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Show NO ARRESTS YET MADE IN BURDICK MURDER. CASE j : 11 EDIV7N L.UZ'DCZ Jt 2 JYPS. EDVYW LJSlfflyCA After admittinc that all their clews in the Burdick murder mystery had failed, the Buffalo police now say they have discovered a trail which they hope will lead them to a solution of the problem. They have discovered a cabman who claims to have driven a young woman to the corner of Ashland avenue and Sumner street a short time prior to the hour in which the murder is supposed to have been committed. com-mitted. She carried a satchel, and after leaving the cab walked rapidly toward the Burdick house. The police are investigating some of the women 'who worked in Burdick's family, hoping hop-ing that something may turn up In that direction to throw some light on the crime. With the exception of this latest clew the mystery is as far from solution solu-tion as ever. The one woman who has been under strong suspicion, and who has become known as the "police suspect," is believed be-lieved by some of the officials of the police department to be guiltless. Mrs. Patrolman August.Meyer, the policeman police-man who stood at the corner of Ashland Ash-land avenue and Bryant street and saw the mysterious unknown woman on her lonely way, confronted Mrs. Paine and scrutinized her. "I cannot say that she Is the woman," wom-an," he replied to his superiors. If comparative descritpion counts for anything, he might have added that h could say she was not the woman, for the woman he described weighed at least 150 pounds, w hile Mrs. Paine will not scale within twenty pounds of that. The police are sorely disappointed by the failure of their effort to identify the lone woman. , They had hoped to -establish who she was, where she lived, and where she had been. So far as the law is concerned, she is unknown, unidentified, unrecognized, and as mysterious as ever merely a figure who emerged from the darkness near the Burdick home about the hour when Burdick was murdered. An interesting development is the Seth T. Paine is no longer under surveillance, sur-veillance, and the police admit that she had no connection with the crime. Some of the officials do not pretend to have any clear idea who the murderer mur-derer is; they simply say that the right trail has not been struck. The probability of an immediate arrest being be-ing made in the case grows slighter every hour. Other officials are as sanguine as -ei- the &rres. will be maaer'They" will not predict when. It may be made at any moment; it may not be for a week. Among those who remain unshaken un-shaken in this belief is Supt. Bull. He declared that he suspected the same person now as being the slayer of Burdick as he did earlier in the week and that an arrest was only a matter of time. The police have withdrawn from Mrs. Paine and her house in Elmwood avenue the surveillance that has been maintained since the day after the liarder. Restraint is no longer exercised exer-cised over her movements, and she may even leave the city if she wishes to. statement made by Chief of Detectives Detec-tives Cusack that the golf stick theory had been abandoned. He is satisfied that the putter was not used in committing com-mitting the murder. He also expressed the conviction that the weapon used was carried away from the house. He is sure of that, but he is not so sure that it was carried to the house of the murderer. Neither will he venture an opinion as to the Jund of . weapon used. An order has been sent out directing that the sewers in the vicinity of the Burdick house be searched. The police po-lice hope to find in them the weapon they seek. They have some idea that it was a bottle, the cocktail bottle which Burdick bought on his way home the day before his death and placed in a sideboard. This bottle has never been found, although Burdick did not leave his house after he brought it in. The wrapper was found in a garbage can in the rear of the house three days after the murder. ! That has been one of the little mysteries mys-teries which the police never have been able to explain. |