The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-01
SURROUNDED
By MYSTERY
Police Found No Clue to Muir
derer of Burdick.
SKULL BROKEN TO PULP
Autopsy Showed He Had
Been Struck Twelve Times.
SKULL BROKEN TO PULP

| Buffalo, n. Y, The slayer of Edwin l.
ciety man who was murdered Thursday
night or early Friday morning. is still
at liberty. The police and detective forces
| of the city have worked assiduously on
the case for hours, but nothing tangible
| has developed. The lines upon which the
police are now working indicate that their
| belief is that the murderer will be found
among the close acquaintance of the
dead man. The district attorney openly
| expresses the opinion that somebody in
the Burdick social circle murdered the
| man The circle was composed OF num-
Der of married couples, young or in the
prime Of life. They were intimately ac-
quainted socially. The circle has been
| disrupted by more or less scandal. In
fact, several divorce suits. have grown
| out of it. according TO the district attor1
| ney. The finding of a tuft of hair on
Burdick body. which at first appeared
to be a promising clue, apparently has
fallen fiat. Chief of Detectives Cusack
says the hair matches Burdick's. Cusack
added
My judgment is that Burdick had an
appointment with somebody at his house
that night Whether the person he had
| a nappointment with was man or wo-
man we do not know. There are indica-
tons that it was a woman. but al the
same time ii may have been a man.
Mrs Burdick the widow of the dead
man, arrived here today from Atlantic
City and was closely questioned by Dis
trict Attorney Coatsworth and Chief
Cusack.
Il neither know nor can conjecture
anybody who could have committed the
murder said she, except somebody
who had an interest in ending the litiga-
ton between Mr. Burdic kand myself"
Late last night two women were
brought TO the district attorneys office
to be questioned.
One was handsomely gowned the 9TH
er seemed to be maid.
Their examination brought out nothing
new. however.
Still later the police found the weapon
with which Burdick was murdered II is
a steel-tipped golfers putter. Where
they got it the officials refuse to say AT
present. II is said there are marks upon
believed to be blood stains.
Buffalo. n. Y. Feb. 8.-Mrs. Burdick.
the widow of Edwin l.. Burdick. who
was murdered at his home Thursday
night arrived here today from Atlantic
City. The police have found the hack
man who drove an as yet unidentified
man to within a few doors of the Burdick
residence about midnight on Thursday
night. They regard this as a valuable
clue Another clue in the hands of the
authorities is tuft of hair which was
found on the person of Mr.. Burdick. 1t
is not of his hair but whether belonging
to a man or a woman. the police do not
say.
In the rom in which the murdered man
was found the police also found paper
which had been sent to Mr.. Burdick by
Cleveland woman containing story or
the granting of divorce from her hus-
band The police learned that the wo-
man was in Cleveland Thursday night.
and that her former husband is working
in New oYrk or some other eastern city.
1t was learned today that Mr.. Burdick,
whose business took him on frequent trips
out of the city, knew he had been shad-
owed for some time when out OF town
This system of espionage, he had said.
had been in effect for some time, and the
inference is that it was to obtain evil
dence if possible for countercharges in
the divorce proceedings which had been
begun by Mrs Burdick
1t is also a fact that in one OF the
trousers pockets Of Mr.. Burdick's clothing
a loaded revolver was found. 1t had not
been used.
The AUTOPSY revealed that facts that
there were at least II wounds on the head.
five of which were so serious that any one
would have been sufficient to cause death
The location of the wounds indicated that
the victim was in a reclining position
when the blows were delivered or that
most of them had been delivered after he
had been Knocked down. Considerable
force had been used, but the doctors did
not pretend to claim that the force used
was greater than might have been ex-
erted by a strong woman. 1t was evi-
.9ert tho. fbe murderer was in great