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Show i f PENNELL NAMED AS MURDERED j Hurdick's Former Business Partner Accuses Dctvd Attorney of I the Murder of His Friend-Daughter of SleJn Man Gives ( Testimony with Startling Ca.In.ness. Probibly Ih moal Inton-stlntr witness wit-ness at Iho Inqucat In th llurdlck murder rase was Marlon llnrdti k. Most child of the diail man. pressed . alt In black, psln eirrpt for Ih prrtlr pink vt her cheeks, her black hair Don In a knot at her nock, tha (If teen year old girl took the oalh In an audible nlre anil In Kan answitrlnx th dlstrlrt eitnrm'y qiio.tlons dea-crlblnn dea-crlblnn how 'grandma" had told her that "papa" waa very III. Urandnie looked so awful, she said, so eery, cry pain, (hat Marlon knew something dri-mlfiil had happened. Marlon thought It strange that grand-ma grand-ma did not go Into tha den. Marlon bad eaten her breakfast and was In the alttlnK room when grandma told her her papa waa dead. Her examination showed the girl waa completely under her grand-4 grand-4 mnther'a rontrol. No more remark- atila aperlai'lw has been seen In all this tisKlR business than the eianv Inallon of this rony cheeked, aelf-possesaed aelf-possesaed girl, anil her riimpoaure under searching erosa fire. Hhe confronied tha Inquisition of the eiamlnlng lawyer with a direct-nesa direct-nesa and Intenlneas that might well i bare embarrassed hlin; her eyos never wavered or fell under any questioning, and some of lbs questions ques-tions were hard to meet. A clearer, etrotiKcr personality has not appeared In the court room, yet he waa not self willed, but obedient to the authority which aha rwog-nlied. rwog-nlied. And that authority waa not present In the aeat of Justice, nor In tlx lawyer law-yer who atuod before lutr and questioned ques-tioned her so closely. It waa lodged 1 In the person of th strange old wo man who bad sat In the aame chair two dare before and had resisted the best efforts of the aame lawyer to break her down, "(Iraudma" controlled Marlon; from ber law there waa no appeal. Thta waa the moat significant fact brought out by the eiainlnatlon. If Mr. Coatsworth had hoped to allow by the girl s direct evidence any Paw In the testimony of the grandmother grand-mother be waa baffled and defeated; Ue child betrayed nothing. Hh name Into the rmwded room with a aulrk, modest step and bowed to the lawyers for the "family" and shook j bands with one of them. Then, guld- I ad by a friend, she slipped through . crowd and came to the chair, " where she had a whispered conversa tion with Justice Murphy, probably with reference to her oath. Then she faced the district attor- aey. Never once did she take her 1 ayea from hla while the Inquest last ed. Hhe met hla eyue when they were Died on her, and she gated Intently In-tently at hlin when he looked aside, M down, to tuke coiinsel with himself. Hor anner:i were all abort and moat of I hum monosyllabic "Yea," "No" but they were emphatic and leclslve. Whua Uie same, questions were repnilid ahe answered with man on the stand ran appreciate the look of one who had beheld horrors unspeakable. "Then I asked. 'Is papa dead?' And she said, he la dead.' " "And was that all you said? Didn't yon ask how he came to die?" "I said. 'Did be smell gas or was It suicide?' Hut t did not ask ber that then. I aHked no quesllons till grandma grand-ma saw fit to tell me." "Did yon think that was right and natural?" "Yes, It wss right and natural." "Ynu think It waa right and natural?" nat-ural?" "Yes, I do think so," the child answered, an-swered, wlta a touch of passion. Mr. t'oata orlh gawd at her wop-drrlngly wop-drrlngly and sadly Hhe eyed him back atralshlly. A stronger Influence than hla was operating with Marlon. According to the dictates of that Influence In-fluence she saw right and wrong. Katie Koenlg. a Herman servant tl the llurdlck family, retold her alury. ss nut-i AMIU Hut one point waa new. Aa to atleg ed rows In the bouse, Katie, who waited at table, bad never beard Mr. llurdlck speak to hla children, to Mrs. Mull or to his wife In anything but a pleasant, agreeable manner. Never In her hearing bad he raised his voice In anybody In that house. The morning morn-ing that Mra. llurdlck left the house forever, at hla command, Katie, waiting wait-ing at the breakfast table, had heard the aame gentle, cheerful chat that ahe had alwaya listened to there. Mra. Itunllck had Informed ber and Miss Murray that she waa going away for a real. Katie, had never heard a ayllahle about dlvorres until after the murder. Mr. and Mra. llurdlck llur-dlck had never said a word about It. No points of Interest were developed develop-ed In the testimony of Dr. Marcy. Mra. Maria Hull, mother of Mra. llurdlck, despite her ality four years and tho tremendous slruln of a two hours, keen examination, withstood tho ordeal of cross examination well, and did not lose control of ber nerves left the witness stand without assistance. assist-ance. MaKRle Murray, the cook at the llurdlck house, detained her movements, move-ments, as previously published, as to seeing llurdlck In hla tindcrciuthea, and afterward hearing aome one working at the furnace. Hhe beard no further nolnu In the bouie that night. Hlin contradicted Mrs. llull'i glory of what occurred on tho morilng of the murder. Hhe