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Show fffMOW HABIT ' in CITVUHIEF SLEUTH -Rurk's Ability to Drag Confession From Brriminals Saves State Much Time I u and Money I 9 $ M I Bl)f,''iKi""v' HvcCacn: What arc you hi rc ( r ';.;tior.. ! K"" t I S-' - KTu ho walked into Ins 2 i K'do you get th.it M. Caun I E, d 'A prisi di r. room smll' '1 The 1 Ltbct Ho a'l r'" possible Etjic tint a man had be, a Ei iras awaiting li is arrival I s jour Wu show ou v ii Wci-I Burk. aii-l Hfcok containim; - tntraai .-on h t and m .: d ytistfi n his ' K: recor SuKkvr.n mi uoin Bscrit one of t: fc".: ')! the man, K7 lor (acoi and I fcrjons from written de- mmi lis . imr m llk'-- ,Ki:.nter of year p IttiLsn, Pietro rcjrder In X.-vv V-.n i Btre the bar drinking ,n IBnn by Pat Smil h drug m. 7 -I Tvv Bob. 1v" d n feibou'. this-.' a. J i Ktc!o ,.,-r:. a detective l r- i..n ! "-'Eurk insisted on taking -' sed to being the in in JwHOl com i.ssiov. Hbuithtr Interesting char-Jr" char-Jr" Chief Burk. Ms ability from crlmlna Jcore money by obi Bib criminals than anv Pjnpi in robbing i Xfcrson avi n I T1 street, a nuruU i , ' 'Tan, negro, v. is "s toper .te pun man in 1 V" Hutrhlns. tho I. .,11. ., Kt'OtblD and 5ra..jnfJ n,,. MJhl and left si J. s and , WTs vy. IP" tot away. He -was ar-g" ar-g" the police, evon JK"? an,J Murii I him being the man. Circumstances surrounding the case, however, led Kurk to boilevo that Bryan was the man wanted and after 72 hours of examination the prisoner broke down under the cross-fire of iu tlonlng and confessed, was later convicted and sentenced to the state ;rison. Asked about what impressed the face of McCann on his memory-, Chief Burk answered' i iiaci reason to remember hhn. He and another r.iiow had stuck up a man here in town and stolen his watch. We heard about It and started after him. Wo were given a ride m i husrgv to North Ogden and from there we rode on the old dummy engine en-gine to Hot Springs where w ex-p ex-p , ted to get McCann. "Sure enough, he was Mure with his partner and when we came up McCann attempted to get rid of the. watch by hiding It In a wagon loaded with plums. Hut wc found it and brought them back." It was not clear, however, to hoi question, r that any such an Incident Ordinary in police circles and of ever I day occurrence, shoujd impress on a I man's memory a face that he would instantly recognize after 17 years HABIT WITH BURK. Tenacity of memory with Burk Is i ! habit. Harry Bass and Wallace Reese Were i sentenced on May 5, 1903. to servo 80 and 40 years, respectively, In the state prison for the murder of Fred M - Cabe, The mystery or tho identity of tho I murderers was solved by Burk, who pOlnt d out that one of the men had ! beer, wearing an overshoe with pe- J cullar marks on the heel. NATIVE OF IKt.lM Captain Kurk was born at Burk's ; Garden, Caswell county. Virginia, Juiv 11, 1st,-;. His father, . J. Burk. died when the prospective sl nth was sei n ; years of age. after which the family moved to Tennessee, residing in Johnson John-son City for about five years, moving ' to Salt Bake in Lfso. to Harrjsvllle j ci months Inter, where they resided ; two yais. and then to Ogden, when Captain Burk lias sine resided. He was educated in the public : schools of Virginia. Tennessee and , continui (l school until he had fin- J Ished the seventh grade at the old. Mound Fort school in Ogden. BROKE HORSES. During his early life he was en- gaged In breaking horses for the ! street car company, when horsecars and mule-driven cars were used an I he later on entered the business ! buying, breaking and selling horses. He entered police work on May i l!'in. as a mounted patrolman, under Chlel John Conllsk, In which work he remained lor eight years after I which he was appointed as a detective, j beginning that work in lfos an 1 1 working for seven years with Detec- I tlve ft. 11. Chambers as Ids partner. I lie was appointed chief of dete. tives Under former Chief Jonathan Jones on January 12, 1919, which, pusition he has held since. He married Rose Smuln, daughter j Of Bishop George Srnuin of Ogden. j and has seven children, live girls and two boys. A brief sketch of this kind would 1 not be complete without mentioning the fact that Chief Burk was one if tii-- arresting oi'ihers that apprehended apprehend-ed Joseph HeUry Martin, blackmailer, who by his one t hods terrorized such prominent famines us that of Hoy Eccles, David ISceles. Mrs David Pedes, Ralph Bristol and Mrs. Isabeil Boyle Wallln. Chlel Burk narrowly escaped being killed In the white-horse episode on the Canyon road when a decoy animal was sent out for the purpose of cap-1 turlng Martin He was directly in the path of fire when the bandits opens I up and began shooting. tin |