The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1903-03-13
HURLED TO DEATH
Automobile Containing Man and
Wife Goes Over Embankment.
A. R. PENNELL WAS KILLED
One Of Chief investigators Into the
Burdick Murder In Buffalo-Circum-
stances Connected With Accident
Leave Room For Speculation.

Buffalo, March 11.-More terrible al
most than the deathso of E. l.. Burdick
was the tragedy that occurred late
Tuesday afternoon, when Arthur R,
Pennell, one of the chief figures in the
Investigation of the Burdick murder,
was hurled headlong into eternity.
Mr.. Penneil was riding in his cleo
trio automobile with Mrs. Pennell,
They were on Kensington avenue, near
Fillmore avenue, Swimming along the
edge of the Genres stone quarry, a
huge rock-ribbed hole in the ground.
Mr.. Pencils hat blew off. The auto
mobile swerved and in some inexplic-
able manner it leaped over the curb
into the abyss below.
Pennell was killed instantly, his
head being crushed to an unrecogniz.
able mass. Mrs. Pencil was injured
so severely that the surgeons at the
Sisters hospital, to which she was
taken, say her chances of recovery are
slight.
Two boys saw the tragedy. They
were too far away to know positively
just how it happened Mrs. Pencil
lapsed into Inconsistencies, and hence
there can be no true version as to how
the affair occurred.
Mr.. Pencil left his Office in the
Austin building at 4:05 o'clock in the
afternoon. He went to his home at
20S Cleveland avenue. A friend who
called up Mr.. Pennell on the telephone
about o'clock was informed that Mr..
Pennell was in, but that he was just
going for drive. Mr.. Pennell himself
answered the telephone and said that
he would be back between $3.50 and Z
O'Clock, making an appointment with
his friend for that hour.
1t was learned that the matter men
toned in the telephone talk was some
thing he considered most serious and
which weighed heavily on his mind. 1t
was in connection with the Burdick
murder. Recently Mr.. Pennell made
the following statement:
about this case of Burdick / have
told the authorities l went away to
New York before the murder, and that
l met Mrs. Burdick while l was away.
In fact, saw Mrs. Burdick near New
York two or three days before the
murder of Mr. Burdick. I came home
again Wednesday, the day before the
murder. have told it frankly, and the
ihCSllh5 was a. plOpSl OlS. bul luSy
seem determined to drag all this bust.
ness out in the papers. l would do
anything to stop it,"
1t seems strange day for man to
take his wife automobiling, in the
northeast section of the city at such
an hour. Pennell was not a veteran at
automobiling. Yet he was an expert
at handling the machine and was ex-
perienced as to the management.
What was unusual about yesterday
proceeding, according to the maid of
the house, was that Mrs. Pennell had
always before told her when they
would return. To-day, however" said
the girl, when they went out, it was
Mr.. Pennell who told me. Mrs. Pen
nell went on out ahead Of him, and he
came back and called me and said
they would be back between $3.50 and
7 o'clock"
Mrs. Pencil has been loyal to her
husband through his trying expert
ences during the last ten days. She
frequently said that her faith in him
was mistaken and that she would
stick to him to the end.