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GUARDS ESCORT MRS. BRUNEN TO SCENE OF TRIALMount Ilolly, X. J.t Dec. 14.— (I. X. S.)—As as result of a direct threat of death burled at her yesterday by Mrs. Harry Mohr, wife of Harry Mohr, who with .Mrs. Doris Brunen Is on trial. chlt;irg'*d with the murder-of ••Honest John'* Brunon. wealthy circus owner. Hazel Brunen. stepdaughter of Mm. Bruncn. was accompanied to the court room today by a squad of armed srunrdH and deputingHazel, pretty and seventeen, told a story yesterday of her «t“i»-mother -and her trunily life which climaxed in an attempted attack upon her by Mohr and his wife which threw the courtroom Into a state of chaos and caused the nervous collapse of do-fense attorney Walter Koown.The defense attempted to pro-re that until !**ss than three weeks before the trial the Brunon Kiri was on friendly terms with her step-mother and the Mohr family and that her change of front came only when who wan unable to secure funds from h*r father « estate. The letters offered a3 evidence most of them addressed to “Dlt;*ar Mattie and Grandma, and all written in the week* Just preceding the trial, give no sign of a change of heart.
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Bridgeport Times
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Thu, Dec 14, 1922
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