Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-07
The Murder of Edwin L. Bur-
dick Still BATTLES the Buff
falo Police
NO PROGRESS TOWARD SOLUTION
The Officers Are No Nearer to Solving
The Mystery Than On The Day
The Crime Was committed-stiIl
Suspected That A oman In High
Life Is Guilty.

the murder of Edwin L. Burdick now
seems likely to remain one of the I'M
fashionable problems in crime which
battle the utmost efforts of the police.
The one woman who has been under
strong suspicion and who has become
known as the police suspect is be-
lieved by some of the officials of the
police department to be guiltless Mrs,
Seth T. Paine is no longer under sur
VIGILANCE, and the police admit that she
had no connection With the crime.
During the last thirty-six hours of
hard work on the mysterious tragedy
not an iota of information of sufficient
Importance has been unearthed by the
police. Some of the officials do not pre-
tend to have any clear idea who the
murderer is: they simply say that the
right trail has not been struck. The
probability of an immediate arrest be-
ing made in the case grows slighter
every hour.
Other officials are as sanguine as ever
that an arrest will be made. They Will
not predict when. 1t may be made at
Among those who remain mistaken in
this belief is Superintendent Bull. He
declared last evening that he suspected
the same person now as being the STAY
er of Burdick as he did earlier in the
week and that an arrest was only a
matter of time.
The police last night withdrew from
Mrs. Paine and her house in Elmwood
avenue the surveillance that has been
maintained since the day after the muir
der. Restraint is longer exercised over
her movements, and she may leave the
city if she wishes to.
Patrolman August Meyer the police
man who stood at the corner of Ash
land avenue and Bryant street and saw
the mysterious unknown woman on her
lonely way, confronted Mrs. Paine and
scrutinized her.
Il cannot say that she is the woman"
he replied to his superiors. If COM
thing he might have added that he
could say that she was not the woman
for the woman he described weighed at
least $50 pounds, while Mrs. Paine will
not scale within twenty pounds of that.
The chief of detectives was more
frank than usual today. Mr.. Cusack
had just finished his days work when
the correspondent asked him about the
progress he had made.
I'VE have not a thing" said the chief.
I'VE are precisely where we started a
week ago. 1t is all very we'll to say that
We may be satisfied as to who did it,,
btu the plain truth today is that we do
not know who did it, in the sense that
we cannot arrest and convict. Let those
who talk of making an arrest remember
that this is not a case where, on ac-
court of the general character of per-
sons round about you, you can go out
and arrest or bring in and lock up a
lot of men simply on general principles.
This is not a crime in low life.
Every one closes up when asked
about people whose names have been
mentioned since the affair. Take the
members of the Elmwood Dancing club
for instance. Such people naturally pre-
fer to say nothing. We get suggestions
facts. BY this 1 do not mean that we
it was q woman who did it, but it is a
hard case
The police are sorely disappointed by
the failure of their effort to identity the
lone woman. They had hoped to estab-
lish who she was. where she lived and
where she had been. So far as the law
is concerned she is unknown, unidenti-
fled. unrecognized, and as mysterious as
ever-merely figure who emerged
from the darkness near the Burdick
home, about the hour when Burdick
was murdered.
Policeman Meyer was asked tonight
about the lone woman.
II really don't know much about all
this" he said Il saw a woman there.
but 1t was pretty dark and did not
get good look at her. l am not seek
ing notoriety."
1t is known, however. that Meyer was
close enough to the woman to remem-
Der her fur collar and other details of
her dress.
An interesting development of the
day was the statement made by Chief
of Detectives Cusack that the golf
stick theory had been abandoned. He
is satisfied that the putter was not used
in committing the murder. He also ex-
pressed the conviction that the weapon
used was carried away from the house.
He is sure of that, but he is not so sure
that it was carried to the house of the
murderer. Neither will he venture an
opinion as to the kind of weapon used.
More Riots.
Disturbances of strikers are not