The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-09-20
MOTHER AND BABE
PRIME WITNESSES
Lu Eta Smith Travelling to San
Francisco to Condemn
Doctor Burke.
CFrom ,Saturday' s Advertiser.)

Unextradited unarrested, but shad-
owed, Lu Eta Smith, unmarried
mother of as sturdy and as handsome
a w-headed baby boy as ever tried
to scratch his mama s eyes out with a
silver tablespoon, even in the presence
of detective and a reporter, is going
back across the Pacific Ocean volun-
tarily to testify in San Francisco
against the man or fend who is alleged
to have attempted her life by dynamite
her life and the life of the child.
DIR. William p. Burke of California
is accused of attempting to kill by an
explosion of dynamite at Burke's sana-
torium this same woman and her baby
who are now passengers aboard the
| Chiyo Maru bound for San Francisco
She was sent out of the United
States, bribed to get out of the United
| States as the police express the situa-
! tion, and she went to the Orient, pass
| ing through Honolulu last April. 1t
was supposed by the Burke interests
that she would never go back again.
81 never intended to go back to
California; said Lu Eta Smith, who
is travelling under the name of Mrs.
Long - to an Advertiser reporter yes
terdav afternoon, "but in Japan | ran
short of money. l knew of no way to
make any money and l saw the oppOr'
tunity of returning to California and
telling all / know about Doctor Burke
: and the woman who was a patient OF
his and who claimed to be n friend OF
II mine. No, | am not afraid to go back
) | intend to tell the truth, all the truth;
and / don't care whom it hurts. The
guilty must suffer and ] have made u[
my mind to tell everything l know
81 am going to San Francisco of my
,, own free will. The money that l an
! spending for the passage of my chile
: land myself across the Pacific was raised
! for us by some kind hearted people il
! Japan who saw that we were in n sat
lplight. | can not say that / have an,
: home in California, for really / havl
: mo home, but at least ! am going Il
= see this case through and have every
6 thing settled
i Burke's sanatorium is at Santa Ross
- Sonoma county, California, and Mis-
Lu Eta Smith, travelling under tn
name of Mrs. Long, was a nurse in thi
T. sanatorium. Burke did her a wroni
III according to the story. Later she WEI
to the hospital and, when out of Il
" hospital, she was approached by
y woman who had seemed to be frien
= of hers, a woman whom she still b
- lieyes to be her friend, or says so
,al' least, which woman gave her five hu
~ dred dollars with which 10 90 to II
~ far East, or anywhere she wished
y, 90, 10 get her out of the way, Il
=, woman promising 10 send Miss smi
>" money from time 10 time. Miss Smlt
or Lu Eta, was informed that IL Won
"a. be dificull for her 10 cash a check
draft In the Orient unless she "
" identified, so she says, and, that 5
~, might bo properly Identified, the WON
-" friend of Doctor Burke who is I
ot enemy Of In Eta, stated hat IL Wot
=. be necessary for In Eta To sign
"a number ot blanks which would be hll
aa. in afterwards with the details Of
hin description.
an 81 want 10 know, said Ia Eta
nm The Advertiser reporter yesterday
INK lteWauu, nbaAfd tha 4 hiyl Mami in
4 4 presence uf lAiff Of Detectives Aftl
'nJ MeDufhf. fWhat IL WAS ! sigued.
ihlHk ! Aayn been irieked
IhIf woman sac fprtYg Tying
Rfi mf IH Wlif a letter ekpneraii
Doctor iufif III Ile alleged crime
mn trying ~ dyuaWItr ME ana tho ehi
era ! tuuRhl and ! protested and drelai
~ tiAi ! would nfFtf sign HuY such do
.lnl mont and nHai'Y iifY gave up iTf|
and ta mHhf mf lRa HfihlHH tui Rl
Haf iha NaHani whom ] thought % ID
fhlt ff'tHi ~ mine ana aha really afI
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