The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-25
Mrs. Burdick Makes a Sig
nifiCant Statement.
SHE SNOW COOLAND CALM
And D,clares, for Some Reason not Quite
Clear" That Mrs Pennell Was Quite
Familiar With RurdickS Dining
Room and Der"

(By Une Associated PreSS.)
Buffalo, N Y, March 24.-"Have you
received information as to who killed
your husband?"
mo. sir"
You swear you have no knowledge
or information as to who killed him?"
Il do"
Thees questions We're addressed to Mrs.
Alice Hull Burdick this afternoon by
District Attorney Coatsworth at the in
quest into the death of her husband The
answers were returned by Mrs Burdiclz
| in calm, clear voice. The questions
came abruptly while the district attor-
ney was drawing from Mrs. Burdick her
relations with Arthur r. Pennell She
denied that PennelI took her key to the
| front door of the Burdick home while
| they were in New York together and had
| duplicates made of it. The district at
torney put the question regarding the
| key to Mrs. Burdick in a number of diff
ferent forms. but the answers always
We're emphatic denials that she or Pen
nell had ever ordered duplicate keys
| made, or that the key had left her pos
| session during her last exile from home.
Mrs. Burdick was calmer and more
collected today than yesterday while
testifying. She left the stand at AIS
To complete the examination of every
one known to have been in the Burdick
home on the night of February 26th.,
when Edwin l.. Burdick was murdered.
the district attorney today called to the
stand the two youngest Burdick children
Carol and Alice, aged respectively 13 and
10 years. The district attorney question
ed the children mostly about the events
that occurred at their home on the night
before and the morning after the murder
of their father. The children displayed
| no more sign of emotion than did their
grandmother or mother, or older sister
while talking about the terrible death of
| their father. Their recollection of the
| happening at the time of the tragedy
was rather hazy and Il don't remember"
was usually the answer they gave when
| the district attorney pressed them close
| ly on any point
Before leaving the stand Mrs Burdick
| took occasion to say in reply to questions
| from her attorney that nothing improper
| or immoral had occurred between her
and Pennell AT the same time she said
| her husband was fond of the society of
other women and for some reason not
quite clear said that Mrs. Pennell was
quite familiar with the dining room and
den" in the Burdick home.
There was an occasion about two years
ago when you and Mr.. Burdick had quite
| an alteration at your house?" asked
| Mr.. CoatsWorth, when Mrs. Burdck had
| taken her seat in the witness chair.
Yes, sir, was the reply.
After that it was necessary for him
to wear a piece of court plaster on his
| head?"
mo, sir"
Did not you at that time strike him
over the head with a char?"
Il did not"
you received a letter from your hus-
hand from Indianapolis in January last
year?"
Yes, sir"
Il will read it; Received a letter to-
day from A. r. p. with the contents of
which you are familiar 1 shall decline
to have any interview with him"
In that letter Burdick said he did not
intend to come home again. Mrs. Bur-
| dick wrote a letter in reply in which she
| pleaded with her husband not to persist
in his determination to sue for divorce
She made an appeal on behalf of the
children, declaring that the divorce pro-
ceedings would crush the children, espec
tally Marion
My God, Ed this must not be- You
cannot be so cruel to us. You have been
generous, used to be So, the letter
concluded.
Mrs. Burdick said she remembered
having written it. 1t was dated January
y, 1902
Mrs, Burdick said she had an interview |
with her husband afterward at his office |
She asked him to return to his home |
He said he intended to.
'It was right after that that you had |
all those clandestine meetings with PEN
nell wasn't it?"
Not ri after No"
But 50 after?'
"WeI. ought me constantly"
"On whd ate was it when you jumped |
out of th yindow on Seventh street?'' |
Decent 22nd."
What cl rch did you go to after that?' |
'The Church of The Ascension"
What did Burdick say to you when |
you returned home that night?"
Il told him | had been to church He |
said he knew where 1 had been and he |
asked me why 1 did not let him in when !
he knocked l said I would have if had |
known it was he He then told me that |
l would have to leave the, house and he /
advised me to communicate with Pen
nell"
Mrs Burdick said she saw Pennell that |
same night. She went to his office and |
Mr.. Burdick accompanied her. Il re-