Evening journal., 1903-03-11
ANOTHER HORROR
IN BURDICK CASE
Arthur R. Pennell, the Buffalo
Lawyer, Killed and Wife
Fatally Hurt
VAS IT SUICIDE OR ACCIDENT ?

Take His Wife Automoblins on =
Rainy Day in Lonely Part of the
4 city-Was Expert With Machine.
Buffalo. N. Y. March 11.-More ter
ibfe almost than the death of E. i.
3urdick was the tragedy that occurred
ate yesterday afternoon, when Arthur
R. Pennell, one Of the chief figures in
he investigation OF the Burdick MUIR
Ter. was hurled headlong into eternity.
dr Pennell was riding in his electric
automobile with Mrs. Pennell. They
we're on KensiRgton avenue, near Fill
more avenue, skimming along the
edge of the Genres stone quarry,
huge ribbed hole in the ground. Mr..
2ennell's hat blew off, The automo-
lile swerved, and in some inexplicable
manner 1t leaped over the curb into
he abyss below Mr.. Pennen was
dlled instantly, his head being crush
ID to an unacceptable mass. Mrs.
'ennell was injured so severely that
he surgeons at the Sisters Hospital,
which she was taken, say her
:hances of recovery are very slight
Two boys saw the tragedy. They
we're too far away to know positively
ust how 1t happened. Mrs. Pennell
when found was unable to speak. She
vas only semi-conscious when taken
o the hospital. and could speak no
coherent words. After the operations
performed Immediately by DR.. Eugene
smith, in the hope of saving her life,
he lapsed into Inconsistencies, and
lence there can be no true version OF
precisely how the affair occurred.
Mr.. Pennell left his Office in the
austin building at 4.O5 o'clock yester-
ay afternoon. A friend who called
IN Mr.. Pennell on the telephone was
Informed that Mr.. Pennell was in, but
hat he was just going for drive. Mr.
'ennell himself answered the tele-
lhone and said that he would be back
4 between $50 and o'clock. making an
appointment with his friend for that
our
"Wculd G o'clock do?" he was asked.
"Oh, we'll, you might come at
,'clock, but you better make it later,
aid Mr.. Pennell.
It was learned last night that the
natter mentioned in the telephone talk
vas something he considered most
erious, and which weighed heavily
pom him. It was in connection with
he Burdick murder
Recently Mr. Pennell made the fol.
owing statement: about this case of
Iurdick. I have told the authorities
went away to New York before the
murder, and that l met Mrs. Burdick
while was away. In fact saw Mrs,
3urdick near New York two or three
avs before the murder of Mr.. Bur
ick. / came home again Wednesday
he day before the murder. have
old It frankly. and the meeting was O
proper one. But they seem determined
drag oil this business out in the
,apers. would DO anything tc
top it,"
Pennell and his wife left their home
I $50 o'clock or one or two minutes
efore that time. It was a gloomy
fternoon and rain was falling. Il
eemed a strange day for a man tc
AXE his wife out automobiling, In the
onely northeast section Of the city
such an hour.
Pennell was not a veteran at auto
lobiling. Yet he was an expert al
andling the machine and was expert
need as to its management. So fai
could be learned, he never had any
ccidents. Certainly he was not re
arded as a green or incompetent
haffeur. What was unusual aboui
esterday's proceeding, according tC
he maid, was that Mrs. Pennell had
lways before told her when the,
gould return. Yesterday, however,
aid the girl, "when they went out i
vas Mr. Pennell who told me. Mrs
'ennell went on ahead of him, anC
.e came back and called me and said
Lizzie, we will be back between 6.3I
nd Z o'clock l said All right an'
hey went away. That was betweeI
40 and 4.50 o'clock, just after Mr.
'ennell had talked over the tele