The evening world. Newspaper, January 11, 1916, Page 1

“JURY SEES MOHR MURDER STAGED AT SC Che “Circulation Books Open to All.’ 1 1DAG, by The Press Publishing ‘New York World). c ON PR ‘LON \ — Judge Holds Court in Mud of Road While Prosecutor Gives Details of Crime. STATE OPENS ITS CASE. Sau Husband’s Murder Called Most Cowardly Crime. (Special From a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) PROVIDENCE, R. L, Jan, 11.—The low, gray motor car in which Dr. ¢ Franklin Mohr was shot to death, its custtons and mudguard still encrust- e4 with his blood, was drawn up at the side of the Washington Road at Barrington, nine miles from Provi- denge, this morning for the J eo trying the doctor's eth Tiffany Mohr, and two ne- Sroes for his murder to see the ma- chine in practically the tdentical spot it occupied the night of the tragedy last August. And as the twelve men stood about in the muddy road Attorney General Herbert A. Rice repeatedly called their attention to these blood stains, and how they flowed down the left side of the car, down the high crested mudguard at the left rear of the car and etreaked the gray sido of the body. The jurymen, a stolid looking crowd, rigged out in heavy boots and rub- hers, stood in silent contemplation of the scene while Mr, Rice, with the voice and manner of a platform lec- turer, showed them exhibit after ex- hibit, Bealde the jurymen stood Judge Stearns, the presiding officer, who for the time had moved his court to the bad (Continued on Sixth Pago.) LANE EDITION OENT. Widow Unmoved as She Hears} Copyrig! (Th NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1 DON ANXIOUS ABOUT TRAPPED ARMY; RELIEF FORCE HALTED 20 MILES AWAY MRS. MOHR BALKS AT SEEING MFELOT LOVE, SCENE OF HUSBAND'S MURDER NEGROES ALSO KEEP AWAY. |INSIDE EXPLOSION MAY HAVE SUNK PERSIA ' | Information in Some of the Affida- } i Hi | vits of Survivors Point That Way. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.—Informa- | tlon contuined in some of the affidivits |taken from the Persin survivora has |caused Government exper | consider the possibility that the ship might have been sunk by an internal explosion rather than by a mine or a submarine, No final opinion has been reached | that feature of the case after to-day’s destruction of the vessel had been made. Ho wert, he Cabinet than two hours to-day and it tion, including the Lusitania case, |was discussed, It is expected the cage will be settled within a week. "AMERICANS KILLED * BY VILLA BANDITS Victims Reported Members Held Up in Mexico. | BL PASO, Tex., J. U—The Aw jican Smelting and Refining Compar representatives hers 1 4 tel gram from Chihuahua City to-day, stating that it was reported there that a trainload of employees, which loft the capital for Cusihuiriachic, recely rainy ronda; Mr. Cushing, Mrs, Mohr’s| western Chihuahua, had been held up|"? t by Villa bandits, and all the licans killed. 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All through the divorce actions | leweaa Mrs. Rena ( Sheffield ta here tO} sustis ShemMeld, lawyer and clubman, | before Vice lin Jersey City, Merritt Lane, attorney |for Sheffield, tas been clutching for {the long, wavy hair Mrs. Shef- }fleld’s “Dream Boy.” 'no materiat existence,” no new details had | dteytmmestéokiene Inst clutch to-day at those phantom ldcks by serving a|_ |subpoena commanding Mrs. Sheffic juee {n court to-morrow nal manuscripts of her nove den Hollow,” "Romany Reo her tn the hand of a pub- and Chancellor Vivian Lewis This character, Cabinet meeting, replied that no of-| described in her books, {s sald by} ficlal conclusion on the cause of the | Mrs, sheffield to he a “pure ideal with ar / ‘Latest Photograph of Widow On Trial for Husband’s Murder Probably cloudy; colder to-night. Wednesday unsettled, ¢ | EDITION J“ Cirentation Books Open to Au.| 916. 