The sun., 1889-12-29
KILLED BY HER OWN son.
MR& RRooKSs TALK OF DEATH sBTp
FRANK BROOKS CRlEK.

NE Mad No Sleep for Several Nights OwinR
to Assiduity In NursiRG HEREAFTER KILL
ing Her He shoots HIMSELF
The family Of Louis Brooks OF I18 Union
avenue. BROOKLYN, consisted, until yesterday
afternoon. OF himself his wife Hannah. their
two sons, and one daughter. All were Gers
mans. and had come over here whom the chill
dren were young The daughter and elder
son married some Tins ago. Frank. the other
boy, was 2l on Friday. He stayed as
homo o great deal and devoted him
self to his mother and to music he
played the mandolin, the eylophono, the
accordion and the violin. The father and both
sons we're BARRIERS. and among them they had
shope One Of these was on the first noor OF
the Union Avenue House. near Grand street.
The family lived in the rooms in the rear. and
while they were not rich. they were In very
comfortable circumstances. Frank, with the
help OF Ennest Lelddeck, conducted the shop
at the homo, while his father and brother CON-
Quoted the others In streets near by in.tho
Eastern District.
The mother Of the family was 81 years old
Last Tuesday night she was taken sick with
Inflammation OF the lett lung. Frank nursed
her, and from the time she went to bed he was
up all tho while. He did not sleep Tuesday,
Wednesday Thursday. and Friday night She
was not dangerously Ill. but Frank thought
she was, and he became greatly worried about
her. Yesterday noon she grew melancholy
and calling her daughter Emma and Frank to
her bedside told them she thought she should
die. That upset Frank and made him more
nervous than ever. He couldn't bear to listen to
her and left the room. and went out to the
shop. Mrs. Brooks kept on talking Of death.
and told Emma what disposition she wanted
made OF her property. The daughter listened
patiently and soothed her mother as best she
could, and then went to the kitchen. About
O'Clock she began to prepare an early supper.
At $3.50 Frank. who had been walking around
in distracted manner. left the shop, and was
gone about ton minutes. After he had re-
turned his sister got ready to 60 out for while.
The mother asked her not to be, gone Long, IoE
she said she might die soon and she DID not
Ssat Ssqs hsf no TSS H%eS Was y az
had been gone q few minutes Crank went OUT
%s WIEN he S returnsd turf s he walked up and down The
shop with his head hanging down on bis breast:
He seemed nervous, and Mr: Leiodeck says no
About / $50 o'clock Frank went to his mothers
room. A moment later Leiddeck heard, beard tw9 dW9
| saw Frank lying on the floor; the blood gush;;
| ing from wound on the right side OF his head
TS was in bed bed. There was wound over her right
ear, and she was dead =, .ho
| corner, and got O man to go back with MIN.
When they returned Frank was In a chair In
| the shop, but unconscious. An ambulance
| was called, and he was taken to st. Catherlnes
| Hospital The surgeons said he could not re-
| cover. The bullet had taken an upward course
and was lodged near the upper part OF the
| Coroner Lindsay tried to get him to talk put
all he could say was that he had shot MS
| mother because she was sick.
| The daughter kept her promise and hurried
| back, but only to find her mother dead. Just as
the mother had said she feared she would be.
| The daughter swooneQ .
t"Oh. why did this happen" she exclaimed IN n,a
than Frank. He had cared for her night ana
day. and, his worriment must have made MIN
! crazy Hb, he worshipped the very ground she
| walked on. and 1t must have been because no
thought her in pain that he did this" A..
| The father and elder son had reaonea iae
sane when they saw what had peen tng dOn9:
Both said that Frank had never owned pistoi ~
that, in fact. he had never used one anu tnas
| he must have bought the weapon used yestesr- .s
| day on one OF the two trips he made from the
shop during the afternoon. ,o~
The face OF the dead woman was eomeWaias IisS
| was placid. Death evidently had come TO ner
WEAPON with which she was killed.
| Leiddeck, who was the onlv other person ~
| the place at the time says he heard no SOUNDS
| before the pistol reports and he thinks FRANK
| said nothing to his mother before ne nreo at
The police did not detain Leiddeok as Wit
| neas II has not been learned yet where young
Brooks bought the pistol There were n2 pa pa
| pers found to show that he contemplateq lug
| deed and from what little he says there ls no
evidence that he appreciates what he DID