The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-09-17
MOTHER AND ibABE
PRIME WITNESSES
Continued from Page One.)

ton, and she went to the Orient, pass
ing through Honolulu last April. 1t
was supposed by the Burke interests
that she would never 90 back again.
81 never intended to 90 back to
California; said Lu Eta Smith. who
is travelling under the name of Mrs
Long to an Advertiser reporter yes
terday afternoon, but in Japan I ran
short of money [ knew of no way to
make any money and ! saw the oppor-
tunltv 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 a friend of
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 ana | have made up
my mind to tell everything | know
Il am going to San Francisco Of my
own free will. The money that | am
spending for the passage Of my child
and myself across the Pacific was raised
for us by some kind hearted people in
Japan who saw that we were n a sad
plight. | can not say that | have any
home in California. for really / have
no home, but at least ] am going to
see this case through and have every
thing settled
Burke s sanatorium is at Santa Rosa.
Sonoma county, California, and Miss
La Eta Smith, travelling under the
name of Mrs Long. was a nurse in that
sanatorium. Burke did her a wrong,
according to the story. Later She went
to the hospital ana. when ont of the
hospital, she was approached by a
woman who had seemed to be a friend
Of hers. a woman whom she sill be
iieves TO be her friend. or saws so at
least, which woman gave her five hun
dred dollars with which to 90 to the
far East. or anywhere she wished to
90. to get her out Of the way. the
woman promising to send Miss Smith
money from time TO time. Miss Smith.
or La Eta. was Informed that it would
be difficult for her to cash a check or
draft in the Orient unless She was
identified. so she says. and, that She
might be properly identified, the woman
friend of Doctor Burke who is the
enemy Of Lu Eta. stated that if would
be necessary for La Eta to sign
number of blanks which would be filed
in afterwards with the details of her
description.
u want to know said Lu Eta to
The Advertiser reporter yesterday af
ternoon, aboard the Chito Maru, in the
presence of Chief of Detectives Arthur
McDuffie. "what it was | signed. I
think | have been tricked.
''This woman was forever trying to
get me to write a letter generating
Doctor Burke of the alleged crime of
trying to dynamite me and the child.
! fought and | protested, and | declared
that | would never sign any such docu-
ment, and finally they gave up trying
to make me sign anything, but when
this woman, whom I thought to be a
friend of mine-and she really acted
very friendly to me-gave me five hun
bred dollars. which she declared came
out of her own pocket, and gave me
the opportunity Of taking an extended
trip which I thought would be for the
benefit of my health, | was taken off
my guard. And when she told me that
it would be necessary for me TO have
letters of Identification in order to cash
checks in the Orient, 7 signed some
blank forms, or what I thought TO be