The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-02-26
MORE GIRLS IN BURNS CASE.
NEWARK BUTCHER SAYS brooks
SUPPORTED ONE.
borrowed 80 Gents 10 Go TO Him on Day
OF Murder said She Had a Row with
Hin. and That lie was Trying to
shake" Her -O.her In Paterson.


Hin and That He Was Trying to
shake Her -O.her In Paterson.
Ruth Dunn. the Brooklyn girl who was
practically engaged TO Walter T. Brooks.
the young man who was shot in the Glen
Island Hotel on Feb. II. n because OF
whom Brooks was trying TO break with
Florence Burns. was In the District At
torney's Off ce for two hours yesterday
and underwent a rigid examination at
the hands OF Assistant District Attorneys
krotel and Schurman. The Dunn girl
has been regarded from the first time she
came into the case as a person who could
throw considerable light on the shooting
| Of Brooks, II she would talk. But she has
| pcrsisiently refused to say anything, save
that Brooks was trying to give up the
Burns girl and had told her that he was
having a great deal Of trouble with her.
Two county detectives were sent TO the
Dunn girls homo yesterday TO get her.
| They brought her into Mr.. Schurman's
| room at I o'clock and IL was after Q when
the detectives brought her out again. Mr..
| Schurman would not reveal what the young
woman had old him and the county detec-
tives would not allow any reporters to
speak to her. 1t is understood. though.
that she VIII be put upon the witness stand
to-day. when the case comes up for exami-
nation before Justice Mayer. Mr.. Schur-
man, when asked about this. said:
Il will not say whether we. will call her
as a witness or not. II has been our policy
not to outline our case at all
Can the Dunn girl throw any light o
the mystery OF Brooks's death" was asked.
After thinking This question over for
come time Mr.. Schurman said that he would
not answer it. Mr.. Krotel was equally
uncommunicative. Miss Dunn is a tall
! blonde and rather pretty.
Harry Butler, one Of the famous four
Brooklyn Harrys who break hearts for
amusement. according TO their own state
ments, was also called TO the District Attor-
ney's Office yesterday. II was Butler who
introduced Florence Burns TO Mrs. Hitch
cock, the Forty-second street boarding
house keeper. when she rented a room TO
the girl. Butler looked a trifle disturbed
after the Assistant District Attorneys got
through with him.
Waterman Mushlit, who says that Flor
ence Burns was at her Flatbush home on
the night Of the murder. n Peter Bel
man. the ~Surrogate's clerk in Brooklyn.
who SAYS hat Conductor Weible is mis-
taken in saying that the girl was on his
train at li:l5 on the night Of Feb. "a, both
atllt WI n ~ AN 'h'A -
terday and volunteered their testimony
in favor of the prisoner. IL was a new thing
for the District Attorney Ia he c~ourteously
receiving witnesses who wanted 10 knock
out the case of the people against an alleged
murderess. However, Mr.. Jerome had
a long ak with the witnesses and thanked
them for coming forward. He said after
ward
These people can be called by Mr.. Backus
as witnesses for his client II he cares to
| coll thann Ghal not call than. of COtlran
II is not my place 70. Mr.. Backus knows
Of the testimony they are ready 10 give,
and can assure him that they are more
than ready 10 testify
from Newark yesterday, and although no
names are mentioned In IL, the District
Attorney thinks well enough Of il 70 have
IL investigated. The chief character in this
that Brooks used TO support a young woman
in that city. The girl was a customer OF
his, ne saws. and she frequently gave him
checks in payment which bore the signature
Of Walter 7. Brooks.
On Friday, Feb. IL, Re says, the girl
came to him to get some neat. but he de-
clined TO serve her unless she made good
two of Brooks's checks, one for SIS and one
for $50, which she had given him and which
had been returned by his bank as no good.
These checks had been drawn on a Brooklyn
bank.
The girl told the butcher that she had
had a row with Brooks and that she wanted
TO 90 to New York TO see him, but had no
money. She said that II she saw him she
would make him pay the checks. Ac-
cordingly the butcher lent her so cents.
Before she went away she told the butcher,
so he saws, that Brooks was trying to
SHAKE her for a Brooklyn girl that he
wanted 10 marry. She said she wouldn
stand for" such treatment, and the butcher
thinks she meditated violence.
The following day while the butcher was
reading Of the killing of Brooks the girl
came in and said that she had seen Brooks,
but had not been able 10 get any money
out Of him. Several times a~fterward she
called on him, but never mentioned the
death Of Brooks. The last time he saw
her, he says, she told him she had sold
the contents of her fiat and was going
away from Newark for good,
This butcher first old his story to Mrs.
Brooks, the mother Of the murdered man,
when he called to see IL she would make
good her sons checks. She sent him to
Mr.. jerome. County detectives are now
investigating the story.
Mr.. Backus and District Attorney Jerome
have between them received something
like 100 crank letters on the Burns case.
Several are written in red ink. which the
writers declare is their own blood. Most
Of them are confessions of the killing OF
Brooks. MIR. Backus was as confident as
ever yesterday of clearing his client, but
would not tell what his defence will be.
The story that Mr.. and Mrs. Burns have
left their home TO avoid testifying against
their daughter is untrue. Mr.. Backus
Gays they are staying with friends tempo
rarily in order 10 get away from the curious
people who surround their house when
/ they are home.
Lawyer Backus has heard a story TO the
effect that the young woman who was in
the room with Brooks at the Glen Island
Hotel came from Paterson. n j. Mr..
Backus said last night that he was inves-
a. ,I.a aszr, IttV hA didn't On a 40
discuss Il az present.