Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-06
ANOTHER CARD
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correspondent in any action for di-
vorce by Mrs. Burdick against Mr..
Burdick. There is no reason whatever
why it should. My husband and / have
visited or called on the Burdicks and
they have called on us. l do not re-
call having called on them without my
husband and l am positive l never
called alone on Mr.. Burdick at his
mouse. For the past two years l do
not think DIR. Paine and | have called
regularly on the Burdicks.
/ The last time / talked with Mr. Bur-
| dick was last Thursday (the day be-
/ fore the murder). 1t was over the
telephone. On Wednesday night he
! called me in the phone and asked me
! ABOUT Il matter that was purely social
: and did not relate in any way to an
appointment. I told him / would let
him know the next day and on Thurs
DAY L did call him up on the phone.
This was shortly after noon, | think.
| we mad brief conversation and that
was the last time / talked with him.
L did not see him there after.
| "On Thursday evening, / had dinner
| as usual at my home between and
| O'Clock. | did not go out of the house
! after dinner. Some people live in the
| house with us. One of them is the
| young woman named Mrs. Mary Cum
bingham. She had a caller, Thursday.
| After dinner | went into the parlor and
| read the paper. l took some water up
| to her room. knocking on the door and
at that time she and her caller were
sitting chatting. After leaving them I
went to my room. Before retiring l sat
for about 10 minutes with my little girl
while she played and scrawled on a
blackboard. Then she went to bed and
soon afterward 1 retired.
4 positively deny that / was out of
nv house between dinner on Thursday
night and breakfast on Friday. Except
those in my house no one saw me and
| saw no one
All of Mrs. Paine's statements re-
garding her movements have been cor
rohorated by Mrs. Cunningham.
Owing to the severe strain upon her
during the last few days, Mrs. Payne,
today, retained Philip V. Fenenlly, a
lawyer. He is well acquainted with
Mrs. Payne and says most emphatically
that the police have erred in attach
ing so much importance to her ac-
quaintance with Burdick
A house in the Elmwood district is
being watched day and night but the
police decline to give any reason for
the surveillance. Last night for the |
first time the detectives were with
drawn from the New York Central and |
other stations. This move is regarded |
as strong evidence that the police be- |
lieve they know where the murderer is |
and there is no danger of escape. |
An important fact which the police |
have known all along but not made |
public is that on the morning when the |
body Of Burdick was discovered, the |
top drawer in a table al the head of |
the couch where the body lay was OPEN
Little significance was attached to the
fact at that time, for the reason that |
it was known almost at the outset that
robbery was not the motive for the
crime. But, associated with facts and
circumstano uncovered since then, it
becomes, the police believe, a most i'm
portant cleW.
On the day of the murder, the police
questioned the occupants OF the Bur
dick house closely concerning that open
drawer. They We're informed positively
that nothing had been disturbed; that
the drawer was open when the body
was found. In the drawer were some |
letters, a few papers and odds and ends.
The letters and papers We're disarrang- |
ed and on the floor of the den were sew
eral papers indicating that they had
been draggcd out of the omen drawer |
and left where they fell. Now the po-
lice say that certain letters We're taken |
from this drawer. They are confident
that they are on the right track What |
is more, they claim to have III their |
possession q last and strong card !
which they have not played.
The police are convinced that the
woman wEo was seen by a patrolman
at Ito O'Clock on the morning of the
murder walking north on Ashland ave-
nue. from the direction of the Burn
side house, was in no wise connected
with the murder.
We have not played our last card
yet. When we play it, it will mean |
success or failure said District At
torney Coatsworth. Before final action
is taken there will be thorough, COM
prehensive painstaking, rigid review
of the entire case from beginning to
end. The entire situation will be gone
over carefully. After that an arrest
will be made. 1t will be an arrest in
which we will stake all to win or lose" :
Mr.. Coatsworth emphatically denied
that drugs or traces of drugs were
found in Burdick's stomach
District Attorney Coatsworth said,
today:
There will be no inquest until we
have sufficient evidence to convict-if | g..
we succeed in obtaining that evidence"
He SAID he was satisfied as to who
committed the crime, however, and be- .
lieved Burdick and the murderer were ,,
alone.
The Evening News publishes an in !.
terview with Mrs. Seth T. Paine of 492
avenue, whose picture was !.
found in Burdick's den
Il have no fear of arrest" she said. T.
Il can account for my whereabouts
every minute of the night of the muir
der and have so accounted to the DO
lice. | was not near the Burdick house
that night 1 know nothing about the !,
tragedy nor how it happened. I was !.
in my own home all that night and =
can prove by my servants and others =