Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-24

1900. Mrs. Burdick said she recalled
receiving it. Pencil wrote: Il shal
TRY and comfort myself BY telephonlnl
YOU from New York and Oh Ihursda.
shall know the exquisite happiness o
seeing YOU" 1t referred to her "deal
picture / N the locket." declaring he
my love. my life, my dearest own. MI
ICoatsworth produced another lettel
written from New York. Sept. IL. l9oV
addressed to Mrs. Burdick.
In this letter he wrote: i just came
from telephoning you and hearing you
dear, sweet voice. Am l foolish to tele.
phone YOU from way down here? 1
was worth all it cost me. l realized
more and more that you are the only
woman in the world to me.
DO YOU remember getting that let
|ter?" asked the district attorney.
mo, sir"
"In this same letter he says only
q. day more and / shall once more see
the love light in your eyes and expert
ence the paradise within your arms.
What does he mean by that, Mrs. Bur-
dick?"
II don't know"
What does he mean by the paradise
within our arms
II don't know"
Pretty strong language. isn't it?
Mr.. Coatsworth showed the witness
another letter written from New YORK
by Pencil and addressed to Mrs. Bur-
dick. She said 1t was his handwriting
hut she did not remember having re-
|ceived it.
II win read it and see IL 1t will re-
fresh your r~ecollection: AS looked
into your beautiful ayes last night ]
there. did not know, but I feared 1t
vas because of some other reason than
because l was going away. If there
was, dearest. I wish You would tell me.
There is that in the manner of your
husband toward you that makes me
fear some times that / might kill him.
Do you remember receiving h a let
tcr?"
NO. sir"
Mrs. Burdick said she did not know
whether her husband was aware OF the
fact that she was receiving letters from
Pencil. Her habit had been to keep
her letters locked in a box. Her hus-
band first knew OF her intimacy with
Pennell. she thought. on Jan. i. 1901,
she told him in reply to a cues
ton that she had been walking with
Pencil. He told her she was very i'm
prudent. She agreed with him then n
did now.
In answer to further questioning Mrs.
Purdick said that in January, 1901, her
60 I,1,, tn VNo1noE tho
box M give up the letters it contained.
He took her by the throat to enforce his
demand.
Mr.. Coatsworth showed her a letter
by her from Atlantic City on
May 81, 1901, in which h begged to De
taken back. promising rever to see
Arthur and that she would be a low
ing and true wife. In the letter h
said she could not promise that Pen
nell would leave town, but declared he
do what she said. She admitted
the letter and said at that time
she had hired no detectives.
Another letter written by Mrs. Bur-
dick to her husband referred to her
taken back home. She promised
never again to voluntarily see or COM
with Arthur" She made a
plea on behalf Of the children. She
promised to be a good girl to him. Mrs.
admitted she wrcts the letter
in good faith, and that she did not keep
her promise. Another .etter was read
reply to one from Mr.. Burdick in
which he had evidently declined to
her back.
June 6 was the date of another letter
by Mrs. Burdick to her hus-
band. She wrote of having been noti-
fed of the divorce suit brought against
Ter. On one occasion Rurdick wrote
ler that she could not be trusted. He
said that if she loved Pencil as she
said she did he did not blame her for
she did; that If he loved a woman
is she did Pennell he would do as She
vas doing. He declared that he loved
,er honestly long after she had ceased
% love him, and that ii h tried she
night win back his love and his re-
,pect. He referred to the fact that Mrs.
3urdick was wearing a ring given her
" Pencil over her lawful wedding
ing. Burdick declared that he had no
in Pencils promises, and that
he wished to be taken back only
,ntil Pennell was freed from his wife.
In another letter Burdick wrote that
le forgave his wife h wrong She had
lone him. In another Burdick de-
Jared he had determined to fight for
he little honor she had left him, and
getting n divorce, to fight for the
.hildren. He would insist on the coun-
er suit by Mrs. Burdick being fought
nut in open court. Three weeks after
his letter Mrs. Burdick vas taken back
" her husband.
After returning from Atlantic City,
nd after promising her husband to be
good wife, she met Pennell. 1t was not
Ter habit to NEST him, she said, u he
vas constantly begging her to do so,
nd she did meet him in a house on
street. She was there on time
vhsn Burdick came, but he did O see
as she stepped out of the win
low and went to church. She did not
that Mr.. Burdiok and his friends
N that occasion caught Pennell as he
vas jumping out of the window, and
hat they took him back to the room.
Mrs. Burdick admitted having met
'ennell in another house on Seventh
treet after that incident. She at first
enied meeting Psnnell elsewhere, but
Mr.. Coatsworth's telling her that
'ennell had told him differently, she
Omitted that she had met Pennell at a
,ousrs on Whitney place two or three
ines.