The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-17

| Qnalntlng ourselves more Thoroughly
/ with the splendid progress Of our neigh
| borS to the south.
blank forms, of identification. Now |
wonder what they did with those blank
forms. | am afraid that they may have
/ put something besides the identihcat on
III those forms, and l wonder what it
was they put in. -
Lu Eta pushed back the straw locks
from her wearIed brow and endeav ored
TO keep her husky baby from sticking
the silver spoon in her eye. She is
very fond Of her child, which can hardly
he wondered at when it is hers and a
smart little cherub into the bargain.
He wasn't in the least bit afraid OF the
/ reporter, nor even of the big chief of
detectives.
Lu Eta herself has gotten over wor-
: rying. she seems to welcome the going
to san Francisco with relief, though
IN the lntrlcacies Of human indis-
, crepancy it was necessary for the local
! police 10 keep watch on her here, for
! she might not have been as poor as she
( said she was, nor as anxious to go to
! San Francisco as she said she was
/ Lu Eta said she didn t want to talk
/ to a reporter, though she did lust the
same. She said that in San Francisco
some fellow had said he was reporter
and she unburdened her soul to him, and
/ then found out that he was an attorney
at-law representing the side Of the case
opposite to her own.
Lu Eta was accosted aboard the
! Chiyo Maru, as soon as the vessel
! locked by Chief of Detectives McDuf-
| tie, who gently asked her to do him the
| favor of adjourning to a quiet portion
! of the ship. Evidently Lu Eta antici-
pated an interview with the police, al
!! though she asked no questions She
! followed the detective to a sofa in
! companlonwav aft, and there expressed
no surprise when he exhibited his au-
+ thority by display of communica-
ition from the sheriff of Sonoma county,
California, asking that she be watched
| here, information having been received
that she was voluntarily on her way to
Frisco to testify. There she told as
much of her story as is above recorded.
| saying that she was bound home to see
that justice was done.
Lu Eta was, on the Coast. charged
with perjury and with accepting a
bride, that is to say she was charged
! with not telling the truth about the
dynamite case and with accepting
money to get ont of the country. Burke
was to have been tried on September
/. Santa Rosa authorities were nego.
tiatlng with Japan for extradition of
the important witness. Lu Eta. but
she is going back willingly, unless she
mas some great scheme of evading the
! ISSUE McDuflie was notified by the
Sonoma county sheriff and he at once
! identified the lady and her child
aboard the Chiyo. The Sonoma county
sheriff had been advised from Yoke,
hama.
/ Lu Eta passed through here in April
aboard the ). 5. China. There was a
report that she was hiding here. but
II was The sister of Burke who was
here for a time. She NAV have started
the false rumor. Friends of Lu Eta
took up subscription in Japan to
send her home
! The child of Lu Eta is also alleged
70 be the offspring of Doctor Burke.
Burke is charged with ATTEMPTING TO
/ kin La Eta at his saratorium earIv
this year, and also with performing a
criminal operation. She almost died in
hospital,
Miss Lu Eta Smith was a student
at the University of California when
She met Doctor Burke. who conducts
the health resort at Burke s near Santa
Rosa. She was the chief witness for
he State after a mysterious dynamite
explosion. which nearly killed her as
she slept in a tent al the sanatorium.
Burke was indicted on the count Of
having fired the explosive.
Sonnet irn aftpr 4ha J1-na,,,; :,,,r -;
sode the woman left Sonoma county
and went to Berkeley Subsequently,
she disappeared from Berkeley, and
was next located in Japan
! Following is the official description of
3 Lu Eta Smith, upon which Chief of De
tectives McDuffie yesterday identified
her and advised her to continue her
journey to San Francisco:
/ Lu Eta Smith, aged forty years,
! brown hair, which is rather thin and
poorly kept, small blue eyes, long point
! ed chin, tall, angular. raw boned, I'M
/ calmly appearance. good talker. peevish
/ and high-tempered. Above picture n
good likeness, where she is dressed in
a wrapper. Has male child sixteen
months old, with light hair. light com
! pieXIon, full faced as shown by above
: picture. The mother has poor health.
She has rather slouchy appearance.
/ Lu Eta Smith formerly was a nurse
at Burke s Sanitarium, Santa Rosa So
noma county, California, L. s. A. She
/ IS unmarried; child supposed to be child
| of DR.. ". ?. Burke, who is charged
with having attempted to blow her up
with dynamite on the fifth day of Feb
ruary. 1910, at the above sanitarium.
while she and the child were asleep in
| tent. She is important witness in
the case. She was furnished money to
escape and secretly left San Francisco
April 10, 1910, on s. s. China and went
ashore at Yokohama, where she was
last heard from. 1t is probable she