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Show JURY ACQUITS MRS. MOHR. Two Negroes Whom She was Accused of Hiring to Kill Her Husband are Convicted. Providence, R. I. Mrs. Elizabeth T. Mohr was acquitted Saturday by a jury in the superior court of a charge of having instigated the murder of her husband, Dr. C. Franklin .Mohr. C. Victor Brown and Henry H. Spellman, negroes, who were accused of tho actual ac-tual killing, were found guilty. Mrs. Mohr swooned while the foreman fore-man was announcing the verdicts. The other charge against Mrs. Mohr and tho two negroes is that they committed com-mitted an assault on Miss Emily Burger Bur-ger with intent to kill. Miss Burger was shot while riding with Dr. Mohr on the night ho was attacked. Brown and Spellman are accused of actually firing the shots at Miss Burger, while Mrs. Mohr is charged with being an accessory before tho fact of the crime. It is not known when, if ever, Mrs. Mohr will bo tried on the other chiu'gos. |