Show PENNI J ALL NAMED AS Bvrd icks former Du business siness partner accuses dead attorney of the murder of his friend daughter of slain man gives testimony with startling calmness probably the most interesting wit ness at the inquest in the burdick murder case was marion burdick eldest child of the dead man dressed all in black pale except for the pretty pink of her cheeks her black hair done in a knot at her neck the fil teen year old girl took tool the oath in an audible voice and began answering the district attorney attorneys s questions des bribing how grandma had told her that papa was very ill grandma looked so awful she majd so very very pale that marion knew something dreadful had happened marion thought it strange that grand ma did not go into the den marioa marion had eaten her breakfast and was in the sitting sit tini room when grandma told her her papa was dead her examination showed the girl was completely under her grand mothers mother s control no more remark able spectacle has been seen in all this tragic business than the exam of this rosy cheeked self possessed girl and her composure under searching cross fire she confronted the inquisition of the examining lawyer with a direct ness and intentness that might well have embarrassed him her eyes never wavered or fell under any questioning and some of the ques eions were hard to meet A clearer stronger personality has not appeared in the court room yet she was not self willed but obedient to the authority which she lecog nihed and that authority was not present in the seat of justice nor in the law yer who stood before her and ques tinned her so closely it was lodged in the person of the strange old wo man vvhs ft ho had sat in the same chair two days before and had resisted the best efforts of the same lawyer to break her down grandma controlled marion from her law there was no appeal thie this waa was the most significant fact brought out by the examination it if mr coatsworth Costs worth had hoped to show by the girl s direct evidence any flaw in the testimony of the grand mother he was baffled and defeated the child betrayed nothing she came into the crowded room with a quick modest step and bowed to the lawyers tor for the family and shook hands with one of them then guid ed by a friend she slipped through the crowd and came to the chair where she had a whispered conversa lion with justice murphy probably with reference to her oath then she faced the district actor ney never once did she take her eyes from his while the inquest last ed she met bis his eyes when they were fixed on her and she gazed in gently at him when ahen he looked aside or 9 to take counsel with himself her answer ana an A er were all short and most of tiem monosyllabic yes no but they were emphatic and decisive when the same questions were repeated repe atod she answered with more emphasis but save for this and what the movements or demon trat strat ione foris of the grandmother had been by negative and affirmative replies it was drawn from her that a grandma had come into her room while she was dressing she said that after her grand mother bad had told her her papa was dead she did not go to the den where aher the body lay but she and her grandmother started to water flow ers the child admitted that her actions were strange but she would not explain them insisting that ehe she loved her ler father dearly she said she thought something dreadful had hap happened bened because 40 grandma looked so pale there was something tom loom ething terrible in this answer the fact that the face of mrs hull auld could ever be otherwise than pale it awas not mere pallor then that made the child think something dreadful had happened to her father but such it look as those who saw the old wo man on the stand can appreciate the look of one who had beheld horrors unspeakable askel then I 1 asked Is papa dead and she said he is dead and was that all you said didn dian t you ask how he came to dlee I 1 said did he smell gas or was it suicide 9 but I 1 did not ask her that then I 1 asked no questions till grand ma saw fit to tell me did you think that was right and natural 9 yes it was right and natural you think it was right and nat ural azes I 1 do so the child an with a touch of passion mr coatsworth gazed at her won derin gly and sadly she eyed him back straightly A stronger influence than his was operating with marion according to the dictates of that in fluence she saw right and wrong katie koenig a german servant to in the burdick family retold her story alpa 14 AI A I but one point was new As to alleg ed rows in the house katie who waited at table had never heard mr burdick speak to his children to mrs hull or to his wife in anything but a pleasant agreeable manner never in her hearing had he raised his voice to anybody in that house the morn ing that mrs burdick left the house forever at his command katie wait ing at the breakfast table had heard the same gentle cheerful chat that she had