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Show "t " ' " V n " nf v. : 1 I 1 : I i - I T , -i - -! Ti i ... Wcman Continues Under Fire of Examination to Make Admissicns Re- ; gardirg the Scandal in the Burdick Home. BUFFALO. N. Y., March 24. The inquest in-quest into the murder of Edwin L. Bur-dick Bur-dick was resumed In the Police court ' before Justice Murphy this morning. The widow of the dead man continued her testimony," which was begun yesterday. yester-day. Before the hearing .opened today District Attorney. Coatsworth said that beyond the continuation of Mrs. BurdJck's hearing his plans had not been formed, and he would make no statement as to who would follow her. It was intimated, however, that what she had to say would take up the entire en-tire morning session. People began to gather in front of the Police court at an early hour, and when the doors opened a rush was made for the seats. As on yesterday, ther was a preponderance of women in the courtroom. When Mrs. Burdlck walked into court the result of yesterday's ordeal was evidenced evi-denced In her pale and worn appear-. . ance. 1 Altercation at Burdlck Homo. "There was an occasion about two years ago when you and Mr. Burdlck had quite an altercation at your house?" I asked Mr. Coatsworth when Mrs. Bur- ! dick had taken her seat in the witness chair. "Yes. sir," was the reply. "And after that it was necessary for him to wear a piece of court plaster on his head?" . "No. sir." "Did you not at that time strike him over the head with a chair?" "I did. not." - - ' Denl?s leaving -H!r. - v - "Did you at any time leave your fam-I fam-I ily after you returned from Atlantic City in 1901 and prior to December. 1902?" "No sir " "Did Mr. Burdlck?" "No. sir." "Don't you recall a time in 1902 when Mr. Burdlck left home and lived at the Genessee hotel V "No, sir. He. went out of town- early in 1902 but returned again." "You received a letter from your husband hus-band from Indianapolis in January last year?" "Yes, sir." "I will read it: 'Received a letter today to-day from A. R. P.. of the contents of which you are familiar. I shall decline to have any Interview with him. " Burdick's Threat. In that letter Burdlck said he did not Intend to come home again. Mrs. Burdlck Bur-dlck wrote a letter In reply, in which she pleaded with her husband not to persist in his determination to sue for divorce. She made an appeal on behalf of the children, especially Marian. "My God, Ed. this must not be. You cannot be so cruel to us. You have been generous, continue to do so," the letter concluded. Mrs. Burdlck said she remembered having written it. It was dated January Janu-ary 27. 1902. "That letter was sufficient to Induce him to return to his home?" queried Mr. Coatsworth. Burdick's Return. In response to the inquiry. Mrs. Burdlck Bur-dlck said she had an Interview with her husband afterward at his office. She asked him to return to his home. She said he intended to. "And after that you continued to meet Penneli?" . "I do not remember." "Why. it was right after that that you had all those clandestine meetings; wasn't itr "Not right after that, no. "But soon after?" . ". ' Pennell'a Constant Suit. "Well, he sought me constantly." "On, what date was it when you Jumped out of the window on Seventh street?" "December 2nd." "What church did you go to after that?" "The Church of the Ascension." "What did Burdlck say to you when you returned home that night?" Burdlck Knew. . "I told him I had been to church. He said lie knew where I had been and he asked me why I did not let him in when he knocked. I said I would have If I had known It was him. He told me that I would have to reave the house and he advised me to communicate with Penneli." Mrs. Burdlck said she saw. Penneli , that same night. She went to his office and Mr. Burdlck accompanied her. "I remained away for several days," she continued, "and then went home. I had another talk with Mr. Burdlck and he told roe that. I might remain that night." "He was very kind to you even then?. Divorce Suit. "He was." The witness admitted In reply to fur-, ther questions that the complaint In the divorce suit was served on her the fol-. lowing- day. December 3rd. She left home the next morning t6 go to Niagara , Falls. She took her satchel and trunk and all her clothes. She thought she was leaving home for good. "Who accompanied you to the Falls? 1 (Continued on page Sj ' ' ) ' . j ( t ' ' . ' t 3 i 1- -v t' t f ; . ',i all v- )i t: .1 1 x?" t." "J .-t it f 'r - -1 f t ::r. i: -r ": : o-'i.: 1 : : 1 that ton 1 th-re er. 1 you coul 1 not 7" "I do r.ot know aryth'.r? nho''.t that. I think I can exflj'-i how he may have rot into rr.y box. Wh.