The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-03-11
Machine Carrying MT. and Mrs Arthur PsRReII Leaps Over
 Nall of Stone Quarry.
HUSBAND DIES INSTANTLY
 AND WIFE CANNOT LIVE
PenneII Selected Gloomy, Rainy After noon for His Drive, and the Trag- edy Has an Air of Peculiar
 lty-Two Witnesses.

Buffalo, March 10-More terrible al- most than the death of D. L. Burdick, was the tragedy that occurred late this afternoon, when Arthur Pennell one of the chief figures in the investigation of the Burdick murder, was hurled headlong into eternity.
 MT. PennelI was riding in his electric automobile with Mrs. Pennell. They were on Kensngton avenue, near Fillmore ave- nue, skimming along the edge of the Gehres' stone quarry, huge rock-ribbed hole in the ground.
 MT. Pencils hat blew of. The auto mobile swerved and in some inexplicable manner 1t leaped over the curb Into the abyss below. Pennell was killed instantly, his head being crushed to an unrecog- nizable mass. Mrs. Pennell was injured so severely that the surgeons at the Sis ters hospital, to which sne was taken. say her chances of recovery are very slight.
 Two boys saw the tragedy. They were too far away to know positively just how 1t happened Mrs. Pennel, when found was unable to speak. She was only semi-conscious when taken to the hos pital, and could speak no coherent words. After the operation performed by Dr. Eugene Smith, in the hope of saving her life, she lapsed into inconsistencies and hence there can be no true version of precisely how the affair occurred MT. Pennell left his law office in the Austin building at 4:o5 o'clock this afternoon.
 Friend Called on Telephone.
 He went to his home at POS Cleveland avenue. A friend who called MT. Pen nell on the telephone about o'clock was informed that Mir Pennell was in but that he was going for drive. MT. Pen nell himself answered the telephone and said that he would be back between 6:30 and o'clock, making an appointment with his friend for that hour.
 Would o'clock do?' he was asked.
 "Oh well, you might come at o'clock. but you better make it later" said MT. Pennelf s
 Those were the last words Pennell was known to speak to any one except Mrs. Pennell, save that he went back to the stairs and called out to Lizzie Romance. the maid:
 Lizzie, we will be back between and o'clock"
 Then he and Mrs. Pennell rode away in the automobile.
 It was learned tonight that the matter mentioned over the telephone was some- thing which he considered most serious and which weighed heavily on him.
 It was in connection with the Burdick murder.
 Met Mrs. Burdick.
 Recently MT. Pennell made the follow ing statement:
 About this case of Burdick. I have told the authorities went away to New York before the. murder and that I met Mrs. Burdick while 1 was away. In fact, I saw Mrs. Burdick nearly two or three days before the murder of MT. Burdick. I came home again "Wednesday, the day before the murder. I have told 1t frankly and the meeting was a proper one. But they seemed determined to drag all this anything to stop It."
 Pennell and his wife left their home at 4:50 o'clock, or one or two minutes before that time. It was a gloomy afternoon, as rain was falling. It seemed strange day for man to take his wife automobiI- ing. in the northeast section of the city, at such an hour.
 Pennell was not a veteran at automo- billing. Yet he was an expert at hand ling the machine and was experienced as to the management. He kept the ma ohi fr1 tho sA was to this station that he said he went between 7:45 and s:30 o'clock on the night Burdick was killed, returning to his home about 10 o'clock. He was seen frequently in open weather in his ma- chine down town and on Delaware ave- nue and in the park. So far as could be learned he never had any accidents. Ger tainly, he was not regarded as green or incompetent chaffeur.
 An Unusual Proceeding.
 What was unusual about today's pro- ceeding, according to the maid, was that Mrs. Pennell had always before told her when they would return.
 To-day, however, said the maid, 'when they went out it was MT. Pennell who told me. Mrs. Pennell went on out ahead of him and he came back and call ed me and said Lizzie. we will be back between 6:30 and o'clock I said all right and they went away. That was between 4:40 and 450 o'clock, just after MT. Pennen had talked over the tele- phone"
 Their route on their ride no one can tell in detail.
 Captain Cable and the police were try ing tonight to trace the route of the au- tomobile.
 Mrs Pennell has been loyal to her hus- band through his trying experiences dur ing the last ten days
 Pennelrs body was received at the morgue shortly after s:30 o'clock The features of the dead man were distorted and out of all semblance to their na- tural character. In the pockets were