The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-05-14
CHAS. R. B JRKE
JAILED AGAIN
in new YORK
Arrested This Time for Failure
To Pay AlimOny to First
Wife
FIGURED IN LOCAL
COURTS SOME TIME AGO
Second Spouse Claims Standard
Oil Co. is Responsible for His
Troubles

IA Detroit today there STANDS No
man with her back 10 the wall fight
ing what she believes 10 be the great
est force in the world. the STANDARD
Oil company, and into the bottomless
nav OF the courts she is hurting her
jewels, her hopes, her strength and
her very life, while in New York City
her husband is behind prison bars
his crime, she says. being that he, too
fought the Standard Oil.
Mrs. Charles Russell Burke, daugh
ter of Homer Il. Peters, famous Chi
cago capitalist, is the woman, and her
kusband is q 0ne-time member or ex
elusive New York clubs, president OF
various oil companies and inventor OF
process 10 change kerosene into
gasoline al minimum cost but now
penniless and sick
Mrs Burke is staying with the fam
lily of James Barker, No. 40 Stanley
ave Since her marriage 10 Mr. Burke
three years ago she has been hurled
into battle tnat few women would
have dared face, and has met almost
every known form OF defeat and dis
aster
The secret is. she says, that she
holds stock in the international Pc
troll company, which the Standard Oil
company has determined 10 get. With
| il tho fortunes or Charles Russell
Burke will totter in their fall and he
will he without power 10 fight the
forces that have succeeded In holdins
up his patents in Washington
ne story of the fight Is II ietts ofte
and includes arson, thugery. black
mail threats of death persecution
through courts, mail tampering, and
every possible means whereby the
forces fighting Burke could crush him
They did succeed in sending him 70
the hospital when his strength failed
and few days ago when he left the
hospital doors he was arrested for
failure TO pay $4,000 alimony TO his
first wife as ordered by Pittsburgh
court
This first wife, the present Mrs
Burke says, has become tool OF the
oil trust, and is under the direction
Eof Colon Livingstone, well-know New
YORK capitalist oil man and agent fol-
the Standard Although without funds
OF her own. for the past year she has
! been enabled to follow Burke from
state TO state and TO conduct lega
| bartlt that is costing someone thou
sands OF dollars. Through a technica
error In the divorce she was able e
| bring charge OF infidelity agains
! Burke, and to place the present Mrs
/ Burke in fearsome position Burke
was in Detroit when this charge was
made and an attempt to have him eX
! rsdited 10 Pennsylvania failed.
A desperate appeal was made by
Burke 10 Frank l.. Polk corporation
attorney OF New York City and Z
| former friend OF Burke. But the one
time friend suddenly appeared. the
second Mrs. Burke says, under the
+, banner or the Standard on company
and has accepted the first Mrs. Burke''
retainer as her private legal adviser
! Champ Clark, speaker OF the house
OF representatives, is said 20 have
promised 10 introduce Burke's charges
OF criminal conspiracy, in pamphle
| form, in the house.
The fight now, however is to keel
! the wolf from the door so that the
stock held by Mrs. Burke will not be
4 foi ced onto the market To do this
Mrs. Burke has arranged TO sink heI
! las. dollar into page ads" in New
| York papers in which she will appea
! TO the public to write their congress
meu 10 force hearing on the patents
before the committee on patents
These patents cover the process OF SO
curing gasoline from oil and theii
granting means that the Standard OF
! ould lose millions OF dollars.
Il Ia FfNl G
woman. tall, stately and OF pleasinl
address Her faith in her HUSBAND
and his ultimate success is without
measure.
IL want to win for Charles sake,
/ she said Thursday. 1T has been .
terrible fight and the greatest battle
| is vet to come. lie has never faltered
and as his wife can do no less"