-n I went ti the bank one day one cf the cNrK? th-re a?kfl me if my brother still l.ai th ri;ht to open my box. I tola him I Lai r.o brother. He then showed me an order or-der riving my brother the right to enter en-ter that box." rennell Paid-Expenses. Continuing, Mrs. Burdick said she did not know that Pennell made provision for the payment of $25,000 to her, and denied that he ever paid that sum. She did not know whether he had assigned any of his life Insurance policies over j to her. She did not know that Pennell had made any provision for her. After her talk with Burdick at the Genesee and she had gone back to Atlantic City, she thought she wrote another letter to Mr. Burdick. In which she attempted to 'explain some of the things that she' had gone over with him at the Genesee. She thought she had made a claim for alimony, ali-mony, but she never applied to the court for any. or for counsel fees. While she was In Atlantic City Pennell never gave her any money, but he paid her expenses. He went with her from New Tork to Atlantic City and stayed there for a week. Pennell Encouraged Her. She met Pennell twice In. New Tork, the last time on Monday, February 23rd. She wa at the Victoria and he at the Hoffman-house. On the following day she met him In a parlor at the Fifth avenue av-enue by appointment. He wanted her to sign some papers. She then returned to Atlantic City. On the way to the train they talked about the divorce proceedings. pro-ceedings. He told her she need not worry, that everything was. going on all right and that she had a good defense, that she would get the divorce instead of her husband getting 'It He did not say he had had a recent meeting with Burdick. Pennell was to return to Buffalo Buf-falo that night Getting1 Down to Murder. "Didn't he love you then as much as ever?" f . Tes, he did." "Did you receive any communication from htm prior to your husband's death and after you left for Atlantic City?" "I did not" "You swear to that?" "I will." ' "What were you engaged at Wednesday, Wednes-day, evening, February 26th?' . "I think I was in my room in the hotel, ho-tel, reading. I think I was tired and went to bed early." "When did you get up?" "About S o'clock." Letters From Her Mother. . "Did you receive any letters from your mother while you were away?" . "Yes, two a week sometimes." ' "Have you the letters now?" "No, I destroyed them." "Wasn't that rather stranger' "No, It was my custom to destroy my letters. While I am away I always do that" Thought Her Mother Was 111. Letters from her mother ceased coming, com-ing, she said, so she telegraphed to Mrs. Hull (on the Sunday preceding Burdlck's death), asking If she was ill. She received a reply the same day, also a telegram from Pennell asking her to meet him in New Tork. "When you got the telegram from your mother announcing Burdlck's death what reply did you send?" "I replied that I would be home the following morning." "Did you also telegraph to Pennell?" "Tes, I wired him to meet me at the station." . Talked of Murder. r- i : - l.) ' ; -. f . rVi. ' .. ' : - :el that the r.:ht te- ' '- : . i ." : :. i Ft :::tei. . ' I V. at Tennell went with her ' r ' 1, t :t she gall she saw him ; -t u .y when he visited her at the '.' v ;- 1 'i he leave you?" "-ie t- k dinner. with r.ie twice while i v-.s there, but I do not know how '; " e re mair.ed." ' i he stay over night with you at t; at hoM?" "He riil not." .. . ' ' ',' -ircllc:.! Llajnei rennell. Further on in her testimony Mrs. Bur-tflck Bur-tflck said she came to Buffalo one day durir- hr stay at the Falls. She did i"rt gee her husband on that occasion. , che saw her mother, however, by appointment ap-pointment made over the telephone. Her mother knew why she went to the Falls, witness fa Id. Mr. Burdick had told her. "He told her," Mrs. Burdick went on, "he had caught me in a position which he eould not overlook and that I would have to leave. He said he did not blame me as much as he did Pennell; that Pennell Pen-nell was more to blame than I was." Peri- ill Went TTlth Her. , When she left the Falls finally, the witness averred, she came to Buffalo. Pennell met her at the station. They remained ' In the station and then she started for New York, Teaching there the next morning. She went to a boarding-house and thence to a hotel In Fifty-ninth street. "Did Pennell go to New Tork with you?" asked the District Attorney. : "Yes." was the reply. "How long did Mr. Pennell stay in New York?" "Seven days." ' "After you left New Tork where did you go?" i Atlantic City Trip. . "Atlantic City. I was in New Tork several weeks, leaving for Atlantic City on the 1st or 2nd of January." "Pennell was with you until then?" "Not with me; he was in New Tork." "Was Mrs. Pennell there too?" "Yes." "Did you visit Mrs. Pennell 7' ' "No." . ' "Hotf often did Pennell visit your "Every day." "Did Mrs. Pennell know you were . there r . - . "I think she did." Mrs. PennelTs Plea. : Mr. Coatsworth showed a letter written writ-ten by Mrs. Pennell dated December ifl. 1902. to Burdick In it Mrs. Pennell Pen-nell said she wanted to warn him and pleaded with him to take Mrs. Burdick home and not blast the lives of his children. She told him Mrs. Burdick was about to leave New York for Atlantic At-lantic City and that be should call her back before she left Another letter written by Mrs. Pennell Pen-nell to Burdick was read. It was another an-other plea that he drop the divorce pro-, pro-, feedings and consent to the return of ' Mrs. Burdick for the sake of his chil dren, declaring that they needed a mother's love and care. Mrs. Pennell urged him to trust his wife once more: The letter was undated, but evidently was written about two weeks after Mrs. Burdick left for Atlantic City,' Pennell Managed Everything. '. The District Attorney, here' reverted , to the divorce action. Mrs. Burdick said that Pennell managed everything for her in relation to it She denied that she had engaged the detectives who followed fol-lowed Burdick. Pennell did all that Proceeding Mrs. Burdick said she returned re-turned to Buffalo in a week or ten days from Atlantic City to get the contents of - the box In the safety deposit vault She did so because Pennell had been refused access to it She remained in Buffalo several days, stopping at a hotel. She . saw her husband by appointment . "You arrived that Friday morning; did you see Mrs. Hull?" "Yes sir.' " "Did" you have a talk with her?" "Yes, sir.'