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Show MUSS' CASE AT BUFFALO Girl Employed at the Dead Man's. Factory Under Examination by Pplice; Julian Hawthorne Rejects Re-jects Woman Theory. 0S WOMAN WITNESSES IN BURDICK CASE. MRS. J. D. HULU who pre-- sided over the Burdlck house- hbld In .the absence of Mrs. Bur dick, her daughter. ' MRS. E. L.' BURDICK, wife of the murdered man, from whom she was seeking, divorce. MRS. J. B. WARREN of CTeve- land, whom Burdlck aided when. she was defending a suit for di- vorce. MRS. SETH T. PAINE of Buf- fatoj an acquaintance of the Burdlcks, and the - wife of a prominent dentist. - BULLETIN. BUFFALO, N. Y., March 7. Miss Hutchinson has been released. This afternoon Assistant District Attorney Abbott arrived at police headquarters having, with him In a closed carriage another young woman wo-man apparently about 24 years of are. She ' was handsomely attired. She was taken into the private office, where she was questioned by the authorities. au-thorities. ' ' V - - 1 . s i' . , i ) . .' 7 . BXTFTALO,' March ! The. police, are at xrl oa a new clue'ln tha Burdick - , murder mystery.! They have found a hackman who. drove a young woman to the corner of Ashland avenue and Summer street near the hour of the murder. She carried a .satchel and walked toward the Burdlck house. It is said that the new woman in the case has auburn hair. Several days ago it was reported that the police were in search of a redheaded red-headed woman, but the report was emphatically em-phatically denied by the police and at the District A tommy's office. Woman in Custody. A woman known to have been under the eye of the police was today taken to the office of Police Superintendent Bull and the door of his office was locked. . Heretofore any one whom the authorities authori-ties desired to question In regard to the murder mystery has been taken to the office of the District Attorney. Assistant Chief Cusack. with Capt. Kilroy, took the woman into custody in the Tenth precinct, which includes the Elm wood district. The woman is now being questioned by Superintendent Bull and District Attorney Coatsworth. The police refused to state whether the woman had been placed under arrest ar-rest or not and declined to give her name. Worked for Burdlck. The woman was taken from a hou?e at 19 Tupper street. At the house it was learned that she went there about six weeks ago to board with a Mrs. Coughlin, who keeps the house. Mrs. Coughlin stated that the woman taken from her house by the police was Miss Marylan Hutchinson, who came to the house on February 17th. She said Miss Hutchinson worked for Burdlck at the envelope factory up to four weeks ago. REJECTS THE THEORY IN BURDICK CASE THAT WOMAN DID IT (BY. JTLIAN HAWTHORNE.) BUFFALO, March 7. I have a respect re-spect for the police here In Buffalo, as well as In other places, and I believe in their ability to keep important Information Infor-mation from getting out prematurely. Therefore I recognise the existence of a sort of inevitable antagonism between them and the men of the press, whose aim is not only to find out things, but to make them known.. It seems evident that more Is known about the details of the Burdick murder than has yet been published and made the oasis of theory and argument amounts to very little. We may almost take It for granted that if this murder was committed by a man or woman in the Buffalo smart set, the murderer is not likely to be discovered. discov-ered. If discovered, he or she is not likely to be tried and convicted. If convicted, con-victed, he or she Is nearly or quite certain cer-tain not to be executed. We have had object lessons In point In New York not long ago. We don't want to kill any- " body judicially for anything nowadays, but we are resolved not to hang them if they belong to the rich and cultured class. Strong Esprit in Society. . The rich and cultivated are also clever, clev-er, and they know how to help one another an-other out They know, la a case of this kind, that disaster or disgrace to one is disgrace to all. They will, for the nonce, sink all private and personal quarrels and make a solid front against the common com-mon enemy that is, the peonje.- The party of the murdered person. In a mur- (Continued oa Page 10.) Auburn-Haired Wcman. (Continued from Page L) der case, must act with the party of the murderers. They support one another an-other in denials and professions of ignorance; ig-norance; they back up one another's alibis; ali-bis; they have money on hand for whatever what-ever money can buy and what are you going- to do about it? There is no such esprit de corps among professional criminals. The smart set is smart In this direction as in others. The members can really do, in reason, almost anything,they like; it may cost them something, but It will rot cost them their lives. It is all very well for Chief of Detectives Cusack and for District Attorney Coatsworth to summon a hundred society folks and ask them questions. Nothing of practical practi-cal importance will be discovered. Nor does it, on the face of it, seem probable that much of importance will be discovered by first adopting a theory and then trying to work it into a suspicion sus-picion of some individual, an arrest and indictment, and a conviction. Even Sex: of Slayer In Doubt. What we want first to know is more about the details relative to the murder itself. Is it possible that a man like Burdick can- be murdered with a golf stick in his own room, at night, with people in the house, and yet no trace be left-to show I do not say who did the deed, but what the sex of the murderer was? Could a woman have done It a woman wo-man of fashion and leave no trace-not trace-not so much as a hairpin? But we have heard of no hairpins; all we have heard Is that there was a divorce Imbroglio, and that probably some man or woman Hon of the woman, bodily and mentally, men-tally, when her work was done! There