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\ VOLUME XXX. WIFE HIRED THEM TO COMMIT MURDER Say the Three Negroes Arrested For Killing ^. Dr. Mohr $5,000 WAS TO PAY FOR THE KILLING t jJMrs. Mohr Had Threatened Her Husband's Female Assistant or Secretary. L < ' ' Providence.?Mrs. Elizabeth F. Mohr, wife of the physician who was fatally shot while on an automobile 0 trip from this city to Newport, on Tuesday night, was arrested today after three negroes had signed a written confession saying that Mrs. Mohr had hireft them to kill the doctor. The neiroes ;iro pharorp/1 der. They are George T. Heal is, the chauffeur, who was driving Dr. Mohr's car; Cecil V. Brown, formerly mployed as a hostler by Dr. Mohr, and Henry Spellman, half brother of i Brown. No specific charge has been brought against Mrs. Mohr, who characterized the accusations as absurd. Healis has been detained since the shooting, as his account of the affair conflicted with that of Miss Emily G. ^urger, the doctor's assistant, who was also wounded. * Brown was arrested last night after Heal had told the police that he andj the hostler had plotted to rob Dr. | Mohr. Brown was subjected to a! searching examination, during which, the police say he broke down and admitted that he was concerned in the 1 shooting and that Mrs. Mohr had off^ed him $2,000 to kill her husband. Healis and Spellman coroborated Brown's story. According to Brown's story as given out by the police, Mrs. Mohr proposed, several weeks ago that he kill Dr.! Mohr, promising to pay him $5,000, nine days after the killing. He said he asked Spellman to help him out, and bffpmght his half brother up to talk the matter over with Mrs. Mohr. Hea I lis was present by request of Mrs. j Mohr, Brown said. Spellman was toi receive $1,000 and Brown and Healis $2,000 each. | Fired Into Car. j The arrangements were carried out detail, according to the confession.' j At a designated spot on the Nayatt, \ road Healis stalled the engine, and S Brown and Spellman, who had apH proached on motorcycles, crept |g through the bushes and fired at the H occupants of the car. Brown said he shot Dr. Mohr and Spellman wounded Miss Burger. After the shooting they H welit back, to the motorcycles. They threw the revolvers into a brook. J Brown declares that Mrs. Mohr told I him to be sure to kill the doctor, and^ H . i.;ii i*?:-^ t? /? i Iio kiii iviiss r>urger n ne couia. Mis instructions, he said, were to shoot Anybody in the tonneau. After Spellman and Healis had coroborated Brown's story Mrs. Mohr was formally* placed under arrest. She made a vigorous denial of the charges. The negroes said Mrs. Mohr told them she was jealous of Dr. Mohr and also was desirous of getting posession of his estate which she believed would ' be denied h^r if she obtained a divorce! They said sh? explained that the payment of the $5,000 would be made nine days after the killing as by that time tM estate would belong to her. "Dr. and Mrs. Mohr were married 12 years ago. Recently Mrs. Mohr instituted separation proceedings and the doctor brought a counter suit. Mrs. Mohr said that she did not ask for a divorce as she hoped the causes which prompted her to seek a separation^might be removed some time and a reconciliation would be effected. Warned Miss Burger. The police made public the following letter addressed recently to George Brooke, a brother-in-law of Miss Burger, bearing Mrs. Mohr's signature: "Dear Mr. Brooke: Just a line to a* you to tell your sister if she dares jgo into my Newport home she will (The "H( c CONDEMNED MAN PITIABLE SIGHT T. U. Vaughan, Whose Sanity Will be Tested Helpless Invalid. The most pitiable sight, probably ever seen in a ureenville county court room, says the Greenville News, greeted the eyes of the morbidly curious in the person of T. U. Vaughan, who was brought into court for the purpose of having the sentence of death passed upon him, for unspeakable crimes committed in 1908. Judge Prince ordered that a jury be drawn at the next term of court, October 25, to try Vaughan as to his sanity and the famous county prisoner was carried from the court room in the arms of two strong men and carried back to Columbia by Sheriff Rector, after having been in the city less than a day. The fact that Vaughan was in the citV SOOn becamo noisnrl nrnnml rapidly the court room was f,,ped. The broken and nerveless prisoner was brought in by two men. He seemed to havo wasted away until he was no more than skin and bones. His clothing hung upon him like so much bagging and he was bent almost double. Always his fingers clutched at something and he was never still always working his arms and moving. o MEDIATION BY I). S. IF NATIONS ACCEPT No Further Move by Wilson Until England Heard From. ? :? .