Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-11
A BUFFALO TRAGEDY
Lawyer Pennell Killed h. stantly, Wife Badly Hurt.
PROMINENT FIGURE IN BURDICK CASE
Automobile In Which They Were Riding Suddenly Veered and
 Plunged Into a Stone Quarry.

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 BUFFALO, March 11.-Ghastly as was the death of D. l.. Burdick, dou- bly, grewsome tragedy occurred late yesterday when Arthur R. Pennell, one of the chief figures in the investigation of the Burdick murder, was hurled headlong into eternity. MT. Pennell was out riding in his electric automo- Kensington avenue, near Fillmore av- enue, skimming along the edge of the Gehres stone quarry, which is a huge rock ribbed hole in the ground on the right side of the avenue going out. MT. Pencils hat blew off. The automobile swerved, and in some inexplicable man. ner it leaped over the curb into the abyss below. Pennell was killed in- stantly, his head being crushed to an unrecognizable mass. Mrs Pennell was injured so severely that the surgeons at the Sisters hospital, to which she was taken, said her chances of recov- cry were very slight.
 Two boys saw the tragedy. They were too far away to know positively just how it happened. Mrs. Pennell when found was unable to speak. She was only semiconscious when taken to the hospital and could speak no, CO., herent words After the operations, performed immediately by Dr. Eugene Smith in the hope of saving her life, she lapsed into unconsciousnesss and hence there can be no true version of precisely how the accident occurred.
 n IoGk l,Se sx,4 4J,o tin building at 4:O5 o'clock. He went to his home at POS Cleveland avenue. A friend who called up MT. Pennell on the telephone about o'clock was informed that MT. Pennell was in, but that he was just going out for drive. He in- formed the friend that he would be back between 6:3O and z o'clock and made an appointment with him for that hour.
 It was learned afterward that the matter mentioned in the telephone talk was something he considered most seri- ous and which weighed heavily upon him. It was in connection with the Burdick case.
 To reporter some days ago he said: About this case of Burdick. have told the authorities went away to New York before the murder and that. Iimet Mrs Burdick while was away. Tn fact, I saw Mrs. Burdick near New York two or three days before the mur- der of MT. Burdick. I came home again Wednesday, the day before the mur- der. have told it frankly, and the meeting was a proper one. But they seem determined to drag all this busi- ness out in the papers. I would do any thing to stop it."
 Arthur R. Pennell as a lawyer had achieved some fame in legal circles in this city. He was about thirty eight years of age. He lived with his wife and children at POS Cleveland avenue, about ten minutes walk from the Bur- dick residence.
 His house swa5 one of the. first searched by the police after the discov- cry of the dead body of Edwin l.. Bur- dick. Pennell was named by Burdick as correspondent in his suit for divorce against his wife, Alice Burdick.
 NIT. Pennell carried $2OO,0OO insur- ance on his life, all of which, it is said, was made over to his wife, who clung to him through all his troubles, forgave him time and time again for his alleged tndiscretions with Mrs. Burdick and other women and had promised even after his name had been dragged through the scandalous mire of the Burdick investigation to stick to him.