lies the man. a hideous mass of death and blood: Shall we suppose her quietly putting on her jacket and stepping out of the door artd betaking herself to her home along the fashionable thoroughfare, thorough-fare, and merely stepping Into the middle mid-dle of the street when she meets a policeman? po-liceman? Remember, this Is her first murder; that she did it unpremedltatedly; that her nerves and brain are In a whirl; that she is pursued by thoughts memories memo-ries and visions such as might drive the strongest and coolest head to distraction. distrac-tion. Policeman Murphy noticed nothing out of the way about the woman he saw. She was well dressed, and had her wits about her; she had apparently been sitting up with a sick friend. It does not look reasonable. Why do the police suspect a woman of the deed? why not Just as well a man? Suppose since nothing but suppositions seem to be in order that a man whose wife was in peril of exposure through Burdick's divorce suit, or some other cause, should feel that Burdick was better out of the way? Would he not be more apt than a woman to take the matter in hand? Easier Task for a Van. He could make a friendly appointment with Burdick, drop in and have a snack with him; chat with him while he lay on his sofa, play with the golf club, heft it, practice a stroke with It, and then all of a sudden lift It and bring it down with all his trained strength or the unsuspecting unsus-pecting man's head. I can conceive of that, and there would be comparatively little risk in it, only the risk of being caught in the act; he could leave the house at any hour in the morning without with-out excitinar remark. A woman could not. She would be In double and treble danger all the time, and she would be acting out of her woman's wo-man's part all the time Into the bargain. bar-gain. Besides, could she make no other tryst with Burdick than in his own house? Do tha resources of the female members of the smart set extend no further than that? They must be greatly great-ly deficient In resources in Buffalo If that be the case. I wish some good and cool detective had examined the lunch table with some care and particularity. I wish he had taken note of every smallest Item In the room, to draw inferences from at his leisure. To be sure, it may be that such a detective did such things, but we have not heard that he did. We know nothing exee-ia mans" of more or less lrrelevan-details, and that the police think the "murder the work of a woman, because a woman might have been inconvenievced by an exposure in a divorce suit. It may have been so, but I should have small hopes of the case If that fs really all there Is to go upon. Motive Not Yet Apparent. It may be that the assumed motive Is not the real motive at all. The murder may have been motived by something of which we have as yet heard nothing. Because the divorce suit happens at the-occasion the-occasion it does not follow of necessity neces-sity that the divorce suit was in fact the provoking cause. . It often happens that what seems on the first face of it most probable turns out not to have been the real solution. I am inclined to think that we are as yet merely on the outer threshold of this riddle. I am by no meana sanguine san-guine that, under the conditions, we will ever get much further, but If we are to get further, and if the police have really told us all, or anything of consequence that has come to their , knowledge. I should say that some other avenue of investigation will have to be opened up. These are my Impressions on a first glance at the matter. Each day and any day may bring revelations, but It will be wise not to hope too much. who dreaded the contingent exposure decided to avoid It by killing the mart who was bringing on the exposure. That Is a very plausible supposition: but is there nothing in the murder room that gives a hint whether or not it be the true one? Really nothing. One can see, on the other hand, many reasons against believing that a woman was the murderer. What sort of a woman wo-man must we assume her to have been? A woman might dread exposure, but -would she dread It so much as to go to the man's house at night, risking much, and then attack and kill him with no Ibetter weapon than his own hockey club, which she must have picked up on the spur of the moment, and which. In her hands, would seem to be a most inefficient instrument? If Woman, a Mad One. It is not enough to say that a desperate desper-ate woman only could attempt such a deed; we must say that only a mad woman wo-man would attempt It. And this woman wo-man must have got access to her victim on the plea that she loved him, and was ready to hazard her reputation for that love. - There are active and athletic and courageous and Immoral women in the smart set, but If there are any In it of this caliber and quality, I for one have never met them. The first thought of a woman who hates a man and wants to punish him is not to hammer him to death in his own house with a club. She Is ready to poison him. perhaps; she is quite ready to think about poisoning him. But is she not still more likely to know some other man who will be willing will-ing to take up her quarrel when It gets to the stage of violence, and do the dirty and violent work for her? If the state of morality or immorality in the Buffalo smart set Is as represented, there must be more than one Intrigue to each member of it, and the young men would never leave the young women wo-men to beat out the objectionable young ' men's brains unaided and under such circumstances. If a woman did do the murder. It seems Impossible that she should not . have done it unpremedltatedly, and she may have meant merely td hit him. In a fit of passion; when she found the blow had knocked him senseless, then she might conceivably have gon on, in a paroxysm of mingled hatred and horror, and beaten him to a pulp. 1 But what must have been the condl- |