The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-03-20

MAN KILLED
By His Automobile Running over
Edge Of High Embankment.

ny HIS Automobile Running Over
Edge Of High Embankment.
DASHED TO PIECES ON ROCKS.
His iyife, WHO Was with Him
When tho Terrible Accident
5Happoned, is Seriously
Injured.
Buffalo, n. Y, has another scnsa-
tiOn. 3Recently one of her prominent
citizens by the name Of e. Il. Burdick,
was found murdered in his residence,
and hp to this time the police has
beenTlnnble to locate the murderer.
Tuesday afternoon Arthur r. P> rncll,
one 0fsthe chief figures in the in .csti-
gati0nSof the Burdick murder, was
hurled hcadlong into eternity. Mr..
Penhell was riding in his electric
automobile with Mrs. Pcnnell They
were,pn Kcnsingtun avenue near Fili-
moreavcnuc, skimming along the edge
OF tile Gchrs Stone quarry. a huge
rock-ribbcd hole in the ground. Mr..
Pen ellis hat blew OFT. The automo-
bile sWcrycd and in some tncxpIiclblc
manltcr IT. leaped over the curb into
tllc abyss below. Pcnncll was killed
instantly, his head being crushed to
an unrccognizablc mass. Mrs. Pcnnell
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
we're Too far away to know positively
just bow il happened. Mrs. penncll
when found was unable to speak. She
was only Semi-conscious when taken
to the hospital and could speak no CO.
hcrent words. After the operations
performed Immediately by DR.. Eugene
Smith in the hope Of saving her life,
she lapSed into uncnnsciousncss and
hence there can be no true version Of
precisely how the affair occurred,
Mr. Pcnnell left his Office in the
Austin building at I.O5 O'Clock. lie
wentbto his home at 2OS Cleveland
avenue. a friend who called up Mr.
Penntll on the telephone about 5
O'CLOCK was informed that Mr.. Pencil
was in but that he was going for Il
drive, Mr.. Pcnncll himself answered
the telephone and said that lie would
be back between GAO and i O'clock.
making an appointment with his
friend for that hour.
. Would Go'clock do?" Inc was asked.
+, On, Well, you might come at 6
O'Clock, but you better making it
later, n4.said Mr.. Penncll.
Those were the last words Penncll
was known to speak to any one except
Mrs: Pennell, save that he went back
to. Gbe stairs and called out to Lizzie
R}omallce,tt Ron, lhe maid: : Lizzie, we will
ne: Dat - petWeo as g s5and .s7s,o'cloc,s.,
Then he and Mrs. Penncll rode away
In the automobile.
1t was learned that the matter
mentioned in the telephone talk was
something he considered most serious
and which weighed heavily upon him.
1t was in connection with the Buuljcl,
murder.
Recently Mr.. pcnncll made the fol-
lowing statement: About this case
Of Burdick, l have told the autllori-
ties | went away to New York before
the murder and that l met, Mrs.
Burdick while | was away. In fact
SAW Mrs. l'urdicIi near New York two
or three days before the murder /
have told it frankly and the meeting
was proper one. But they seem to
be determined to drag all the business
out in The papers. l would do any
thing to stop it,"
Penncll and his wife left their home
at 4.50 O'clock or one or two minutes
before that time. 1t was gloomy
afternoon and rain was falling. 1t
seemed Il strange day for man to
take his wife automobiling, in the
lonely northeast section Of the city
at such an hour.
Pcnncli was not veteran at auto
MODELLING. Yet he was an expert at
handling the machine and was cx
perienccd as to It's management.
What was unusual about the
proceedings, according to the maid,
was that Mrs. Pcnncll had always be-
fore told her when they would return.
Today, however, said the girl, when
they went out it was Mr.. Pcnncll who
told me-"
Mrs. Pennell has hccn loyal to her
husband throughout his trying expert
enceS during the last ten days. She
frequently said that her faith i'm him
was unshaken and that She would
stick to him to the end. Pcnnclls
body was received ut morguc shortly
after $50 o'clock The features of
the dead man were distorted and ont
or all scmblancc to their natural
character. In the pockets were found
some money and newspaper clippings
and identification cards from two in
surancc companies.
MRS. I'ENNELL DIES.
Mrs. Arthur Pcnncll died at the
Sisters Of Charity hospital Wedncs-
nesday night, at $ O'clock. For hours
the surgeons worked over the uncon-
scious form of the injured woman. A
faint twitching Of the cyelds or IL
murmer OF pain were the only signs ol
returning consciousness pcrceptible
during the ~ hours the injured wo
man was in the hospital ward Tx.
ccpt for few incuhcrcnt words utter
cd when she was first taken to tic
hospital Mrs. Pcnncll's lips did moi
move.
He Will Hang.
The decision Of the United States
Court in refusing To reverse the dccis.