The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-03-26
INQUEST.
Continued from page One.
TALKING IN THE HALL.

| IAlhiNt IN lfiE ttAl<l1.
Continuing. the witness said that when
she came out into the hall she heard her
grandmother and Maggie Murphy talking.
| AT first she could not remember what
they were talking about, but being aues-
uohed SAID she heard them say; why.
! he hasn't been In his bed all night" and
his den door is closed"
-, Alice said: Why; / heard papa go down
said II was Alice and not she, Carol, who
| said this.
| Asked as TO whether anybody had talk
cd to her since her fathers death as TO
! how he was killed, the witness said: mo.
| i do not know how he was killed" She
| did not hear there was anything the mat
ter with her father until after DR.. Marcy
could not recall who slept with grandma
| that night.
Attorney Hartzell objected to the dis
trict attorney pressing the witness. and
| the court said:
I'VE don't care for any suggestions
from you. You are here only through
courtesy. When we think the district at
torney is going too far. / shall stop him
/ don't see any way why you should fear
to have the witness pressed"
MRS. HULL RECALLED.
Mrs. Hull was recalled and the district
attorney pointed out that when on the
stand before she had testified that she
was In the bathroom when Maggie Muir
ray told her the den door was closed and
the Kitchen window was open while Mag
gle Murray testified that they were in
Mrs. Hulls room at the time
witness was sure they were not in her
room at the time. She did not remember
having seen the children that morning be-
fore she went down stairs nor having
heard the remark:
why just heard papa go down
stairs"
Mrs. Hull reiterated that she went to
Inh nhrfn AI. A.l.
morning. She usually went TO the Church
or the Messiah but once or twice had
dropped I'm at st. Johns church. She was
not on Elmwood avenue that morning
Pennell was seen on Elmwood avenue
near the Burdick home that morning)
Since last on the stand she had been
reminded that on the following after
noon, the afternoon OF the night on which
Burdick was killed she went to dem
tist on Elmwood avenue. In the morning
she went to st. Johns church. but they
were not having services. She then got
on car and went to st. Pauls church.
REMEMBERED KEY INCIDENT.
Witness remembered Burdick having
forced his wife TO give him the key TO
her Letter box. She had never seen the
contents OF the box. She knew while
Mrs. Burdick was in Atlantic City and
at Niagara Falls that Pennell was there
too. There was lock on the den door
but she did not know whether there was
a key to IL.
Witness said she was not In the cellar
on the morning the murder was dscov-
cred. either before or after the discov-
cry.
DIDN'T LIKE PENNEIL..
What were your relations with Mr.. |
Pennell?" asked Attorney Hubbell
Not any.He was a man 1 did not like"
Did you ever appeal to him to let Mrs |
Burdick alone7"
"Yes on two occasions. The first time
wrote him a very earnest letter I ap-
pealed to his pride. telling him that any /
one who had been a guest I'm the house I
should be above making trouble I'm Our /
home. l am sure IT The man had fad any :
heart or decency that appeal would have
been sufficient"
Mrs Hull testified that she wrote Pen
nell again last May.
He sent very cold reply" she said. |
'in which he said he would not be driven
out OF Buffalo: that there was n better
way to settle the matter"
Did you ever meet him after that7'
Yes. met him once. He tried 10 raise
his hat TO me. but 1 looked the other
way"
''Then your feelings towards him were
those OF resentment"
They were"
And what were his Feelings toward
your"
81 do not know"
HEARD CHILDs STATEMENT.
Maggie Murray. the servant, was re-
called after Mrs Hull
While you wee In the hall upstairs
aid Carol say. why / just heard papa.
20 down stairs7'
Eyes, sir"
The object I'm bringing out this testi-
mony apparently was TO show that some
body had been moving about the house
hat morning
do you know who II was Carol heard
going down stairs?'
mo do not"
II Is the understanding this afternoon
hat the inquest into the death OF Arthur
R. Penneli will he held Immediately and
hat the verdict I'm Burdick case will not
Do rendered until after the close OF the
Pennell inquest when both verdicts will
,e handed down simultaneously. This
indicates how closely allied the two trag-
dies are I'm the official mind
Naturally there been considerable spec
ilation as TO what the verdict to he I'm
he Burdick case. Under the new law the
,olice justice has the right to Issue war
ants at the close OF an inquest I'm n rnur-
Ter case In the event that the evidence
'rousht- out during the Investigation Is
uricient to indicate the guilt OF any
articular person with sufficient clear
ess az 20 make an Indictment by tbe {
rand jury reasonably certain. II IL In !
onceivable that the court In this In !
tance will name any one ln any warrant I
rhich he may see flt To issue. IL is pos J
lble. however. that he may issue war
ants for the arrest OF John Doe nd
ane Roe In that event tho district attor- {