New-York tribune., 1902-03-16
MISS BURNS'S THREATS.
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| called the attention Of Brooks to a girl who
was leaving the car and Brooks said she was
peach" Florence Burns turned on Brooks,
the witness said and told him she would break
his neck if he ever made that remark about an
other girl.
A clerk OF the Glen Island Hotel testified to
finding the comb in the room where Brooks was
shot.
Mrs. Brooks was brought back to the court
| room to be cross-examined by Foster /. Backus,
counsel for Miss Burns. She said her son
| brought Miss Burns to the Brooks home on No
vember 20. The girl was ILL., and remained in
the house until December 13. Mrs Brooks be-
came confused and uncertain in a long cross
examination as 10 the combs which she had seen
Miss Burns wear. She seemed TO be ready to
faint again when a recess was ordered. After
recess Mr.. Backus handed to her a comb. and
asked if 1t the same comb that was shown
to her earlier in the day. and she replied, II did
not see it clearly enough to say
She was unable TO tell how many teeth were
missing from the comb when she saw it in her
house.
To Mr.. Backus the witness declared that Flor
ence had hade several threats TO kill Walter
Brooks. "On December 13, the last day she
in my house" the witness said Florence
told me that she had been home on the previous
evening to look for her fathers pistol to shoot
waiter. she said she had been looking Tor II In
her fathers bureau drawer without being able
to find it.
Q.-What did you say to her when she said she
would kill Walter? Al said nothing
Q.-How often did she tell you she would XIII
every day.
Mrs. Harriet BirdsaU, keeper Of a boarding
house at No. 400 West Fffty-seventh-st testi-
fed that Florence Burns was a boarder in the
house from January % to February 4. Mrs.
Birdsau could not remember that Miss Burns
ever had said she could shoot. Mrs. Hitchcock,
keeper Of a boarding house at No 21S West
Forty-fourth-st., where Miss Burns boarded in
December. was not allowed 10 tell the name of
man who had recommended her 10 the house.
but she said the man was not Walter Brooks.
ASKED ABOUT THE PISTOL.
Policeman Colby. of the Church-st station.
who arrested Miss Burns at her home in Brook
lyn. testified that the girl said she had been
with Brooks in his Office the day before, but
had left him at $50 p. m, and had reached her
home about hour later. When he told her
that Brooks had been shot in the hotel, he said.
she asked if the pistol had been found. She
said she might be suspected Of shooting Brooks.
Colby denied that the girl had been told in his
presence at the police station that Brooks had
recovered consciousness, and had accused her
of shooting him. He had failed TO find the comb
in the hotel. he said. and the comb was handed
to him later by Reardoa. the county detective.
Colby said he had made a search for pistol in
the home Of Miss Burns. but failed 10 find any.
He had found four letters there and had taken
them away. The letters had been delivered to
the District Attorney. NIr. BacEus demanded
the production Of the letters and Mr.. Schurman
said they would be produced at the proper time.
After some unimportant testimony had been
given by witness whC had seen Brooks in New
Jersey February IA the examination was ad-
a n
nounced that the general public would be kept
out of the examination room on that day.