New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-02
QUARREL IN RESTAURANT.
BUT PAIR ARE NOT IDENTIFIED AS
MISS BURNS AND BROOKS.
EVENING BEFORE BROOKS WAS FOUND
DYING-THE EXAMINATION.


report that Florence Burns and Walter S.
Brooks had violent quarrel In the restaurant
at No 10 Cortlandt-st. on the evening of Feb
ruary II, some hours before Brooks shot in
the Glen Island Hotel, in Cortlandt-st.. probably
will be investigated by the District Attorney
and the police. Persons employed in the
taurant said last evening that they remembered
a young couple having a quarrel there the
evening in question but they could not identify
the pair Florence Burns and Walter S.
Brooks. The two went into the restaurant about
$50 p. m and sat down at a table apparently
intending to have a meal. They had some
drinks while looking over the bill of fare.
The young became so violent and
vituperative that the left the table and
went out of the room. apparently TO escape her
abuse She had not lost her anger when he re-
turned, and she resumed her attack, using Ian
guage which attracted the attention of every
body in the restaurant. and tapping the floor
with her foot to emphasize her remarks. At
last the countermanded order for din
ner and left the place with the young woman.
1t was said at the restaurant last evening that
the man and young woman had been In the
place dining together before.
1t has been shown at the examination OF Flor
Burns that she in the company of
Brooks at his place of business about o'clock
on the evening OF the smoothing. she mas Sald
that she left him at that hour and went to her
home in Brooklyn. A colored hallboy at the
Glen Island Hotel has testified that she the
young woman who accompanied him to the
room where he shot.
Miss Burns appeared to be cool and confident
of reganng her liberty when her examination
resumed before Justice Mayer in the Court
of Special Sessions yesterday morning. Foster
L. Backus, her counsel, continued the cross-ex-
animation of Dr. John Sweeney, who called
to the Glen Island Hotel in COrtlandt-st on the
night when Brooks was found dying there. DR..
Sweeney said he found evidence of a gun
shot wound in Brooks's head at the time of his
first examination. He thought the man was
drug. There some symptoms of choral
poisoning. Blood had flowed from wound be-
hind the right ear but he thought at the time
the wound was superficial He noticed no
powder marks near the wound
John c. HaGenan. a clerk in the Glen Island
Hotel testified that when he went to the room
occupied by Brooks about m. he found
Brooks's body, uncovered and nude. on the bed
He searched in the mans pockets and found S3Z
In the cross-examination Mr. BaCkus called at
tentiOn to the manner in which Brooks's body
had been covered and uncovered while Brooks
lay inSenSible in the hotel At midnight the
hallbOy had found Brooks covered up and lying
on his back in the bed A little later DIR.
his right side He left him covered. and then at
q a. m. clerk found Brooks again without COW
ering. Hagenan identified a womans comb
which he said he found in the room.
DIR. Sweeney was recalled to identify the comb,
and he declared II was not the comb he saw in
the room when he was examining Brooks.
The examination was adjourned to next Satur-
day morning, at the request OF Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Schurman, who said TO Mr..
Backus that the presence of Miss Burnss father.
mother and sister in court that day desired.
Mr.. Backus made reply. The District At
torney, ii said yesterday, might insist upon
ad1Ourning the examination until Mr.. and Mrs.
Burns and their daughter Gladys appear as wit
nesses District Attorney jerome said that he
would not submit the OF Miss Burns to the
grand jury until the examination ended.
Thomas Brooks. the father OF Walter s.
Brooks at the examination yesterday. He
said there was no truth in a report that his
had trouble with a woman who threw vtrol on
him several months ago In Brooklyn. He had
examined all his sons clothes. he said, and