Arizona republican., 1903-03-24

[ Mrs Burdicl was then questioned at
 some length relative to the meaning ot l T. }, 8 referred to iA letter from i Pennell in which he said: @I will meet
 ycu at l. ?. 9 Wednesday morning.
 But Mrs Burdick answered that she
 did not know. There Were two or three i houses. she said, at which she used to
 meet him.
 ] MT. CoatsWorth produced another let i ter, postmarked New Haven. Septem- ! Der 19. 1900. Mrs. Burdicl5 said she re- called receiving it. Pennell wrote: T shall try and comfo. myself by tele- rhonirg you from New York. and or Thursday shall know tho exquisite hap piness of seeing you" He referred 70 her dear picture in the ioci1et and de clared her My love. my dearest own" iJAIr. CQatsWcrth produced another letter written from New York September 1S, 1900, addressed to Mrs. Burdick. In this letter he wrote: T just came from tele- phcning you and hearing your dear. sweet voice Am I foolish to telephone you from way down here? It Was
 worth gil it cost me. l realize more i and more that you are the only woman in the world fer me-
 Do you remember getting that let i ter?" asked the district attorney.
 Nc sir'' i Tn this same letter he says: Only .; i day more and shall once more see the
 love light in your eyes and experience the paradise found in your arms. What l does he mean by that, Mrs. Brrdick?" ''I don't know"
 What does he mean by the para disc
 within your arms?'
 - don't know
 1 Pretty strong language. isn't it?'- 1 Coatswortn showed the witness ar- i other letter written from New York by
 Pen:.eH and addressed ta Mrs. Burdick ] She said i1 was his handwriting. bu: she did not remember having received
 it.
 <''I will read it. and see if it will re- l fresh your recollection: As I looked ] into your beautiful eyes last night ] i feared there was some trouble hidden 1 there. I did net know. but I feared it i was because of some other reason than ] because 1 was going away. If there
 was. dearest, wish you would tell me ] There is that in the Tnanner Of your l husband towards You that makes ne 1 fear that sometimes I might kill hirn. i Do you remember reading that l=tter?'
 No, siI''
 1 airs. Rurdick said that she did not
 know whether her husband was aware
 of the fact that she was receiving let i tars from Penneu Her habit had been i to keep her letters locked in a box. Her husband first knew Of her intimacy i with Pennen, ske thought, On January | e5-1 E,; f question that she had been walking
 with Pennen. lie told her she was very i irnp1 udent She agreed with him then, | and did not now.
 Did yqu give the letters 70 Burdicls ?''
 ''I don't know.
 Did you take some letters from that
 box and give them to him?''
 T unlocked it"
 How did you happen to unlock it?" i He forced me to-
 "Hcw did he force yOu?'
 He took me by the throat" She did not remember whether Tt
 that time Pennell was the subject Of
 discussion with her husband. She did
 not know whether some of the letters
 read were in the box at the time. It
 was in January, 1901, when he chokef
 her. Her husband had not started the divorce proceedings. It was she tha { wanted q divorce from him. She had
 no love fer him, but did love Penneli,
 whom she expected to marry. He had
 a wife, but he expected to be divorced.
 In reply to question as to whether
 Mrs Pennell had consented to divorce, she said: Sometimes she did and sometimes she didn't The witness admitted, however, that she had never talked with Mrs Pen- nell on the subject
 MT. Coatsworth showed her q letter written by her from Atlantic City. May -, 1S01 in which she begged to be taken back. promised never to see Ar thur, and that she would be 2 loving ] and true wife. Another letter written by Mrs. Burdicl1 to her husband 1c- ferred to being taken back home. She made plea on behalf Of the children She promised to be q good girl to him Mrs Burdick admitted that she wrote the letter in good faith. and that sht did rot keep her promise. Another le.- ter was read in reply to one from Mrs Burdick, in which he had evidently de clined to take her back. Several week. 1 after Mrs Burdick was taken back by her husband.
 After returning from Atlantic City and promising her husband to be q goo; ! wife. she met PennoIl a different time: and places.
 It was after the incidents related bJ