The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-03
WOMAN BURDICK'S SLAYER?
BUFFALO POLICE NOW INCLINE
TO THAT THEORY.
They Examine Ut Length Mrs Burdick
and Her Mother, Mrs. Hull, After
Midnlght-The Case said to he Mar.
rowing 20 Two or Three Persons.

BUFFALO, March 2.-Although the police
will not admit that they have ceased TO en-
| terrain suspicion against any individual as
the murderer Of Z. l.. Burdick, their actions
and talk show clearly that they believe
| the criminal was a woman. They are
more certain OF that than they are OF her
| motive or her method. II is known, too, that
| after all their sitting they have narrowed
| the number Of principal suspects to three.
! In day or two 1t Is likely that this number
J will be reduced and then there may be an
| arrest.
Possibly the arrest will not be made
until all but one woman has been eliminated
| from the group. In this connection Q
move made by the police early this morning
| is interesting. Shortly after midnight an
Assistant District Attorney and two de-
tectives drove to the Burdick home on
Ashland avenue. Mrs. Burdick and her
mother, Mrs. Hall, had just returned from
Canastota, where they had gone to attend
the funeral Of Mr.. Burdick. They were
taken in a carriage to the Niagara street
police station, which Is a mile from the
Burdick house. Awaiting them were Dis
trict Attorney Coatsworth, the chief OF
detectives, Mr.. Cusack, DR.. Floyd s. Gregg,
an expert In nervous Diseases a police
matron, stenographer, Capt. kilroy and
four other detectives.
The women were uehered into Capt.
Kilroy's Office, where they remained Tor
two hours. Mrs. Hull was questioned first.
the examination being made by the District
Attorney and Chief Cusack. 1t was the first
long examination to which she had been
subjected. II was Mrs. Hull who sought
Mr. Burdick In his room on Friday morning
and not finding him there led the servant
Margaret Murphy, to the door OF the smok-
ing room. She did not enter. but said to
the servant:
Maggie, have you got the nerve to 60
in there?"
Neither woman entered the room. They
summoned Mrs. Hulls physician, DR.. Will
liam H. Marcy. and 1t was ne who found
the body OF Burdick on the couch in the
smoking room. Mrs. Hull was not closely
questioned that day, as DIR. Marcy. who
had been treating her for hear t trouble.
said that any additional strain upon her
nerves might be dangerous. This morning,
however, Mrs. Hull's statement was taken
in full She insisted that che could throw
no light on the identity OF the murderer,
and declared with emphasis that she be-
lieved no one In the house had anything to
do with the crime or knew Of 1t until the
morning.
Mrs. Hull said she retired before Maggie
Murphy came home, and she knew nothing
of what had happened until she was called
by the servant in the morning. She de-
MED positively that she and Burdick were
on unfriendly terms. and her answers were
spirited and determined. MIS- Hull Ia
slight, pale, sharp featured and energetic.
4 lawyer. Frederick b. Hartzel, who
said he was friend Of the family. followtd
the women to the police station, but was
not admitted to the room where Mrs. Hull
was being questioned. He has been stay
ing at the Buriick home since the murder,
as the women did not wish to be without
projection o'h,r than the police.
District Attorney Coatsworth made 9
formal statement 70 the newspapers OF
his interview with Mrs.. Hull, saying that he
had simply questioned her as 70 her move
ments on Thursday night and Friday
morning. -,
Mrs. Hull, her daughter. Mrs. Burdick,
was called In and questioned for nearly an
hour II was after Q o'clock this morning
when the door Of the private Office was
opened.
case, was called to the District Attorneys
office this afternoon. Her identity was
not made public, but 1t was said that she
was a close friend OF the Burdicks. She
was called in for information. She soon
went away.
There has been great deal Of talk about
the liquor that was found on the table near
the body, but IL is known that the liquor
had not been drugged or poisoned. More
interesting IL the bottle that has disap.
peared Burdick bought q large bottle OF
cocktails on his way home on last Thursday.
II was In a corrugated paper wrapper
| and he placed IL in the bottom OF a side
board. The police did not find Il when they
| searched the house and did not know OF Its
| existence until yesterday when one OF the
| servants told them about II. A search OF
| the house failed to bring IL to light. but the
wrapper was found az the bottom Of a gar.
| bage can In the yard. What became OF
| the bottle AMI it's con ems il a puzzle, for
| Purdick did not leave the house after he
| PLACED the cocktails In the sideboard.
| SSne persons have gone 10 far as to
| suggest that this bottle was the one with
| which Burdick was killed. The police hay We
brings a letter from some amateur detective
who has a theory TO PROFOUND, clue 70
| submit or = suspect TO name.
| The clues which have not been discarded
include the polioeman's story 81 lone
woman. the tuft OF hair found beside the
body. the stained golf stick and the missing
| cocktail bottle
| To-day more thorough search was made
| ~ tho territory sdjaoent To the Burdick
home In the hope Of finding ths golf stick
4 Nfllfn nau tsst rDDttu W ~ pDrFtbts
weapon With which Burdick was killed.
/ When Mr. Burdick's body vas discovered
last Friday morning two golf sticks were on
| the floor under the couch on which Vas the
| body. One ~ the servants In the house
| later reooll.ctsd that two days previous
| she had busted the room. A. that tim.
thsre we're three gulf sticks In tbs corner
/ near this oouoh.
| Ia an intafyl.~ Dr beth T. PAine, hus-
band u Ms. Paine Of tln.ood sv.nu..
who.s photograph Vas found in NJ, buf-
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