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Show WIDOW OF THE MURDERED BURDICK TO TESTIFY BUFFALO. March 23. The Inquest Into thi death of Edwin L. Burdick will be resumed in Judge Murphy's court this afternoon. The first witness probably will be George C. Miller, who was attorney at-torney for Burdick and in whoso office Burdick and Mrs. Pennell met for a conference con-ference several weeks before Burdlck's murder. Following Miller, the District Attorney may call Miss Romance, the Pennell servant, on whom Pennell relied in lart for his alibi on the night Burdick ?as murdered. The third witness of the da yMa expected to be Mrs. Burdick, widow wi-dow ol the murdered man. Mr. iRf!rr testimony should be Interesting, Inter-esting, for be knew Burdick well, was familiar with what occurred between him and Pennell and hM-4ong talks with Burdick Bur-dick over the divorce case In which Pennell Pen-nell was named as co-respondent. ! Miss Romance will be questioned regarding re-garding Pennell's movements on the night of the Burdick murder so fur as she observed ob-served them, and his conduct thereafter as It came to her notice. 1 Then w-Hl com Mrs. Burdick. Although Al-though Mrs. Burdick was not in Buffalo on the night her husband was murdered, she may be called upon to testify to tha , details of his domestic life up to the time she left her home last December. . The authorities are In possession of minute details regarding the whereabouts of Pennell at the time of tha murder. It is probable that he saw Mrs. Burdick in Atlantic City three days before tha mur der. He was in Buffalo again on Wednesday, Wednes-day, February 25th. it wan on the night of Thursday, February 25th, that Burdick was killed. On Friday, according to the story told to the authorltlea by Pennell before 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. Pennell on the 'phone. He explained that Mrs. Pennell for some days had been urging urg-ing him to take her to the falls to see the ice scenery and had spoken to him about It the day before, on his return from the east. He told her to take a Niagara Falls car and he would Join her there. He said this was about o'clock on Friday afternoon or a few minutes earlier. Ha said he went on down to tha falls and that his wife came and brought the papers pa-pers with her and that he read In tha papers pa-pers of the murder of Burdick. They stayed at the falls until evening. He and his wife returned from tha falls and late that evening tha detectives called at his home and questioned them, and he gave them the foregoing account of his movements. move-ments. No arrest. It is generally conceded, will take place at the close of the Inquest. 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 ma-terial evidence In hand. Thousands of people today visited the' stone quarry where Pennell was killed and Mrs. Pennell fatally Injured by their automobile. |