William Burke

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Los Angeles Herald (Los Angeles, California) - March 7, 1898

Got Twenty-five Years Each

SAN BERNARDINO, March 6 - The two hoboes, William Burke and Harry Fisher, guilty of a crime against nature, were given a sentence of twenty-five years each by Judge Oster of Department one of the superior court of San Bernardino county Saturday afternoon, and left Sunday for their future homes, Burke going to San Quentin and Fisher to Folsom.