The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-25
NO KNOWLEDGE
OF THE MURDER
Her Relations With Arthur PEN
nell Were Not Criminal.
BURDICK FOND OF WOMEN
GIsT OF MRS. BURDICKs TEsTI-
MoNY AT THE INQUEST.

BUFFALO n. Y., March 24-"Haye
ID you received any information as
TO who killed your husband"
$40. SIR"
You swear you have no knowledge
or Information as TO who killed him.
81 do"
These questions were addressed to
Mrs. Alice Hull Burdick this afternoon
by District Attorney Coatsworth al the
inquest into the death of her husband.
Emphatic Denials.
The answers were returned by Mrs.
Hurdlch I'm n calm. clear voice. The
questions came abruptly while the dis
lflct attorney was drawing from Mrs.
Burdick Information about her relations
With Arthur Penuell. She had denied
tnat Pencil took her key 90 the front
door OF the Burdick home while they
were ln New York together and had du-
plicates made of IL. The district att
lorney put the question regarding the
Key 20 Mrs Burdiek i'm a number Of
different forms. but the answers al
ways we've emphatic deniaIs that she or
Pencil had ever ordered duplicate keys
or that the key had left her possession
during her last exile from home. Mrs.
Burdick was calmer and more collected
today than yesterday while testltying.
She left the stand at 4.l5.
Children Examined.
To complete the examination Of
everyone known 90 have been i'm the
Burdick home on the night of Feb. %,
when Edward l.. Burdick was mur-
dered the district attorney today called
l EErrHHfTL
children, Carol and Alice. aged respec-
lively l2 and 10 years. The district at
toruey questioned the children closely
about the events that occurred at their
home ON the night before and the morn
ing after the murder Of their father.
Ihe children displayed mo- more sign of
Fmotion than did their grandmothee,
mother or older sister while talking
about the terrible death of their father.
Their recollection of the happenings
az the time of the tragedy was rather
haZy and 81 don't remember" was usu-
ally the answer they gave when the
district attorney pressed them closely
on any point.
Pennell's Promise.
Mrs Burdlcks testimony covered the
week iu which Burlilk was murdered
and the name of Arthur Pencil was
constantly upon her lips. She trusted
him implicitly u everything. The tls-
trlct attorney read number of letters
written to Mrs Burdick by Pencil, in
which he said life was not worth living
without her. and that death would not
be uuWe.cOme. She knew nothing OF q,
document found in her safety deposit
vault binding Pennel. 90 pay her $4,000
in the event of being unable t0 marry
her. Although 10 was among Mrs. Bur
dicks private papers iu the vault. she
claimed 10 have been ignorant of its
existence.
Her Husbands Death.
Mrs Burdick declared lhat the last
time she saw Penuell was on Tuesday
before the murder. He left her tlat|
night in Atlantic City, arriving in Buff
fal1 Wednesday. She was informed OF
Air. Burdick's death by message from
Airs. Hull on the following Friday and
fastened 90 Buffalo. She reached her
home Saturday morning A brief note
of sympathy from Pencil came 10 th.
house that dav. She never heard from
him or saw him, she said. betweeu that
time and The day De was killed bv his
automobile plungiug into the stone
quarry.
Burdick and Mrs. PennelI.
Before leaving the stand Mrs Bur
dick took occasion go say iu reply 10
questions from her attorney that MOTH
ing improper or immoral had occurred
between her and Peuueu
AZ the same time. she said her hus-
hand was fond of the society of other
women, and for some reason n0t quite
clear she said that Mrs. Pencil was
quite familiar with the dining room
and "den" in Che Eurdick home.