The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-11
HURLED TO DEATH
In HIS AUTO.
Arthur Pencil Killed and His Wife Dangerously
lnJured-Pennell Was Tired Of Notoriety
He Suffered in the Burdick Case

Buffalo. N. Y. March 10.-More terri
BILE almost than the death of e. l..
Burdick was the tragedy that occurred
late this afternoon, when Arthur r.
Pennell, one of the chief figures in the
investigation of the Burdick murder,
was hurled headlong into eternity.
Mr.. Pennell was riding in his cleo
trio automobile with Mrs. Pennell.
They were on Kensington avenue, near
Fillmore avenue, Swimming along the
edge of the Gehrs stone quarry, huge
rock-ribbed hole in the ground. Mr..
Pennell's hat blew off. The automobile
swerved, and in some inexplicable
manner it leaped over the curb into
the abyss below. Pencil was killed
instantly, his head being crushed to
an unrecognizable mass. Mrs. Pennell
was injured so severely that the sur
geons at the Sisters Hospital, to
which she was taken, say her chances
of recovery are very slight.
Two boys saw the tragedy. They
were too far away to know positively
just how it happened. Mrs. Pencil
WITCH lOuIlQB was uildDlc " Sptdh. OnC
was only semi Unconscious when taken
to the hospital and could speak no CO.
herent words. After the operation,
performed Immediately by DR.. Eugene
Smith in the hope of saving her life,
she lapsed into anconsciousness, and
hence there can be no true version of
precisely how the affair occurred.
Mr.. Pennell left his office in the Aus
tin building at 405 this afternoon. He
went to his home at 20S Cleveland
avenue. A friend who called up Mr.
Pencil on the telephone about
o'clock was informed that Mr.. PenneH
was in, but that he was going for a
drive. Mr.. Pennell himself answered
the telephone and said that he would
be back between $50 and o'clock,
making an appointment with. his friend
for that hour.
would o'clock do2" he was asked.
ooh, well, you might come at
but you better make it later. said Mr..
Pennell.
Those were the last words Pennell
was known to speak to any one except
Mrs Pennell, save that he went back
TO the stairs and called out TO Lizzie
Romance, the maid. Lizzie, we will be
back between 6 and Z o'clock"
Then he and Mrs. Pennell rode away
in the automobile.
1t was learned tonight that the
matter mentioned in the telephone talk
was something he considered most Sc
rious and weighed heavily upon him.
1t was in connection with the Burdick
matter. Recently Mr.. Pencil made
the following statement:
About this case of Burdick. i have
told the authorities ! went away to
New York before the murder and that
| met Mrs. Burdick when / was away.
In fact. / saw Mrs. Burdick near New
York two or three days before the
murder OF Mr.. Burdick 1 came home
again Wednesday, the day before the
murder. / have told 1t frankly and
the meeting was a proper one. But
they seem TO be determined TO drag all
this business out I'm the papers.
would do anything 10 stop e."
Pennell and his wife left their home
at $50 o'clock or one OF two minutes
tefore that time. II was a gloomy
afternoon and rain was falling. II
seemed a strange day for a man 20
take his wife out aufomobiling In the
lonely northeast section Of the city al
such an hour.
Pennell was not a veteran az auto
MODELLING. Yet he was an expert az
handling ne machine ana Was exper-
fenced ~ 20 his management. What
Was unusual about to-day'e proceed
ing, according 10 the maid, was that
Mrs. Pencil had always before told