The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-11
PENNELL is DEAD.
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management He kept the machine in tbs
Utica street station and it was TO this sta
ton that he said he went between Z. IS and
ed returning to his home at about 10
o'clock. So far could be learned he
never had any accidents Certainly he was
not regarded as green or incompetent
Chauffeur. What was unusual about the
P1Toeesss5Ingss aeeo9Irding to The maid. was
her when they would return. Today.
however" said the girl. when they went
out it was Mr.. Pencil who told me Mrs
Pencil went on out ahead of him, and
he came back and called ana said:
Lizzie, we viii be back between $50 and
Z o'clock. I said: All right, and they
went away"
Mrs. Pencil has been loyal to her hus-
the last ten days. She frequently said that
her faith in him was mistaken and that
Pencils body was received at the
morgue shortly after $3.50 o'clock The
features of the dead man were out of all
semblance to their natural character. The
only near witness of the event at the quar-
~ were George J. Dunbar and William
1annen, young men about 70 years old.
They We're on their way home from work
when Mr. and Mrs Pencil. in their auto
mobile, approached them from the rear
lows:
I'VE heard the man in the automobile
ring and looked back. The automobile
was coming toward US along Fillmore ave
nue., but was quite distance behind rs.
the curb on the north side of the street and
the machine was coming down the center
Of the street We saw we were out Of the
way and continued walking Then the
man rang again. He was much nearer, of
course, but we did not turn arounda A
third time he rang. and we both turned
around again to look back
At that time the automobile was only
about so yards behind us turned around
just in time to see the mans hat in the
air. Just at that instant the machine
turned sharply to the left. At that point
there Is no sidewalk on either side of the
street. From the curb on both sides to the
quarries is only a few feet [ should say
for a long strip, at the place where the
mars hat was blown off. the ledge Of fat
ground between the curb and the brink
went is only about six or seven feet. There
is no railing or other guard around the
edge of the quarry.
when the automobile swerved we both
stopped It was all so quick no one had !
machine had covered the distance to the
edge and crashed over into the quarry.
The machine swerved almost at right an
gles with the street Neither the man nor
the woman in the automobile stood up or
attempted to jump; 7 guess il was done
TOO sudden for that. but the woman
screamed Just about the time the auto
mobiles front wheels struck the curb L
did net hear the man say anything. Lam
nen ran to call ambulance and I got /
down into the quarry. The woman was
grooming and moaning but the man was
dead. The woman was living between The +
base of the cliff and the automobile He
was under the automobile and about al /
head
The physicians at the Sisters hospital
Pencils condition was unchanged and that +
the chances of recovery are regarded as
extremely doubtful.
MEDICAL EXAMINERS REPORT I
Buffalo, n. Y, March 11.-Medical I
Examiner Dancer, who made an ex-
animation of the body of Arthur r. {
Pencil, who was killed by his automO- /
bile crashing over ledge into a stone T
quarry last night, announced his find Z
ings today. 1t showed that many bones T
in the body were broken including sew F
eral ribs, the left knee. left arm, right I
thigh and all the facial and Uranium
bones. Identification evidently had
been a fad with Pencil. On the back
case of the watch which was still tick
ing in his pocket the intricate mono
gram A. r p. was engraved. On
his key ring was an Identification tag
bearing his name and office address.
In a. snake skin wallet there were
eight visiting cards with his name en-
graved upon them. His name and ad
dress in gilt letters was on the flies of
the wallet. An identification card is
sued by a life insurance company was
also in the wallet
Besides these articles the medical ex-
aminer found in a compartment Of
Pencils wallet $SS in bills, SO cents
was in a change pocket book and in
another separate compartment of one
of the two books was a lot of news
bits of poetry on love. life and death.
HAD INGALLS, POEM.
Some of the newspaper clippings were
time-worn and stained and had the APP
pearance Of being carried in the case
for months They were interesting as
expressing various emotions, possible
index Of the character Of the man VINO
preserved them The titles of some OF
the verses We're: Until You Come"
THAT Which is Lost" "The Fates,"
THE IJnlaid Ghost f'IJndistinguished
Dead "A Night in June" -Oppor~
runitv."
DR.. Eugene Smith. house physician at
the Sister hospital made the following
statement:
The condition of Mrs Pencil is very
She has not regained con-
seriousness and it is considered that
chances are very much against her.
PENNELL'S STUDENT DAYS.
New Haven, Conn, March IL
Friends of Arthur r. Pennell in this
city remember him as a hard working
member of the class Of 1897 in the
academicaI department Of Yale uni
versity. He came to New Haven from
Maine He was a quiet and studiOus
young man. popular with his fellows,
and for a time was in charge OF the
Coop" the enterprise which furnishes
students nscessaries at cost prices. He
went to Buffalo shortly after his grad
uation, but returned to marry Miss