The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-21
PBNNELL AND ,.BURDICK NET.
DETAILS or THEIR LAST KNOWN
INTERVIEW.

| fNlEHVAEVs
| PeupcII Demanded the Interview and bur
dick Com euted. on Condition Tnat .
| Third Person He Present-It was In
December Last and Pencil Pleaded
That Mrs. Burdick BE Taken Back.
BUFFALO, March 7o.-Details Of the last
known meeting between Edwin l.. burdick
and Arthur r. Pencil have been ootaineo
by the authorities. They have found
witness who was present at this meeting
and from him they have heard NARRATION
of all that occurred at the conference OF the
two men who had been shadowing each
other for year. The third person was
friend Of Burdick Pennell wanted TO see
Burdick. and sent to him to ask for talk.
Burdick's advisers told him not to see
Pennell alone. and above all not to per-
init Pennell to call upon him alone at his
home. Although Burdick considered Pen
nell a coward, according TO Charles D.
Parke, he followed his friends advice
and sent word to Pencil that a third per-
son, named by. himself. must be present
at any conference they might have. Pen
nell accepted the conditions and the meet
ing was held Mrs. Burdick was the topic.
The witness says no threats OF bodily vio-
lence were made at the meeting.
This conference was held late in De-
cember. 1902, On the Sd Of that month Bur-
dick had ordered his wife from his house
and told her never to come back. She
went TO Niagara Falls and Pencil went
there and saw her. She went to New YORK
and Pennell saw her there, II was while
she was in exile that Pencil demanded
the interview with Burdick. At first the
demand was refused, for Burdick told his
friends that Pencil was not a man OF ms
word. He told them that when he first
sent his wife from him, in the summer o.
1901, Pennell. after a conference with her.
had come to him and pleaded that she be
taken back.
sPennell promised me- at that time,
said Burdick to his friends. that he would
leave Buffalo and efface himself from our
lives. Itook him at his word, and he broke
it. Why should listen to him now''
Burdick's friends say that instead OF
efYacing himself from Burdfck's life. Penneii
started his detective work on moro ex-
tensive scale AZ soon as Mrs. Burdick was
replaced In her home. Burdick learned
that he was being Swallowed, but not until
the detectives had been after him for
months.
Then he learned that Pencil continued
to see Mrs. Burdick. and he began to track
Pennell This went on for a long time.
and finally the men had stormy interview
early in last October. Burdick told Pen
nell that before he was through with the
matter Pennell would be the laughing
stock Of the community; that he would
l., hNu .hFA
the gushing letters written by Pennell to
Mrs. Burdick would be given to the world
to sneer at.
Pennell, according to Burdick's friends.
said that such a course would drive him
crazy, and he beeought Burdick to recon-
slider, promising a second time to leave
Buffalo and make his home In another
State Perhaps Btrdck accepted this prom
ise At any rate, he told his friends after
ward that It was kept a. the first PROMISE
had been kept, and 80 he vas going ahead
his wife out Of the house and sued her for
divorce. Mrs. Pennell appeared as peace
maker at about that time. but her letter TO
Burdick had no eject. 1t was too late,
he :aid. 70 accomplish anything: be toIH
up, and Pennen, hearing OF this. sought
The Interviews were held in an ofice
adjoining the law Offices OF Parker Miller.
Burdicks attornsys. IN the e. pr u.ien "a.
divorce and Of the exile Of Mrs. Burdick.
Of her unhappinees at being unable TO see
her children. and came to the point OF
asking whether some settlement or under
standing could not be made. Burdick re-
fused 70 take back his wife or 70 pan further
faith In any promise OF Pennells.
After the failure Of his meeting with
B,rdick, Pennell went Fast In January
and again went East In February, the
Friday before Burdick was murdered.
He saw Mrs. Burdick and had long talk
with her as he admitted to the authorities
before ne was killed. The day before Bur-
dick was murdered he came home.
Burdick meanwhile had gone ahead
dick had started q counter suit: naming
Mrs Warren OF Cleveland and Jane, Doe
as the correspondents. This counter suit
did not .eem to swerve Burdick from his
Intention TO punish his wife and Pennell
All this information the authorities have
gathered preliminary TO the continuation
have 10 say about IL when she takes the
stand on Monday remains 90 he heard
Tire facts prem 10 indicate one thing EN-
phasically and that " thst Burdick did not
Voluntarily receive Pennell nj his house
on the night Of tho murder, and 80 the
QUESTION II unsolved: IL Pencil went
10 the Burdick house that night who 'rt
him IMP
Several bogus interviews have repre-
s.n,sd Mn. buraick % saying that she
would daclsrs "a, tho inqusoi that she
b.lisycd Pcnnell 10 Ia innoSn,. According
90 her lawyers. Mrs. burdlck has not ek-
pressed any opinion in the matter. A 4.
Hart all ssid to-day:
AN ] hAv. said V thu tina, the f.nneil
tragedy had q very lmI'or'sn, bearlnk
A., H.. .ans ld,.tatiot,s of tie the Hlraick