18 PAGES PRICE ONE CENT. MonrR "WILSON GETS LETTERS OPPOSING JOHNSON LATEST PICTURE oF MRS EMIZABS TH GERMAKY AGAIN GUTS USE OF BREAD AND CORN Ss PROTECTION FOR WOUNDED AND BAD WEATHER DELAY vata rcs osses MARCH AGAINST THE TURKS Unguarded. - WILLETT WANDERS. “ABOUT AS IF FREE, GROPSEY CHARGES -+- - LOST FROM HIS KEEPER. Not Since Siege of Ladysmith Has a British Army Been in Such Dan- ger as That of the One Now Shut Up at Kut-El-Amara. Cassidy, Fellow-Prisoner, Also | Reported at Home for | Thanksgiving. | At the office of District oruey jeropeey 0 ern oe = FEAR THAT HUNGER MAY CAUSE IT TO SURRENDER | LONDON, Jan. 11.—The British force in Mesopotamia under Gen. | Aylmer, proceeding up the Tigris to the relief of Kut-El-Amara, is still Both men are nearing the end of/ halted at Sheik Saad, some 20 miles from Kut-El-Amara, according to the shorter term of indeterminate! tie atest advices received by the Government. The halt due to weather conditions and the necessity of removing the wounded by river. This announcement was made in the House of Commons this after- I noe n by J. Austen Chamberlain, Secretary for India, ead British cavalry forces have located the Turks six miles to the east- i hut-El-Amara, Mr. Chamberlain added. This is the position s of th 1 statement oi | William Willett jr, and sidy had beon allowed to wander at large be serving prison sentences. ng Joseph Cas- unattended while supposed to |sententrr for bartering a Supreme} Court nomination in Queens County. | ’ | They transferred | Meadow prigon from Sing Sing when were to Great the Osborne-Riley controversy {the prison administration began, i | ward Deputy District Attorney Egginton lisher, with all corrections, marginal —=- j - ich the e i ; ’ > <p! appeared before Justice Whitmyer at trom which the Turks were originally driven by . Townshe: the lcomments and explanations. He President Defers Confer Measures to Prevent Extravagance) “Ppeared oat pl f ae = pd ® é Gants ad fo hopes to drag a real Dream Boy into! York Postmaster Reestablished by Berlin | #!#bland Tatts, Washington County, | Battle of Kut-El-Amara {court with these clu ; lang yesterday on behalf of District A Ww x a . eluge > Gove r Vhether the force shut up in the besieged town is 10,000 or 40,000 |G me the three dollars that Deluge of Pr | pohda Ate torney Cropsey to ask for an Injunc- ea PY 8 Lab 10,000 or goes with that, please," was Mrs.) WASHINGTON, Jar A ise] BERLIN (via wireless to Sayvill€)s| tion preventing the Parole Board |i: 4 matter of doubt. Turkish reports yesterday said 10,000 men had { Siam a 1a, SOME to the sub- s opposing the ntof|Jan, 11.—Careful use of bread and aoe zvieaag I anal 7 been cut off. London fears that Gen, Townshend's entire army of poena © weed the money 5 nica sear vern-| unless they ,000 fine Joseph Johnson as corn stocks Is necessary, the Govern Sve few minutes later s yaa valle ic} r cir penalties, 4 is in Kut-el- rroundes bi |_ A few minutes later she was called oo voi reached the W Ment announced in an official pro-| Which wero part of their penaitie (0,000 Amara, surrounded by a force of Turks that far out. to the stand in rebuttal |support him on the stage. Never! She launched A temporary injunction until Jan, | Sullivan went up to @ police officer strong force between the garrison and ENE OF CRIME Gite. & dort aslnitoe hecronialen | (runs clamation issued to-day warning the} was granted pending an examination numbers them, There is fear also that these troops may be forced by of Justus Sheffield | The President deferred people against food extravagance. | of briefs. | hunger to surrender’ before the relieving army can reach them. ie i# foul-minded and foul- with Postmaster General Burles] Btatlatics made public on Nov, 16] The statement issued from the Dis- The army of reliet must fight its way eastward through a Turkish mouthed!" she cried, with gestures. » on the subject until n the} showed there were sufficient bread|trict Attorney's office follows: i , ner ji $ Pa; nicest larerchowe co ee Fon array kincke' im) GaRIAn said) “David A. Sullivan, former Presi- force believed to outnumber it two to one. No news of the fate of the ing. My time means money to me. — the official statement, “but since the jdent of the Union Bank in Brooklyn,| Kut-el-Amara garrison has reached London since the arrival of official tween writing, making