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Show PEHTTELL'S A7TATSS HAY BE GIVEN AN AXBINO. BUFFALO, April !. Justice Murphy and District Attorney Coatsworth held a conference yesterday on the Pennell inquest, which will begin at the morgue at S o'clock Friday afternoon. -The course of the public inquiry, so far as it could be discussed beforehand, was settled. The Inquests of Pennell and Mrs. Pennell are to be held Jointly. The last known statement of Pennell in his own defense, in which he says " jj a woman killed Burdlck at mldnlght,J ! to come out. staw I The question of suicide or accident is . v I not to be tried out. so far as the Dls- . i trlct Attorney is concerned. That part of the case will be directed by Justice ; Murphy. ' The letters Pennell wrote, the statements state-ments he left behind and all other papers that In any way touch upon or pertain to the affairs of Burdlck. are to be brought out if the authorities can get at them. Pennell's detective reports re-ports on the shadowing of Burdlck also are to come out unless they have found their way Into hands beyond the reach of the court The Inquest probably prob-ably will last two days. It was intimated today that in the event that those interested in the Pennell Pen-nell estate are called upon at an official inquiry to divulge any information as to Pennell's financial operations in the f East an effort will be made to show f that the money which he obtained ' from his friends and relatives was In f the nature of legitimate loans. In other words. It may be asserted that funds to the amount of about 8200.000 were advanced to him without any se- curity whatever. His attorney. Wal- I lace Thayer, admits that Pennell had I no security to give for such loans. |