Evening journal., 1903-03-18
PARKE OPENLY
ACCUSES PENNELL
Business Partne er Of Burdick
Makes Sensational Charge
AT the Inquest
MG1&tNAS FEAR OF EXPOSURE

Witness, Close Friend Of Murdered
Man, Relieves PcnnelI or Hired
Assassin Committed the Crime.
Mrs. Paine On the Stand.
Buffalo. N. y. March 1s.-The name
Of Arthur r. Penner. who was named
as correspondent in the EurdiclS di-
vorce proceedings. and who met a ter
rible death In Gohor's stone quarry
two VIC ks after Edwin L. Burdick was
murdered. constantly came to the sur
face in the inquest before Judge Muir
ply yesterday. Charles $. Parke, Bur
dicks former business partner 3 ,fd
close friend, while on the witness. stand
yesterday afternoon told os converse.
tions he had with Bur LEX relative to
the trouble with p snnen. on one oc-
casion Burdlck tola ParlSe that Pen
nell mad thr eatened suicide If the suit
was nos stopped. Pennell threatened
10 h III both himself and Mrs. Burdick.
He occasionally visited Mr.. Parke
Bald. at Burdick's home. About a year
ago he saw Arthur Pennell at Bur
dicks Office At one time Pennell was
Burdick's lawyer Burdick told Mr..
Parke about the trouble with his wife
about Christmas time Mr.. Burdick
told him he did not blame Mrs. Bur
dick so much as he did Pennell. He
said he had shown him every consid-
GRAFTON, and that Pennell had prom
ised to get out of town. but had not
done so. He said he had lost patience
and the divorce suit was to go on.
"Then the man who made all the
trouble was Pennell?"
"Yes."
did Burdick say he was afraid of
Pennell?"
HE said he had been warned to look
out for Pennell, but he believed Pen
nell was a physical coward, and he
had no fear of him."
He said no one had suggested 2
motive nor said anything that led him
to believe they knew who committed
the murder.
did you form any opinion as to who
committed this murder?" asked Dis
trict Attorney Coatsworth.
Eyes, sir"
"When?"
fright after leaving the house that
day"
"Is it an opinion based on informa-
tion or on supposition?"
"Upon both"
you sufficiently satisfied that
your opinion is correct to state whom
you think the murderer was?"
Il think So"
"Well, who was he?"
arthur r. Pennell or some hired
assassin"
What makes you thRk Pennel
killed him?p
"All the circumstances lead me tC
that conclusion. am satisfied tha
the murder grew out of the divorce
proceedings.
DO you know whether Pennell wai
in Burdick's house that night?"
'"I do not
DO you know whether he had a Ike!
to Burdick's house?"
mo"
Ibid you ever publicly accuse Pen
nell until after he died?"
81 do not know when l first eN
pressed that opinion"
do you know of any reason VIII,
the members of the Burdick famil.
should want the case reported as sui
cide?"
mo, sir"
Have you any reason to believe tha
anybody in the house had any reaso
for seeking to shield the murderer?
asked Justice Murphy
mo. sir"
"Have you any reason to believe tha
anybody in the l7use not in collusio
with the murderer should want TO PR
vent the police from getting informs
tiOn?p
"No, ar"
Mrs. Gertrude B. Paine, the wife {
DR.. Seth T. Paine, an intimate frien
of the Pencils and the BHrdicks, wa
closely questioned regarding the rel
tions between the two families. and e
pecially OF the feeling displayed by ii
men toward each other. Mrs. Paine
house was. searched on the Sunday fo
lowing the murder She said she wa
friendly with both families, and thu
her relations with them we're Of a S
cial nature.