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ITWeeps in Her Cell Over the Fate of Mrs. Foster, the Tombs Angel.TWO WOMEN SOUGHT)MAY IDENTIFY HER.Police,Search for the Couples Who Were at the Hotel with Brooks.r.edier.t-ar-niff-a3ftgren-Florence Burns, the nineteen-year-old Brookflyn girl, accused of tho murder of her sweetheart, Walter T. Brooks, spent the most unhappy day In tho Tombs yesterday since her imprisonment.The girl was no-t worried about he? own afflictions, hut she was keenly distressed by the torrflble death of Mrs. Foster, tho Tomfos Angel, who was burned in -the Park Avenue Hotel Are.Mrs. Foster had endeared herself to the g-lri and had. promised to stand by tho young* prisoner through alt the or-dearts in court that ©ho might be called] upon to endure.Miss Burns did not learn, of Mrs, Foster’s death'unti-3 Saturday evening, the new* beta# kept ' from her during- the day, as It was feared It might cause her to .break down during tho trying court proceedings, when all the details concerning the murder of her sweetheart were described by the witnesses.Yesterday Miss Bums wept whenever the name of Mrs. Foster was mentioned in her presence. To the matron of the women's prison the girl said:On Friday evening,, just before she left fop the day, Mrs. Foster spoke so kindly to mo. She said: ‘Now, you must cheer up and keep in good spirits. Don't worry about going into court to-morrow. Remember, I will be with you to help you along. I'll come down early and go over »to the court with you and stay there all day/ She was bo kind to me, arid now she's dead I- She was such a good woman.’*llyninz Moved Her to Tcnri,In . the afternoon when Mrs. Foster’s assistant played on the little organ at trie. head of the corridor of the woman's prison the two favorite hymns of itrie dead missionary, Nearer, My God, to' Thee/' and Rock of Ages, Miss Burns began to cry, and to hide her amotion she stepped into rier cell. In a ■few minutes she came out and, going tip to the organist, told her how keenly the death of Mrs. Foster affected her and every other unfortunate woman in the prison.To-day the girl will again be taken Into court'to hear other witnesses give testimony conneoting her with the juar. rer of young Brooks, The continuance of the examination began on Saturday .before Justice Mayer has been set for 2 P. M.' To-day's hearing will probably take'place in the private examination room attached to the Magistrate’s court.Though detectives were hard at work yesterday, nothing of importance was developed. The police are now trying to And tho wo woman and two rswn who registered at the* Glen Island Hotel at the some time that Brooks and his woman companion. While the three men were In the office.: registering «the three women waited In tho parlor to theELIBDreari^ht of the stairway,e police'and Dlstric^Attorney are particularly anxious to And one or both of the two women. Either of these women. It is believed, would be able to say positively whether the third woman was Mias Brooks. It la argued that a woman Would be likely to remember some distlncth'e article of dress or of manner ‘or of feature in another woman that would clear up the most Importantpoint in the case.The1* names given by the other two couples, who registered at 9 o'clock thutFriday night have been found by. the polled to be flcMtious, and the hotel employees assert they never saw any of the people .before?.\ Her Parents Protest,■Mr, Backus will make known his decision to (Dig trlct-At torn ey Jerome this morning relative to the calling of the parents and - sister of the accused girt \$a witnesses. Mr. Backus corrferredwith Mr. and - Mrs. Burns yesterday. They are much opposed to being examined, and regard it as unfair that theywi:tic*, of a slush Ing I JohnringtimodeiertorGreeJMisworn-Koxt.Live;UrduI she awaj Ab( youn inar, him t of t?h hla t days Jianw to a! sleut not f Aove gan’iwovrt ther* bury I terse Ttv their /by tlshould be cafiied practically*as witnesses V: against their.own child. ‘11 they must S*in tl urthofre •Chi the no e mattKNn-.stin3rortchLe-itsatbe examined. they prefer that it should be in the privacy of the Dlatrlct-AUoc^ neyg* office ana be In the form- of a deposition, but Mr. Backus wlW mot decide until, this morning whether this method tfhall be employed.•It was.' -practically decided by Mt. Backus -yesterday to concede that Brooks and M-Iss Burns were not husband and wife, though be Is opposed to ' l*rlt;n conceding• anything, believing that in a -case.-of .such peculiar Importune*.* tne prosecution snouJd be compelled lo prove everything that goes on record, even the. tact that the man who was shot In the Glen TsJant] Hotel was really Waltor T. 'Brooks.^TS?A«JScarauftn^,roilucaMon of Arthur C. weE-bles, ...the Kings County L conductor, and up to the present the chief witness of the prosecution, is being oarefufly. looked into by Mr, Backus. If there la ground for it the credlbJUtv of this witness will be attacked when he Is called for cross-examination.George Washington., trie negTo bell boy. whose Identification of Misn Burns as the woman who was wluh Brooks inpietely shattered Saturday, will be the Arst witness called to-day.onutitr«!StonndtacINInSuicide’* Portrait on Blit,fFroiti the Chicago Journal.1 The portrait. or a suicide is' ort the new* $10 bill, which is known also as -the buffalo bill, because of a rampant bison pictured in the centre of it. The suicide was Meriwether Lewis, tho famous explorer, Lewis was also private secretary to President Jefferson, who aJ ter ward made him Governor of Missouri Territory. In a fft of melan-•cnoly^he was a* man of- moods—he klllefl himself. His picture la on the buffalo b33,l, and he is perhaps the. only suicide who was ever honored so by the Government..A prel quis: the roue* lialt of J antte qua i In 1 ’ceil Dvo Yli Llet Tt the qua’ crln slsti the iplai Mr.BOlOMM si si:BoSluStVlkNa.cno:wa;hasthis
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New York World
New York, New York, US
Mon, Feb 24, 1902
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