The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-24
Confessions of Her Rela-
tons with A. R. Pennell.
SWORE THAT she LOVED HIM.
Penneli's Memory PilIoried by
Letters and Testimony.


nell, VINO Expect ed His wife 70 Get .
Diverce-Afterward She Pleaded With
Her Husband to Take Her Back. Prom.
ising 10 Keep Away From Pencil
--Gushing and Lovesick Letters From
Penncil 70 Mrs. Burtiick. In which
He Called Her "My Love" and "My
Daring" and Made Appointments 70
Meet Her at various Times and Places
BUFFALO, March 23.-Letters written by
two men now dead to the woman who
was the wife OF one and the lover OF the
other were read In the police court to-day
while the woman sat In the witness chair
and the curious gased at her. This woman
was Alice Hull Burdiok. and the proceed
Ing. officially. was the inquiry into the muir
der Of her husband. yet It seemed more
like the trial Of the divorce action which
he had begun and which only his death
prevented him from carrying to a finish
The correspondent was not there. for death
had come to him that was almost a. tragic
a. the end OF the man he had wronged: but
his letters were there. and with them the
the District Attorney pilloried his memory.
Arthur r. Pennell, the innocent martyr.
was transformed to Pencil, the seducer.
Q man given to writing mushy letters to
another mans wife. Burdick, killed under
circumstances which previous witnesses
would have appear shady became .
husband who tried to be fair with his wife
and who was ready to make great sacrifices
for his children. And between them stood
the woman strangely woven into both
their lives.
Mrs. Burdick Is q woman OF slight figure,
like her mother. with the large eyes Of her
mouth. pulled cheeks. receding chin, low
forehead-in . word. homely. She was
a. pale ~ parchment. but usually calm
and always resourceful. There were times,
under the stress Of Mr.. Coatsworth's ex-
animation. when her voice died away 20 that
even he could only catch her words.
throughout Il all, though all the memories
Of nvs ysars were brought to her, shs did
not wesp ssa-
Ths story shs told was. strange to say,
largely oorroborative. II she, too. had been
dead most Of the salient testimony could
have gone on the record a. complete a. she
made IL. The two dead men spoke through
their LISTERS and her letters 10 one OF them
spoke In reply. When her memory began
to fail on matters apart from these letters.
il was refreshed by the District Attorney.
who quoted from the statement made by
Pennell before his death. There Wa moth
ing for her to do but corroborate, and the
prelude Of the tragedies was complete.
She swore that she loved Pencil and
that abe was anxious TO get divorce from
Burdick. She wore Pennell's rings over
her husbands wedding ring. She swore
that Pennell told her his wife would get
q divorce from him, She admitted that
Pennell put the detectives on Burdicks
track 80 that abe, and not Burdick. could
secure the decree.
Once Mrs. Burdick's lawyer rose to ques-
ton the examination which produced these
facts, but the presiding Justice believed
that the District Attorney was not sub
jeotins the woman to needless shame OF
70 any ndicule. II seemed TO be Mr.. Coats
worth's detsrmined effort to get the whole
truth Of the mystery Of the lives OF the
dead men and the surviving woman. The
result was q confession from her that heI
relations with Pennell were not what they
should have been; that her husbands honor
was involved; that she met Pennell often
and In secret places: that she Was ordered
from home and that Pennell followed hei
into exile; that she again and again pleaded
With her husband 10 he taken back, pledSins
fsithfulps~s. N he took her back. With tbs
undertaking that she should kesp heI
al A..
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