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Friend,of Accused Girl, Mr. Jerdme Hopes, Will Establish a Motive.PROSECUTION WILL CLOSE ITS CASE TO-DAY,Mr. Backus Tells Hdw He Confused Mrs, Brooks by Taking Tag Off the Broken Comb,An Important witness was found yesterday 5n the case of Florence Burns, who Is charged with Killing Waiter Brooks.The ftiew witness la n, womran. Mr. Jerome’s county detectives took -her to the District-Attorney’s office and tor three hours ehe was questioned toy Deputy Assistant Dlstrlct-Attoraey Krotel. When the ordeal was over a county deteatlve took here away again. She will toe the first witness to be examined at the hearing which will lt;bc resumed before Justice Mayer In the Centro Street Police Court at 10.15 A. M. Only those interested in the case will be allowed to be present.The name of the new witness was kept a secret, It was ascertained, however, that she will testify to what Florence. Burns had told bar, and to threats which,,! t is alleged, the accused girl had made just previous to the killing of Brooks. The new witness, it is said, will help to show a motive for the killing ofBrooks.rn«t‘Cutian i o Clfixt* To-Duy,.Assistant DJsirlct-Attorney Schurman cald yesterday:We Jtittftia lv clnse the prmomMon ofthe case td-morrow, buL will ask for the right to examine witnesses in rebuttal, should the defense endeavor to prove an all'bl/’Mr. Backus, lawyer for Florence Burn a, denied that ho had used a number of combs in his nres^-examl-natlon ■of Mrs, Brooks last Saturday, He declared that he used only the comb introduced by the prosecution as the one found in the Glen Island Hotel, Mrs. •Brotoks Identified It as belonging to Florence when it was shown to her with a tag attached lo it. Mr. Backus said that he simply took the tag off and then lt;vtoen he hande-i ii hHCK in ««r she eaid it was not the comb that Florence Burns had worn.The Dlstrlct-Attorncy summoned to his office yesterday several witnesses through .whom he had hoped to destroy tho alibi which the defense will attempt 10 establish. The day after the killing of Brooks Mr a. Burns l«s alleged to have said that hct* daughter had not returned home until 7 A. M. Thd witnesses adroit Led that they had not seen Mrs, Burns and that the statement attribntort to her was not true,Eyre to Testify.William A. Eyre, better known • as .-Fatty Eyre, will be recalled M-ihe •hearing to-day..I told the exact truth, he said, at the hearing last Saturday. I never to d any one that it was Brook* who told me that Mies Burns had threatened to kill him, but heard her say so herself.“f will corroborate 'to-morrow, ne said, “the testimony I gave teforcjus-tlcte Mav*r SouiTctay, when I told, of ■Miss Burns threatening Walter Brooks Weber .Fields s - and also on -a .-Broadway cable car oh the way to tne theatre. . _ ,' Judgment was rendered yesterday in the Fifth District Civil Court against the firm of Brooks Wells, of whioh Waller Brooks was a membert for a bill of $27 for a box of raisins purchased from-Joseph Oklti, a, commission merchant. Mr. Wells, Brooks's former part-bftr, produced various bills to ^how that Brooks used his connection with the firm .1,0 buy on his own personal account, Judgmoivt wap. nevertheless rendered 'against Mr. Wells.Rutli Dunn r TVKue«s,Ruth Dunn, who will, proba-Wy be palled as a witness at to-day’s hearing, was, It is said, the successor of Florence •Burns in the affection of Walter Brooks. The young man at the time of his death was trying to sever ».his relations with $Jiss Burns, -so that they would not prove an obstacle to hia atfcenLlans to Miss- Dunn. Brooks and Miss Dunn were regarded as engaged at tho time of the tragedy., Ruth Dunn ia tall lt;Ltvl slender and has yelkhv hair and brown eyes. Her face is very pretty. . In a statement made yesterday she told of Brooke's anxiety about Florence Burns and the trouble he toad With her. Miss Dunn la quoted as say-.. . shared Walter's alarm. T knewFlorence- very wall, and that she wasdisposed., to reBent violently what .she would rGg-u'd as Walter's fickleness, £hepossessed a violent temper and a stubborn disposition,lt;' “On Friday, the day*o£ the tragedy, he called me up on the telephone. He was to have come to my house that . night. .; • 'Ruth/ ho said to me- over the 'phone, M have mot Florence and am .'compelled to go with -her to-night. I am „ going to break off with her to-night. I '..fiope to see you to-morrow/S. -.Later In the day I received a note . from him*.This note was as follows:•■ /‘•‘Denrost !Ruth: Compelled to attend a •telephone message from Florence, Will ' bo'a-t your home later to-night. If hot /vou will hear tram mo to-morrow. Have vhad considerable trouble over this affair jmmV expeot to have niiore before I get 'through, If you care fornve don't worry, -•Jjpvlngly, ; . , . WALTER/”WJifrt Her Mother Say».: / Ruth Dunn was not'at her home, No.‘452 flth avs., Brooklyn, tast night, having the - homo of a friend. Mrs. .. Dunn, her mother, said:V; ■i!fRtiUi,flnd Walter Brooks were merely ^casual acquaintances. Ruth never know . Florence Earns and never got a letter or ... a •:telephone ■messagQ from Brooks on the vjgay' nf 'th« shooting. Walter Brooks ,|onfy called here twice to see Ruth, ana !: irdo ‘lnat think hp confided Ho her any ..•of his troubles/1 ...ibrir iiirMT.M A n AM OTCAMCDFrrcico?frcthico:th;rUrLeth«de-ero•thicoMlDOWdeAs-Mlonmitawjth•heellchcharnrhoDi•foasisdi.-arbeatIIIMGiiMOl
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New York World
New York, New York, US
Tue, Mar 18, 1902
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