The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-08
WILL NOT SPARE PRNNELL.
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 The long statement written by Arthur R. PennelI on the day before his death will be produced at the inquest next Friday. The authorities can lay their hands upon it at any moment they de- sire. In this statement Pennell declar- ed that he had no hand in the murder of Edwin L. Burdick; that an unknown woman was in Burdick's den on the night of February 26, and that Burdick was murdered by that woman.
 The Equitable Life company, which issued policies on the life of Pennell within a year to the amount of s45,0OO announced this afternoon through it's manager, W. c. Whitney, that the in- surance would not be paid until after the Pennell inquest, and that it might not be paid then.
 Pennell altogether had taken out in- surance to the amount of $100,000 in the Equitable. The company paid $55,000 of that amount to the estate. The S45, 900, which it now refuses to pay, was taken out within year, and therefore comes under the one year suicide clause.
 It is thought to be very likely that Mrs. Burdick will be forced to make a hard fight before she secures the $25,00O life insurance which Pennell arranged to have paid to Wallace Thayer, in trust for her.
 met his friends in society and in busi- ness, maintained a good front and nev- CT in any way, by public act or deed, justified the suspicion that he was not man of honor. If Pennell had nerve enough to do that he had nerve enough to commit greater crimes"
 MT. Coatsworth said that it probably would not be possible at the Pennell in- quest to bring out the story of Pencils alleged defalcations.
 There is apt to be bitter fight at the Pennell inquest over the authority of the court to compel the administrator and his attorney to testify and produce the dead mans papers. It is claimed on one side that the inquest is for the exclusive purpose of establishing the cause of death and prove a crime, if there was, one. It is said that the court will have no right to inquire into the financial affairs of Pennell or take tes- timony bearing on the Burdick murder. As to the question of crime, it is held | that suicide is not a crime under the statute. Attempted suicide is felony. but when the attempt is successful | there can be no crime.
 | The insurance companies are greatly interested in this question, and an ef- | fort will be made to restrict the in- quiries of the court for the purpose of preventing the insurance companies from getting any evidence establishing the suicide theory.
 District Attorney Coatsworth stated to-day that the question of how deep the investigation should go at the Pen- nell inquest was matter entirely with | in the discretion of the court. "All I know is that shall insist that every bit of information be brought out," said MT. Coatsworth. 'The court can compel MT. Pennell and MT. Pen- ney to testify and produce papers. am going to find out about this Burdick murder, insurance companies or no in- surance companies. don't care rap 1 whether Pennell committed suicide or not, and I shall make no effort at the I inquest to prove that he committed sui- eide. I do not intend to pull any chest
 nuts out of the fire for the insurance
 companies, but if in the natural course of the investigation information of value to them comes out cannot help that.'
 J. Frederick Pennell has left town, and his present whereabouts are un- l known. He had a talk with his attor- ney, MT. Penney, yesterday afternoon
 and then quickly left the city. MT.
 Penney said to-day that MT. Pennell | was out of town and that he did not know when he would return.