The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-03-19
pEYNFLL IS ACCUSED
Eurdick's s Partner Creates q
Sensation at Inquest.
kTiTES HIS BELIEF IN PLAIN TERMS
Considers Victim of Recent Auto
mobile Accident or Some One
Hired by Him Responsible For
BunaIo's Mysterious Mrtrdcr.

mobile Accident or some one
Hired by Him Responsible For
BuHuIo's Mysterious Murder.
BUFFALO, March 1S.-The name of
Nr;hur r. Pennell who was named as
Sbrcspondent in the Burdick divorce
proceedings and who met terrible
ieath in Gehre's stone quarry two
5pcks after Edwin l.. Burdick was
.srdered, constantly came to the sur
tce in the inquest before Judge Muir
~ yesterday. Charles $. Parllc, Bur.
lris's former business partner and
$50 friend, while on the witness stand
ia Soe afternoon gave it as his opinion,
Hasod upon Information and supposi-
ton, that Pennell or Il hired assassin
UilNd Burdick.
Fear of disclosures growing out OF
thc divorce proceedings instituted by
II. Burdick against his wife, Mr..
Prrke firmly believed, was the motive
fer The crime Mr.. Parke told of con-
versations he had had with Burdick re-
lifting to the trouble with Pennell. On
erp occasion Burdick told Parke that
Peurcll had threatened suicide if the
ST., was not stopped. Pennell threat
srcd TO kill both himself and Mrs Bur
dick.
Mrs. Gertrude Il. Paine the wife of
Dr. Seth +. Paine, Il close friend of the
pCgnols and the Burdicks. was closely
aUost'oned regarding the relations be-
twern the two families and especially
OF ,hn feeling displayed by the mon to-
ward each other. Mrs. Paine's house
was searched by The police on the sun
day following the murder. The dis
tricC attorney touched only casually
upon her whereabouts on the night of
the murder deyoting most Of the time
to questions relating to her relations
wifi Burdick and her knowledge Of
the feeling between Pcnncll and Bur.
dick Mrs. Paine denied having been
al Burd.clis house at any time when
not accompanied by Or. Paine. Her re-
lations with Burdick were purely SC.
cial.
Or. Paine was examined. He was on
the stand for only few minutes. He
was in Batavia on the night of the
mu>der
Charles S. Parsc, Burdick's business
partner was the star witness of the
day. He had been associated in bust
pesS with him for fourteen years and
had known him for eighteen years. He
occasionally visited at Burdicks home.
About Il year ago he saw Arthur X.
Pcnnell at Burdick's Office. At one time
pennCll was Burdick's lawyer. Bur
.liy told Mr.. Parle about the trouble
with his wife about Christmas time
NJ Burdlcli told him he did not blame
ars. Durdick so much as he did Pen.
ac.i. He said he had shown him every
consideration and that Pencil had
promised to get out of town, but had
not done so. He said he had lost pa
ticncc, and the divorce suit was to go
d.,
"Then the man who made all the
trouble was Pennell?'
"Ics."
"Did lie say he was afraid of Pen
neli?'
''Ite said he had been warned to look
GU for renncll, but he believed Pen
nc'l was physical coward and lie had
no car OF him. lie said he carried Il
revolver when he went ont of town
Just as matter OF precautlon."
"D,d you form any opinion as TO who
committed this MURDER" asked Dis
trict Attorney Coatsworth.
eyes, sir"
as it an opinion based on infOrma-
tion or upon supposition?"
.Upon both"
"You have some information?"
Eyes, SIR"
"Are you sufficiently satisfied that
your opinion is correct to state whom
you think tbe murderer was"
81 think So"
"Well, who was hc?"
-"Artl!ur r. Pennell or some hired as
sass,n."
"Whnt makes you think Pennel
killed him?"
"All the circumstances lead me tC
that conclusion. | am satisfied tina
the murder grew out of the divorce
ptoceedings"