The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-08-29
ACCEPTS FRlEHO'S OFFER TO
START HIM IN BUSINESS
Admits That He is an ES-DurgIaP
But Has Reformed. VIII
Face The Music

1 Philadelphia, Aug William j..
Burke Philadelphia reform council
man, VINO disappeared on August 10.
after writing 4 confession that he Is
I hn ex.conyict and secondstory burg
/ lar. and resigning from councils, re
turned last night TO his wife and ste5
daughter, VINO had been loyal to him
throughout his troubles.
After greeting his family Burke
: Immediately went to the home OF
John /. Fehr. the local business man,
who offered TO set him up in the
cigar business provided he would
come back and face the music" To
morrow Burke Will take charge Of q
cigar store and barber shop, follow
inC his talk with F'ehf, who insisted
that the councilman, whose resigna
tiou has not been accepted should
tell the entire story OF his former
downfall and the exposure Of his old
record
Burke repeated his story substan
TALLY as it has been printed many
times but he added one essential de.
tai He gave the name of the former
convict who blackmailed him ana
drove him from his respected position
as a reform councilman to back
room in a lodging house in West
Thirty Sixth street, New York, where
he has been hiding since his disap-
pearance.
when ( went away" said Burke.
Il shaved off my mustache. did NOT
want any one to know me. | got my
mail at a Mills hotel In New York
City. / fought out the battle with the
assistance OF my wife. Ii was hard
for me to come back to Philadelphia
and face my former friends but there
was no other way
Owes Much To Wife
Il owe great deal to my Wife
and siepdaughter and I propose to
repay IT, shall accept the offer OF
Mr. Fehr Other people have talked
large but Mr. Fehr Is the only one
10 come forward and say: Here IS a
position, Come and get on yo1r feet
once more and lead respectable
life
Huffe declared that certain people
had attempted TO make capital out ol
the fact that he was reform council
man
Jus DttUNHf : w H6 dii hltAl vi = GiiAA.
zatiOn councilman lis no reason for
gang papers 10 take advantage OF the
fact, he sad AS a reform adyo-
cate believed that the crooks should
be driven from Lolitics. think | am
an authority on crooAs / know them
and have lived with them There
are many crooks IN politics.
~ am done with politics forever
no mat 40 The present time has any
right 20 be u politics unless he ha
private fortune If he is poor
man his every move viii be crlti
ciscd. . am poor man and at times
have Had 70 sorrow money n sin-
amounts borrowed a small sum
from an organization politician
Was So grateful that ! told him If
the time came when could do any
thing Tor him iu councils would DO
glad TO DO So. THAT man has mis-
construed my statement and has told
people that he bought me for a mis-
cradle 81 lo1n That's politics for
YOU
Names The Exconvict
"'Nhen / first made my confession
Burke rtinued certain people de
clared ! was lying-that was seek
ing notoriety One newspaper sup
pressed the name OF the ex-conylct
who caused me to lay bare my past
This eX-conyict is jimmy Foley 4
man who has known me for twenty
hye years We worked alongside OF
each other in the harness shoD al
Charlestown Prison in Boston When
I was q boy in New YORK he was a
s..t.
"He gOt every cent D had. and at
ter made my confession he left
Philadelphia and went TO New York.
He is siXty-seven years Old. He ney-
er will blacknai me again and from
now on Will fight the battle OF life,
no matter what people may say