The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-04-10
BROOKS SLAYER
It Is Alleged That a New
ark Girl Was With Him
When He Was Shot
SAID 10 BE INSANE
Was to Commit Suicide But
Nerve Forsook Her When
She Saw the Man Dead.

/ An entirely new witness. who declares
that Walter s. Brooks was killed by a
Newark girl, and that he knows the girl,
| has appeared in this great murder nys
terry. mis- mans name is being withheld
for the present.
| He declares that the facts in connection
with the shooting are known to the faDs-
| lily of the young woman. They have taxi
en- the strietest precautions TO prevent the
slightest hint of the truth from becoming
public. as the girl has sworn to commit
suicide the moment she learns that the
police suspect hereof the crime.
According TO the new witness, this girl
made an engagement with Walter BROOKS
to meet her in Newark on the afternoon
Of Friday, February IA. having previously
resolved to ----l him for his faithlessness.
Brooks received a letter from her max
ing the appointment on Friday morning,
and that he did meet a young woman at
! the Lackawanna station in Newark that
afternoon is testified to by his partner.
Harry Cohen, who was with him in New
ark
| That same morning Brooks had received
| a letter from Florence Burns. saying she
would call on him that forenoon TO say
good-by, as She was going to Detroit that
night. Brooks apparently ignored Flor
ence Burnss note, for he went to Newark,
leaving no word for her. and did not re-
| turn until late in the afternoon, when he
found Florence waiting for him.
| The new witness says Brooks had prom
1 ised to marry the Newark woman, just
as he had promised Florence Burns. and,
/ as in the latter case, had taken the New
ark girl to minister, who refused to
marry them.
+ Brooks, it is declared had previously
seen the minister, and had told him that
he was under twenty-one years of age.
and that his parents vigorously opposed
his marrying anybody because Of his
/ youth
The Newark girl dresses fashionably, is
/ tall slender and carries herself grace-
fully. She is described az having long,
thin face and dark complexion. George
Washington, the negro bell boy at the
! hotel, originally described the woman who
was with Brooks as having long. thin
nose and as being what you would not
/ call a clear white person"
This girl had. according to the state
n.ent, previously resolved to kill Brooks
because of his treatment of her. and had
| taken her brothers pistol for that pur-
pose. She hal also planned to kill herself
with poison and had obtained q small
quantity of chIoral on the morning of
Friday, February IA.
1 When Brooks met her that afternoon in
Newark he tried to induce her to go to a
| hotel with him there. She refused. but
agreed to meet him that evening in New
! ark. Brooks told her that he had an i'm
portant business engagement in New
York, and would return to Newark as
coon as he had disposed of it,
When he found Florence Burns in his
office waiting for him he got rid of her
to Newark at 7:45 P NJ, met the girl and
] took her to dinner in Newark
The couple left the restaurant at $50
p NJ and took trolley car for Jersey
city, landing in New. York at the foot of
Cortlandt street at 9:S5 P. M. They went
to the Glen Island Hotel
This girl had previously been to the ho-
tel with Brooks, and it is alleged. was
known to Jonn Earl, the night clerk, and
! to the proprietor of the hotel. Gus Quirk.
Mr. Quirk was not about the motel that
night, and Earl declares that he didn't
notice the woman VINO arrived with
Brooks. Earl also declares it was nine
P. NJ when Brooks and his companion
arrived, while the man who makes the
statement is positive the couple did not
get there until after 9:S5 P. NJ.
The girl il is declared, meant to shoot
Brooks soon after they entered the room,
hut her nerve failed her. Then she order
ed a bottle of lemon soda and gave
Brooks portion of it, putting some OF
the choral in mis- glass.
The choral, it is declared. quickly oper-
ated upon him, and when he fell into Il
sleep the girl it is alleged. shot him She
then turned the weapon upon herself. but
her nerve failed her, and she fed from
the room and reached the street without
her departure having been observed.
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