said she wsnt to Mrs. Hulls bedroom and told her alKiut tho door and the wlndowa being be-ing open. Hhe said that ahe did not call to Mrs. Hull from tho first floor. Hhe also contradicted Mrs. Hull, who had testified that she did not look over the ballustrade. Hbo said she, and not Mrs Hull, augcested that Dr. Marcy he called. Hhe knew of no one who held any animosity toward llurdlck. llur-dlck. l-ator development threw additional addi-tional light on the theory that Arthur K. l'enuell waa the murderer and that hn slew hla victim with th knowledge knowl-edge and connivance of sum one In-aide In-aide llurdlck a houso the nli:ht of the crime. The questions of the prosecutors prosecu-tors for tho slat were ao shaped as to Intimate that Mr. Hull, mother of llurdlck's wife, waa the accomplice of l'ennell or of the hired assassin sent to murder llurdlck. Mra. tlertrudo B. Halne, wife of Dr. Heth T. I'alnn, waa one of th witnesses wit-nesses of the day. Hho denied that her relatione with llurdlck had been anything but proper. Hhe told of th scandal arising over the relation between be-tween Mra. llurdlck and l'ennell and the llurdlck divorce plan. It waa Charles 8. I'arke, llurdlck's former partner, who furnished th sensation. He aald boldly he bellov-ed bellov-ed l'ennell or an assassin hired by him murdered llurdlck, the object being to prevent th scandal that must ensue If llurdlck'a divorce caa went to trial. I'arko'a belief waa founded on Information and talka ha had with llurdlck himself. From thla testimony It appeared that l'cunoll had thri-ntcned to kilt himself and Mra. llurdlck If the divorce suit waa not withdrawn Other evidence showed show-ed llurdlck had been wautxl to look out for l'ennell, who bad carried a revolver. It was plain, the witness thought, that Pennell waa bent on preventing at any cost tho divorce trial and the conaequent airing of hla own misdeeds. The assassination, therefore, wa the logical consequence. conse-quence. The Itunllck Inquest wai postponed from March 18 until March 21. District Dis-trict Attorney Coatsworth la suffering from a sore throat and caunot apeak without great difficulty. When the llurdlck Inquest la resumed re-sumed It Is expected that another clew going to show that A. It. l'ennell wa tho murderer of E. U llurdlck will be revealed. It la staled that District Attorney nore emphasis; bul, save for this, t r n ber clear tones did not vary. ' il I j) II) 'fi I" '"" Th examination took the courso ' ' ' I ' of trying to establish what words had '.'!:.' ' 'I j ' l passed between Marlon and her r'l,'iTinil ff"ITi ' X "fitTi? l'l f""l i ' grandmother on Iho r'rldny morning ''l nl '' ''I j) f.f'j M Attomty Coatsworth Conducting Cross-Examination. 1 nd what the movement or demon- t IrfttluiM of th K-"tuiothr had ' been. Hy npRHtlvo ami affirmative reylle It waa itrawu from her that "framluia," had romo Into her room While ah a. ..rcaylng. 1 She alri that after hr graml- another had told hr her lapa waa , daad ahe did not ten to tho "daii," where the body lay, but alio and her , grandmother nturtrd to wutr lfcw era. The child admitted thai her j art! on a were "utraiiKo," but ahe would not explain tin-in, ItiHlmliig that the loved hr futhrr dearly. , She aald ti thmiRtit aomethlui tfreadful had happiMit'd bt'taiue , ''Oratidma lookisl ao ,ule." Thtru waa ! gomethlnR ,rrlli)o In thla annw-Mr f (he furl Unit tho fu- of .Mm. Mull J rould ttver u oihci 'wim than nW. It 1 waa not iimto pullor, tlnn, t hut uihiIi the rlilld think himiiWIiIuk dreudful J bad happ'-md to Ikt (hiIioi. but aurh j look an thcM who nw the old wo- 1 i ' ",7 .. when sbown a photograph of llurdlck with hla skull crushed. Next In tmiKirtance to the teatl-mony teatl-mony given bv Mrs. Hull was that given by Dr. Howland. He said that Dr. Marcy, the Itunllck family physician, physi-cian, who was at the house when he arrived there on the morning of the murder, requested hlin to make It appear that the east! waa ono of aut-cldu. aut-cldu. After looking at Dip body of the murdered man, Dr. Howland Informed In-formed Dr. Marcy that aulcldu waa out of the question. Mrs. Hull Is a little woman with a nervous but reeoluto fuce, blue eye and gray hulr. Hhe wus gowned entirely en-tirely In black and wore a long mourning veil, fHntoned well back from her forehead. Her answers were given In a culm, quiet tone, excepting now uttd then when her voice tcok on a pecuhur rliu: Shu used smelling salts occasionally, but never becamo confused. When cxcuncd Mra. Hull Coatsworth will place In evlittnca ft letter alleced to have been wmu,n to Mrs. lliirdlik by Arthur R. rtnnell some months ago. Tho let was found In the llurdlck homo kw tns search of the bouse waa mad the police. In the letter the fQ,wing occurs: "I feel that I mint kill KJ Surttck When Mra. llurdlck comn ( tn'e stand ahe will probably bo rleju In Identify the letter mentlun, Sho knew both the dead men, dCk' and l'ennell. probably better tkxj other one person In tho world, 4 nB, testliniuiy promises to bo the m,, ( portant and Interesting of Uw-.i-J pmceedlng. ul If Mrs. llurdlck admits that . celved It. It will irn a long ,,. proving that the hv. I evl M. k llurdlck's pUKtolMind Charles a ."!.' his partner, were rle.ht In thi-lr,'," meni that Arlhur 1.. I'l-unell fh assassin. |