The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-25

to secure the payment to her of $4,000.
The copy was in Mr.. Burdick's handwrit-
ing.
THAT came from your safe deposit vault.
also. didn't it," asked Mr.. Coatsworth..
Il do not know"
Don't you know that such a bond was in
that box?'
81 do not"
find that bond there and you could not?"
Il do not know anything about that. i
think 1 can explain how he may have got
into my box. When / went to the bank
If my brother still had the right 10 open
my box. / told him / had no brother. He
then showed me an order giving my brother
the right to enter that box"
Continuing. Mrs. Burdick said she did not
know that Pennell made provision for the
payment of $4,000 TO her and denied that
he ever paid that sum. She did not know
whether he had assigned any of his life in
surance policies over to her. She did
not know that Pennell had made any pro-
vision for her. After her talk with Burdick
at the Genessee House. and she had gone
back to Atlantic City she thought she wrote
another letter TO Mr.. Burdick in which
she attempted to explain some of the things
that she had gone over with him at the
Genessee. She thought she had made a
claim for aiimony. but she never applied
to courts for any or for counsel fees While
she was in Atlantic City Pennell never gave
her any money, but he paid her expenses
lantic City and stayed there for a week
She met Pennell twice in New York, the
last time on Monday, Feb. %. She was at
the Victoria and he at the Hoffman House
On the following day she met him in a
parlor at the Fifth-avenue Hotel by ap-
pointment. He wanted her to sign some
On the way to the train they talked about
the divorce proceedings. He told her she
need not worry, that everything was going
on all right and that she had good de-
hot hn -ntr1A sat he L.
stead of her husband getting it, He did not
say he had a recent meeting with Bur-
dick. Pennell was to return to Buffalo that
"Didn't he love you as much then as
ever"
Eyes he did"
did you receive any communication from
him prior. to your husbands death and
after you left for Atlantic City,"
81 did not"
You swear to that?''
II will
NOTIFIED OF BURDIcK's DEATH
What were you engaged at Wednesday
evening. Feb 2s?'
IT think was in my room in the hotel
reading. / think I was tired and went to
bed early
when did you get up?"
about o'clock
did you receive a telegram from your
mother that morning.
Eyes, a telegram that Mr.. Burdick was
dead"
Did you receive any letters from your
mother while you were away?"
Eyes, two a week sometimes"
Have you the letters now?'
mo; destroyed them"
Wasn't that rather stranger"
mo. 1t my custom to destroy my
letters. While 1 am away always do
that"
Letters from her mother ceased coming.
the Sunday preceding Burdick's DEATH,
asking If she was i'll. She received reply
the same day; also telegram from PEN
nell, asking her 10 meet him in New York.
when you got the telegram from your
mother announcing Burdick's death what
reply did you send?'\
II replied 1 would be home the following
morning"
Ibid you also telegraph to Pennell?"
Yes. ! wired him to meet me at the sta
"You arrived that Friday morning; did
you see Mrs. Hull?"
Eyes, SIR
did you have talk with herr"
did you ask her how 1t happened?"
"Why, yes. / said: Mamma, what in
the world has happened?' and she said,
Ed is dead and he has been murdered right
What did she tell you about it?"
''She told me how the servants had found
the kitchen window open and how Ed could
not be found how the den door was closed
and how they were all frightened by the
strange appearance of the den when they
opened the door. and about telephoning for
the doctor"
did your mother tell you that when she
looked into the den she saw Ed lying
there?"
mo; she did not know 1t was Ed
did you hear from Pennell that day."
81 got a brief note from him. in which
he said he was sorry that he had been at
the Falls when my telegram arrived, so
that he could not meet me-"
She did not reply, she said, nor did she
communicate with him in any way after
that. She never saw Pennell again after
he left her on the train going to Atlantic
City.
A recess was taken at this point.