Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-03-28

Pennell he would do as she was doing.
He declared that he loved her honestly
long after she had ceased to love him,
and that if she tried she might win
back both his love and his respect.
Husband Forgave Her.
In another letter Burdick wrote that
he forgave his wife the wrong she had
done him. In another Burdick de-
clared he had determined to fight for
the little honor she had left him, and,
after getting a divorce, to fight for the
children. He would insist on the
counter suit by Mrs. Burdick being
fought out in open court. Three weeks
after isletter Mrs. Burdicl was taken
back by her husband.
After returning from Atlantic City
and after promising her husband to be
good wife, she met Pennell. 1t was
not her habit to meet him, she said, but
he was constantly begging her to do
so, and she did meet him in house
on Seventh street. She at first
denied meeting Penneu elsewhere, but
on Mr.. Coatsworth's telling her that
PennelI had told him differently she
admitted that she had met Pencil at
house on Whitney place two or three
times
Tuesdays Session.
When Mrs. Burdick resumed her
testimony on Tuesday Attorney
Coatesworth took her over the di-
yorce episode. She said in a letter to
him she plead with her husband, for
the sake of the children, not to per-
sist in his determination to sue for
a divorce. In answer to a question
as to what occurred upon her return
home after jumping from a window
in house on Seventh street, on the
occasion when Burdick raped at the
door while she and PenneH were oc-
cupying the room, Mrs. Burdick said
her husband told her she would have
to leave the house, and advised her
to communicate with Pennell. She
for several days. When the complaint
in the divorce case was served on her
she left home, taking all her clothes
and went to Niagara Falls. She
thought she was leaving home for
good. Later she saw her mother in
Buffalo. Burdick had told her why
her daughter had left home, saying
he had caught her in position which
he could not overlook. He said he
did not blame his wife as much as he
did Pencil. She was notified of her
husbands death by a telegram from
her mother. She started for home at
once. Before leaving Atlantic City
she photographed Pencil to meet her
at the station in Buffalo, but he
failed to do so. She never saw Pen
nell again after he left her at the
train going to Atlantic City. Mrs.
Burdick denied emphatically that
Pencil took her key to the front
door of the Burdick home and had
duplicates made of it. Then Attor-
| ney Coatesworth addressed the wit
ness as follows:
"Have you received any informa-
ton as>to who killed your husband"
"No, sir"
''You swear you have no knowledge
or information as to who killed him? ?"
'No, SIR
The answers were returned by Mrs.
Burdick in a calm, clear voice. She
left the stand at AIS p. m.
Children Testify.
To complete the examination of
every one known to have been in the
Burdick home on the night of Febru-
ruary 26, when Edwin L. Burdick was
murdered, the district attorney called
to the stand the two youngest Burdick
children, Carol and Alice, aged re-
spectively 13 and ten years. The dis
| trict attorney questioned the children
! closely about the events that occurred
. at their home on the night before and
the morning after the murder of their
| father. The children displayed NO
more sign of emotion than did their
grandmother, or mother, or older sis
ter while talking about the terrible
death of their father. Their recollec-
ton of the happenings at the time
Of the tragedy was rather hay, and
81 don't remember" was usually the
answer they gave when the district
attorney pressed them closely on any
point. The inquest will be resumed
| Thursday.
Denies immoral Actions.
Before leaving the stand Mrs. Bur-
/ dick took occasion to say in reply to
questions from her attorney that
nothing improper or immoral had oc-
CURED between her and Pencil. At
the same time she said her husband
was fond of the society of other wom-
en-, and, for some reason not quite
clear, said that Mrs. Pencil was
/ quite familiar with the dining-room
and "deL" in the Burdick home.
The Last Eruption of Soufriere.