The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-03-20
MAN KILLED
BY His Automobile Running Over
Edge Of High Embankment.
DASHED TO PIECES ON ROCKS.

His wife, Who Was With Him
when the Terrible Accident
Happened, is Seriously
53 Injured.
Buffalo, N. Y, has another sensa-
tion. .s5Recently one of her prominent
citizens by the name of e. II. Burdick,
was sanna murdered III Ills residence,
and hp to this time the police has
beenalnablc to locate the murderer.
Tuesday afternoon Arthur II. Pennell,
one Of the chief figures in the investi-
cation OF the Burtlick murder, was
hurlcn headlong into eternity. Mr..
Pcnnell was riding in his electric
automobilc with Mrs. Pcnncll. They
were 6n Kensingt0n avenue near Fit
morcIavcnuc, Slsimming along the edge
of tic Gehrs Stone quarry. a huge
rock-ribbcd hole in the ground Mr..
Pen ellis hat blew or. The automo-
bile sWcrved ana in some incxplicablc
manlter 1t lcapcd over the curb into
tile abyss below. Penncll was killed
instantly, lis head being crushed To
an u1rccognlzahle mass. Mrs. Pcnncll
was Injured so severely that the sur
geons, at the Sisters hospital, to which
she HaS taken, say her chances or re-
covery are very slight,
Two boys saw the tragedy, They
were too far away to know positively
just how it happened Mrs. penncll
when found WAS unable To speak She
was only Semi-conscious when taken
to the hospital and could speak no CO
llere1t words. After tile operations
performed Immediately by DR.. Eugene
Smith in the hope Of saving her life.
she lapsed into unconSciouSncss and
hence there can be no true version Of
precisely how the affair occurred.
Mr. Pcnncll left his oliicc in The
Austin building al 4.05 O'clock. lie
went to his home at 2OS Cleveland
avenue. A friend who called up Mr..
Pcnncll on the telephone about s
O'CLOCK was informed that Mr.. Pencil
was in but that he was going for u
drive. Mr. Pcnncli himself answered
the telephone and said that he would
be back between G.3O and O'Clock,
making an appointment with his
friend for that hour.
Would 6o'clock do?" he was asked.
HOh, Well, you might come at 6
o'clock, but you better making it
later said Mr.. Pennell.
Those were the last words Pcnncll
was known to speak to any one except
Mrs lPennell, save that he went back
to Ile Stairs and called out to Lizzie
,RomatieH,s the maid: Lizzie, we will
. iea odcE petHee ~ 6z and 47e.-t,ciock.
Then he and Mrs. sPenncll rode away
in the automobile.
1t was learned that the matter
mentioned in the telephone talk was
something he considered most serious
and which weighed heavily upon him.
It was in connection with the BuriiclS
murder.
Recently Mr.. pcnncll made The fol
lowing Statements: AbOut this case
Of Burdick, / have told the authori-
ties went away to New York before
the murder and that l met, Mrs.
BurdicS while | was away. In fact
SAW Mrs. Burdick near New York two
or three days before the murder. ]
have told it frankly and the meeting
was proper one. But they seem to
be determined TO drag all the business
out in the papers. l would do any
thing to stop it.
Pcnncll and his wife left their home
ut 4.50 o'clt elk or one or two minutes
before that time. 1t was IL gloomy
afternoon and rain was falling. 1t
seemed strange day for man to
take his wife automobiling, in the
lonely northeast section of the city
at such an hour.
Pcnnell was not Il veteran at auto
MODELLING. Yet he was an expert at
handling the machine and was cx-
perienccd as to its management
What was unusual about the
proceedings, according to the maid,
was that Mrs. Penncll had always be-
fore told her when they would return.
Today, however, said the girl, when
they went out it was Mr.. Pcnncll who
told me-"
Mrs. Pcnncll has been loyal to hel
husband throughouthis trying expert.
enccs during the last ten days. Shf
frequently said that her faith in him
was inshakcn and that she would
stick to him to tho end. Pcnncll's
body WAS received ut morguc shortly
after $50 o'clock. The features OF
the dead man were distorted and out
OF all semblancc to their natura
character. In the pockets were found
some money and newspaper clippings
and Identification cards from two in.
g ronoo f,ntn aninc
MRS. PENNELL DIES.
Mrs. Arthur Pcnncll died at the
Sisters Of Charity hospital Wcdnes
ncsday night, at 8 o'clock. For hour.
the surgeons worked over the uncon
scious form Of the injured woman. a
faint tw!.ching Of the eyelids or 4
murmcr OF pain were the only signs O.
returning consciousness pcrccptibl,
during the 81 hours the injured wo
man was in the hospital ward. IIx
ccpt for few incohcrcnt words utter
ed when she was first taken to til,
hospital Mrs. Pcnncll's lips did no,
move.
! lie Will Hang.
! The decision or the United State
Court IN refusing To reverse the tlccis
ion Of the Supreme Court of South
Carolina IN the case Of the State VS.