Homer Brooke

NEW-YORK BUSINESS MAN HURT.

He was Assaulted by an Unknown Man as He Left a New-Jersey Train.

JERSEY CITY, N. J., Nov. 21. - J. Homer Brooke, a prominent resident of Greenville, is lying at his home, 40 Linden Avenue, suffering from concussion of the brain. He may die. His condition is the result of violence, but little is known of the facts. As Mr. Brooke is unconscious, nothing additional can be learned until he recovers, unless the police can find his assailant.

Mr. Brooke is the proprietor of a glass mold works in New-York. While on his way home Saturday night by a Central Railroad train, he became involved in an altercation with a drunken man, who pretended to be a policeman, and who threatened to arrest Mr. Brooke and take him to Elizabeth and lock him up.

The conductor was obliged to interfere for Mr. Brooke's protection. When Mr. Brooke left the train, at Danforth Street station, the man followed him and struck him on the back of the neck and then ran away.

Mr. Brooke was dazed by the blow and did not recover his senses for some time. He finally managed to reach his home. He felt the effects of the blow the following day, but went to business on Monday.

While in New-York he became delirious and wandered about, crossing the river to Hoboken and back to New-York and then home. He then told his family what had happened after which he became unconscious. Dr. Hollister was sent for. He thinks Mr. Brooke was struck with a sandbag or a blunt instrument of some sort. He considers Mr. Brooke's condition serious.