Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1903-03-18
KILLED IN HIS AUTO.
PenneII Gees 10 His Death in d Very
Tragic Manner
WAS AN0TOTnER SAD MYSTERY
One of the Chief Figures in the Bur-
dick Murder Case Crushed Going
Over Prec pee.

Buffalo. Special More terrible. al
most than the death of Z. l.. Burdiclx
was the tragedy that occurred late
Tuesday afternoon when Arthur Pen
nell. one OF the chief figures IN the in
NestigatiOn OF the Burdic! murder. was
hurled headlong into eternity. MIR.
Pennell was riding in his electric au-
tomobilc with Mrs. Pennell. They we're
on kensington avenue. near Fillmore
avenue, skimming the edge Of the stone
quarry. huge rock-ribbed hole in the
ground. Pennelrs hat blew on the au-
tomob!le swerved and in some mex
plicabie manner it leaped over the
curb into the abyss below. Pencil was
killed instantly. his head being crush
ed to 2n unrecogniza6le mass. Mrs
Pennell was injured SO severely that
the surgeons ut the Sisters Hospital
to which she was taken, say her chan
ccs OF recovery are very slight
TWO boys saw the tragedy. They
were too far away To know positively
Just how it happened. Mrs PennelI
when found was unable to speak She
was only semi-conscious when taken to-
the hospital and could speak no coher-
ent words. After the operatiOn was
IN'Apl AAlNN lAAtA4i'tldlNlN UN III t.AEtlR
Smith in the hope of SAVING her life.
she lapsed into uncorsciousness and
hence there can be no true version OF
precisely how the Anal. occurred
ny. HCnntu .of, his OAiC1 IN the Aus
tin building ct t:O5 O'Clock in the
afternoon. He went to his home a. 2CS
Cleveland avenue. \ friend who called
IN Mr.. Pennoll on the telephone about
> o'clock was informed THAT Nh Pen
nell was in but that he Was going for
drive. Mr. Pennell himself answered
the telephone and said that he would
be back between 6:30 and O'clock,
making an appointment with his friend
for that hour.
Would 6 o'clock do?" he was asked
"Oh, well yes. might come at &
o'clock, but you better make it later
said Mr.. Pennell.
Those were the last words PenneII
was known 10 speak 20 any one except
Mrs Pennell, save that he went hack
TO the stairs and called out 10 Lizzie,
Robmance, the maid. Lizzie we will
be back between and o'clock" men
he and Mrs. Pennell rode away in the
automobile. 1t was learned that the
matter mentioned in the telephone
talk was something he considered mys-
terious and which weighed heavily
the Burdicl; murder. Recently MIR. Pen
nell made the following s.ctvmGnt: ~
About this csc OF Burdick. [ have
told the authorities | wont aWSav. &c
New York before the murder and t!saf
met Mrs. Burdick while | was awavv
In fact | saw Mrs. Burdick near NV
ork two or three days before the muir
der I have told it frankly and the
meeting W"S a proper one. But thoy
seem to be determined to drag all this
business ont IN the papers. l would do
anything to stop it,
Peppell and his wife left their home.
at 400 o'clock or one or two minutes.
before that time. 1t was a gloomy af
terhoon and rain was falling 1t seemed
strange day for a man to take his
wife automobiling in the lonely north
east section OF the city at such an hour.
Pennall was not Il veteran at automo-
billnS. Yet he was an expert at hand
ing the machine and was experienced
as TO its management What was un-
usual about today's proceeding, ac-
cordlng to the maid, was that Mrs.
Fennell had always before told her
when they would return, To-day. how
ever, said the girl, when they went
out IL was Mr.. Pennell who told me-
lne.r route on their ride no one can
tell In detail Captain Cable and the
ponce were trying tonight to trace the
route or the automobile. Mrs Pen
nell has been loyal to her husband
throughout his trying experiences du-
ring the last ten days. She frequently
said that her faith in him was unsha-
ken and that she would stick to him to-
the end