The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-11
PENNELL INQUEST FAILED
To ESTABLISH SUICIDE
Statement Prepared by the Victim of Automobile
Accident Read in Full in Court.
8urdok Declared to Have Been Killed by an Unknown Woman in
His Den at Midnight

BUFFALO April 1O.-The evidence
ID given today before Justice
Murphy al the inquest into the
deaths Of Arthur Is. Penueu and Mrs.
Pencil win not help the authorities in
any way 90 a solution of the Burdick
murder mystery. Whether the tragedy
az the Geheis stone quarry on March
10. m which Pencil was killed and
Mrs. Pencil was fatally injured. was
due 90 an accident on design was not
proven.
Thomas Penney. who has acted as at
tomey for the Penuel family since Ar
thur Pencils death. declared that so
Tar as be was aware nothing I'M the
papers left by Pencil would throw any
Hight upon the murder OF Edwin Bur
dick. When questioned regarding the
alleged defalCutions of penueil Mr..
Penney declined Co answer. j. Freder-
lex Peuneil brother of the dead law
p Ner and administrator Of his estate.
n DO has possession of most of the pa
pers. was out of the city and Mr..
Penney Informed the court that be did
not know where he was OF when he
would return 90 Buffalo.
Remains in Doubt
Evidence that viii show defalca-
tion would simply be cumulative" said
Justice Murphy. after the evidence was
AN I'm. 'No stronger motive could be
proven than has already been brought
out here But proving a motive does
not establish suicide. The court is pre-
pared 10 announce It's findings.
Judge Murphy then delivered his rer-
dict as follows. 81 hud and certify.
That Arthur r. Pennell came 10 his
death Oh the 10th day of March, 1903,
as "a result Of injuries received while
riding bon am automobile. the said auto
mobile piuuEiug from AN embaukmcnt
ASto the Geheis stone quarry.
That I cannot determine from the
cNdence submitted whether such
plunge was accidental or designed.
THAT Carrie Lamb Pencil came 90
her death as a result of the said
plunge Of the automobile into the
quarry"
w. O.. Omphelius. Pencils stenOgra-
pher. produced % typewriter copy of
the first draft of a statement prepared
for publication by Pennell before his
death. The statement I'm fun is as fol-
lows:
Pennell's Statement.
TO the Public. Now that the flood of
eeusau0ualism and yellow journalism has
lessened and chat public excitement hAS
dIrd down t0 culmer consideration uI
thc FACTS and events beading uu tu n
terrible tragedy which bias recently taken
place Iu This city. wish iu behalf oil.
myself. hut especially more ln behalf or
others whose sufferius- ore even greater
than mine Co make This statement
OWNS fo the fact that my name was
% unfortunately 900 This time connected
with the pending divorce proceedings DO
was forced into great publicity lu cHu-
uectIOu with tua tragedy ITSELF So Gar
ass any possible connection with that
crime was concerned ] avn satisfied that
Tho district attorney ana his assistants
understand thoroughly that D hud nothing
90 do with b. and since That time neither
has ny house nor myself been under
suspicion or surveillance.
After being ont for "a short time in Che
early part OF That evening ] spent the
rest of it gt home. as was shown hy
the evidence of nay wife and the servant
Girl iu our house. thluk 4 was S0
acuuitt.d both hy ta- public and the
authorities with amy connection with the
crime.
Divorce Case Of Burdiek.
no now becomes incumbent upon me 90
make some statement relative tD my
connection with th- divorce PROCEEDINGS.
In this statement p wish 90 say as lt-
lie as possible about che dead. But %
must BE- remembered that those who aye
Twins have their lives l1 live. and the
rights of the living are greater than che
rights Of tLe dead There was mo- truth