Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-21
P[NN[|L WAS AFRAID.
Buraick's Threats to Expose
Him Led Pennell to Seek a
Compromise
ARRANGED FOR AN INTERVIEW
Third Person Who Was Present at
the Meeting of the Two Men to Tes-
tify as to the conversation-Pen
nell Promised to Leave, But Did Not
Keep His Word.

Buffalo. n. Y, March 21.-Details of
win L. Burdick and Arthur r. Pencil
have been obtained by the authorities.
They have found witness who was
present at this meeting, and from him
they have heard a narration of all that
occurred at the conference of the two
men who had been shadowing each 9th
er for a year. The third person was a
friend of Burdick. Pencil wanted
to see Burdick, and sent to him to ask
for talk. Burdick's advisers told him
not to see Pencil alone, and, above all,
not to permit Pencil to call upon him
alone at his home.
Altho Burdick considered Pencil a
coward, according to Charles S. Parke,
he followed his friends advice, and
sent word to Pencil that third per-
son, named by himself, must be pres
ent at any conference they might have.
Pencil accepted the conditions and the
meeting was held.
Mrs. .Burdick was the topic. The
witness says no threats of bodily Vio-
lence We're made at the meeting. This
conference was held late in December.
On the Sd of the month Burdick had or
dered his wife from his house and told
her never to come back. She went to
Niagara Falls and Pencil went there
and saw her. She went to New York
and Pencil saw her there. 1t was
while she was in exile that Pencil de-
manded an interview with Burdick. AT
first the demand was refused, for Bur-
dick told his friends that the lawyer
was not a man of his word. He told
them that when he first sent his wife
from him, in the summer of 1901, Pen
nell after Il conference with her had
come to him and pleaded that she be
taken back.
Pencil promised me at that time
said Burdick to his friends, that he
would leave Buffalo and efface himself
from our lives. took him at his word
and he broke it. Why should l listen
to him now"
Burdick's friends say that instead of
effacing himself from Burdick's life
Pennell started his detective work on
more extensive scale as soon as Mrs.
Burdick was replaced in her home.
Burdicll learned that he was being
but not until the detectives
had been after him for months; then
he learned that Pencil continued to see
Mrs. Burdick and he began to trail Pen
nell
This went on for long time, and
finally the men had a stormy interview
early in last October, Burdick told Pen
nell that before he was thru with the
matter Pencil would be the laughing
stock of the community, that he would
brand him as home breaker, and that
the gushing letters written by Pennell
to Mrs. Burdick would be given to the
world to sheer at
Pencil, according to Burdick's
friends, said that such course would
drive him crazy, and he besought Bur-
dick to reconsider, promising a sec
ond time to leave Buffalo and make his
home in another state. Perhaps Bur-
dick accepted this promise. At any
rate he told his friends afterward that
1t was kept as the first promise had
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to complete his case. Then he ordered
her for divorce.
Mrs. Pencil appeared as a peace
maker about that time, but her letters
10 Burdick had no effect. 1t was too
ate. he said, to accomplish anything.
He told his friends that he was going
20 show Pencil up, and Pencil hear
ng of this sought the December inter-
view. 1t was held in an Office adjoining
he law offices of Parker & Miller.
3urdicks attorneys. Pennell talked of
he action for divorce and of the exile
If Mrs. Burdick, of her unhappiness at |
being unable to see her children, and |
anne to the point of asking whether
ome settlement or understanding could |
lot be made but Burdick was adamant |
lie refused to take back his wife, or to |
lin further faith in any promise of Pen
lells. After the failure of his meeting
With Burdick, Pennell went east in
anuary, and again went east in Feb
uary.
The Friday before Burdick was muir
ered he saw Mrs Burdick and had
long talk with her. as he admitted
o the authorities before he was killed
The day before Burdick was murdered
e came home. Burdick meanwhile had
one ahead with his action for a divorce
nd Mrs. Burdick had started counter
uit, naming Mrs. Warren, of Cleve-
and and Jane Doe as the CO. respond
nts. This counter suit did not seem
0 swelve Burdick from his intention to
unish his wife and Pencil.
All this information these author
lies have gathered preliminary to the
of the inquest. What Mrs.
'urdick will have TO say about it when
he takes the stand on Monday re-
Mains to be heard. The facts seem
D indicate one thing empha tically, that
;urdick did not voluntarily receive
'ennell at his house on the night of the
lurder. And so the question is I'M
olved. If Pencil went to the Bur-
lex house that night who let him
a?
Several bogus interviews have repre-
ented Mrs. Burdick as saying she
fould declare at the inquest that she
elieved Pennell to be innocent Ac-
ording to her lawyers, Mrs. Burdick
as not expressed any opinion the mat
az. A. A. Hartzell said today:
"AlI l have said is this, that the
ennell tragedy has very important
caring in the consideration of the
urdick murder"
BIG DAM MAY GIVE WAY.
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