*# IAf The United States will make no further efforts to bring ^bout peace in Europe until it has received information that its good offices will be welcomed by both sides of the conflict. This was said authoritatively in Wash ington in official discussion of the message from Pope Benedict, delivered to President Wilson by Cardinal Gibbons. From the fact taht the Vatician is in close touch with Austria the construction placed by officials on the pupe s message is tnat the uermanic powers would be willing to discuss peace at this time. It was stated by those in closest touch with the administration that similar word will "have to be received from Great Britain and her allies before the presTcTent will make any further move. o Aynor Day. Secretary J. W. Little said yesterday that the business men of Aynor had come together and would have "Aynor Day" at the County fair, and that it would come off on either Wednesday or Thursday of fair week. It was stated that a prize of about $45.00 in value would be given away in the fair grounds in honor of the occasion. o Mrs. Butler, who has been running the hotel at Myrtle Beach for the Summer has resigned the position and Mrs. DeWitt has accepted the place. The regular guests always leave about the 10th of September, but it is said that Mrs. DeWitt will keep the hotel open during the Winter. never come out alive. I am giving her fair warning no matter what the outcome may be. I will see it through; I was told about her buying linen a1 Gladdings (a Providence department store) for Dr. Mohf. I do hope you will try*and straighten this matter out and I know you can not stop her going out to dinner with him. #ut she will have a sad ending if she keeps on against me. My home is being watched and if I should leave Newport this summer my home will be watched just the saipe and should I get word I shall come right on. The world is with me in my sorrow. I am heartbroken. "Respectfully, "Elizabeth Mohr." $on )RRY COUNTY AND HEK PEOPLE, F1 IONWAY, S. 0., THURSDAY, SE A FACT HE CANNI / j VXJH^ <jPORCJP. / \ fS/\THAM MOLT2!WAU / I \*H ?AT rrvyi.' CAVJ*St:S J / j You I* MAviP TO ?t J / vajct ? y I ^ ^ ^ GERMAN INDUSTRY I SURVIVES WAR Manufacturers Show a Re- ' markable Ability to Meet Conditions. ' -5* ^ Among the marvels of this war, is the assurance and determination ! which dominates the great manufact- < uring centers of Germany?West- 1 phalia above all, though it borders on i the French frontier and the popula- 1 tion might be disposed to receive its ) varying impressions direct from the 1 front. 1 At the outbreak of the war, a year 1 ago, all sensible and cautious people : J 1 H - # reduced ineir concerns as much as they could. Today nearly all the con- < cerns are busy and working to their i full power, says a Cologne-on-the- ] Rhine special to The New York Evening Post. Of course, they are not < manufacturing the same things?in- i stead of workmen's clothes some con- 1 cerns are making knapsacks and i tents; instead of bicycles, bayonets 5 and fuses; instead of cylinders for 1 central heating plants, containers for 1 sea mines; instead of tubes for bicy- 1 cles, shafts or lances; instead of tools ? for getting petroleum and coal, shrapnels and shells; instead of paper and i india rubber collars and ruffs nnrl hniri < ornaments, gun cotton; instead of ' ^genuine scottosh homespun," woolen 1 blankets for hospitals and prisoners' lagers. v All these things are being manufac- 1 tured with the ?same thoroughness, magnitude, and conscientousness as were developed in decades of hard work that built up a magnificent in- ; dustry, not as if this were a passing state of things, but as if everything had always been thus and would last ' forever. o < DWELLING BURNED WITH FURNISHINGS On Tuesday night, about 3 o'clock in the morning, the dwelling of Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Mishoe, at Cool Springs, was lost by fire, and members of the family had a narrow escape from serious injury. Al1 of the furnishings and clothing in the house went up with the building. Mrs. Mishoe was ill at the t?mo and the family physician had been with hc.r until about 1 o'clock he left there for Conway. It is said that no insurance was carried on the property. WEATHER I For the Week Beginning Wed Issued by the U. S. Weath> FOR SOUTH ATLANTIC AND EA The week will be one of generally ture. o 11 pi [RST, LAST, NOW AND FOREVER" PTEMBER 9, 1915. 3T GET AROUND. ~ "j I j I WHY - 0*4- \ <* I I OH" J Ik ^ I rpR6iT I j ^ ' I a h v ?'\ a 1 % I e ? Briggs in Now York Tribune. V HESPERIAN SUNK ; NEAR QUEENSTOWN! a v d Vessel Remained Afloat Many <> si Hours After Receiving h I Wound. I tl f< London, Sept. 6.?The Allan line 1 0 steamjer Hesperian sank at 6:45 a o'clock this morning within a few mi- ^ les of Queenstown, after Capt. Main t, and a volunteer rescue crew of 25 had \. made a brave fight to bring the crip- h pled ship into port. During the night S( the Hesperian settled gradually by the, tl head. Daylight showed the decks n awash and the liner about to take the a final plunge. i h The captain and crew were taken C( 3ff by rescue boats and landed later in Queenstown by the steamer Em- 01 press. " ' c< The sinking of the Hesperian in e] ieep water probably will prevent an investigation to determine whether f the disaster resulted from a subma- I rtne's torpedo or from a mine. Passengers and crew assert