The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-10
SEARCH FOR THE LONE WOMAN.
BUFFALO POLICE RELIEVE SHE
KILLED BURDICK.
They Learn That the Lone Woman" Was
Not the Lost wOman''-Chief Detec.
tive Cusack Says They Are Not Dis
cOuraged. but the District Attorney
Has Not Played His Last card

tive Cusack Says They Are Not Dis
cOurage<I, but the District Attorney
Has Not Played His Last Gard.
BUFFALO, March o.--The probability that
the police will never find the lone woman
in the Burdick murder mystery Is even
greater than their wish that they might
find her. 1t Is evident that she Is not going
TO give herself up. and it is quite as plain
that further confederation OF the stories
OF Meyer and Reed, the policemen, and OF
Joey the hackman, is not going to bring
her to police headquarters. II she exists,
and the police believe she does. undoubtedly
she has taken the precaution not to be seen
on the street, perhaps TO the extent OF leav-
ing the city. Even II she were to be found,
inc police might have to go long way
further for the murderer.
The police learned to-day that this lone
woman was not the lost woman that the
business man. known as Mr.. Smith,
tells about meeting on Ferry street, three
blocks north OF the Burdick home. He
has become more enlightened as TO the time
he met this strange woman, and the hour
was earlier than the time the lone woman
was seen by policeman Meyer. Sothe police
have laid aside the clue of the lost woman.
The lone woman" clue they have not
laid aside, but they are not devoting all
their efforts to ii now. Every theory,
every clue and every examination OF a
suspect, based on the idea that the person
who knows who killed Burdick was from
outside the house, has been turned over
to the limit.
In spite OF the apparently thorough ques-
tioning on the first day of the murder, the
police are still working to ascertain In FULL
est detail all that occurred in the Burdick
house before and after the murder. Two
or three statements have been @ken from
each OF the six persons in the house that
night-Mrs. Hull, the mother-in-law OF
Burdick the three Burdick children and the
two domestics. One Of these servants,
Maggie Murray, was the last person known
to see Burdick alive, as he stood in the han
near the dining roem. clad in his under
clothes and slippers, at 1880 o'clock on the
night Of the murder. She and Mrs. Hull
were the first to utter suspicion that he
was in the smoking room, dead or other
wise, at 8 OF clock the next morning, when II
was seen that he had not slept in his bed
room. The first person actually to ind
his body was DR.. William Marcy.
Over all this ground the police are going
again. They are as much puzzled as they
were ten days ago, but they insist that they
have not given up.
I'VE are not a whit discouraged said
Chief Of Detectives Cusack. The Gibbs
case took many months, but II was solved
in the end by a woman's squeahng. Inc
situation in the Burdick case is clearer than
il was. All the work that has been done
has not gone for nothing because we have
not arrested the murderer. II you were
searching your yard for anything you
would not think the time wasted II you dld
not find it in searching the first half OF the
! orassplot We can see now that there IL
a long systematic hunt before us. with
! the start we did not know but we might
! have our hands on the murderer at any
moment Now, barring the unexpected,
| it Is a question Of time and work.
Are you keeping the Pennen and Paine
| houses under surveillance
Not that am aware OF. There are oHi-
| cers out that way. but they have no orders
| to watch these houses that know Of
| Supt Bull was asked tonight what his
| men were now working at.
| They were up there to-day, in the house
and around about" said the Superinten..
dent -They are going over the ground
! and the details thoroughly again.
| DO you suspect some one inside or out
| OF the house, was asked.
! Il reiterate that in connection with any
| one said TO be suspected, never SAID they
were inside or outside the house, replied
|
| with chemist X scale.
on "Wednesday evening, March I, District
Attorney Coatsworth said TO HE Sun
correspondent
! When We play it. il will mean success or
/ failure
| This afternoon Mr.. Coatsworth's atten-
! ton was called to that remark. and he
was asked II the authorities had played
! that last card" In the same impressive
manner in which he had uttered the original
statement Mr.. CoatswOrth replied:
We have not. The ituation Ii just as
/ il was. There are any nuInl@r OF sus-
Z picious circumst ances that point to a whole
lot of people No. don't mean that ca
, actly, either; ! mean there aIc any numb-r
/ of suspicious circumstances that point To
| a number Of persons. and these are yet
I 10 liz investigated
| Then you still have an important move
TO makef'
we have, but that IL all there Is to nay
/ nj present about
! In view 81 the fact that Mr. CoatsSorth's
remark originally was made before the
joey woman and the Their woman Who
H. referred 10 ~ the lost woman, had
/ ts-.n heard Of. IL h. REASONABLE" to pr-suin"
that the persons agalI-' whom suspicion
~ dir-sfed are Isrsnts Who N"f" under
suspicion at "a" out-sf al ia" murder M
V..iigation Who they are, If "iur--. r.
not Revealed The fact r"nains. however.
that the authorities ~ III hAN" under CON
sidefalion I-r-Jns Nh"i I-'rhal'-, haN"
Thought ia ~. lsh, "f t'rni dr'el.I-
mants that they N-re 'Iiiirli uut uf tie
oa- Iha~. suspici"ls Circumstance are
/ siin to H. investigated
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