Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-03-24
penneU Visited
He1 E0e1y Day
n0,Jck Says lie did While She Was al atlantic
cin- Wee al Niagara Falls 7o9etReS-Had Planned 10
e, West and Procure DfpOsce- Gives Dates and de-
,,s as 10 Her Relations WIN c4rfhm.

have to leave. He said he did not
blame me az much as he did Pencil;
that Pencil was more to blame than
| was"
WENT TO a BOARDlNGHOuSE.
When she left the Falls finally the wit
ness ayerred she came TO Buffalo. PEN
nell met her at the station. They re-
NAMED In the station and then she
started for New York reaching there
the next morning. She went TO a
clearinghouse and thence to a hotel IN
Fifty-ninth street,
Did Pennell so to New York with
your asked the district attorney
Eyes" was the reply.
How long did Mr.. Pennell stay in
New York?"
seven days"
after you left New York where did
you go?'
Atlantic City. | was in New York
several weeks, leaving for Atlantic city
ON the first or second Of January
"Pennel was with you until theny'
mot with me; he was in New York.
"Was Mrs Pennell there, tooY'
"Yes."
did you visit Mrs. Pennell?'
mo"
How often did Pencil visit your
Every day"
did Mrs Pennel know you were
there"
81 think she did
Mr. Coatsworth showed a letter writ
ten by Mrs Pennell. dated Dec. %, 1902,
to Burdick. In II Mrs Penncll said she
wanted to warn him and pleaded with
him to take Mrs. Burdick home and
not blast the lives Of his children. She
told him Mrs. Burdlck was about TO
leave New York Tor Atlantic city and
that he should call her back before she
left
Another letter written by Mrs PEN
neh to Burdick was read. II was an
other plea that he drop the divorce pro-
ceedlngs and consent 10 the return Of
Mrs Burdick for the sake Of his chill
dren. declaring that they needed a
mothers love and care. Mrs. Pencil
urged him 10 trust his wife once more,
The letter was undated, but evidently
was written about two weeks after
Mrs Burdick left for Atlantic city,
ACTION FOR DIVORCE
The district-attorney here reverted
TO the divorce action. Mrs. Burdlck
said that Penuell managed everything
for her in relation to IT, She denied
that she had engaged the detectives
who followed Burdck. Pennell aid all
that Proceeding, Mrs. Burdlck said
she returned to Buffalo IN a week or 10
days from Atlantic city to get the con-
tents Of the box in the safety deposit
vault She did go because Pencil had
been refused access to IT. She re-
manned in Buffalo several days stop
ping at a hotel She saw her husband
by appointment
~ telephoned TO him" she said "and
told him there We're some things /
wanted to explain before he went on
with the divorce proceedings. ! asked
him to see me at the Genesce and he
did. I told him II was not my fault
that the divorce proceedings were be-
ing held up and delayed, and he said
he understood that
"Then YOU did not want to defend
that suit?'
81 did not know exactly what ! did
want to do left II to Pencil TO de-
eide"
"On Dec. 70 you wrote a letter to
your husband from New York In which
YOU said that your going back home
would make no difference for the rea-
son that Pencil said you had no de-
Tense and the divorce was 10 be granted
By agreement. Why was the change
made with regard to making a de-
fense?"