The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-03-21
VALLIs, OREGON, MARCH 81, 1908
Jane Doe, of Buffalo, named as Co

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Mr.. Pennell came back to Buf.
falo and made an effort to stop the
divorce proceedings. He saw Mr..
Bordick and he begged him to for
give his wife once more. Mr.. Bur-
| dick refused-the suit must 90 on
It is said Mr.. Pennell threatened to
| kill himself and Mrs. Burdick.
Even then Mr.. Burdick did not
relent.
Imagine that scene! Picture the
tempter pleading for the tempted,
and the wronged husband, sitting
beside his own lawyer, turning a
| pitiless countenance upon his for
mer friend! His wife, his children,
his home.-a1l involved in that
last stern answer, his home.
Then Mr., Pennell, the smooth,
sly lawyer, went forth to think of
some other plan to avert the disclo-
sures of the divorce suit. How
could he strike down the unrelent-
ing husband from his position OF
advantage, how stay the coming
punishment?
When Mr.. Burdick was found in
his louning den with his skull bat.
tered to pieces all eyes turned to-
ward Mr. Pennell. Mrs Pennell
promptly confirmed her husbands
declaration that he was at home on
the night of the tragedy. Then
runner went who,ping after others.
But the trail led back to Mr.
Pennell. A few hours before he
| was dashed to death in the quarry
new evidence had been discovered.
It was known on the day before the
murder he had met Mrs Burdick in
New York. That was discovery.
The secret conference of the two
| persons who, of all the world, had
the most obvious motives of wishing
Mr. Burdick dead gave new turn
to the investigation.
So at the hour appointed, the
correspondent waited in Mr. PEN
nell's house. And while he waited
Mr. Pennell and his wife were tear
ing throgh the storm along the
street in their automobil toward
the outskirts of Buffalo, toward the
/ cliff over which they went head
long tp the rocks below. Innocent
or guilty, the last swift dash over
the roads must have been a thrill
!, ing experience. So many things,
SO many things to think of. So
many voices clamorihg, so many
fingers pointing.
| So many policemen, SO many
newspaper men, so many questions
and so many millions waiting to
hear the answers and pick them to
pieces. He had written letter to
a friend in Pottsville, Pa, saying
that Mr. Burdick had been killed by
an unknown woman, and the let
ter had got into the newspapers.
All! how they and piled him with
questions about that!
| How did he know that woman
had killed Mr. Bur6ick? So many
questions, so many questions. And
now he must explain his meeting
i with Mrs Burdick in New York on
the day before the murder. He
must explain the new evidence.
Police detectives and newspaper
detectives-how keen and presis-
tent they were! in a few minutes he
must begin an other explanation on
which his liberty, perhaps his life,
might depend.
i Two boys in the roadway heard
the automobile bell ring. They
saw Mr. Pennell's hat fly off, his
arm go up; and then the swift
machine turn sharply out of the
highway, bumped. over the side
walk and then leap thirty feet to
the rocks, crushing the lawyers
| head almost fiat, and killing him
almost instantly.
| When news came of that leap to
death in the stone qaarry it was
supposed that the end of the Bur-
dick murder casehad been reached.
But no; the police are still searching
for the murderer. Even if Mr. PEN
nell did commit suicide that does
not explain all.
| How did Mr. Burdick happen to
be dressed only in his undershirt
when his skull was beaten in?
] For whom did he prepair the
partly eaten supper found in his
den?
Why did he not seize the loaded
revolver found in his clothes, only
a few feet from where he was killed?
He was not drunk-the medical
examidation shows that. He was
not drugged- science has also de-
monstrated that. He admitted
his slayer to the house, or some