always listened to there mrs burdick had informed her and miss murray that she was going away for a rest katie had never heard a syllable about divorces until after the murder mr and mrs bur dick had never said a word about it no points of interest were develop ed in the testimony of dr marcy mrs maria hull mother of mrs burdick despite her sixty four years and the tremendous strain of a two hours keen examination withstood the ordeal of cross examination well and slid did not lose control of her nerves when shown a photograph of burdick with his skull crushed next in importance to the mony given by mrs hull was that given by dr howland he said that dr marcy the burdick family ghyst clan who was at the house when he arrived there on the morning of the murder requested him to mal male e it appear that the case was one of sui but cide after looking at the body of the murdered man dr howland in formed dr marcy that suicide was out of the question mrs hull is a little woman with a nervous but resolute face blue eyes and gray hair she was gowned en in black and wore a long mourning veil fastened well back from her forehead her answers were given in a calm quiet tone excepting now and then when her voice took on a peculiar ring she used smelling salts occasionally but never became confused when excused mrs hull left the witness stand without assist ance maggie murray the cook at the burdick house detained her move ments as previously published as to seeing burdick in his underclothes and afterward hearing some one working at the furnace she heard no further noise in the house that night she contradicted mrs hulls story of what occurred on the morning of the murder she said she went to mrs hulls hull s bedroom and told her about the door and the windows be ing open she said that she did not call to mrs hull from the first floor she also contradicted mrs hull who had testified that she did not look over the ballu strade she said she and not mrs hull suggested that dr marcy be called she knew of no one who held any animosity toward bur dick later developments threw add lional light on the theory that arthur R pennell was the murderer and that he slew his victim with the knowl edge and connivance of some one in side burdick s house the night of the crime the questions of the tors tor for the state were so shaped as to intimate that mrs hull mother of burdick s wife was the accomplice accompli ce of pennell or of the hired assassin sen sent to murder burdick mrs gertrude S paine wife ot of dr seth T paine was one of the wit ness nesses s of the day she denied that her relations with burdick had been anything but proper she told of the scandal arising over the relations be tween mrs burdick and pennell and the burdick divorce plans it was charles S parke burdick Bur dicks s former partner who furnished the sensation he said boldly he bellev ed pennell or an assassin hired by him murdered burdick the object being to prevent the scandal that must ensue if Bur burdick dicks s divorce case went to trial parke parkes s belief was founded on information and talks he had with burdick himself from this testimony it appeared that pennell had threatened to kill himself and mrs burdick it if the divorce suit was not withdrawn other evidence show ed burdick had been warned to look out tor for pennell who had carried a revolver it was plain the witness thought that pennell was nas bent on preventing at any cost the divorce trial and the consequent airing of his own misdeeds the assassination therefore was the logical conse quence the burdick inquest was postponed from march 18 until march 23 DIs brict attorney coatsworth Is suffering from a sore throat and cannot speak without great difficulty 0 when the burdick burdic ic inquest Is resumed it Is expected that another clew going to show that A R pennell was the mur murderer derer of E L will be revealed it Is stated that district attorney clear tones did not vary aw W ay the examination took the course 4 of trying to establish what word shad passed between marion and her grandmother on the friday morning 1 04 X j k attorney coatsworth conducting cross axam nation coatsworth coat S worth will place in evidence a letter alleged to have been written to mrs burdick by arthur R pennell some months ago the letter was found in the burdick home when the search of the house was made by the police in the letter the following occurs I 1 feel that I 1 must kill ed burdick when mrs burdick comes to the stand she will probably be called upon to identify the he letter mentioned above she knew both the dead men burdick and pennell probably better than any other one person in the world and her testimony promises to be the most im fin and interesting of the entire proceedings if mrs burdick admits that she received it it will go a long wa way y toward proving that the rev levi M powers burdick s pastor and charles S parke bis his partner were right in their state ment that arthur R pennell was the assassin |