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'j- •, •. ••- ‘ L^.* ‘li V';’* I--' ■'■■■■' • ■ •inWILL BE HEARRESTED.Jerome Declares He Has Evidence Sufficient to Warrant Her Indictment./Blstrlet-Aftorney% Jerome announced yesterday afternoon that should Florence Burns bs discharged by Justice Mayer to-day she will ut once bo re-arrested and held for the Grand Jury, lie said he had sufficient evidence towarrant her Indictment.♦Two new witnesses will testify/at the hearing: to-day. One of ther6, Mias ftha Fischer, a stenographer, with anotllee In the .Metropolitan Life Insurance Building' in Madison Square, la supposed to possess Information of value to the prosecution. Miss Burns Is reported to have ‘called o«n Miss Fischer, whom she Knew well, at 3.4o on the afternoon of the day that Walter S. Brooks was killed and borrowed 25 cents from her, though Artist Kaufman has testified that Miss Bunns was posing at his studio at that hour. Miss Burns Is believed to have given Miss Fischer Information tending to show . that the girl s relations with 'Brooks had reached a critical stage.The other new witness will be Yale D. Bronner, who said yesterday that on the morning of the tragedy he met Miss Burns on a Brighton Beach train bound for Manhattan. Mr. Elrenner lives at No. 419 Ocean avenue, Flatbush. lie sut beside her on the train, he said, and she did hot appear in the least excited. Site told him she Intended to apply for a place in the Florodora” company, believing that she had in her the making of a good uctness.She said she had to go uptown in Mauhaua.n, but wished to stop and speak to Walter” first,Mr. Brenner, who also knew Brooks well, said he would accompany her, and they went to Brooks’s office at No. 17 Jay street. Mr. Bronner remained outside, and in u few minutes Miss Burns returned with the infornratlon that Walter had gone to Newark.Miss Burns .left the train at Forty-second street, Mr, Brenner said, and he continued to Fiftieth street,Foster L. Backus, Miss Burns's counsel, went to the Glen Island Hotel yesterday and closely questioned the night clerk and attendants with a view to asrcertain inpr whether the 'costume shewore on the train corresponded to that of the woman who accompanied Brooks to the hotel. Later he said his visit to the hotel was very satisfactory,A young woman, -whose name could not be learned visited Assistant Dis-trict-Attorney Krotel yesterday after Miss Flseher hacl departed. It is supposed 'that she was one of the women who have confessed that they lt;were in the hotel on the night of the tragedy.num/e oavc patccOh;NAmnlecfretbywinhavthatur:T.wrlWillspliM'4meiHifunfacitab!slaiiriotdoybacrooalloncandotiwhlt;andthequa;ashsta;* ifif (walnoThedleievea ckneHe•pal■myBpro]; ailo. in c was abc j her toDE
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New York, New York, US
Sat, Mar 15, 1902
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