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A Score of Pretty Witnesses Mallt;e Depositions in Jerome’s Office.ALL CAREFULLY GUARDED FROM THE REPORTERS.* ! The Misses Eaton Gained the Streetby Way of the Roof—Miss Burns's Examination To-Day,frNlt;thK«Poroha■doIva1scaIThere was lt;t beauty show at the Dis- va1 *Hawenotowknthusdue• «yesel reilltriet-Attorney's olllee yesterday. A score ' of girls, friends either of Florence Burris or. Walter T. Brooks or both, were there ip tell what they knew'of the friendship between the two. The g'irls wero jealously guarded by county detectives and extraordinary methods were used to jkeep reporters away from them.•r For instance, when Miss Lottie Eaton and; her slater IDdlth started to leave Assistant District-Attorney Krotel’s office Detective Maher found the corridor full of reporters. Maher opened a window to the roof ot the Criminal Court Building, helped the girls through to the ^now-covered roof and led them aroundto another window by which they reached a corridor on the opposite side of the building. The snow was as high as the girls’ shoos, and the Misses JSiiibon wont home snoesdng.Mrs. Evelyn Harris, who says she saw Miss Burns In Artist Kauffman’s studio tnfe'afternoon of the murder, had n long -ri • talk .with Mr. Sehurman. She will be I I 111 called as a witnoss at the examination before Justice Mayer to-day.• ‘Among the witnesses subpoenaed for to-day are August Quick, proprietor of the Glen Tsliuid Hotel: Clerk Earl, George Washington, the bell boy; Maggie Doyle, the chambermaid; Huth Dunn,a friend of Brooks; Iconic Eaton, who.It 4s said, was engaged to be married to . Brooks; her sister lOdlth: Mabel Cooper, 1-1 •*who knows Miss Burns: Edward Wat- earnson and Harry Casey, friends of Brooks; Co’H George Y. Kauffman and Hobart Smock, artists; Edith Ellis, the model, and two i.waitresses from Childs’s restaurant in Sirrlt; Twenty-third street, where Miss Bums Sum oad luncheon on the afternoon of the .iiurder.'The two men and two women who fol-;owed Brooks and his companion into the Glen Island Hotel have not been found, but it Is said that the Dis trie t-Attorney expects to find at least one of the women before 'the conclusion of the examination before Justice Maver. A woman who says she saw Miss Burns at-the hotel with Brooks will be called if Mr. Jerome cannot make a case without her.ClubHeInc man T• 4'saidneeemuc:younuic!ford.
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New York, New York, US
Sat, Mar 08, 1902
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