh ;. in his home at Riverside. oo V |