Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-26
Knew of Trouble and Tried to
 Reconcile Parties.
MRS HULL TOLD HIM FIRST

Burdick Refused to Take His Wife Back Promised Always to Give Mrs
 Hull Home With Him-Thirteen-
 Year-Old Carol Burdick Was Re
 called
 Buffalo, March 26.-The Burdick in- quest was resumed to-day and it is be- Meved will end during the afternoon, unless unlocked for sensations should develop in the examination of wit nesses.
 Mrs J. D. Hull. mother of Mrs Bur dick; Rev l.. M. Powers, pastor of the Church of the Messiah, which the Bur- dicks attended, and City Chemist Her bert M. Hill have been subpoenaed.
 The testimony of Mrs Hull where it was at variance with that of Maggie Murray, the cook, and others is the reason for her recall to the witness stand
 The Rev Mr Powers recently made statement over his signature defending Mrs Hull and accusing Pennell then dead, of the murder of Burlick. It is said, however, that it is not so much on account of this accusation that he was subpoenaed, but because he was Burdfck's pastor. He knew the mlr- dered man we'll. Burdick, 1t is said, had talked to him. of his troubles and of Pennell and even of the letters Pen- nell had written to Mrs Burdick. Chemist Hill has the formal report on the contents of Burdick's stomach. Every seat in Judge Murphy's court was occupied when the inquest was re- sumed at 1O:30 a. m. to-day but the crush of other days was absent. The scandals revealed by the testimony of the witnesses on tfe stand have be- | come an old story and public interest in the inquest is on the wane the gen eral belief prevailing that no arrest wiiM follow the present proceedings and that nothing in the nature of material evidence bearing directly upon the murder of Edwin l.. Burdick will be forthcoming The evidence thus far has dealt entirely with the motive. There has not been the slightest direct w fftx1lANC CclSituG LO 8s9CnIMiSl TQ0 1Q6n- tity of the murderer. Rev l.. M. Powers was tho first wit ness. He said that Mrs Hull and the Burdicks were members of his church congwegfiation. "You have had several talks with MT Burdick regarding his domestic af- l fairs?"
 l T had two talks with him." Can you say when the first talk oc- curred?'
 "A'bout two weeks, prior to his death, at his office went there voluntarily to talk to him about the trouble in his- fanily.'1'
 Do you mind telling who had in formed you that there was trouble in the family? P
 "It had become common talk at that time,,'
 Ibid Mrs Hull talk to you about it?'
 ..sYes, once" ] He said he called at her house. l T think I mentioned to her that I had some trouble and she remarked l that she had some trouble also think it started from that,' said the ! witness.
 "She told me her daughter had left and that a suit for divorce was pend ing. She said her daughter was not without fault, but that she was not alone to blame either: that if I knew the whole story would not believe that the fault was all with her daugh- 1 ter"
 l Mrs Hull did not ask him to speak l to Burdick about withdrawing the di- Vorce suit. On the first occasion that witness visited Burdick he walked up home with him and was with him about an hour. Burdick told him about everything that has come out on this lexaminatlon.
 What did he tell you that has not come out?"
 1 He told me that Pennell had threat ened to commit suicide if the divorce suit was not withdrawn. and that Pen nell had succeeded in impressing the sincerity of his threat upon Mrs Bur dick to such an extent that she had be- lieved him and induced MT Burdick to go to PenneM and tell him that if he would gdW out of town he would call everything square. think he said Pen nell' had given a written promise to le1ve town.
 He told me that he had made up his mind to make public all the letters that Pennell had written to Mrs Bur dick and he impressed upon me how ridiculous 1t would make Pennell ap- pear.'
 During your second visit to him, did you talk about his divorce suit?"
 Not very much. called on him oa a business matter"
 Did you ask him to withdraw the suit?'
 "Not that time. did the first time I saw him."
 Did you ask him to take his wife
 back?'
 'Yes, sir.'' From Burdick's answers the witness concluded that Burdick would not take l his wife back under any circum- stances
 l 'sBurtick had very kindly feeling for Mrs Hull" said the witness.