. "Did you ask her how It had happened?" hap-pened?" "Why, yes. I said, 'Mamma, what in the world has happened,' and she said. 'Ed is dead and he has been, murdered rlffht in his own house.' " "What did she tell you about it?" "She told me how' the servants had found the kitchen window open and how Ed could not be found, how the den door was closed and how they were all frightened by the strange appearance appear-ance of the den when they opened the door and about telephoning for the doctor." doc-tor." "Did your mother tell you that when she looked into the den she saw Ed lying there?" "No. she did not know it was Ed." "Did you hear from Pennell that day?" Never Saw Pennell Again. "I got a brief note from him in which he said he was sorry that he had been at the Falls when my telegram arrived so that he could not meet me." She did not reply, she said, nor did she communicate with him in any way after that She never saw Pennell again after he left her on the train going go-ing to Atlantic City. A recess was taken at this point Chicago Cattle. CHICAGO, March 24. Cattle Receipts, 3000; steady; good to prime steers, $6.10 6.65; poor to medium, $3.754.75; stockers and feeders. $2.754.90; cows, $1.6O'a4.60; heifers, $2.60fi'4.75; canners, $1.602.75; bulls, $2.2&4f4.25: calves, $3.007.00; Texas fed steers, $4.0034.60. Hogs Receipts today, 12.000; tomorrow, 26,000; left over. 4600. steady: mixed and butchers. $7.4007.70; good to choice heavy, $7.757.86; rough heavy. $7.35(37.70; light, $7.15.7.65 : bulk of sales. $7,4547.70.- Sheep Receipts. 9000 sheep; steady; lambs, steady; good to choice wethers, $5.50.6.50; fair to choice mixed. $4.6066.40; Wetern sheep. $5.26fe.60; native lambs, $ti&7.60; Western lambs. $5.0O&&.75. St Louis WooL - ST. LOUIS ' March '24. Wool Quiet and unchanged; Territory and Western medium. medi-um. 16&17c; fine, ll16c; coarse, 12. 15c New Tork Produce. NEW YORK. March 24. Butter Receipts, Re-ceipts, 7800 packages; steady; State dairy. 1 fife 27c; creamery, 29c; June creamery, 13Q Eggs Receipts, 33,400 packages; firm; State and Pennsylvania, 14c; Western uncandled, fancy, 14. 8ugar Raw, steady; fair refining, 3 8-16 3c; centrifugal, 90-test 3 ll-16c; molasses molas-ses sugar, Jc; refined, steady; crushed, $5.43: powdered. 14.90; sranulated, $4.80. Coffee Quiet; No. 7 Rio. 6c Maccabees, bring your lady and gentlemen gen-tlemen friends to the entertainment on Thursday," the 26th. Talked With Burdick "I telephoned him," she said, "and told him there, were some things I wanted to explain before he went on with the divorce proceedings. I asked 'him to see me at the Genesee and he did. I told him it was not my fault that the divorce proceedings were being held up and delayed and he said he under- , stood that" - 1 "Then you did not want to defend that suit?" "I did not know exactly what I-did want to do. I left it to Pennell to decide." de-cide." Divorce Agreement. "On December 12th you wrote a letter to your husband from New York in which you said that your going back home would make no difference, for the reason that Pennell said you had no defense de-fense and the divorce was to be granted by agreement Why was the change made with, regard to making a de- fense?" r . "Mr. Burdick told me if I made no defense de-fense I could have the children half of " the time, so I thought I had better not make a defense. Afterwards I thought I would make a defense and save my honor." "Your honor?" "Yes, my honor." To Marry Pennell. "At the time you and Pennell decided . 7 to put in no defense you supposed Pen-" Pen-" nell would get a divorce from his ' wife?" "Yes." "And it was after Mrs. Pennell had refused to permit Pennell to get a divorce di-vorce that you decided to defend your suit?" ' No; Mrs. Pennell never positively refused re-fused or agreed." v "DidnH Pennell tell you that his wife would hot agree, and did you then decide de-cide to defend the suit?" "No; he decided that himself." "What was Pennell going to do with you after you were divorced 7' v - "He said he would go out West and get a divorce from his wife and marry me." . , ... Pennell's Bond. Mrs. Burdick declared she didnot know if Pennell had any means of his ownalthough she knew him and his wife for six or seven years, and had . traveled with them. Pennell had not apreed, she said, to give her a bond for $25,000 to support her thrpugh life. Mr. Coatsworth showed the witness a copy of the bond for $50,000 given by Pennell to secure the payment to her of $23,000. The copy was in Mr. Burdlck's handwriting. "That came from your safe deposit vaul talso, didn't it?" asked Mr. Coatj-worth. Coatj-worth. She Did Not Know. "I do not know." |