The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-03-11
STORY OF THE ACCIDENT
How Mr.. and Mrs. PenneII Rode to Their
.--. Death.


Death. -. -
Buffalo, March 11.-Arthur S. Pencil,
the correspondent in the divorce suit
brought by Edwin l.. Burdick against Mrs.
Burdick and the first person to be sought
by the police on the discovery Of Bur
dicks murdered body, was instantly killed
last evening, TX ~ ..-. ...'. .-... r..
His wife, who sat beside him as his
automobile dashed into an old stone quar-
ry in the Kensington district, Is uncon-
scious and dying at the hospital of the
Sisters of Charity, &c.,. ~
Two boys who saw the tragedy say that
Pennell was driving his machine at
fairly rapid rate, when his hat blew. off
and the auto sWerved and disappeared
with it's burden into a great bowl Of lime
stone few feet from the road.
Pencil and his wife left their home
at about 4:5O p. m. 1t was a gloomy aft
ernoon, as rain was falling. It seemed a
strange day for man to take his wife
automobiling. Yet he was an expert at
handling the machine and was expert
enced as to its management. # Is.
He was born in Brunswick, Maine,
thirty-s six years ago. He went to Yale,
graduating with the class of 1887, and
soon after that he married Miss Carrie
Lamb Of New Haven: Mrs. Pencil is 81.
They have no children. His wife had a
comfortable fortune. -
The Pencils moved in that portion of
Buffalo society which formed the Buffalo
Golf club, the Elmwood Social club, and
| like organizations. They were intima tely
| acquainted with the Burdicks and the
Paines. Pencil and Burdick were close
| friends until two years ago, when Burdick
| began to observe Pencils friendship for
| Mrs. Burdick. Then a bitter enmity
| sprang up. In December last Mr. Burdick
began suit for divorce against his wife,
oi,,o 90. n MrS
Burdick went to Atlantic City, where she
! spent several weeks at a, hotel. There she
| had q frequent visitor, who from the de-
| scriptions, surely was Pennell. They
| played golf together, but their meetings
were open. He lived at hotel other than
hers. and when he called they conversed
| in the hotel exchange.
Recently Mr.. Pencil made the follow
| ing statement:
"About this case of Burdick, have told
| the authorities that went away to New
/ York before the murder and that
met Mrs Burdick while I was
awey. In fact, l saw Mrs Bur
| days before the murder of Mr.. Bur-
| dick I came home again Wednesday, the
| day before the murder. I have told it
! frankly, and the meeting was proper
one. But they seem determined to drag
all this business out in the papers. :
Mrs. Pencil had been loyal to her hus-
band through his trying experiences dur
/ ing the last ten days. She frequently
said her faith in him was mistaken, and
| that she would stick to him to the end.
The physicians at the Sisters hospital
| said at s o'clock this morning that Mrs
Pencils condition was unchanged anG
| that the chances Of recovery were regard
] ed as extremely doubtful.
i Pencils body was takento the morgue
/ where DR.. Danser, the medical examiner
1 looked at it. The vault Of the skull had
/! been absolutely destroyed and the cheek
/ bones and jaw were crushed to small bits
! The back was broken. The body haG
been utterly smashed by the automobile
i which weighed 800 pounds, and had fall
en- twenty feet or more. In Pencils
card ase were a score of newspaper clip.
/ pings, most of them sentimental bits OF
verse. One OF them read:
/ OH I have wondered at the fearless heart
! With which strong men and tender women
Go to meet great death, but now seem to know
i @ Etc.
4 It was said at the Sisters Hospital, afte
an operation, that Mrs. Pennell had beer
drinking irltoxicants. The contents O
her stomach indicated that she had hat
4 whisky.
i The best witness of the tragedy il
4 George Dunbar, who told his story as fol
lows:
sIannsn and I we're walking along Ken