Evening Star Newspaper, December 21, 1922, Page 23

MRS BRUNEN FREED OF MURDER CHARGE 8Brother, Harry C. Mohr, Con- victed of First-Degree Charge at Same Time. VERDICT TO BE APPEALED Widow of Slain Cireus Man Goes to Mother's Home to Recover From Ordeal. & toe Assoclated Press. MOUNT HOLLY, N. J.. December 31.—Mrs. Doris Brunen, acquitted by a jury yesterday TJof complicity in .{tue slaying of her husband, “Honest >|Jonn T. Brunen, was at her moth- er's home in Philadelphia to- day resting from the ordeal of her imprisonment and Her broth- tried on the same charge and found guilty of murder - in the first de- ]rfie rem'llneg in UARK: ail awaiting fur- K m— ther action by his counsel, wlio gave notice of a motion an appeal. The formal appeal vill be made January 9, the date Jus- aliseli said he ‘would impose rning its verdict the jury nended that Mohr be sentenced nent at hard labor, ve no intimation as whether he would accept the rec- \dation. ud to be freo. ut it was a terrible blow to ce my poor brother convicted. I am sure he will be granted a new trlal and acquitted.” Jury Out Three Hours. Tlhe date for the trial of Charles M. Powell, confessed slayer of the circus not been fixed. As the pros- ef witness, he . testified <hot Brunen af the in- Brunen and Mohr. $1,000 for killing said Mrs. The jury 'out ubout threo hours. As the foreman, Walter Wills, an aged nounced the verdict, Mrs. ed Mohr‘s hznd “sobbing: Oh, Ha e then fainted. !\er h!ld striking © as she ari, lean- ressed h|> sister. He to his cell as Mrs. vived by a plysiclan. » did not change announced, but ¥ was affected. en, duughter of the slain fied for the prose- in tlie court when the d. ground of dectsion, “You Tnust elther acquit them.” he said, “or find them gullty of murder in the first degree.” He explain that separate verdicts could be returned for the two de- fendants, . you must decide 0 and Mohr afded " Justice our laws the testimony of convinced he has . However, it is a very hing to do. Unless you find n of the essential facts in idence 1t 1s your duty to, return The only |n\'ol\_-1ng her in’any way came and Hazel Brunen, her slepdl\lgh!el’ Powell should be corroborated. Hazel nitted she and her mother. a lawsult over the dis- the Brunen estate. You into_consideration whether is not incensed at her step- 1t seen to me that Hazel Srunen’s testimony should have very ittle weight in convicting Mrs. Brunen of the murder. Alibl Easy te Get. Regard'ng Mohr, the court said it » was with Powell on the night of e shooting or was in Philadelphia as testified by defense witnesses. He pointed out that the state had pre- sented certain circumstances corrob. orating Powell's statement that Moh was with him on the night of added the justice, The trial started a week ago yester- day. Each slde called about fifty witnesses. Brunen, proprietor of the Mighty Dorls Combined Shows, was shot on the night of March 10, as he sat read- ng at the window of his home in Riverside, N. J. He and his wife were alone in the house at the time, Hazel Brunen and her grandmother, who also lived with them, being at a moy- ng plcture show. About two weeks later Powell, who had been an em- ploye of the show, was arrested, and in a confession to County Detective Ellis Parker sald tnat he had killed Brunen. He sald that Mrs. Brunen and Mohr had entered a consplracy to do away with the showman and had promised him $1,000 for killing him. _ YALE TO CURB DRINKING. NEW HAYEN, Conn, December 21. —A conferéhce Dbetween President James Rowland Angell of Yale Uni- versity and fifty prominent members of the student body, at which the | questlon of the control ot drlnklnl’l she college was discussed, has been held here, it was learned today. Co- operation among the faculty and students in alding In consideration of the prohibition laws was suggeted. 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