The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-24
BROOKS CHRGKRRED CAREER
HIS MOTHER IDENTIFIES HIAr AS
 HER RATRARD SON.

She Had Long Talk with Him-Hs Was
 studying Grammar-EIis wife ss-
 cured DIyorce-one Woman KIIIsd by
 Him-Hs is Now Held Under Heavy Bonds. -&@-
 The identity of the gentleman burg lar' as Harry w. Brooks, of New Ha- ven. was confirmed in New York Sat urday by the mans mother and a New Haven detective. Mrs. Brooks had a long talk with her son.
 Tt wasn't exactly news to the moth- er." said Captain Langan, that her son was a crook, but she really didn't be- lieye that he was so bad as he is. and for long time had been trying to think that he had reformed. He gave her a lot of trouble when he was a boy in New Haven and was in prison there for burglary"
 Brooks had hint of his former lux urious way of doing things Saturday. when he went in cab with detective from one paWnshop to another in search sof loot. In shop on Seventh avenue near Fortieth street they found $500 worth of furs which Brooks admitted he had stolen from the home of Mrs. Will liam C.. Reid at IS West Fifty first street. The furs were taken to police headquarters. where they were identi- fled by Mrs. Reid.
 Two things were learned which show that Brooks was at least trying to be a gentleman burglar First was the circumstance under which the burglar secured the card of Mrs. Joseph E. lKronheimer, of 945 President street, Brooklyn. The card was found with the $6,00O worth of stuff taken from Brooks room the other night. and it was supposed that Mrs. Kronheimer had been one of the burglars victims. But she had only met him socially. She explained that Brooks had also been in New. Rochelle that she and MT. Kron- iheimer had met him, and that she had given him her card and asked him to call at her apartments in Brooklyn.
 The other thing that convinced Cap tain Langan that Brooks was trying to be gentleman burglar" was the pris- Ioner's assertion that the text books on grammar found in his room were his own property, and that he was trying to learn English which would go well with his evening dress and his after- noon frock coats. The woman who was living with Brooks in West Fifty-third street boarding house is not his wife. x,
 AFTER LEAVING NEW HAVEN.
 Long Branch, N. j., Aug. 2S. Brooks tcut quite a splurge here in 1899. He came here in 1896 from New Haven, Conn. It is said that he walked most #of the distance. He found employment with Mrs Deborah White, who at that time was running a bakery on Fourth avenue. Mrs. White was a widow. whose husband had died q short time before. 85
 Brooks soon won Mrs. Whites affec-8 Etions and they were married. Brooks was first employed as a driver of one of her bakery wagons. He disliked work, and on several neca sions threatened the Hives of his stepsofls. Brooks made the acquaintance of Mrs. Emma Hibbetts. wife of George H. Hibbetts.
 Mrs. Hibbetts was very attractive and belonged to the same lodge that Mrs. I3 rorfYts Fl i1 sT2raaIrs and Mrs Hfhbpffs were frequently seen in each others company. On October 2Ss 1898, a pistol shot rang out from the Hibbetts cot |tage. Mrs. Hibbetts was seen to reel and fall in the doorway of her house.
 She died almost instantly Brooks fled. He was captured and acknoWl- edged that he shot her, but declared that it was accidental. But few people believed his story. Brooks was indicted and pleaded guilty to manslaugh He got off with a penalty of two years. MT. Hibbetts did not appear against Brooks at the trial to press the suit. Mrs. Brooks in the meantime had insti- tued a suit for divorce, which was granted to her.
 I HELD UNDER HEAVY BONDS. New York. Aug. 233. On three charges of burglary and one of attempted felo- |nious assault Brooks was on Saturday arraigned before Magistrate Barlow in the Yorkville police court and held in $2, 300 bail, on each charge, for trial. The prisoner entered a plea of not guilty. Assistant District Attorney Kresel es- f#