Show DEATH DAIR IN HOME B BY MASKED MAN MA WALLA WALL WALLA Wash ash Dec i 10 jO 0 AP AP John W. W Brooks pioneer attorney at- at orney torney of ot Walla alIa Walla Yana was shot shoto to o death b by an unidentified man a as ashe ashe he sat playing cards In his home homo yesterday Brooks' Brooks housekeeper Mrs Irs Gertrude was it-as tho the only witness She said she had as assumed assumed as- as her duties last Saturday ani and had no information as to Brooks Brooks' acquaintances According to her story to Prosecuting Prosecuting Prose Prose- cutin Attorney William A. A Coleman Coleman Cole Cole- man she and Brooks were playing cards when someone rapped on the tho door Brooks rose and moved to thedoor the tho door saying Come In A masked man entered revolver In hand He Ho had a red bandana handkerchief about his face two holes being cut for Cor the eyes ces Brooks held ld up his hands bands and said You can have anything I have The Intruder made no statement but fired twice both shots entering Brooks' Brooks breast Dr James T. T Rook a neighbor living a block away heard the shots and screams of Mrs Irs Brooks had lived alone since the tho death of ot his wife wire Last year the th home of Miss Jane Singleton hi his sister-in-law sister was as burned to the ground mysteriously e Brooks was born in Asheville N N. C. C September 9 1870 was as admitted to tho bar in 1892 and came to Walla Walla in 1893 S |