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t Mr-5e are a Toon^ ed the Bata er of ffieial i stopf the e city l ICiat would slaner• wish5SS to i aays 3 wayDead Man Had Underclothing On When First Found; Was Nude Later,1ST.THIS FACT BELIEVED TO POINT TO SUICIDE,i’t}md a Ubcst, menHin*nl'ti-shNewDead Hit of Bantoitlny.ntlbteb\\ onshore there osted rt offlag pro-pro-o »a\llahledcaversall-York,sail.hen;likeThe examination of Florence Bu-rns on t'he charge of killing Walter T. Brooks took a sensational turn yesterday just befofre -the day’s session ended n,t C.15 P, M. In Special Sessions before Justice Mayer.Her counsel, Foster L, Backus, wab cross-examining Dr. J. Vincent Swee-ney, the puyalcian who was called to attend Brooks in the Glen Island Hotel.Ir. Sweeney swore thlt;at Brooks was nude when he first saw him* and that he was lying on his left *lde, his right leg resting on top of his left leg. George yaE»hlngt0Hi the negro , bell boy, and John Karl, the clerk, testified -that when they first saw him* about an hour and a -half earlier, he had on his underclothing and was lying on -*iis back. Dr. Johnson, of the Hudson Street Hospital, has testified -that a wound in the brain such as Brooks had would cause Instant paralysis and deprive the man of all power to change his position.Deputy Coroner Weston, who performed ihe. autopsy on’ .Brooks's body, and who believes the man shot himself, heard the testimony yesterday and said to a World reporter;Strengthens Suicide Theory.ThJa matter of the removal of the underclothing If proof to me that the man killed himself. Tho one objection raised to the suicide theory ia the disappearance of the pistol. Somebody must have got into that room and pulled the underclothing oft that man. The person who’did this must have taken the pistol out of the room*.Aside n*jm tho developments at the examination, the Dlstrlct-Attorney's office discovered that extraordinary precautions were taken by the person who ^-cd the pistol to muffle the sound.Frecmcl Detective Anthony Ho\z, Full ee Capt. Jtidward Wal Jih’s ward man intlie Westchester precinct, -Was In uroom directly above Room 12 in the Glen Island Hotel rm the night, ot the shooting. He up reading newspapers until 2 A. M. Saturday. He did not hoar the slightest sound resembling the report of a pistol. Only a thin floor and a plasLer eelUjiij separate his room from Koom 12. Ilolz yesterday made u formal deposition In the DJstriet-Al-tomey'R otftee.When Florence Burns was brought over the -Bridge of Sigh a from the Tombs at 3 P. M. one of the policemen in the private corridor of the Criminal Court Building said to her;Ha-ten to Be Stnrefl At.“Well, you've got to face another hard ordeal In the court.““1 don't mind that, she replied, but I do mlnj being stared at by all the fools who crowd. Into the court-room. There are two fools staring at me now’, jerking hr** head in the direction of two young policemen who were looking at her curiously,Plain-clothea man, Bernard McGovern, of the Church Street Station, was the first witness. He testified that »he said, in answer to the usual question, Unit she was a single woman. The Dlstrlct-Attoray htixl asked Mr. Bo-ckuR lo concede that she was not married to Brooks, but Mr. Backus said tie would coijcedo nothing,In the nation Mr. Backusdevelop'd! the fact that Lt was McGovern who got tho two women who were placed alongside of -Miss Burns when the negro -was called in the .second ume to Identify ‘her. One of the women whH a Mrs. Flynn, who keeps the news-stand at Church and Oo-rtlondt streets. Tins other woman -had come Into the sitiMention sc to Inquire about a lost girl. Mrs. Flynn was short and dark, AiL-Govcru said.Did she resemble the defendant? Mr. .Backus asked.No. sir,In-any way?No, air.Florence Barns Ynwiiei],Joseph Crl’obina, the fifteen-year-old office boy employed by Brooks Wells, tho firm of which the murdered man wtis a member, was the most interesting witness of the day. He Vas aelf-con-lalned, clear-headed and honest. Florence Burns eyed him with some interest, -but calmly fanned herself and yawned nn^e or twice,When did you see this defendant first on Friday, Feb. H??‘About 12 o'clock noon,” said the boy. She asked me 'te Walter in7’ and I told her he was m Newark. She said ‘I would like to see rhim, »g 1 am going to De^ trolt to-morrow,' ;Then the wrote a note and shoved It under the top of Mr. Brook's desk.She went out and csme back about 3 P. At. She eat down and walt'ed and then Harry Cohen came in. ‘ He said he had left Mr, Brooks in Newark, She wrote a second note and slipped it Into Mr. Brook's desk.‘‘She went out again and returned about 4.30^-o’clock. She 6at down to wait for Mr, Brooks. He came in about % ?'^rrl l*rt the.office .about 6.80. When I left Harry Cohen, his brother, Samuel Cohen, Mr. Brooks and Miss Eurnj were In .the office.you *** her h«fore thatFriday?'Called on Drty Before. =On Thursday,* February 13. She oame to the o-ffioc about 5 p. m. Air. Cohen was there, but- loft soon after she caune, MfSB Burns sut near Mr. Btooks and they talked :*together.Y • When* did' you so*7 h'er1 before that?*' On Tuesday of the same week. I dont recall the time of day, I think Mr. Brooke was out when she called/* When did you see her before that? On Monday of the same week. That was the first time I ever saw’Her, She called ut 9.30 A. M, that day, and Mr. Brooks wasn’t In. She called again at 2.30 P. M« and waited until 4 o’clock, when he came in. He\went outside in 'the hail to talk with her.- She went away in a little while/’Did you ever see any other woman come to the office of Brooks and Wells?No, Fir.Dr. J, Vincent Sweeney wax the next witness. He lives at .No. 127 Liberty street, three blacks from the hotel. He told-of his visit to Brooks’s .bedside,Mr* Backus itr the cross-examinationasked Dr. Sweeney again and again if he was sure Brooks was in-a. nude condition when he first saw him, and also got. him to describe in the most minute way the position of the body* h /Fred Burns, father of the accused girl, was again downtown yesterday near the office of Isaacs, Vought Go., of No, 50 Wall street, where he is employed. Tho de tec Uvea have been unable to serve him with a subpoena-or find out where he and hJs family, are stopping. Burpe made a statement In.-which ?,H„£rh4 is reported to have said; ’We. wtU stand by Florence to t,he end, come what may, though It beggars us. I did not know mitlI last evening that Mr. Jerome-wanted to see-any Qfmy family* as I stopped reading the : newspapers 'since triy daughter was aocuaed of killing Brooks.’ -'/'My wife in prostrated with grief and mortJficati on. and. lam, a wreck* rnysel f. My younger daughter* .qi^dys*- is: bearing up wonderfully-and is a great opm-. fbft to ua. 1 am arranging to. mortgage my/home , in :Flatbffab?atf8 fclLlts cpn-■ :v-. -i * «r%%
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New York World
New York, New York, US
Sat, Mar 01, 1902
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