The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-18
She Throws no New Light on
the Mystery.
THE TESTIMONY OF JEDOO
He Tells Of Sursicious Party, Man and Two
Women, He Served as Hack
man on Night Of the
Murder,
(By the Associated Press.)

Buffalo, n. y, March lO.--hlSS Mar
ion Burdck, pretty, rosy checked daugh-
ter of Edwin L. Burdick, was the most
interesting witness at the inquest before
Judge Murphy today. Marion is sixteen
years old and bears a striking resem-
blance to her mother. Like Mrs. Hull
she volunteered no information. She an
swered in monosyllables whenever pos
sible. 1t was Eyes" or no" When
| those replies would not suffice she said
| as few words as possible. She was not
| easily confused and there was no sign of
! agitation or emotion when the District
Attorney questioned her closely regard
ing the events that occurred at the time
her father was murdered.
Attorney Coatsworth began by speak
| ing kindly to the girl, and carefully
| choosing his words in putting questions
! OF her. Later he fired questions in rapid
! succession, all of which were met with
| replies both sharp and decisive At one
! time when the District Attorney asked
| the same question several times the girl
| caused a murmur in the court room by
! raising her voice sharply in a clear en-
! phatic 81 don't know" Nothing of i'm
| portance was elected from her while she
! was on, the stand, and the District At
! torney finally gave her up in despair
She said that Grandmother Hull first
| informed her that her father was i'll
| in his den" That was before Dr. Marcy
! arrived and before Mrs. Hull knew posi-
| lively, according to her own testimony,
that it was Burdick's body lying on the
| couch. The district attorney tried to
/ get Marion to tell why she apparently
! took so little interest in her fathers i'll
ness when she was told of it by her
| grandmother.
Marion replied she knew that when it
was proper for her to know Grandmother
| Hull would tell her. She loved her faith
err and he had always been good to her,
but she would not admit that there was
anything wrong in her not inquiring about
his illness or that she should have done
differently.
Marion admitted that she knew of the
divorce proceedings instituted by Mr.
| Burdick against her mother. She sym
pathized with her mother who was away
from her home. Neither would she admit
that she knew of her mother meeting
Arthur r. Pencil.
DR.. William NJ. Marcy the family
physician and the first person to see the
dead body after the murderer covered
it up. was the first witness of the day.
DR.. Marcy admitted that he told Dr.
Rowland, the medical examiner, that if
it was suicide or looked suicidal it
would be all the better for the family
to make it out case of suicide. Later
he agreed with DR.. Rowland that the
suicide theory was untenable.
Mr.. Marcy was sharply questioned on
this suicide statement, and he said
"Well, l thought it would save Bur-
dicks good name. l saw him almost dis
robed lying on the couch and l saw the
lunch on the table and it all looked very
shady, especially as the divorce proceed
ings had been started
Witness said Mrs. Hull had not asked
him at any time how Burdick had been
killed.
TO Justice Murphy, Dr. Marcy said
he was of the opinion that judging from
the lunch, etc. Burdick's murder had
grown out of the divorce proceedings.
| He thought he had had a woman visi-
| tor there.
In response to Attorney Hartzell's
questions, DR.. Marcy said he had come
to the conclusion that Burdick was killed
between midnight and one o'clock in the
morning
when you first looked at the body,
did you see the wounds on the head and
brains scattered about?'
yes, sir"
"And you had the idea that it might
be a case of suicide?"
well, l did not know. 1 had not con-
sidered"
1.-The fact that there were pillows piled
up on the body was confirmation of your
suicide theory?"
ooh, no.
did you ever know of a man to COM
nit suicide and then pile pillows on his
/ body?"
"No, of course not.
The examination of Dr. Marcy ended
at this point 1t was not as severe as
had been expected.
Katie Noenig a domestic in the Bur-
dick family, told in detail of the events
! of the evening, beginning with the arri-
val of Mr. Burdick with a cocktail bot
/ tie whichashe had not seen since he took
! 1t into the kitchen, substantially as pub
lished heretofore. She had never heard
| Il quarrel in the house and did not know
! that the relations between Burdick and
Mrs Burdick were strained until after
the murder Hartzell brought out the
interesting fact that the gas in the hall
and in the "den" was lighted by an
electric appliance. BY pressing the but
! ton the gas could be lighted. BY press
| ing another button it was extinguished.
On the night after the murder it was
! found that the electric arrangement in
the den did not work. An investigation
showed that some one had turned off the
gas in the 'den" instead of extinguishing
! it by means of the button.
The attorneys purpose in bringing out