The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-09-20


! out of her own pocket, and gave me
the opportunity of taking an extended !,
trip which / 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, I signed some
blank forms, or what I thought to be
blank forms, of Identification. Now
wonder what they did with those blank
forms. am afraid that they may have
put something besides the Identification
| in those forms, and i wonder what it
was they put in"
Lu Eta pushed back the straw locks
| from her wearied brow and endeavored
to keep her husky baby from sticking
the silver spoon in her eye. She is
very fond of her child, which can hardly
be wondered at when it is hers, and
smart little cherub into the bargain.
He WASH It 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 intricacies of human indis-
, crepancy it was necessary for the local
police to 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.
n Lu Eta said she didn It want to talk
a to reporter, though she did just the
/. same. She said that in San Francisco
' some fellow had said he was a reporter
2 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
I docked, by Chief of Detectives McDuf-
S fe, who gently asked her to do him the
favor of adjourning to quiet portion
o of the ship Evidently Lu Eta antici-
o pated an interview with the police, al
I. though she asked no questions. She
:. followed the detective to a sofa in a
n companionway aft, and there expressed
o no surprise when he exhibited his au-
r. thority by a display of communica'
d tion from the sheriff of Sonoma county
e California, asking that she be watched
# here, information having been received
If that she was voluntarily on her way to
I Frisco to testify. There she told as
!: much of her story as is above recorded
.e saying that she was bound home to see
n that justice was done.
Lu Eta was, on the Coast, charged
:, with perjury and with accepting a
=, bribe, that is to say she was charged
Ia with not telling the truth about the
"A dynamite case and with accepting
in money to get out of the country. Burkt
a was to have been tried on SeptembeI
~, /. Santa Rosa authorities were nego
- B. tiatfnar rritb Iafaor fOr axt itInn
80 the important witness, Lu Eta, bu
=, she is going back willingly, unless sh
has some great scheme of evading tn
ISSUE McDunie was notified by tn
T." Sonoma county sheriff and he at one
H. identified the lady and her chill
"a aboard the Chiyo. The Sonoma count
' ,a' sheriff had been advised from Yoke
- hama.
M In Eta passed through here in Apr
-" aboard the ;. s. China. There was
report that she was hiding here, bu
~" IL was the sister of Burke who wa
pc here for a time. She may have staTte
AZ the false rumor Friends of Lu Ett
W. took up subscription in Japan
~ send her home.
10 The child of Lu Eta is also alleg'
tus .l, 10 be the offspring of Doctor Burke.
llh Burke is charged with attempting
- Kill Lu Eta AT his sanhtorlnm ear
nld this year, and also with performing
ot criminal operation. She almost died
Nas hospital
she Miss Lu Eta Smith was a stude
nan al the University of California VIII
me she met Doctor Burke, who conduC
'uld the health resort a. Burke's near San
n q Rosa. She was the chief witness I
He'd the State after "a mysterious dynamI
her explosion, which nearly killed her
she slept in a tent al the sanatoFiu
/ iol Burke was indicted ON the eoupt
az having fired the explosive,
the Sometime after the dynamillng r
hur sodf the woman lefi s0nnma oour
! and went 10 berkeley suhsequan
she disappeared from Berkeley q
! to Nas neat lusaiel lu Japan,
ling Following Is ibe official deseripilaa
III lu Eit Smith, upon which CHEF nf
I'D ieitiges Menuhe yesterday iieniii
fei heg and advised hef 10 continue
ler Journey in san lraueisepl
.Hg ~ Eta Smith, aged f0Hy yea
hon m1Nn haif Whfh rather thin &
d poorly Kept smHlI hluf fYfs long poi
.ifi "a fhIp. Hli anWlHri aa honfd,
lap gh'Ulk Appearance ennd tHlkff pfef
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