positively that the vessel was struck by a tor pedo, but this far no statement has been obtained from anyone who saw a submarine, or a torpedo. The American embassy is receiving! reports from Wesley Frost, American: ] consul at Queenstown on the question whether warning was given to the , | \ liner. Persons so far seen bv Mr. Frost state that no warning was given. Capt ' Main's statement probably will be ta- ^ ken later todav. ^ a o Ma kcs Fine Sale. On last Thursday Mrs. E. J. Squires f sold on the Conway market one lot of i ^ her tobacco crop at forty-one cents per pound, or $42.00 per hundred; and [>n the same day her husband sold a part of his crop weighing 190 pounds nt the price of sixteen dollars per hun-i rlred. This shows that there is some' K thin*/ to be made out of raising tobac-i j Co if the growers will onlv select the V light kind of soil for the crop, and will sive the crop the attention and . 15 skill that it requires to produce a good j grade. Asked how they made such a c fine grade of the weed, Mr. Squires stated that it was a mixture of the right kind of soil with the knowledge and industry necessary to produce a good leaf. Mr. and Mrs. Squires reside on the Galivants Ferry R. F. D. ^ No. 1 route. They believe in patron- ^ izing their home markets. -ORECAST nesday, September 8th, 1915. ^ er Bureau, Washington. D. C. j ^ . ST GULF STATES: j fair weather and normal tempera- > \\ v i in. a mllb. DEAN OF TOBACCO INDUSTRY PASSES Japt. J. E. Cples Dies Suddenly on Last Sunday Here. ? <v,ii u Capt. J. E. Coles passed away very mddenly at his residence here last Sunday. For some time past he had >een troubled with attacks of heart lisease, but he had apparently reeov red. Last Sunday, September 5th, ibout the middle of the day he was itting down at his home reading a lewspaper. Mrs Coles discovered hat he had been taken suddenly ill ilthough he made no complaint. He ived only a short time. He is survived by his wife, one son, Ir. John Coles, and two daughters, rlrs. Frances Burroughs and Miss Emmie Coles. The funeral took place n Monday. Capt. Coles was the pioneer in the obacco industry in this county, havng moved here about the year 1897 to ngage in the tobacco warehouse busness with the Horry Tobacco Wareouse, the first building of its kind ver erected here. This was at a time rhen literature and circular letters were being: sent out to acquaint the armers with the fact that the soils of his county were suited to the raising f a good grade of tobacco and showig them how tobacco might be made n additional money crop. Mr. Coles ras very active in this work of introucing tobacco growing in this section f the country. His labors were contant and unceasing and the wareouse, under his management became success. After some years other warehouses were built, and the indusry grew until to-day Conway has Dur large tobacco warehouses, all in peration every year. Besides those t Conway there are two at Loris and wo more at Aynor, making eight toacco warehouses as a result of the ibors of Capt. Coles and other live usiness men here who engaged his srvices. He knew a good deal about le tobacco business and he gave ll * * luny a j^iuwt?r ui mis county acivice bout the planting and cultivation of is crop that counted dollars and 2nts when he went to sell it. Capt. Coles had many friends, not nly among the business men of the >unty, Tiut among the tobacco growrs. iARRANZA CHIEF i DENIES ATTACK Washington, Sept. 6.?Major Gener1 Funston reported today that Gener1 Naffarette, the Carranza commandr at Matamoras, had again denied lat Carranza troopers were raiding . Hf. ! * * ? le iviexican Dorcier and proposed ringing more Carranza troops to the Icxican side to suppress disorders, he Carranza authorities have sugested a conference to arrange joint ction. ifficerschased" i mexican thugs Three of the Mexican bandits operting just north of* Brownsville were illed last Friday by county officers at ,os Cuatros, .14 miles north of Brownille. In addition to the Mexicans killed it i said a Mexican woman, deserted by er husband, when tho outlaws appear d at her home north of here last ight was accidentally killed by Unitd States soldiers when she approachd them in the darkness in search of rotection. The Mexicans killed by county offiers were members of a band which urned a trestle north of Brownsville nd killed two Americans, Earl Donldson and J. S. Smith. At Fort Brown it was stated that roops would remain in the field until 11 of the bandits had either been illed or captured. o j This paper published the premium 1st of the Horry County fair last ^eek. Save that issue of the paper juLhave a list at hand. -1 . * . ." jj NO. 22. BOARD OF HEALTH GAVE NO WARNINS Says Owner of Building Tom . Down Recently anH ? .J ?. ? Destroyed THE LAW QUOTED COVERING CASES Board of Health Must Act With Town Authorities After Notice. Recently a building situate on the private property of Mr. M. F. Sarvis, on 3rd Avenue in Conway, was condemned by the Conway Hoard of Health, as detrimental to health, and upon this finding by them an order