The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-25
Mrs, Burdick's Lawyer
Drags in Her Name.
BURDICK WOULD LET Her In.
Not a Kind Word for Any One
Has Murdered Mans Widow.

Her SIS ,OOO-PenneiPs eeuttmen3a1
Letters SHOW Him Gloomy and 0uis
cidal-Mrs. Burdick Swear me Has
No knowledge Of the Murderer asa
Gets the Opportunity 70 Say That NJ
Had No Criminal Relations WITH Psas
ncll-Many Hints OF Suicide ~ Hlm
Mrs. Budick's Lawyer STUNTS ssss
picion on Mr.. and Mrs. Penneli asa
Mrs. Burdick Offers No 0bJectiea-Ahs
Says She Has No Knowledge q Peas
nell Having . Key to Her Hs1ss.
BUFFALO, March A.-The District At
toney was done with Edwin L. Burdick's
widow this afternoon and she left the Stand
with q sigh Of relief after swearing that
abe had no knowledge or information ~
to the murderer Of her husband.
The day had been full Of troubles for
her. the examination lasting three hours
and half. Once In all the day she smiled.
just for an instant. and that was when Mr..
Coatsworth brought to light the fact thas
Pennell her lover. gave to her bond for
$50 900 to guarantee her tho sum Of e36 900.
This sum he intended should be hers, with
his friend. Wallace Thayer. as trustee.
Although a copy Of the bond and . COPY
OF q note OF introduction from Pennell to
Thayer were produced from the papers
found In her safe deposit vault, she feigned
ignorance Of 1t. but as the District Attorney
pressed her further for answers and a.
his questions indicated that Pennell had
planned such financial protection for her.
a smile appeared as II she suddenly had
found S25 900. Pennell, In his infatuation
or in his shrewdness, planned to protect
her II her husband should cast her OF.
More letters came to the surface to-day.
some between Mrs. Burdick and her hus-
band, several from Pennell to her and q nav
set, written by Mrs. Carrie Lamb Penneli
to Burdick, begging him to take back his
wife.
Mrs Pennell seemed to be well aware OF
her husbands disposition. In ono letter
to Burdick she wrote that Arthur does not
regard life any too highly and also. hint
ing 1T an elopemept or q double suicide.
abe wrote: you know his romantic nature;
how II would appcai 10 hun 10 - md 1919
her with him. This evidently was hint
to Birdick that he must change his oourss
at once or take the consequences, although
from Mrs.. Pennell 1t was more . warning
than a threat.
Pencils letters to Mrs Burdick show
him to have been not only foolishly seuti-
mental. but gloomy. depressed and suicidal.
In q funereal screed last September he u
heard saying: Fate In memorable unless
we choose to break it, On Sept. -. iSo1.
Pennell was in Boston and he wrote another
melancholy missive to Mrs. Burdick, and
in It he said: But we had our opportunity
and let il pass, and il will never come again
unless we force II to-"
Then came another letter. and In h b
said you will have no defence when g.
sailed and am gone
Mrs. Burdick was pitiAble figure - chs
listened TO the reading OF these letters In
the prosecutors clear voice. II may have
been Burdick's intention TO revenge him.
self on her and Pennell by having just such
a scene In the divorce court. His friends
thought that was his idea. II that n %,
he has had his revenge.
Mn. Burdick was quick 70 throw upon
Pencil all the blame that she could shlft
from her own narrow shoulders. When her
own counsellor took up line u questtoning
to-day TO show TINT she had been puDusd
by the lawyer. she was kern to answer -
he wished her To. Vet this sans lawyer.
who fnst appaarcd In court ~ the attorney
for Mrs Hull. semed to shun, suspicion %
the murder upon Pcnnsil and Mn. burdick
did no, ~ on, Of the way 10 Indicate thss
ia. did not suspec, him.
M Hair nrll even went 20 the point az Q
QUESTION implying the possibility that Nm.
P-nn.ll vss ip the den With Burdlck ths
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