The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-26
BURDICK MURDER INQUIRY.
MRS. HULL TO ne RECALLED TO
THE STAND TO-DAY.

Tue New. MIR. Powers. Durtiick's Pastor.
VINO Accused Pennctl or tho Murder.
VIM De q witness. and the CHEMISTS
Repsft Of the Autopsy VIII BE Read.
BUFFALO, March 2S.-Unless a sensation
comes, and mono Is expected, the Burdick
inquest will end tomorrow. Mrs. Maria A.
Hull will be recalled and questioned on
points where hsr testimony did not agree
with that OF Maggie Murray and little Alice
Burriick. It is unlikely, however, that
anything she may tell will bring the inves-
tiRators nearer to the details OF the murder
Of her son-inlaw.
The Rev. l.. M. Powers. who will be .
witness. In the pastor OF the Church Of the
Messiah, to which Mrs. Burdick went after
escaping through q window Of the Seventh
street house, where her husband found
her with Penneil. When Mrs. Hull's tes-
tinsony made her a central figure Of the
inquiry, Mr. Powers wrote TO some news
papers In defence Of Mrs Hull, and accusing
Arthur r. Pennell, who was then dead,
OF the murder. He has been subpenaed.
not on account Of this statement. but be-
cause he was Burdick's pastor and Bur-
dick had talked to him Of his troubles and
Of Pennell and the letters Pennell wrote
to Mn. BIrdick. Mr.. Powers may be
1Sheu nlB IeabOnS LOT subDtVtlnR ftflntl,
but It Is improbable that no would have
any more evidence to offer than had Charles
8. Parke. Burdick's partner, who accused
Pencil last week
Another part OF Tomorrow proceedings
VIII be the reading Of the city chemists
report on the oon, ents Of Burdick's st omach.
The District Attorney Will not say what
the examination showed.
Police jus, ice Murphy. who has been
holding the inquest, will not announce his
d<.DtA ~ aaU.sH Gas rtrfNa .tVn Mt sha
earliest. He will be- busy on Friday and
he wants at least twelve hours TO review
the testimony. He was asked to-day II
he expecte cd 10 issue q warrant. for there
had been talk OF warrants charging per-
No warrant viii be issued" he said,
unless there Is evidence back Of II to afford
reasonable grounds for a conviction. !
cannot predict whether such grounds will
exist at the close Of the inquest
District Attorney Coatsworth does not
seem to expect q sensation tomorrow.
We have brought out everything that we
have he said this afternoon. The public
known Is much about the case a. the au-
developed lately that we did not know
before the inquest began
One Of the many puzzles Of the case Ia the
whereabouts Of the bond referred TO At yes
terday's session. the bond by which Pencil
guaranteed the payment Of SIS 900 to Mrs.
Burdick. She swore that she knew nothing
Of II, yet her husband found the bond in her
safety deposit box and made . copy Of It,
~ well as q copy Of the letter introducing
her 70 Mr.. Wallace Thayer. who was 70
handed her an envelope containing papers,
which she now presumed must have been the
bond, and she kept them for him in the box,
but later he took them back.
On this point the authorities are inclined
to believe her. They say that Burdick
did not keep the bond, for his purpose was |
served when he had made a copy Of 1t. |
They believe that the bond went back 70 |
Pennell and that later he had planned to |
assign ~, 0D Of his life insurance to Mrs. |
BurJick. Mr.. Thayer says he knows moth |
ing about the bond. When asked whether |
Pencil assigned any Of his life insurance |
and whether he (Thayer) was TO act-as a
trustee for Pencil In any matter. be de-
marry Mrs. Burdick, as abe swears he
did. It 10 hard TO understand why he should
have drawn the bond.
There are many who think that his
Affection for her had waned. His early
letters, written in 1904 and 1900. indicate
that he was madly but joyouely in love
with her, but those Of moro recent date
show that his was q passion trimmed with
melancholy. His ardor was cooling and
bsI t nSs tsrs he might sens
be q great scandal In September he wrote:
: Ii was all fate and upon the knees Of the
gods and 20 upon their knees he left the
woman. a most unpleasant seat this past
month
A private inquiry into the doings Of
Pennell and his wife on their last auto
mobile ride has shown beyond doubt that
they circled about within a mile Of the
quarry and although the rain was heavy,
they put back the top OF the machine ms
they started down Kensington avenue
In the direction of the pit. The strong
top would have been . profession for them
In Q twenty foot fall.