The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-11
PENNELL MET
 DEATH IN AUTO Lawyer Who Figured in
 Burdick Case. WIFE TERRIBLY HURT Machine Jumped Into a Deep Quarry.
 When Hat Blew Of Young Man Lost
 Control of Machine and Was ... Dashed to His .-.- ... Death. >A


 was the tragedy that occurred late this afternoon when Arthur Pennell the young lawyer who has figured in the murder mystery, was hurled headlong into eter- nity.
 Mir. Pennell was riding in his electric automobile with Mrs. PennelL They were on Kensington Avenue near Fill more Avenue. skimming along the edge of the Gehr stone quarry. a huge rock ribbed hole in the ground. MT. Pencils hat blew off. The automobile swerved and in some inexpiicable manner it leaped over the curb into the abyss be- low. Pennell was killed instantly, his head being crushed to jelly. Mrs. Pen nell was injured so severely that the sur geons at the Sisters hospital. to which she was taken, say her chances of re- covery are very slight.
 Two boys saw the tragedy. They were too far away to know positively just how 1t happened. Mrs. Pennell. when found, was unable to speak. She was only serni- conscious, when taken to the hospital and could speak no coherent words. Af- ter the operations performed by Dr. Flu gene Smith in the hospital in the hope of saving her life. she lapsed into uncon- sciousness and hence there can be no true version of precisely how the affair occurred.
 Mr. Penneli left his office ct 4:oS o'clock this afternoon. He went to his home at mo r.ytsfN lls ed up Mir. Pennell on the phone about r4 D. m. was informed that Mir. Ponnell was in but that he was going for drive. Mir. Pennell himself answered the phone and said he woud be back between 6;SO and o'clock, making an appointment with his friend for that time.
 A Telephone Talk.
 ''Would six o'clock do?' he was asked. "Oh. we'll. you might come at o'clock. but you better make it later." said MT. Pennell.
 These were the last words spoken to any one by MT. Pcnnell, save that he went back to the stairs and called out to Lizzie Romance, the maid: "Lizzie, we will be back between 6:30 and ?. m. :" Then he and Mrs. Pennell rode away In the automobile.
 It was learned tonight that the matter mentioned in the phone was something he considered most important and which weighed heavy on hinS 1t was in con nection with the Burdick murder.
 Mir. Pennell and his wife left their home at 4:5o o'clock or one or two minutes ne,ore Pennell was not an expert automobilist. Yet he was competent in handling the machine. He kept the machine in the Utica Street station and 1t was to this station that he said he went between 7:45 and s:3O ?. m. on the night Burdlck was tEi1led, returning home about lO O clock. He was seen frequently In open weather in his machine down town and on Delaware Avenue and in the park DO far as could be learned he never had any accidents Certainly he was not regard ed as a green or amateur chaffeur
 What was unusual about today's acci- dent was that Mrs Pennell had always before told her maid when they would
 What the Maid Said.
 To-day, however, said the maid, when they went out 1t was MT. Pennell who told me. Mrs. Pennell went on out ahead of him and he came back and called me, He said, Lizzie, we will be back between 6:3O and o'clock l said all right and they went away. That was between 4:3o and 4:46 o'clock just af- ter MT. Pennef had talked over the phone" .-,,
 Their route on their ride no one can tell in detail.
 Captain Cable and the police were try ing to trace the route of the automobile. Mrs. Pennell had been loyal to her hus- band through his trying experiences dur ing the last ten days.
 His body was received at the morgue shortly after S30 o'clock. The face of the dead man was distorted and his head was an unrecognizable mass.
 Some newspapeh cltppiigs found In his pockest were interesting as expressing various emotions. The titles of some of the verses were: That is Lost" "A Night in June," Opportunity
 The only near witnesses of the accident at the quarry were George J. Dunlap and William I4annen, young men about 20 years of age.
 Story of Accident.
 Dunlap's story of what happened Is as follows:
 We heard the man in the automobile ring and looked back. The automobile was coming toward us along Fuller Ave nue, but was quite a distance behind us. travelling quite fast. We were walking near 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 walk ing Then the man rang again, he was much nearer of course. but we did not turn around. A third time he rang and we both turned around again to look back.
 At that time the automobile was about fifty yards behind us. l 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 is no sidewalk. on either side of the street. From the curos on both sides tc the auarrles is only few feet. I should say for a long strip at the place where the mans hat was blown of the ledge oi fiat ground between the curb and the brink of the quarry into which the auto. mobile fell is only about six or sever feet. There is no railing around the edge of the quarry. When the automobile swerved we both stopped. It was all SC quick that no one had a chance to dc | anything. In an instant the machine had