Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-27
BURKE WILL FIGHT
EXTRACTION MOVE
IN SEVEN SLAY|NGS
GangSter Says He Bought
Car in Chicago Week Be-
fore His Capture.
SEVERAL CITIES CLAIM
NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL
Killer Refuses to Give Message for
Bride, Who Believes Him
Innocent.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, March 27.-Harry
Ditchburne, assistant States attorney
from Chicago, announced today that
Fred Burke, notorious gangster, had
refused to waive extradition to Chicago
where he is charged with the St
Valentines day massacre OF seven
Moran gangsters.
Ditchburnes announcement was made
after the prisoner had been questioned
for several hours by Chicago officers
and Chief of Police E. M. Mathews OF
st. Joseph.
The assistant States attorney said
Burke readily admitted his identity.
Il was in Chicago last week and while
there purchased a car" Burke was
quoted as saying. Chicago is a nice
town. I've been there several times"
The Governor of Illinois has issued
requisition for the gunman's extradition
according to Ditchburne.
Wanted by Nebraska.
Burke was viewed in his cell by
Claude Hensen, sheriff at Lincoln, Nebr.,
and Forrest Schappaugh, policeman.
ordered away from the Lincoln National
Bank while that institution was being
robbed.
Schappaugh declined to say whether
he had identified Burke as one OF the
Lincoln bandits.
I'm going back and have another
look at him." the Lincoln policeman
said, before say definitely one way
or the other"
Detectives said plans had been made
to carry on extradition negotiations be-
tween the Governors OF Illinois and
Missouri by airplane.
To Chicago, which named Burke a
principal in the st. Valentines day
massacre Of 1929, police conceded prior
claim. Nevertheless, q half dozen cities
where his name has been linked with
murder. robbery and kidnaping-focused
their attention on disposition CT the
man known as ''the most dangerous
criminal In America"
Burke would say nothing of the Chi
cago massacre and its toll Of seven,
felled by machine gun fire, but the
science OF ballistics had pointed to him
nearly two years ago In a search spur
red by Cock County rewards Of SAL 900.
Trapped by an amateur detective and
captured by officers as he lay In bed,
9uEkS Cd1ne unSndCkfe0 I'd ~. Joseph
from the Sullivan Country farm home
of his father-in-law, between which
and house in Kansas City he had di-
vided his time for nine months.
No Message for Bride.
He had no message, he said, for his
20-year-old wife, Kansas City nurse,
who had known him as Richard F.
White. Blonde and blue-eyed, the
former Bonnie Porter expressed disbelief
that the man she married last June.
after a fortnight's courtship, could be
Burke.
Burke, police said, came to Green City,
Mo, soon after he fired three slugs into
the body of Charles Sicily, young st.
Joseph, Mich, traffic policeman. He met
the girl when she returned to the home
Of her father. Barney Porter. neighbor
Of the family with which Burke was
living.
Ofhcers armed with machine guns
rushed into Burke's room at dawn yes
terday and seized him before he could
reach for his gun on a nearby chair.
The officers found $4,765 in his clothes.
He first gave his name as Richard
Franklin White, but later admitted his
identity.