The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-16


tried to get MIN TO come home with me.
but he wouldn't and l left them at the office
when j left at $50 O'Clock. The girl had
been down to the Office on the Thursday
and Monday before and had long talks
with Brooks on both occasions;
paying tho girls expenses In New York
since last October. He met her last Sep
TENDER and seemed to be infatuated with
her for a time; Then his people got after
him and his friends got after him to break
with tho girl. He wanted to do so and
for the last month he has been trying to
make ar end Of it all. Her character was
known to her father and mother and several
months ago her father forbade her the
house. She then came to Brooks and he
sent her to a respectable boarding house
uptown. She left there after a while and
went to a place hat wasn't so good.
BROOKS EAREp MURDER.
Thinking that he could best free himself
Of the ENHANCEMENT by getting her back
home, he prevailed upon her father to lake
weeks ago. Last Friday he went over to
see her. Before he left the office that after
noon he said to me; Harry. II I'm not
here by half-past 0 tomorrow morning,
TO Brooklyn and ask the Burnses what
they have one with me- He turned up
all right the next day and told me that the
girls father had demanded that he marry
her, following up the demand with this
statement; Young man, II you don't
marry her, III go to hell.
'ln one Of the places sho lived uptown
she used TO call him up on the telephone
and he used TO telephone to her, connecting
with her through a telephone whose num-
Der was 1865 Columbus. i don't know what
the place is. but | think it is a drug store.
This morning q letter from her to him,
which had been delayed in the mails, reached
the office. / opened It and found that 1t
--- -. ~. a. Aa1 .N aba
for an appointment. l turned the letter
over to the District Attorney.
WON WOMEN BY LOOKING AT THEM.
walter was one Of the finest looking
men you'd meet In a days walk. he was
graduated from the Brooklyn Heights
School, and he was the greatest winner
with women / ever knew. He seemed to
be able to win a woman by simply looking
at her. And he was just as successful in
business as he was with women. He was
so good a business man that Mr.. Frazer,
President of the Wisconsin Condense d
Milk Company, was ready TO back him
in any venture for any reasonable amount.
But it's all over now and the end, l sup
pose, is what one might have expected
Mr.. Cohen was sitting at Brooks's desk
when he was telling the latter part of this
story. having gone to his Office from the
police station. Picking up a note which
lay on the desk and looking at the super
scripition on the envelope, he said:
here 3 a letter from dnotner OF WAITER Z
girls. You sec he had plenty"
The letter bore a Sixth avenue address.
was filled with the expression Of tender
emotions and was signed Ruth
SAYS MISS BURNS MADE THREATS.
When Thomas Brooks, the father of the
young man, was asked directly for some
statement of the case. he said:
Il know that my son was murdered. /
expected to hear il every day. This girl,
Florence Burns, whose name | have given
TO the police, has made many threats against
my sons life. l have heard about them
from time to time. The woman shared
my son to the hotel. where she accom-
plished her oft-repeated threat. Why,
only a little while ago, after her father
had driven her from his house. she ca me
to my house and stayed for two weeks,
Additional force was given the state
ment by the elder Brooks about the threats
made by Miss Burns by a statement from
Mr.. Cohen. who said:
Walter told me not long ago hat the girl
said to him that If he did not marry her,
he'd never marry any one"
The statement of Brooks's father about
having given Florence Burns's name 10
the police takes on additional interest when
another statement Of Mr.. Cohen's IL quoted.
In this connection MIR. Cohen said:
After Walter died. Mr.. Brooks said TO
me that he didn't want any scandal and,
therefore. the police were not TO be told
anything about the Burns girl. ] thought
that was the wisest. course TO pursue until
/ learned all the details of this horrible
affair. hen ! felt that my partner had
been killed In cold blood and | made up my
mind TO keep nothing back. Therefore l
told the police all about the girl
MISS BURNS IN MANHATTAN BOARDING.
HOUSES,
From about Christmas to the middle of
January Florence Burns lived In the board
ing house kept by Mrs. Hitchcock, at 2ls
West Forty-fourth street. Mrs. Hitchcock
said last night that she came there with a
letter OF recommendation from H.. Butler, a
formerly lived at Mrs. A~itchcock's house.
Il wrote to Mr. Butler, asking about
her." said Mrs. Hitchcock, -and he replied.
saying that | would be perfectly warranted
In renting her a room, as she was a reputable
young m She stayed here until
about Jan. is, and when she left she owed
me for two weeks board. Mr., Brooks
called on her several times. Her con-
duct was exemplary. She was never out
Of the house after 0 p. NJ"
live with a Mrs. Frank Birdssil at 900 West
Ffty-seventh street. Mrs. Birdsall's hus-
band, h is a lawyer, is an invalid. She
has two fats in the house and rents out sew
eral rooms.
Il knew something Of her people said
Mrs. Birdsall, and ] was somewhat sur
prised when she came here. She said, |
however. that she was making a living by
soliciting advertisements. One day she
told me in confidence that her people had
treated her like a criminal and that she
had been forced to leave her home in Flat
bush. She said that on the 18th of last
February-just a year ago to-day, you
see-she had gone wrong.
'She had then met n man whose name.
she said, was Watson. whom she described
as the handsomest man in Brooklyn. When
her family learned OF her disgrace they
treated her shamefully, she said. Every
time they saw her at the window some
member Of the family ran and pulled down
the curtain in front OF her so nobody could