vanilla and} The ab : ie us tele- | Government incroased the rate of dis-|is not th bay prisoner aupponed ie espatches covering Saturday night’s fighting. taking photographs of children, T have |€ram to President Wilson, to-day Pro-| tribution at the beginning of the sec-|be confined in a State prison who) 7 Not sti the Boers surrounded for no men. I have no love tested against considera f Jo-|ona year of the war the impression|was permitted to go at large and un- B i mace the bien e for them. Justus Sheffield, by a fake |SePX Johnson for ap tiuent #8) arose that stocks were superabun- |attended, ritish force at Ladyemith yo Jot Nia salacious mind, ecmvinced him- uster of New York City because | dant “dt will be remembered that when British army faced @ similar partt. lwelf that I spent a nigh ad been “reported public] «Many are now only provided with] District Attorney Cropsey, something For that reason news of the progress |York studio with anot that Johnson * salWON=| sumicient stocky and therefore care-lover a year ago, * inquiring in of the relief expedith being hnson ‘ | ion ts |thore to put the studs in ‘ prior to t 1 {ing} ful use of stocks Is ne ry. The|tho acta of Sullivan he learned that pweited: witb the som annie |shirt and lay out hts underclothing| stage of his political act Government therefore abolishes the/ Sullivan was permitted to go free . —— sd jfor a business dinner to which he was saloon Johnson ras) was under) distribution order of last August and|without guard or attendant in Yon- ’ aa to go next night. Nobody was there|the patronage of Bishop Poltor, and} reestablishes the original plan of dis-|kers, in New York City and else ‘Though details almost ¢com- with me, Twas, to him, nothing but maa 0 sxperlinent x i os | tribution, while maintaining, however, |where, although ai the time he was pletely luoking, tt 1» believed here |u valet.” packing of f aflucntiol echureh | sufficient’ bread ns for hurd work-| supposed to be confined under his [m xavet : ; jeaek hese ie | that the Turks encircled the British | has again and again told me he aie sentence. | right at Kut-el-Amara, would like to bring our Barbara up to W “It will be recalled how one night 5 patisa PHANTOM NEWSPAPER eee Never! Her mother can support her for the rest of her life,” Lawyer Callaghan for Mrs, Shef field offered to put up a bond for the proper main nce of aBrbara by her mother ff the girl's custody were {awarded to her, Mrs, Sheffield had been much ex- cited by hearing Sheffield tell how for @ year before their separation sho sat up in bed and prayed to God he would soon die so that she might lead a lite of happiness, “My wife's love waned when I lost my money," said Sheffield, “and 1 suppose her feelings were based on my financial condition, In spite of this I was willing to go on with her for the sake of the children,” Sheffield admbitted Hutchins Hap- 600d had upbraided him for jealousy and for insisting on seeing the pawn- ticket for the watch which Mrs. Shof luncheon in New York, Mr. Sheffield admitted ourred bills at New York stores and restaurants amounting to $15,000 af- ter he was “ruined,” as ho had testl- fled, in the panic of 1907. Q. Do you know a Mrs. A. Yes, Q. How many times have you ac- |companted her to White House, |A, Oh, I don’t know, Four or five times, Q. Is she the Brannion? me Mrs, Brannion (Goptinued on Second Page.) field said sho had pawned to get a [EMBASSY STAFF MAIL OPENED BY CENSOR But British Have t Yet Pried Into American Official Pouches. LONDON, Jan, 11,—Letters from the United States addressed to mem. bera of the American FE sy staff, as well as letters to the staff of the consulate, have been opened by the British censor, While no definite action has yet been taken, it is understood that Washington will be informed and that envelopes which huve been opened will be gubmitted in evidence. The censorship has not tou the official embassy and consulate mail pouches, }If Two Legislat \ Vot May Get a Chance to Decid 1917, | 11 Re | te: for the sub th j the v vem Legislature last night. | The resolution must be adopted by two Legislatures before it can be sub- mitted to the voters, DISTURBS GERMANS Editor, for Whom ard Is Offered. AMSTERDA?, Jon. U.