The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-23
BURDICK'S WIDOW
WILL BE CALLED
Inquest Into Death of Buffalo
Man to Be Resumed
Today.

BUFFALO, N. Y, March 22.-The
inquest into the death of Edwin L.
Burdick will be resumed in Judge
Murphys court tomorrow afternoon at
2 o'clock. The first witness probably
will be George c. Miller, who was at
torney for Mr.. BurdiAk and in whose
office Mr.. Burdick and A. r. Pennell
met for conference several weeks be-
fore Mr.. Burdick's murder. Follow
ing Mr.. Miller the district attorney
may call Miss Lizzie Romance. the
Pencil domestic on whom Mr.. Pen
nell relied in part for his aiibi on the
night Burdick was killed
The third witness of the day is ex-
pected to be Mrs. Alice Burdick, widow
of the murdered man.
While Mrs. Burdick was not in Buff
falo on the night her husband was
murdered, she may be called upon to
testify as to the details of his domestic
life up to the time she left her home
last December. The purpose of Pen
nells visit to her while she was in
New York and Atlantic City and his
return to Buffalo to seek Burdick and
have an interview with him may form
a fruitful field for questioning by the
district attorney.
The authorities are in possession of
minute details regarding the where
abouts of Pennell before and after
the murder. 1t is known that he saw
Mrs. Burdick in Atlantic City three
days before the murder. He was in
Buffalo again on Wednesday, Feb. %.
1t was on the night of Thursday, Feb.
&c, that Burdick was killed.
On Friday, according to the story
told to the authorities by Pencil be-
fore his death, he and his wife visited
Niagara Falls. He first visited the
automobile factory at the city line
While at the factory Pennell said he
called up Mrs. Pencil on the tele-
phone. He explained that Mrs. Pen
nell for some days had been urging
him to take her to the falls to see the
ice scenery and had spoken to him
about it the day before, son his reture
from the East. He told her to take
a Niagara Falls car and he would
join her there. He said this was about
2 o'clock on Friday afternoon, or a
few minutes earlier.
He said he went on down to the falls
and that his wife came and brought
the papers with her, and that he read
in the papers of the murder of Burdick
They stayed at the falls until evening
He and his wife returned from the
falls, and late that evening the de-
tectiVes called at his home and Ques-
toned him, and he gave them the fore
going account of his movements.
Certain letters and documents, in
Guiding the letter alleged to have been
written by Pencil to Mrs. Burdick.
in which the sentence, 81 feel that l
must kill Ed Burdick" occurs, will BE
placed in the district attorneys hands
tomorrow. Mrs. Burdick will be close
ly questioned about them.
No arrest, it is generally conceded,
will take place at the close of the in
quest. The authorities may see fit to
present the case to the grand jury,
but this is considered improbable in
view of the lack of material evidence
in hand. Judge Murphy will probably
issue a statement at the conclusion of
the inquest embodying his views.
Thousands of people today visited
the stone quarry where Pencil was
killed and Mrs. Pencil fatally injured
by their automobile when it plunged
down from Kensington avenue.