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THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1902. * NEW EVIDENCE NOW FOUND AGAINST FLORENCE oe ts held ins will of powder or smoke stains, If Six inches away the powder be marked. “There are three points to be con-| sidered in an endeavor to determine (Continued fro First:Page.) startling hypothesis of a sulcide pact, of Brooks shooting himelf, of 4 the girl turning on the gas for the ere a eu purpose of ending her‘ life, becoming | 1. dinec. ‘ frightened and running away, taking. | i} the revolver with her, leaving ‘hird. the | < Brooks dead, as she supposed, on the |" ‘he Wound | While the wound of Brooks was 5 i] bed. a typical sulcide wount m Inrme per : Dr. Weston's suicide-theory se¢MS | centage of -elf-Inflleted gunshot ‘) to amuse District-Attormey Jerome. | wounds have their point of en- “All clues we have so far lea¢ Miss Burns,” said Mr. Jer T fe no evidence connecting t else whatsoever with the crime. 1} consider the identification of Miss| Burns by George Washington. the ne-| gro bellboy at the Glen: Isiand Hotel 8 good identification.” Dr. West in the adv He went {nto it ex Evening World to-day his reasons, as follows “In the face of y anybody | one-half inches back of the right Jear and ona line with the top of the ear. I have made a stud his my own experience with sutchdes ¥ gunshot extensiv Having a pomstbiltt cide, I have that tt was possible t have been feted. Tn nc VEVEAN 6 Ce ee ek be cho ‘ Souk oMyyet “T viewed t oa after tr w are ore PHENO CREM fit toires Aeiticon Jonby ostes the doct FRIDAY Wigee eae mt Km ormasee ASSOHTED Heit AND NEP CREAM Pte pur Of the bullet the less !keilitood ¢ a] been FLATBUSH GIRLS READY TO SWEAR TO TRUTH OF pO OR ENCE SAN 's ALIBI. Mise Sturte nd Miss ifyland, ar oft who are sald to “med to swer « and to Miss Burns's vo ow h nthe Parents in Flatbush mother Port, they id a wk + through bush, at §9) ov spoke to hi . If it be uw bush at the time 1 friends it ee would ‘ have been at th ‘ : ; FLORENCE } . a Earleatt r Brooks mnt: Mes. Burns am sure. There was no rea-| mobile coa Lots of w " EAS te0K- ce Y ad Proof of Innocence. , ; . i absurd, mid Mre, iturna 3 we just now to say fe & F f : : 1 {my a ae tes 410 i Twelfth atree:, was the it i ' intimate friend Barns up ; to last sumr day that when F . August {t was gene she was married to impression, she said, was Mr. Burns, the father of F Walter | » GIRL THAT IS ACCUSED OF MURDER NOT AT ALL OF A CRIMINAL TYPE. . “When Florence « Eva she t n " ‘ M ‘ married; and did iether ine BY HARRIET HUBBARD AYER. et hom atrical oka: after th ‘ A ar r 7 » wal t " s ana| 7 wath UB lie Jas i x ean Dincredits the Alibt. 5 : ae rh ? i | sty ‘ ane 4 Child-Like Dine Byes . “t P : | H Brooks to meal times. « fac v work . . et ‘ Cohen, dus and most tnti-| or talks wi h ‘ th a * ‘ < ° mate friend « murdered man, said] hours pass . Ce tf ies r t Y tng to an Ev rae is pleasant * m 4 arkably hands. sha * “ “ t ‘ “Buch a at ar with a gentle ar a hs " 4 true. It ts I far toward resigning her to ner sur- ° r | Burns could roumlings. . . . Fr ( COUPLE WHO CALLED AT HOTEL LINCOLN } NOT WALTER BROOKS AND miss BURNS. _ are ne i gest couple waa behind the Nese anil t ‘ a A 1 ‘ ron: fermenting. | AT HER DESPONDENCY agkage. 1 to! « 1 rh | Ie . . x ted | eag ¢ “Shortly vefore 9 ‘A si but Mr ¢ = f » @ .arge young man wear! he heap ry r Pa “ ! \ lan and, I think, but wou eAUre, | than @ five dollar ee $4] cou : ; MOTHER OF WALTER: BROOKS TELLS | Len aie baoeaear Tae Arse ik Seen an His age Anroualy the Ales} elit are EN i OF THREATS MADE BY THE BURNS GIRL. | wore a dark automobi! wih the woman ‘ 1 of t s a, the mat klyeniten “F 4 hat and a veil. The man dc Austhee Wemanl Caller, | be f Ph ‘* are 4 aa | are ats ag aR |. morning a woman came rushi , afr b aK 1 ks “ * } Rdownlia: the;teception room| imal thalHotel) IC mlaht hmvalbeen oe ‘ “ i Bs . At { while the man came to the desk. He! #ame woman who was here in the = Hrapkate ny Phat te Dumb bie. F _ | Yi Fegistered as “Mr. H. Wilson and wif, ing, but I don’t think it was Ti ? 5 F Fz ‘ eee ° -! A 1 Brooklyn.” I noticed it particularly be-| visitor was shorter, it seems to me, but a Mt ¢ cause he did not put the "e" on the| she was dressed like the woman who| y-tw r Ma ‘ s . " x " . f word wife. It is not true that he signed| was here earlier in t tng-auto- | a aa ati / ba - us i at END OF THE SCHLEY CASE. with th DUMPED SNOW IN STREET. fortng [Sania po. One Driver's Basy Way of Lostnu « President Senda Memorandum to Wie > Raaratc the Navy Department. 4 WASHINGTON, Feb. ®.--Secretary VISITOR PRAI f Long has recetved the following per- | , sonal note ‘from the White House on-| nouncing the President's action in the| case of Admiral Schley: SPEAKS FRENCH WELL, SAYS H My Dear Sir: The President requests | me to state that after a full and most | A FRENCHMAN. CAUGHT I TRI MARKED BILLS BRING NEGRO sss» ts MAIL CLERK TO JUSTICE. Ten other ae okie STABBED WHILE SKYLARKING — f rent yvatne careful considemtion of the appeal of Shields. . xt Admiral Schley and of the answer sub- ong those who sailed for Havre on . r “ ” ‘ w mitted thereto by the Navy Department iraine : Heng Be ee a 2 ’ through you he has made the {nclosed| to-day was Charles A. Latsant, the ex vaste x mone “ z a memorandum on the case, which he} Deputy of the French Chamber of Com- e 1 of the clit a ‘ te directs shall be filed therewith, and me The test of an ad {s tne pro reat ween ; " * no, Quick service through t if over v Be street Voric ¥ you S . a} \onnas thees oa 88 epee M therefrom. Sunday World Wants . 1 : Worldhwantas Ie yeulys z { . mer, don’t use World W cori eee Oars ; stand the test. PRINCE HENRY. SOUVENIR SUPPLEMENT IN COLORS AND SATURDAY. 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