Show tw PASTOR POINTS TO PENNELL AS MURDERER OF BURDICK the rev levi M powers pastor of the church of the messiah at but falo N Y formerly attended by ed win L burdick and still attended by mrs hull the mother of mrs airs bur dick said in a statement that arthur pennell was the murderer and that bis his death was a well planned suicide dr powers argued the entire case at some length and accused pennell in defending mrs hull another friend of burdick durdick a made the statement that letters asking bur BULL superintendent of police of buffalo flick dick to become reconciled to his wife and containing the statement do you want to put an end to all our lives are missing dr powers said in his statement concerning pennell a part in the at af fair iam I 1 am as anxious as any one can be to have this mystery solved iam I 1 am sorry that the one person of sufficient motive is dead mr pennell is dead I 1 should keep silence it if I 1 could justice to the liv ing no longer permits it his con duct in life and death does not merit silence he was the betrayer of an un usual friendship mr burdick named him as guardian of his children in a will made some years ago mr bur dick dicks s children called him uncle ar thur he robbed his friend of his wife he ruined her reputation he ile brought shame to his children and now by a months mr pennell hires detectives to follow mr burdick no evidence Is obtained As a last resort he makes a per colial appeal promises mr air burdick he will do anything it Is too late he ile had promised before then 1 hen he threatened he will kill allie and himself he ile has threatened before mr burdick does not believe him the thing is done mr burdick a s power to injure the reputation of ar thur pen 11 Is taken away in mr air burdick s house a home which mr pennell knew as well as he knew his own a house in the dining room of which be he had often eaten whose sideboards and pantry were familiar to him and in the bedroom of which he had often slept as mr air burdick a guest friday morning before any one in buffalo but the family and the OM bials knew of 0 mr burdick a death mr pennell goes to niagara falls there are some moods which make niagara falls attractive the water looks cold it Is a cold day in february he phones to his wife to meet him at the falls and bring the buffalo pa pers why so anxious about the papers how does mr pennell know that any thing interesting has happened in Buffalo 7 9 the papers are brought the ruse apparently worked he decides to live he ile Is inter viewed by the police says he has no theory yet writes to friends that burdick is seeking revenge because he befriended his wife that burdick is loose with women and has been killed by some unknown woman strange words surely one part a lie liet one a slander as the friends of bur dick believe the other advancing a theory the police had not yet been bold enough to advance once more the scent leads back to mr pennell once more tear fear returns the man of gloomy poetry the man who visits the falls who slanders the friend be he has wronged who has broken bis his promis eZ who has more than once threatened suicide decides to end all but even in death he plans to save that precious reputation A bullet in the brain a jump over the falls 1 Is confession A wife left behind may clear some mysteries and an accident and there Is at I 1 1 4 1 wit I 0 MN t 4 T where the buffalo lawyer drove his automobile over the embankment death skillfully contrived to deceive he leaves the suspicion of murder upon the mother of the woman he had bad wronged two years ago he threatened to kill himself mr air burdick with more than ordinary magnanimity went to him told him to brace up and get out of town and the past would be for gotten he promised to do so and failed to keep his word and tor for two years more continued to meet in many places th the wife of his old friend NA with ith what he believes the evi dence in hand mr burdick applies for divorce his wife agrees to let him have it without contest compelled by mr pennell she brings a counter suit and tor for four least a reasonable doubt in the minds of friends his ills death Is in absolute keeping with all we know of the man believes man murdered burdick thomas byrnes former superintend ten dent of the new york police depart ment merit and probably the most famous of living detectives in discussing the burdick murder at buffalo said he be lieveld the murder was not the crime of a woman though a woman was probably a potent factor in the motive tor for the crime the former detective chief does not for a moment entertain the belief that the tragic death of pen nell and his trusting was other than a remarkable coincidence and an accident |