The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-03-19
BURDICK INQUEST OVER
INQUIRY INTO MYSTERY TO BE
RESUMED MONDAY.

District Attorney CoatsHOrth Cannot
Speak above a Whisper-TyvO New
CIews VIII be Run Down In the Mean
time-Mrs. Burdlck's Testimony Anx-
IOusIy Awaited.
Buffalo, March 1S.-The Burdick in
quest has been postponed until Mon
day. District Attorney Coatsworth is
suffering from a sore throat and can
not speak above a whisper.
All witnesses subpoenaed to appear
this afternoon have been requested to
appear next Monday afternoon.
District Attorney Coatsworth expects
to finish the inquest Monday if he feels
well by that time. Otherwise part of
another day may be taken.
''If I feel we'll 1 see no reason why
the inquest cannot be finished Monday
said he this afternoon. Mrs. Burdick
will be the most important witness call
ed Monday. There will be several 9TH
ers. Burdick's furnace attendant will
be among them. will examine the man
who attended the furnace in the Pen
| nell house and see what there is to the
story that the furnace was fed and
attended to before he arrived the day
after the murder. If there is anything
to the story he will be called as wit
ness"
By many the postponement of the in
quest is considered most timely. The
testimony given yesterday and the day
| before pointed to two new cleWs which
| the police have not satisfactorily run
down. Between now and Monday it is
expected that some definite information
| may be gained by Superintendent Bulls
men.
| The naming of Arthur r. Pennell, or
hireling of his, by Burdick5s partner,
Charles S. Parke, as the murderer, is
the sensation of the hour. Coupled with
this is the report that Pencil, for the
| first time in two years, attended his
| own furnace on the morning Of the muir
der, and rejected the services of the
man who usually did this work.
| Hitherto the officials had named no
| names in connection with the supposed
| murderer. Whoever they suspected
they were careful to keep it to them
| selves.
| The feature of Yesterdays semi-offi-
cial mention OF the name of the dead
man as that of the one believed by Mr..
Parke to be the murderer of Mr.. Bur-
dick was that the authorities knew be-
forehand who Mr.. Parke was to name.
| The police and the district attorney
had talked over the crime with Mr..
Parke previously and were aware of the
trend of his suspicious. They knew, if
they asked him on the stand who, in his
belief, murdered Mr.. Burdick his reply
would be Arthur r. Pennell.
1t is believed that the Pencils fur
naceman's testimony will prove import
ant. Other witnesses who may throw
further light on this subject will also be
called, including Miss Lizzie Romance. a
| servant in the Pennell household, and
| the man who attended the furnace in
the Burdick home, Alfred Brookman.
Mrs. Burdick, too, has not yet ap-
| peared at the inquiry, and her testi-
mony regarding her relations with PEN
| nell is awaited with much interest. 1t
is expected that the authorities may be
| able to prove by her that Pencil had
a key to the front door of the Burdick
! house, though it is also anticipated that
she will be most guarded in her replies,
and that her counsel, Mr.. Hartzell, will
intervene in her behalf should the dis
tr1ct attorneys questions tend to de-
grade or incriminate" her.
! 1t is stated on good authority that the
district attorney will place in evidence
a letter alleged to have been written to
Mrs. Burdick by Arthur l.. Pennell
some months ago. The letter was
found in the Burdick home. In the let
ter the following occurs:
Il feel that I must kill Ed. Bur-
dick
1t was learned to-day that Mr.. Pen
nell left a will, in which Mrs. Pennell
is named as sole executrix in the event
of her surviving. Three alternates are
named to act should Mrs. Pennell die
first. In view of the fact that Mrs.
Pencil died so soon after her husband
was killed it was suggest that the ex-
ecutors named in the will be allowed
to act. The matter has not been def
lnttely settled and an administrator for
the estate may be appointed by the
court