The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-18
BETRAYED BY his COAT.
Re Has Away Prom the Fight I'm
oslo aoA Was Tracked Ia Chi~sg"
ona 1eek by fhe PIsSAs of His

~~n.fe vas alnoxf saved by an srapog ted
hlue piush lined oyercoats CnarlsT H.
Kurts il thanking mis- lucky or aralueky
stars that he got oat OF DAD rap ASK
Tuesday ~ easily or he I'D. W nssi st8ss
senator Vernon II. Eurke. OF c}eFela9ssi,
frfe~ - 6roo of the eartf again to sssip
ere : nosat5caa conspiracy he Will not gear
N cvcrcosf lined with plush that make-
1verybu1y Tor two blocks turn around aEsd
stare.
Rsrke,s vute In the state senate last
Monday for Senator Hanna's candi'Ia -
would have caused a tie and saved taSs
body frUm going To the democrats ahh
the Kurtz Republicans. 6nfke. popasafIS
euupoeed 10 be in league with chari"s L.,
Kurtx. toek II into his head to disapHear
til Altar tho Democrats had GOT control
~ the s9nate II WIS., a scheme first con-
snefwod nv Mayor No KIsson. of CfevaasEs'i-
0ho Apparently. di.5 rot have enough
&nafh IL Burka's staying powers 70 trust
Rim around where senator HsnBs 8
friends could get NJ him. BnEkess ifstf1se-
tf0ne w%fe TO 90 TO Chicago and lore a'fss-
nh until after the legislature organized,
With the Democrats In control. II ne
eoujdn.t get lost In Chicago he was told To
n, Is Milwaukee. and nobody would ever
3ook for him there When Burke got
ready TO start the weather man eatIaeG
bllsxard. and Burke was compelled 10
weaY his piush-Iined overseat, II in sad
10 have been sent TO Burke b. his grand
0other over III France
Il Attracted Macs, Attention.
Burke gent TO Chicago over t.a- Lake
Shore road. He get ~ al a m. 10 avoid
meeting any If his frsend4. caught the
early Lake shsre tDin AMI climbed into
berth I'm the Chicago sIs@tsr. Thu por-
ter took care of his svsrees.t. The l,iusli
1inif.x STRUCK ths Was ner porter hard.
ssDatss an omnusuai ouercoat you bsse.
ssh" he remarked az soon as Burke got
on the train Burke saw he had made q
mistake. nut IL WAS too late.
When the berths were pat up every fas-
fsngcr In the car filed past the ovefenat
and took a lock- at II. He hid II undes a
seat, but the passengers in the other ggsfs
heard about Ii zad came INTO the car 20
see H. The oyercoat Is constructed Of
Maids, like a bed quilt. and the outside
IL I whole dime museum even II the linz
Ing can't be seeI.
Hurkc stopped at the Great Northern
hotel In Chicago. but his evereoat At
Z tracted so much attention he gave up his
Room and went to Milwaukee. In The
meanwhile, Senator Hanna. who had been
put on the wrong scent. was sending fele-
grams TO every sleeping car conductor and
porter In the East. trying tn locate man
dressed ike fouT~Dost bedstead out for
q walk. After interviewing all the ear
poFfers In the Eastern states and using ~
several telegraph frank hooks. Senator
Hanna started to search for Burke In the
West. His friends thought that by get
ting bold OF him before Monday they could
persuade him to come to Columbus vote
with the Hanna Republicans. and tie tie
senate
The Porter Rememf~Frd the Cent.
H. fFta hsziI
Wagner car porter between Cleveland and
Chicago and next TO the last mar proved
the right ore. lie remembered the blue
( plush lining OF Hnsks's nvercoat though
he had forgotten how Burke looked. fagi-
vntr detectives la Chicago were instrue I'D
20 search for Burke. They traiied him mp
and dawn STAT. street and s.-ound the
fnws tawn district OF Chicago for three
laya last week. fslmfly by his overc3at
Int Burke travtsed fast and they ftilcd
a. catch M with him. He went In Mill
Waukee. bur the color of his coat give
him await. and he was traced there.