—Gen, von Bissing, German Governor General of Belgium, has offered reward of $1,000 for the arrest of the phantom editor of the phantom Belgian nows- papor La Libre Belgique. Sometimes {it ts circulated myeter- {ously from Antwerp, sometimes from Brussels, and it always attacks the Germans. Tho latest is#ue acoused von Bissing of helping burn and pil- lage the Imperial Chateau of St Cloud in France, in the war of 1870. as JUSTICE HUGHES DENIES | SLAYER SCHMIDT'S PLEA ‘Prison for souler, he murder of Anna Au- in the city of Yonkers and asked him if he had seen # guard or the Wardon | from prigon, Sullivan at that| time was alone and evidently could {Twenty-Four Others Rescued From the Clan MacFarlane, the River Tigris, Constantinople re- | ported such an enveloping movement in progress a week ago. If this ts rue, the relief expedition must fight t Several Places By Unk WASHINGTON, Jan, 11.—Justi Hughes of the Suprame Court to-da | denied application by attorneys for Hans Schmidt, convioted New York laye a writ of error for the purp having Mis case reviewed. This means Schmidt will be exe- cuted, unless Gov, Whitman intor- foren, Schmidt is under sentence to bel electrocuted Friday at Sing Sing S; onde Report. tn nar not find his ‘keeper’ and was waiting | ays London Rey its way eastward through this force | ip " Rear ey < — ) save the gurrigon from capture for him to be taken back to Sing] | sing LONDON, Jan 11 India Office offictals to-day viewed arr aa just been revealed that|#teamer Cian MacFarlar the situation hopefully, Kut-el- William Willett jr. and Joseph Cas. | Sunk by @ submarine, Amara, they bellove, is provisioned sidy have both been enjoying the| nounced this afternoon | suflictently to withstand @ long slege, Y , The Clan MacFarlane was sent to| having been used as a base for the | wamo priviieges. Tt has been known , | x, ' lthat Willett was afding the District |the bottom Dec, 80, Six officers and |campalgn against Bagdad. Attorney of Wentchester County in{eenteen Lascars have been landed at| The town itself is well fortified. the investigation of conditions at Sing| Maita, ‘Thirteen Lascara died in the | Defenses were first built by the = dakar ; + rae | titeboats, |'Turks, who intended that Kutel- Sing Prison and that be was pre-| Amara’s fortifications should cheok sumably belng kept at the jatl in) am, cian MacFarlane let Liverpool|the British advance into Mesopota- White Plains so as to be available. | 6 boc, 15 for Bombay, Tho latest|mia, ‘The British improved these “It has just been learned, however,| marine registers contain no further} works when they took the tows, that this is not so. He was se in| pecords of her movements, She was) Pew Albany yesterday absolutely unat-| 45 gout lone, 60 fect beam a | fabeiaedsTaaulry Oh the anton, of | M0 Sots Wome: 0 Cees Dents as ‘THREE DIE IN FIRE, the jail at White Plains revealed that!) 1 in 180s and was owned by Ga he had left there the day before (Sun-| Irvine and Company, I t SIX OTHERS INJURED hk . cr + (* with a ke from Great | P" oe y Mate Prison to b return dow Bt R A > Victims Trapped in Blazing Rooming 1 ¢ Warden Hc ; |HUERTA GROWING WEAKER, {ouse in Schenectady—Some | Great Miao P won made a | Maxi Jump From Windows avi hE nat apeuened’ 12 Bitay ter p Nbgit HENECTADY, N. ¥, Jan, 11 | Institution j a “| Three persons we kiliud and @ix | “If the matter were not too serious | and mwinge weak f “Jothers injured in « fire in a rooming it would be easy to find hun | rex toed: |house in the heart of the city to-day. situation and even more hun 7} etree ure My, and Mra, James was the explanation of the Warden| SAILING TO-DAY. | of East Greenfield, Baratoga sti j eden unty, each about seventy-five years (Continued on Second Page) —| Berwind, Arecibo 12M. | of age, and an unidentified young wo- — ' . ; Lenape, Jacksonville 1P.M, man whose last name was thought te wcaPe WSS eis” TRE SG Purue, Rid daneiro....cce0.. 2PM, be Walker, r ; — at enn seed tit a eS