Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-27

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J the whole sorry, would not believe the
fault was all with her daughter
Mrs. Hull did not ask him to speak to
Burdick about withdrawing the divorce
suit. On the first occasion that wit
ness visited Burdick he walked up
home with him and was with him
about an hour. Burdick told him about
everything that has come out on this
examination.
What did he tell you that has not
come out?" He told me that Pennell
had threatened to commit suicide II
1 the divorce suit was not withdrawn
and that Pennell had succeeded in in
pressing the sincerity of his threat up
on Mrs. Burdick to such an extent that
she had believed him and induced Mr..
Burdick to go to Pennell and tell hiEi
that If he would get out of town he
would call everything square. ! think
he said Pencil had given written
promise to leave town. He told me
| that he had made up his mind to make
public all the letters that Pennell ha'.
written to Mrs. Burdick, and he ina
pressed upon me how ridiculous it
would make Pennell appear"
During your second visit to him did
you talk about his divorce suit?" mot
very much. 1 called on him on a bust
ness matter"
did you ask him to withdraw the
suit" MOT that time. I did the first
| time 1 saw him."
did you ask him to take his wife
backY' Yes SIR"
From Burdick's answer the witness con-
| cluded that Burdick would not take his
wife back under any circumstances. Bur
dick had very kindly feeling for Mrs.
Hull" said the witness.
Did Mrs. Hull ever ask you to inter
! cede with Mr.. Burdick in her daughters
behalf?' mo, sir. l volunteered to speak
| to him."
Did Mrs. Hull ever say what would be.
come of her if the divorce should be
granted?" mo. but Burdick told me that
she should always have home with him.
| do you know whether Pennell ever
made any threat against Burdick?" ''No
All 1 know is that 1 have an impression
| that Pennell said to someone that if the
divorce suit was not withdrawn something
would happen. would not care to swear
| that anybody ever told me that. 1t is sim
ply an Impression which I have"
Carol Burdick, the 13-year-old daughter
| of the murdered man, was recalled and
said she got, up at 7so on the morning her
| fathers body was found. She testified
| that the door of her room was closed but
| not locked, and that the first one she saw
was Mrs Hull, going down stairs. Mrs.
went from her room to the hall through
| her fathers room, because her door was
| open and it was easy to get out that way
Continuing, the witness said that when
| she came uot into the hall she heard her
grandmother and Maggie Murray talking.
AT first she could not remember what they
sad she heard them say: Why, he hasn't
| been in his bed all night and Ibis den
door is closed Alice said: "Why.
heard papa go down stairs a little while
| ago"
The witness said it was Alice and not
| she, Carol, who said this. Asked as to
whether anybody had talked to her since
ed, the witness said NO. do not know
how he was killed" She did not hear that
there was anything The matter with her
ma told her he was i'll. She could not re-
call who slept with grandma the night be-
! fore the murder.
| Attorney Hartzell objected to the district
attorney pressing the witness, and the
court said:
I'VE don't care for any suggestions from
YOU You are es here ere only through courtesy.
| ing too far, l shall stop him. don't see
anyway why YOU should fear to have the
| witness pressed"
|
attorney pointed out that when on the
| stand before she had testified that she was
| in the bath room when Maggie Murray
| told her the den door was closed and the
| kitchen window was open, while Maggie
| Murray testified that they were in Mrs.
Tfull's room at the time. Witness was sure
She did not remember having seen the
children that morning before she went
down stairs, not having heard the re-
| mark: why, just heard papa go down
stairs"
Mrs Hull reiterated that she went to St.
| johns church on Ash Wednesday morn
| ing. She usually went to the Church Of
the Messiah but once or twice had dropped
| in at St. Johns church. She was not on
Elmwood avenue that morning (Pennell
was seen on Elmwood avenue, near the
on the stand she had been reminded that
on the following afternoon, the afternoon
of the night on which Burdick was killed,
| she went to a dentists on Elmwood ave-
Johns church, but they were not having
services. She then got on a car and went
to st Pauls church.
forced his wife to give him the key to
her letter box. She had never seen the
contents of the box. She knew while Mrs.
Burdick was in Atlantic City and at Nj
agara Falls that Pencil was there, too.
There was lock on the den door but she
did not know whether there was a key
to it, Witness said she was not in the
cellar on the morning the murder was
discovered, either before or after the dis
covery.
what were your relations with Mr.
Pennell?" asked Attorney Hubbell mot
any. He was man / did not like"
Did you ever appeal to him to let Mrs
Burdick alone?" Yes. on two occasions
The first time wrote him very earnest
letter. l appealed to his pride, telling him
that anyone who had been guest In the
house should be above making trouble in
our home. / am sure IL the man had any
heart OF. decency that appeal would have
been sufficient"
Mrs. Hull testified that she wrote PEN
nell again, last May. He sent me a very
cold reply" she said, 'in which he said he
would not be driven out of Buffalo; that
there was a better way to settle the mat
ter"
Ibid you ever meet him after that?"
Yes, / met him once. He tried to raise
his hat to me but l looked the other
way
"Then your feelings towards him were
those Of resentment" They were"
''And what were his feelings towards
you?" II do not know"
Maggie Murray, the servant, was recall
ed after Mrs. Hull.
while you were in the hall up stairs
did Carol say, Why. / just heard papa
go down stairs?" Yes, SIR
The object in bringing out this testimony
apparently was to show that somebody
had been moving about the house, that
morning.
do You know who 1t was Carol heard