The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-24


I Just came from teleDhoning you and
hearing your dear. sweet voice. Am
foolish. to telephone you from way down
here2 It was worth all it cost me.
realize more and more that you are the
only woman in the world for me"
DO you remember getting that let
ter?" asked the district attorney.
No, sir
IN this same letter he says: only
a day more and ] shall once more see
the love light in your eyes and exper-
fence the paradise within your arms.
What does he mean by that. Mrs. Bur
dick?"
7 don't know"
What does he mean by the para
disc within your arms?
T don't know"
Pretty strong language, isn't it2''
PLANNED TO GET DIVORCE.
Her husband had not started the di-
vorce proceedings It was she that
wanted a divorce from him. She had
no love for him. but did love Pencil.
whom she expected to marry. He had
a wife, but he expected they would be
divorced. In reply to question as to
whether Mrs. Pencil had consented to
a divorce. she said:
Sometimes she did and sometimes
she did not"
Witness admitted. however. that she
had never talked with Mrs. Pencil on
the subject. Pencil had hired the de-
tectlyeS who Swallowed her husband.
Her husband sent her away in May,
1901, on account of Pencil.
Mr.. Coatsworth showed the witness
another letter written from New York
I by Pencil and addressed to Mrs. Bur
dick. She said it was his handwriting,
but she did not remember having re-
ceived it.
Il will read it and see if it will re-
fresh your recollection: AS I looked
into your beautiful eyes last night I
feared there was some trouble hidden
there. I did not know. but / feared it
was because of some other reason than
because I was going away. If there
was, dearest, 1 wish you would tell me.
There is that in the manner of your
husband toward you that makes me
fear that sometimes that I might kill
him Do you remember reading that
letter."
NO, sir"
Mrs. Burdicl1 said that she did not
know whether her husband was aware
of the fact that she was receiving let
to keep her letters locked in a box Her
husband first knew of her intimacy
with Pennen she thought. on January
l. 1901 when she told him in reply to
question that she had been walking
with Pencil. He told her she was
very imprudent. She agreed with him
then and did not now.
Did you give the letters to Burdick2'
I don't know"
Did you take some letters from THAI
box and give them to him2"
4 unlocked it,
How did you happen to unlock it?"
He forced me to-"
How did he force you2"
He took me by the throat"
She did not remember whether at
! that time Pennell was the subject of a
1 discussion with her husband. She did
not know whether some of the letters
read were in the box at that time. 1t
was in January, 1901, when he choked
her She could not remember when she
Ire +aH in dPnnGif n
pany's vaults. It was not about the
time her husband had cholSed her, but
recently, when she received papers
from detectives about Burdick.
Mr.. CoatsWorth showed her letter
written by her from Atlantic City, Mas
/ 81 1901 in which she begged to be taken
back. promising never to see Arthur,
and that she would be a loving and true
wife In the letter she said she could
/ not promise that Pencil would leave
town, but declared that he would do
what she said. She admitted writing
/ the letter and said a that time she had
hired no detectives.
A second letter written by Mrs. Bur
dick to her husband in the same year
was read in which she spoke of having
| received Burdick'S letter and said that
1 Pencil had not promised TO leave town
4 if Mr.. Burdick took her back; that she
and Pencil had realized that they
must give each other up, but that Pen
nell declined to do anything that would
mean q loss Of his self-respect-
Another letter written by Mrs. Bur
dick to her husband referred to her be-
ing taken back home. She promised
never again to voluntarily see or COM
munlcate with Arthur" She made a
plea on behalf of the children. She
I promised to be a good girl to him. Mrs
Burdick admitted that she wrote the
letter in good faith. and that she did
not keep her promise Another letter
was read in reply to one from Mr.. Bur
dick in which he had evidently declined
to take her back
June was the date of another letter
written by Mrs Burdick to her hus-
band She wrote of having been noti-
he'd of the divorce suit brought against
/ her On one occasion. Burdick wrote
! her that she could not be trusted He
said that if she loved Pencil as she
/ said she did. he did not blame her for
what she did; that if he loved a woman
as she did Pencil he would do as she
was doing. He declared that he loved
her honestly long after she had ceased
to love him. and that, if she tried she
might win back both his love and his
respect He referred to the fact that
Mrs Burdick was wearing a ring given
4 to her by Pencil over her lawful we'd
4 ding ring. Burdick declared that ne
had no faith in Pencils promises and
that she wished to be taken back only
until Pencil was freed from his wife.
In another letter BurdiCk wrote that
/ he forgave his wife the wrong she haG
done him
In another Burdick declared he had
/ determined to fight for the little honor
she had left him, and after getting a
/ divorce to fight for the children He
would insist on the counter suit by Mrs
/ Burdick being fought out in open courl
1 Three weeks after this letter Mrs Bur
I dick was taken back by her husband
After returning from Atlantic City,
and after promising her husband to be
a good wife, she met Pencil. It was
not her habit to meet him. she said. but
I he was constantly begging her to do
/ so, and she did meet him in a house on
/ Seventh street She was there one time
when Burdici came, but he did not see
( her, as she stepped cut of the window
and went to church. She did not hear
that Mr. Burdick and his friends on
that occasion caught Pencil as he was