The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-24

fact that she was receiving letters from Pennell. Her habit had been to keep her letters locked in a box. Her husband first knew of her intimacy with Pennell, she thought. on January l, 1901, when she told him in reply to a question that she had been walking with Pennell. He told her she was imprudent. She agreed with him then and did now. Did you give these letters to Burdick?" "I don't know"
 Did you take some letters from that box and give them to him?' T unlocked it."
 How did you happen to unlock it?'' "He forced me to-"
 sHow did he force you?''
 "He took me by the throat" She did not remember whether at that time Pennell was the subject of a discus- sion with her husband. She did not know whether some of the letters in evidence were In the box at that time. 1t was in January 1901 when he choked her. She could not remember when she rented box In a safe deposit company's vault. It was not about the time her husband had choked her, but recently when she re- ceived papers from detectives about Bur- dick.
 Her husband had not started the divorce proceedings. 1t was she that wanted a divorce from him. She had no love for him, but did love Pennell, whom she expected to marry He had wife, but she expected they would be divorced In reply to a question as to whether Mrs. Pennell had consented to a divorce, she said some times she did and some times she did not
 Witness admitted that she never talked with Mrs. Pennell on the subject. Pen nell had hired the detectives who shadowed Burdick. Her husband sent her away in May, 1901. on account of Pen- nell.
 Asked to Be Forgiven. MT. Coatsworth showed her a letter written by her from Atlantic City. May 27, 1901 in which she begged to be taken back, promising never to see Arthur" and that she would be loving and true wife, In the letter she said she could not promise that Pennell~ would leave town, but declared he would do what she
 said. She admitted writing the letter and said that at that time she hired no detec- hves.
 A second letter written by Mrs. Burdick to her husband in the same year was read in which she spoke of having receiv- ed Burdick's letter and said that Penneu had not promised to leave town if MT.
 Burdick took her back; that she and Pen- nell had realized that they must give each other up, but that Pennell declined to do anything that would mean loss Of his self-respect.
 Another letter written by Mrs. Burdick l to her husband referred to her being taken back home. She promised never l again to voluntarily see or communi- cate with Arthur" She made plea | on behalf of the children. She promised | to be a good girl" to him. Mrs. Bur dick admitted she wrote the letter in good faith and that she did not keep her promise. Another letter was read in re ply to one from Burdick in which he had | evidently declined to take her back. I June was the date of another letter written by Mrs. Burdick to her husoand. | She wrote of having been advised Of the | divorce suit brought against her. | On one occasion Burdick wrote to her | that she could not be trusted. He said | that if she loved Pennen as she saiG sne | did, he did not blame her for what she | did: that If he loved woman as she did
 Pennell, he would do as she was doing. | He declared that he loved her honestly | long after she had ceased to love him, l and that if she tried she might win back | both his love and his respect. He refer
 red to the fact that Mrs. Burdick was | wearing a ring given to her by Pennell | over her lawful wedding ring. Burdlck declared that he had no faith in PenneA s
 promises and that Mrs. Burdick wished | to be taken back only until Pennel was freed from his wife.
 Fight for Children. l In another letter Burdick wrote that he l forgave his wife the wrong she had done
 him In another Burdick declared he had
 determined for the little honor she had | oRA s7t | fight for the children. He would insist on having the counter suit by Mrs. Bur
 dick fought out in open court. Three
 weeks after this letter Mrs. Burdick was
 taken back by her husband. After returning from Atlantic City and
 after promising her husband to be good
 wife. she met Pennell. It was not her | habit to meet him. she said. but he was
 constantly begging her to see him and
 she did meet him In house on Seventh
 Street. She was there one time when | Burdick was there but he did not see her
 as she stepped out of the window and
 went to church. She did not hear that | Burdick and his friends on that occasion
 caught PenneIl as he was jumping out of
 the window and that they took him back | to the room.
 Mrs. Burdick admitted that she met | PenneT in another house in Seventh | Street after that incident. She at first | denied meeting Pennell elsewhere. but
 on MT. Coatsworth telling her that Pen
 nell had told him differently she admit | ted that she had met Pennell at house
 in Whitney Place two or three times
 George c. Miller, attorney for Edwin L.. | Burdick, In the divorce proceedings
 against Mrs. Burdick, was the first wit
 ness of the day. He last saw Burdick
 on the afternoon of the day he was mur- | dered. Burdick spent half an hour with
 him discussing the divorce case. He did
 not say that he had an appointment with
 any one at his home that night.
 ''Burdick was ready at all times to sac | rifice his own interests for those of his children" said MT. Miller. At a con | ference held at my office. Pennell made
 one or two statements from which an in | timation of suicide could be drawn. I | never heard Pennell said that unless the l divorce action was withdrawn he would
 kill himself and Mrs. Burdick."
 The testimony given by Henry J. Or
 rett. the furnace man at the Pennell 1 house, was unimportant.
 Lizzie Romance. maid at the Pennell
 house at the time of the murder, said
 that Pennell was with his wife in their
 room reading at 7:45 on the night of the
 murder. She saw them again at 10 o'clock
 when she passed their door. She did not
 see them again until next morning.
 Miss Romance did not notice anything
 unusual in Pennells manner on the even ipg he and Mrs. Pennell started for the
 automobile ride which ended in their
 deaths.