CAREER MURDER ENDED
CHICAGO GUNMAN SENTENCED “MOST DANGEROUS MAN LIVING.” life imprisonment for burke. By Telegraph— Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, April 27. A career of crime and murder was apparently ended when Fred Burke received a life imprisonment sentence at St. Joseph, Michigan, for the murder of a police officer. Throughout his brief trial Burke, who was wanted for questioning regarding at leas't 20 murders in IS States, remained cool and quiet. On receiving his sentence he rose, turned to the judge, said. "Thank you,” and sat down again. Burke, who was indicted for tho St. V’alentino Day massacre at Chicago, in which gunmen killed, eight rivals on February 14, was arrested in a farmhouse near St. Joseph (Missouri) on March 26. The prisoner was characterised by Chicago authorities as “the most dangerous man alive.’’ He was placed in a specially constructed cell in the St. Joseph gaol with two guards. A large number of crimes was charged against Burke, including half-a-dozen murders besides the St. Valentine Day massacre, and robberies totalling £200,000.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 April 1931, Page 6
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