Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-03-25
THE BURD|CK INQUEST
Throws No Light on Murder
Case---Mrs. Burdick Has
Another Trying Day.
TRUSTED PENNELL IMPLICITLY.
Last Saw Him on Tuesday Before the
Murder-says Nothing improper
Occurred Between Them-Testi.
mony of Children Develops Nothing.


Buffalo, March 25.-"Haye you re-
ceived any information as to who
killed your husband?"
mo, sir"
"You swear you have no knowledge
or information as to who killed him?"
II do"
These questions we're addressed tc
Mrs. Alice Hull Burdick by District
Attorney Coatsworth at the afternoon
inquest into the death of her husband.
The answers were returned by Mrs.
Burdick in a calm, clear voice. The
questions came abruptly while the dis
trict attorney was drawing from Mrs
Burdick information about her rela-
tions with Arthur r. Pennell. She de-
MED that Pencil took her key to the
front door of the Burdick home while
they were in New York together AMI
had duplicates made of it. The dis
trict attorney put the question re-
garding the key to Mrs Burdick in a
number of different forms, but the an
swers always were emphatic denials
that she or Pencil had ever ordered
duplicate keys made or that the key
had left her possession during her last
exile from home.
Mrs. Burdick was calmer and more
collected than Monday while testify
ing. 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 Feb. 26,
when Edwin l.. Burdick was murder
ed, the district attorney called to the
stand the two youngest Burdick chill
dren, Carol and Alice, aged respee-
lively 13 and 10 years. The district
attorney questioned the children
closely 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 sis
ter, while talking about the terrible
death of their father. Their recollec-
ton of the happenings at the time of
the tragedy was rather hazy and 81
don't remember" was usually the an
swer they gave when the district at
torney pressed them closely on any
point.
Mrs. Burdick's testimony covered
the week in which Burdick was muir.
dered and the name of Arthur F. PEN
nell was constantly upon her lips.
She trusted him implicitly in every
thing. The district attorney read a
number of letters written to Mrs. Bur-
dick by Pencil. in which he said life
was not worth living without her and
that death would not be unwelcome.
She knew nothing of a document
found in her safety deposit vault
binding Pencil to pay her $4,000 in
the event of his being unable to
marry her. Although it was among
Mrs. Burdick's private papers in the
vault she claimed to have been ignor-
ant of it's existence.
Mrs. Burdick declared that the last
time she saw Pennell was on Tues
day before the murder He left her
that night in Atlantic City, arriving
in Buffalo Wednesday. She was in
formed of Mr.. Burdick's death by a
message from Mrs. Hull on the fol-
lowing Friday and FASTENED to Buff
falo. She reached her home Satur-
day morning. A brief note Of sym
pathy from Pencil came to the house
that day, She never heard from him
OF saw him, she said, between that
time and the day he was killed by his
automobile plunging into the stone
quarry.
Before leaving the stand Mrs. Bur-
dick took occasion to say in reply to
questions from her attorney that moth
ing 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 IA
miliar with the dining room and den"
in the Burdick home.