New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-02-26
NEWARK GIRL.
SHE rs SAID TO HAVE SOUGHT REVENGE
AGAINST BROOKS.
TWO MORE WITNESSES WILL HELP
FLORENCE BURNS TO ESTABLISH
HER ALIBI.

The District Attorneys Office was interested
yesterday IN a report from Newark y. J., that
Walter S. Brooks. the young man Florence
Burns is accused OF killing. had been supporting
young woman in that city previous 10 his
death that he had threatened to abandon her
and had caused her TO pass worthless checks
signed by him. This young woman. the report
said, had come 10 New-York to search for
Brooks the evening of February II, the
date OF the shooting in the Glen Island Hotel,
and there was an intimation that she was the
young woman Brooks took TO the hotel before
he shot
The authority for the report was said TO be a
butcher Of Newark, on whom the young woman
passed the worthless checks He demanded
money for the checks after the checks had been
returned from the bank, it was said, on Febru-
airy Il, and she told him that Brooks had been
supporting her, and had threatened TO leave her.
Later in the day. the story ran she saw the
butcher, and told him she had called Brooks to
Newark, but he had refused to give her money
10 Day the checks. She said she was going to
New-York 10 see him and get satisfaction. She
was determined. she declared, that Brooks
should not desert her in her trouble. The
butcher is alleged to have given some money
TO the young woman to pay her expenses to
New-York and back, but when he met her after
the murder Of Brooks was published he did not
hsk her about the crime
Two persons whose testimony is expected TO
igo far to shatter the story told by Arthur C.
AVeible. the conductor on thez<ings County Ele-
waited Railroad, may be heard to-day when the
examination Of Florence Burns, accused of the
murder Of Walter S. Brooks, is continued before
Justice Mayer of the Court of Special Sessions.
They were both examined in secret yesterday by
Deputy Assistant District Attorney Krotel
Weibles story was that he saw Miss Burns on
his train which left the Brooklyn Bridge at
lilo o'clock on the night Brooks shot, and
that she got off the train at the Beverly
Road station about midnight.
/ William II. Mushlett, a night Waterman
lployed in the neighborhood Of Miss Burns's
nome IN Brooklyn, said yesterday that he passed
the house about o'clock on the evening of the
murder and a young woman standing on
1.-THE veranda of the house. He thought the young
woman was Florence Brooks. He said yester-
day that he still believed the woman was Miss
Brooks, but he would not swear positively that
lshe was.
Peter Bielman. a clerk in the Surrogate's
Office was the other witness examined by Mr..
Krotel. Mr.. Bfelman told in The Tribune
yesterday, says he rode out on the train with
Weible on the night Of the murder, and was in
1he rear car of the train in which the conductor
said he saw Florence Burns. Mr.. Bielman did
mot see Miss Burns in the car, although he
knows her by sight. He did notice a young
woman who "spoony'' with young man
in the car he said yesterday and she got off
the train at the Beverly Road station, but she
was not Miss Burns.
In the afternoon Assistant District Attorney
Schurman examined Ruth Dunn. a young woman
who was friendly with Florence Burns. What
she testified to could not be learned
Foster L. Baclus, counsel for Florence Burns,
said that he had copy of A letter which had
been sent to Miss Burns at the Tombs, ap-
1,arently by "crank" The letter was written
IN red ink, and read:
You cid not kin Walter Brooks. I killed him.
and IL; am now prepared to kill myself am writ.
inflicted on myself