Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-01-28 | Page 1 | Dr. Burke is Guilty

uu line hUIiKt ; He Attempted to Kill a Woman and His Own Child Santa Rosa, Cat, Jan. 28. Jan. 28. . Dr. "Willard P. BurkeA who had lived long years as one of the most honored hon-ored citizens of northern California, was led to prison last night, convicted of a crime that seriously endangered the life of a woman patient and her infant baby. Tho jury found that on Feb. C, 1910. the patrlarchlal physi-' physi-' clan exploded a dynamite bomb at the tent-house in the grounds of his sanitarium sani-tarium whore Luetta Smith and her baby were sleeping. When the verdict was pronounced shortly before midnight, Dr. Burko turned and spoke to his wife, smiling reassuringly. He stroked his long benrd while his attorneys argued for his continued freedom on bail, but, otherwise he betrayed not the slightest slight-est nervousness. Judga Seawell ordered or-dered him into the custody of the sheriff sher-iff and fixed Monday as the day for-further for-further argument on the motion for his release pending an appeal. The story of the crime had an aspect as-pect of sordid romance from the first J-TlT-u- Smithy declared IhatJDr, Bujjke, "was The father of her child, and that, because he was annoyed by the presence pres-ence of the child, he had tried to take thc lives of both. The woman was considerably injured by the explosion, but the babe was not harmed. WJien cured of her wounds, Miss Smitli went to Berkeley to stay with friends. She disappeared from there last April. Rurke's prosecutors traced trac-ed her to Japan and brought hor home last September. The woman said she had been induced to leave this country coun-try by Miss Marion Derrig, a friend of Burke, who had) given her the mone3r for the trip. ""