The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-11
ANOTHER
BUFFALO,
MYSTERY R|;i'' 7
Arthur K. r Pennell D Dash,ed:|. d
to Death Over Cliff. j
.HIsWIFE INJURED ] SO
SHE CAN'T RE R COVER
He was Attorney Connected.
With Bur'dick Case. A.
'T.IHERE.ARE UNEXPLAINED a
DETAILS OF ACCIDENT. E !
He Was Attorney Connected.
With BurdiCk Case.
THERE. ARE I UNEXPLAlN q
4 DETAILS OF ACCIDENT
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sS.ssT fSnecial to The Tlme9.D DlspdtcR.J t
"A BUFFALO, NJ. Z. /, March 10 More ter r
rlble almost than the death Of i. u Bur
dick. was the trugedy that occurred late at!
this afternoon. ~ hen Arthur r. Pennell 7'eNfI
one of the chief figures In the investi ga
tion OF the Burdiclt murder. was hurled
9headlong into eternity. Mr. Pennell
was riding H in Al his electric automobile
with Mrs. Pencil. hey we're on ken
sing ton Avenue, IL near Fillmore Avenue,
skimning along the edge Of the Gehrs5
stone quarry. . huge rock ribble hole hole
In the ground. Mr.. Pennells ha blew
off. The automobile swerved. and In
some inexplicable manner 1t leaped over
the curb into the a byss below. Pennell
was killed instantly. his head being
crushed to. an unrecoEn nizable mass. Mrs.
EPcnncll was injured 50 severely that the
surgeons at the Sisters Hospital. to
which She vas S. 4 taken. say her chances
got recovery are syorY 81 y tit.
were too far away to K now positively
just how it88happe Mrs ~ Pennell
when first found was unable to spea *
She was only semi conscious whell ta-
ken to the hospital and could speak no
coherent words. ftcr the operations ON
performed Immediately by DR.. s y ugene
Smith. In the hope OF saving her life,
she lapsed into +unsciousness, and hence
there can be no true version OF precisely
how the affair occurred. 6ti W
NrADB APPOINTMENT. "
Mr.; Pennell left his office In the AUS
tin building at 4:G o. clock this after
noon lie went to his home. ut No. 2oS
}Clevel and Avenue. a friend who called
up Mr.. Pennell on the phone about five
o'clock 4. was Informed that Mr. Pennell
was In, but that he was going for a
drive. Mr. Penne himself answered
the telephone and said that he e5would be
back between 6:30 and Z o'clock. making
all appointment with his friend for that
hour. q .3}
E''''Would5s o'clock do?"'5 he was asked
"Oh! we'll. you might come at o'clock,
hut you better make It later said Nr.
Pennell. 55 A. 34 e i{Ss s5 Il
Those we're the last words Pennell was
know to speak to any one except Mrs.
Pennell, save that he went back to the
the maid: 9 Y, ii
we VIII be back between 8 and
4 o. clock. IN l5#i i.l sSsS isE
Then7he and Mrs Pennell rode away in
the automobile III 9 s5s fa4 @
It was learned to-night8t that the matter
mentioned + in the telephone talk was
somthing he considered most serious and
weighed heavily on him. It was III con-
nection with the Burdick murder,
MADE "A STATEMENT. s
Recently Mr.. Pennell made tho follow-
Ing statement:
told the au silorities went away to New
York tho week before the murder and
that I met Mrs. Burdick while 4 was
away. In fact saw Mrs, Burdiclt near e
New. York two or three days before tho
murder OF Mr.. Burdck. came home
again \ Wednesday. the day before the
murder I have told It frankly, and the
meeting was a proper one, But they seem
to be determined to drag all this bust
ness out In the papers, - would 90 any
thing to stop 1t,
E Eennell ana his wife left their home
at 4:bo o'clock or one or two minutes be-
fore that time. It was gloomy after
noon and rain was falling, It seemed 4
strange place for a man to take his wife
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