The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-25

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importune you and waylay you, and did
you finally yield?"
Yes, SIR
WAS Mr. Burdick fond Of the iadiesy'
Yes. he was very fond Of them"
She knew nothing OF the counter
charges made in the divorce proceedings
against Mr.. Burdick ecept what Nh Pen
nell tola her.
IF Penneil or any one else had made
any threats against your husband. what
| would you have done?"
II should have warned him"
"Pennell never made any such threats?
No, sir"
Mr.. Burdick and Mrs. Pennell were
| very friendly?'
Yes sir
And he would have admitted her to his
home at any timer
Yes, sir
AT nisht?'
Yes, sir"
Without any fearr'
Yes. sir"
Mrs. Pennen had been in your house
many times?'
Yes. sir
| And she was familiar with the dining
room and the DEM"
Yes, SIR"
THE door of the den faced the front
door. did it not?''
Yes, sir"
And person could tap on the window
of the front door and attract attention
of any one in the den without ringing
the door-bell?"
Yes. SIR
By the court: Didn't you know that
Mrs. Penneil loved her husband?''
She may have. once
Did you and Mrs. Pennen ever have
any conversation on the subject? Didn't
she feel that you had wronged herr
mo, don't think she did She knew il
| was Arthurs fault
Mrs. Burdick did not know that it was
Mrs. Pennell's love for her husband
which made her refuse to agree TO d.
vorce. It was because she dreaded the
publicity and the scandal Of divorce pro-
| ceedings. she thought. She knew now
that Mrs PenneI went TO see Burdick
| about the matter.
Don't you know that Mrs. Pennell
was at Mrs. Burdick's home the night of
! the MURDER
| No, sir
Didn't any one tell you that she was?'
mo. sir
DO you know that Pennen was there
that night?'
mo. sir
Didn't any one tell you he was there?'
No. sir
And you have no reason for believing
he was there"
mo, sir
Re-examined by Mr.. Coatsworth:
When Mr.. Burdick made you give him
the box containing your letters. what
did you do with it?'
He turned II over to my mother with
out removing the letters"
Mrs. Burdick was then excused.
The next witness called was Carol
Burdick. the 13-year-old daughter of the
| murdered man. a charming. unaffected
child. She remembered the morning her
fathers body was found. She remem-
bered the dinner the previous evening.
and told Of her fathers movements up
to the time he came into their room and
kissed them goodnight. Her sister Ma
rion was in the hall and she thought she
aad gone to sleep before Marion came to
bed. Marion had been sleeping with her
grandmother, but she could not remem-
Der whether sch did on that night or
Thursday night. She met her grand
mother in the hall on the second floor on
the morning that her papa was found
dead. She did not think she had her robe
on She thought she was In her skirts.
Alice, the 10-year-old sister OF Carol,
was then put on the stand. She was
much more interested in what was going
on about her than she was in the district
attorneys questions. 1t was also new
and strange to her. She watched the
swiftly moving hands Of the steno-
graphers. took in the Judge with wide
open eyes. and occasionally favored the
district attorney with a pleasant smile.
Mr.. Coatsworth questioned her for the
purpose of showing that bath-robe
which Mrs. Hull had been in the habit Of
wearing had not been worn by Mrs Hull
for some time, but Alice declared that
she saw IL on her grand mother two or
three days ago Alice said she did not
know that her father was dead until after
breakfast on Friday morning. when her
grandmother told her. Before she came
down to breakfast she had been told by
her grand mother that her father was
lying i'll in the den; that her grand
mother said some one had been in the
house and hurt her father. Later. Alice
contradicted herself by saying II was not
until after breakfast that she learned he
was Ill. her grandmother having told
her that her papa was lying down on
the couch in the den.
The inquest was then suspended until
Thursday morning at 10 O'Clock
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