The Ohio stale senate met ard orgau-
lied on Monday. Burke war not there.
ard the Democrats controlled II Rufke
WIS Instructed by his friends 70 starr for
4 Columbus on Monday night. Mr.. Hanna 5
detectives were ali ready To capture him
when Burke made for the Union depot
In Chicago. On Monday night Burke aud
his overeoat started for Chicago over the
Panhandle road. They iswf Chicago IT
A.is In the evening. and Burke. TO conceal
bis osercoas. look the stateroem In the
Columbus sleeper He iisst told the porter
thai he wauld kill him If he looked III his
ovsrcoat. or told anybody ahou, IT, sena-
Tor Hanna's friends. who were on Burks's
trail, had been catching UP with his ever
coat for the last gew days and they sat
tn the depot only a few minutes after
Hnrke's train hed left
Senator Hanna got word as S0or as
Burke left Chicago that he was coming.
but the telegram said ne was on "a R43tl-
from a kufts man. aad Is suppose 80
have been e blind 10 throw the senator
on the track and allow Burke 20 get IA
Hurts without being approached II VAS
enc Of the little deceptlons Of Ohio rolf
Tics that are 50 common. AIR, Hanna
ought not "a have been lea astray hy Il,
hut Mr. Hanna fnaiishIv believed ras
/ message. and = r. Everett. the Cleveland
millionaire whom President Mrkinlev q
20 send 20 the Paris exposition. Judge
peifenhansh, Of Cleveland 4 Hanna 81 an.
and William Galtree restof'ice Inspector
who Il Oh little vacation while MIR Ham
na Is In trouble We're appointed "a s,tce,
Burke and Try and show him the error II
his WAYS.
Wired tn the Conductors.
Dispatches we're sent IN the conductors
OF every Baltimore & Ohio train hetW e~n
Chicago and Newark q - a,s, II a "a .
with a piash-llnsd avercoas was ON hasrF
Every conductor wired hack pranptiv std
Indignantly that there Was ne saicA person
On his train. Judge nciIenhaugh ven,
over 10 Newark however. 20 meet .he
train that rurke and his coat were atsa.
posed 10 he on. He went .e tysl as sra
train would not reach Newark tgll morn,
ing. bat was stler,lv after routed Gus hy
dispatch from Mi. ntck aeno3lu,s "a
that Bnrke's overraat had been 1ta-o.
cred on the Pan iiandle train Thar ,, n
t'hieago a. Sis. Judge neiIerhsush ga.
Instructed 80 hire special train a; Nv.
ark ana come 10 Columbus auls X A. "a
Is Baske's political sItahscr II was tho4t.hr
he woGld have Eaase weight with Ann e as
anyhssiy else judge Dellenhsarh Al
wsssked mack 20 Columbus So the rate 81
sixty miles 40 heas hy an engine aud 4
special car
IN the meantime : r Everett was SO.
ttnE another special train ready "a gs, ar.l
81 mFet Burke or he Far usn,iie TAs
Pullman porter photographed q fuJl ,fe
sertptis II the avcfeeat ana there s,s,
s0 doubt about if hsins R4rrkc-s 1s,fe,
peissahawgh, Everett aud Caitree went
With the ss,eciot They telorrsaphe4 ah+.s#
and hsa falykc's trtin h.sta seven uluotss
az ffNana.
narke NaFavsi p, the rartrr.
pf ceurse the Pus'nsaa raFtNy foiG ts3ss Is
al about tAe message tnun!ssHz after q
oveTcoat snd when hss tsstn was hei,4 ,
~ isfhana "a wntt fov The reception a III
mgstee Hurke gathered hts ceat ahss
him. issked the door II s1se statst~torya S.,
WAS in. and then lack 81 hfuss,sf ss ths
sssteFx0na eiesef Everest Gsffrza ard
Jnsfgs beiieahaush bearded ths. -e-.,stzi
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