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! VOL. XLII. ISO. J4,835.BOMIf Verdict of Jury ShouldFind Her Responsible, Coroner Brown as Magistrate Can Hold Her for Action by Grand Jury.MR. BACKUS WILL NOT • ALLOW HER TO TESTIFY.She and Her Parents and Sister Will Be Kept Out of the State Until Inquest Is Over to Prevent Their Being Subpoenaed as Witnesses— Date of Inquest to Be FixedTo-day.Florence Burns was not removed fro mi alt cfangr of having to stand trial on a charge of murdering: her sweetheart, Walter Brooks, In the Glen Island Hotel when she was discharged from custody by Jus Wee Mayer Saturday night.Coroner Nicholas T. Brown will hold an inquest Into the death of Brooks this week. The inquest proceedings •will probably begin ' to-morrow or Wednesday. Coroner Brown will today confer with District-Attorney Jerome and ask that itho Blstrlct-Attor-.ney’s, office be represented at the In-Auest, and Assistant Dlatrlct-Attorneyfi Schuman and Krotcl will be assigned to the task,The renrtosi tliat Florence Ilnmn %\nn (iplrltcil away «o mysterlonflly from Hi Cvlmltinl Court Building fiatnrday night after l»er ilUchni'KQ wn* to prevent her from being: icrveflL with a .Hnlipocnn to attend the Coi'oiier’* Inqucut tin a wit-Dyaniinoss.‘No charge now.bslng in existence against the gSrI, and as he 3a not under arrest, she could he compelled, like any aUher citizen, to go on the wltness-sland end tell. everything she knows about Brooks and Wig eve.ats leading up to his death.This is a happening which, The World learned yesterday, her counsel, Foster L. Backus, is determined lo prevent at all hazards. He will have the girl kept outside the jurisdiction of the Ne?/ York courts until the inquest 3s concluded.Mr. and Mrs. Burns, parents of the girl, and Miss Gladys Burns, her sister, whom the District-Attorney was go anxious to call aa witnesses In the proceedings before Justice Mayrr. will also be kept outside the jurisdiction of the courts of this county until ike Inquest is concluded.No chance whatever: will be taken by all owing any -members of -tlie family 10 V'lalit this city even for a few minutes.It wa.s.learned yesterday that the case against the girl will probably be laid before the Grand Jury, even If the Coroner's inquest doestnot result Jn a vcr-dtat agahvst her.It Is known that the District-Attorney’ll office did not $*ut In all of the evidence jn its possession at the hearing before Justice Mayer,. uit held a number of importauvt features in reserve, not; wishing to reveal {ha full case to (tjhe defense prior io the actual trial. Juat enough evidence in the opinion of the proaecu'tlng officers to warrant L'he holding of. the girl for the Grand Jury was offered. What the reserve evidence consists of Is- belntf carefully guarded from the knowledge of outsiders.Smngglcd Out (if Stnte,/Miss' Burns, it was reported from fereenwleh, 'Conn., last night, passed through that town on an east-bound train yesterday at 10 A. ,M. Her desik nation could not.be learned. She is said to;be on hor way to. some of her mother’s family. Mrs. Burns was a Miss /Vpnficrbogch, and her father was one of the-chief engineer^ under the elder Roeb-IIng in the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.. The girl’s uncle, • Oscar W. Voaderbosch, of No. ,039 East One 'Hundred i. and Thirty-fifth street, also un engineer, .helped to smuggle her out of the' Crlntfnal Court‘' building Saturday flight,.'.County detectives learned 'yesterday that after, their sensational exit from.. BRUl fridges .at La ! ing. bu This night f 'Binche, for uni The a big p marche deputal petit! or portion master to Purl here.As P: Leopolc .was lee dreda about suffragePAUPJo»eplBALUa pau Bostoi of his ssph 2 000, ar estirm cash here.Mrs.grocerItoJly,stancebeque;Jose five y« In Bo but rf plumb sequel er’s s tlnuln.SUNCMo EX]A Suthe upT and ft structu were s were h downtc The -1 llshing various trouser above, The I in -the gather! rapid litGeor? on the office.Jn the Don ain’t Ji The f(Continued on Second Page.}}CO-EIDeminCHIC COiicag •to t-herfrom Hirefusegymmi Preside ti‘Ti und glrte stock] nekiw n c The eeleetei find. A from : boys atTHUTriedaniTJFL 23,—Tb (been - e troleun ipollce : release fiycen u mand striker aoIJUon return. One soKILLIHduiIlt; at HWAS ins a evening of this The \ and flrbu-Jlet
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New York World
New York, New York, US
Mon, Mar 24, 1902
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