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/Their Testimony Will Shatter ' Her Alibi, Says District-■ lt;. • »-«rvjAttorney.SAW HER WITH BROOKS IN|V RESTAURANT, THEY CLAIM.• it•V?fc:i.\ - • •5 * •W:. * * I §Detective Says Murdered Hired Her to Shadow .IFlorence Burns,^The -alibi which Florence Burns has jeon trying to establish will be shat-feed, officials of the District-Attorney’a do say, by several new witnesses who avo been found by Mr. Jerome’s detec-tjyes,1 who will swear that they caw ^Waiter T. Brooks and the Burns girl together in a restaurant between 7 and M, on the night of the murder. ^one: of the witnesses has seen Miss ’'Burns .since ‘the day of the girl’s ar-7Bat,; but they will be given an opportunity to identify her Saturday when tie hearing before Justice Mayer will be ^continued.v | At 'the time Mlsa Burns was arrested. 6he. told the detectives she had reached, jfer home in Flatbush shortly after 7(.'?io?clo‘ok the night of the murder and thatshe had not accompanied Brooks to theJfleh Island Hotel, but had loft him at'hlsp/nce about 6.30 o'clock. The new^itnpsses' were at the Distrlct-Attor-• .;«ey|s ojhee yesterday, where their state*; ment^..were taken by Assistant Dlstrlct-Auorneys Scmirman and Krotel. They gave a detailed description of Brooks ;and his -companion and the Distriet-Ai-tOrnby is.convinced thut the identiliea-tlon will be absolute. tSThe DistrictrAttomey has been unable ip learn who the two couples were who /went to the Glen Island Hotel about the time Brooks and his companion arrived there. A careful search has been marie fbr them, but there 13 little chance that they will bo located./yTnc finding of the new witnesses will .corroborate the testimony given by = Georgo Washington, tho negro bell boy, ,;t6 the effect that Florence Burns was ‘ the companion of Brooks at the hotel. It Will also, serve to corroborate the testimony of Conductor Arthur C. Welbles, of the Kings County “L,” that F_ _ . _ . FlorenceBurns was a passenger on the tram Avhich left the bridgo station at 11.15 •o'clock that night.jjMrs. Edith Bee, who says she Is a dele'.jclive, has come forward with a story to , the effect that a month before ho was .killed Walter Brooks engaged her to shadow Florence Burns.Brooks came to mo in a very much- agitated frame of mind,” said : Mrs, Uee yesterday. Ho said he had ,been going with :a girl who insisted • that he marry her and that he did not (. .tbinlc she was the sort of girl he should rgarry. He said he believed that If she .were watched evidence could be ,found (Whlolv would shpw that she was in bhd ttpibit of meeting, other men, 'but that ; under' no circumstances would he marry /■.: her.: l(T liked the way he talked and agreed• to, take the ease. I was to be at the /■corner of Broadway and Chambers street when he was to pass -with the girl and I was to follow and shadow :rher. I was taken HI and could not keep .the appointment. ..He came to see me Hwlce. He • never expressed any fear that 'Miss s Burns would .kill him. His .only fear was of the disgrace which he f«dt would ■ follow If he continued.'*SAYS NEW YORK CENTRALPIlf\Bilt;tillCltanbuwrbeflrfrcthith«wlInsllgmeanbe*on no iGthiterantsotutwatheAbul100byhoiantadiababutsarAhoisajwasthesheAvianp!aNthethedeiteihoovctin thetht2,41eqtatabtthenoUSEtbslos.lesiAionnaaflSt£beirernobupuipiethe*Vw
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New York, New York, US
Thu, Mar 06, 1902
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