The San Francisco call., 1898-03-24
1 The interment will take place in Holy l Cross Cemetery.
BURKE'S RECORD.
A Brave and Efficient Officer
 and an Honest Man.

The murdered officer was born in Gal way County, Ireland, on March 3, 1852 He came to this city when a young man and while a watchman in the employ ment of the Southern Pacific Company he was appointed a substitute officer on the police force under the McCoppln act.
 Owing to his splendid record as a substitute officer he was the first one to be appointed on the regular force under the act. He was promoted to be sergeant Gn Septem- Der 22, 1890, and when the Board of Supervisors by an order established the rank of lieutenant he was one of the five promoted to that office on De- cember 1, 1895.
 Ex-Chief Crowley and Chief Lees looked upon Lieutenant Burke as model police officer and he had their confidence and esteem. Both were deeply affected when they learned of his death yesterday and Chief Lees gave utterance to his feelings by say ing, Lieutenant Burke was always considered by his superiors to be an A Mo- first-class officer in every re- spect. Besides, he was genial, honest and conscientious man with a big, warm heart, and did not know what fear was. He was quick to think and act and his judgment was seldom at fault His work while a member of the department will stand favorably with that of any other officer, and words would fail me to do justice to his ster- ling worth as an officer and a man. Other officers bore tribute to the dead lieutenant's worth. As one of them said, The was the whitest officer that ever wore a star" His untimely death cast a feeling of sadness over the de- partment and expressions of sorrow were universal.
 One of those who feel his death most keenly is Sergeant Price. He and Burke were appointed to the force about the same time, and for years they were associated together in the Mission district. In these days the Mission was overrun by the toughest i element in the city. From Seventeenth street to the county line robberies were | almost of daily occurrence, but Burke and Price started in with a will to clear 1 the toughs out, and their names soon became terror to evil,doers. In less | than five years they had brought order l out of chaos, but not without having i many narrow escapes from being in- l jured or murdered
 Price was in time transferred from l the Mission, but Burke remained there l ana ne CGlle to DS kIlOWH us IDe IdCnel | of the Mission. He was known to every man, woman and child in the dis l trict and all loved him for his genial l kindly ways.
 Five or six years ago, while ir charge of the Chinatown squad, Burke l did splendid service in breaking up the highbinder societies, and no two mer
 were greater feared by the highbinders than Burke and his old comrade, Price
 Captain Gillin, who is in charge o1 the Mission district, addressed the mer
 at the Seventeenth-street station last evening. He was deeply affected as he l spoke of the lieutenant's death, speak.
 ing of him not as a brother officer, but
 as a dear friend, whose loss would bs
 hard to replace. The captain pointed
 out that every police officer carried hi. life in his hands from day to day, a:
 was exemplified by the untimely deatf
 of their lieutenant while in the per
 formance of his duty, and he urged them all to take example from his de votion to duty and intrepidity.
 Outside of the department the deat l lieutenant had host of friends wh,