Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-03-07
Belief Is General That Murderer
Of Burdick VIII Not Be
Brought to Justice.
WOMAN SUSPECT is INNOCENT.
Police Believe All Efforts to Fasten
Crime on Her Will Be unavailing
Superintendent of Police sanauine
of important Developments Soon.

derer of Edwin L. Burdick will never
be brought to justice is becoming a
general belief. During the last SO
hours not an iota of information OF
sufficient Importance to be termed
evidence has been unearthed. The
one woman who has been under strong
suspicion and who has become known
as the police suspect" is believed to
be guiltless, SO far as the crime is
concerned, by some of the officials of
the police department and the district
attorneys Office and they are con-
WINGED that all efforts to fasten the
crime upon her will be unavai1ing.
They do not pretend to any clear idea
who the murderer is; they simply say
that the right trail has not been
struck. The probability of an imme-
date arrest being made in the case
grows slighter every hour. Other of
ficials are as sanguine as ever that
an arrest will be made. They will not
predict when. It may be made at any
moment; it may not be for a week.
Among those who remain mistaken
in the belief is Superintendent Bull,
of the police department He was
asked If he suspected the same person
now as being the slayer of Burdick as
he did earlier in the week.
Il do" he replied emphatically.
And do you believe a woman killed
Burdick?"
i do; that is my opinion"
will an arrest be made?"
Il am confident there will be-"
Has the clue furnished by Police.
man Meyer regarding the woman met
on Ashland avenue on the night of
the murder been abandoned?"
by no means"
An interesting development of the
day was the statement made by Chief
of Detectives Gusack that the golf
stick theory has been abandoned. He
expressed the conviction that the
weapon used was carried away from
the house. He is sure of that, but he
is not SO sure that it was carried to
the house by the murderer. Neither
will he venture an opinion as to the
kind of weapon used.
ANY arrests imminent" Mr.. Gu
sack was asked.
None that l know of. My men are
working hard, but we have not as yet
determined on making arrests"
District Attorney Coatsworth spent
busy day in his office. He denied
that any clues had been received
which are new or that developments
of Importance had arisen.
Philip V. Fennelly, Mrs. Paine's
legal adviser, called on her several
times during the day. Mrs. Paine was
in a happy mood when reporter
called at her home.
do you know" she said with
SMILE before any question was asked,
that the detectives have been with
drawn and that neither myself nor
my husband are under the surveil-
lance Of the police. feel so happy
and free. Actual custody could hardly
be worse than what have endured"
There are several points, Mrs
Paine, upon which it seems that you
might make a statement which could
not possibly injure you in any circum-
stances, but which would better en-
able the public to understand your po-
sition"
Mrs. Paine hesitated few minutes
and then asked to be excused. 81
think" she continued, that | had bet
ter not | shall tell all that know
to Mr.. Fennelly, my lawyer We
have had several conferences and he
is now on his way here to see me. 1t
is about decided that we shall issue
q statement for the newspapers, but
not now. This statement will be pre-
pared by Mr.. Fennelly and will, / feel
sure, make plain several matters
which have been presented to the pub
lie in a perverted manner"
Chief Cusack was asked if his men
were watching any particular house
In the Elwood district He declined
to answer the question directly, but
admitted that number of his men
were still detailed to that territory.