The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-03-18
A MAN KILLED
By His Automobile Running Over
Edge of High Embankment.
DASHED TO PIECES ON ROCKS.
His Wife, Who Was With Him
When the Terrible Accident
Happened, is Seriously
A MAN KILLED
DASHED TO PIECES ON ROCKS.
Injured.

Happened, is Seriously
Injured.
buffalo, y. Y. has another sensa-
tion. Recently one Of her prominent
citizens by the name of Z. Il. Burdick,
was found murdered in his residence,
and up to this time the police has
been unable to locate the murderer.
TGcsday afternoon Arthur r. Pcancll,
one OF the chief figures in the inveSti-
CATION OF the Bprtick murder: was
hurled headlong into eternity. Mr..
Pennell was riding in his electric
automobile with Mrs. Pennell. They
were on kensington avenue near Fill
more avenue, skimming along the edge
of the GehrS stone quarry, huge
rock-ribbcd hole in the ground, Mr..
Pen ellis hat blew or. The automO-
bile Swcrvcd and in some ineXplicable
manner it leaped over the curb into
the abyss below. Pennell was killed
instantly, his head being crushed to
an unrccognlZable mass. Mrs. Pennell
was injured SO severely that the sur
gecnS at the Sisters hospital, to which
she was taken, say her chances OF re-
covery are very slight.
Two boys saw the tragedy. They
were tco far away to know positively
Just how it happened. Mrs. Pennell
when found WAS unable to speak. She
was only Semi-conScious when taken
to the hospital and could speak no CO.
herent words. After the operations
performed Immediately by DR.. Eugene
Smith in the hope of saving her life,
she lapsed into unconsciousness and
hence there can be no true version Of
precisely how the affair occurred.
Mr.. Pennel left his office in the
Austin building at 405 o'clock. He
went to his home at POS Cleveland
avenue y friend who called up Mr..
Pennell On the telephone about 5
o'clock was informed that Mr. Pencil
was in but that he was going for a
drive. Mr.. Pennell himself answered
the telephone and said that be would
be back between $50 and ! O'Clock,
making an appointment with his
friend for that hour.
Would Go'clock do?n he was asked.
"Oh, Well, you might come at 6
o'clock, but you better making it
later" said Mr.. Pennell.
Those were the last words Pennell
was known to speak to any one except
Mrs. Pennell. save that he went back
to the stairs and called out to Lizzie
Romance, the maid: Lizzie, we will
be back between s and o'clock"
Then he and Mrs. Pennell rode away
in the automobile.
1t was learned that the matter
mentioned in the telephone talk was
something he considered most serious
and which weighed heavily upon him.
It was in connection with the Burdick
murder.
Recently Mr.. Pennell made the fol-
lowing statement: About this case
Of Burdick, I have told the authori-
ties went away to New York before
the murder and that I met, Mrs.
Burdick while I was away. In fact 7
saw Mrs. Burdick near New York two
or three days before the murder. l
have told it frankly and the meeting
was a proper one. But they seem to
be determined to drag all the business
out in the papers. | would do any
thing to stop it,"
.Pennell and his wife left their home
at $50 O'Clock or one or two minutes
before that time. 1t was a gloomy
afternoon and rain was falling. 1t
seemed strange day for man to
take his wife automobiling, in the
lonely northeast section of the city
at such an hour.
Pennell was not veteran at auto
MODELLING. Yet he was an expert at
handling the machine and was ex-
perienced as to its management.
What was unusual about the
proceedings, according to the maid,
was that Mrs. Pennell had always be
fore told her when they would return.
Today, however, said the girl, when
they went out it was Mr.. Pennell who
told me-
Mrs. Pennell has been loyal to her
husband throughout his trying expert
ences during the last ten days. She
frequently said that her faith in him
was unshaken and that she would
stick to him to the end. Pennell;s
body was received at morgue shortly
after $50 O'Clock. The features OF
the dead man were distorted and out
of all semblance to their natural
character. In the pockets were found
some money and newspaper clippings
and Identification cards from two in
Surance companies.
MRS. PENNELL DIES.
Mrs Arthur Pennell died at the
Sisters Of Charity hospital Wednes.
nesday night, at 8 o'clock. For hours
the surgeons worked over the uncon'
scious form Of tEe injured woman. a
faint twitching Of the eyelids or q
murmer of pain were the only signs OF
returning consciousness perceptible
during the II hours the injured wo
man was in the hospital ward. ES'
cept for q few incohercnt words utter.
ed when she was first taken to the
hospital Mrs. Peonell's lips did not
move.
He Will Hang.
The decision Of the United State: