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ACING # SPORTS GENERAL 4 SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 8. PRICE ON E CENT. Che “ Circulation Books Onen to All.”’ | “ Circulation Books Open to All.” | NEW YORK, MONDAY, MARCH 30, 1903. “Fa TOLD TWO HE WOULD MURDER Witnesses at the Closing of the Burdick Inquest Swear that He Told Them He Was Willing to Swing for Some Person. , “Here's to Death” Was a Toast He Delivered at the Hotel Roland While He Was Visiting Mrs, Burdick, Who | Was Stopping There, (Special to The Bvening World.) BUFFALO, March 30.—Two startling remarks made by Arthur Pennell during his stay in the Hotel Roland, in Fifty-ninth street, New York City, were the features of the closing of the testimony at the Bur- j dick inquiry to-day. ) “There is one person in this world whom I feel as though I must kill if 1 swing from the gallows for it,” was the lawyer’s remark made " to both the cashier and the bartender at the Roland. “Here’s to death! I’m living at the cost of the happiness of an- other,” was a remark alleged to have been made by him, as sworn to by the cashier. Some surprise was caused when Justice Murphy immediately on opening court declared that the Pennell case would be postponed in- definitely. The first witness called in the Burdick case was Alexander J. Quinn, formerly a bartender in the Hotel Roland. He was examined by Mr. Coats- worth, Q. Do you recall that early in December Arthur R. Pennell made acquaintance with you while at the hotel? A.I do. THE THREAT BY PENNELL. ‘ Q. Will you state the conversation you had with Mr, Pennell on that date? A. Pennell entered the cafe and walked up to the bar and called for a cocktail. After the drink he stood there sort of muttering to himself. | asked him what was the matter and he said, ‘You don’t know what trouble is passing through my mind. I have lots of trouble; more than some men could bear.” “Then he paused for a moment and appeared wrapped in thought. Rather unexpectedly he raised his head and said; ‘Do you know, Quinn, old chap, that there is one person in this world I feel as though I must kill, if I swing from the gallows for it? Something in my heart tells me that 1 must kill this person.’ Of course I was surprised at the statement. “T asked him once, if Iremember right, who the person was that he hated so, but he never gave me a satisfactory answer. During those statements he never mentioned the name of Burdick that I remember. “Along toward midnight on this particular December night he entered the barroom from the street door and during a conversation we had he said that while he was being tortured through trouble with another person he was living in happiness with another, He never mentioned any names.” Quinn thn told of the numerous talks ‘he had with Pennell, who, he said, he always considered “a decent fellow.” F, G. H. King, formerly cashier at the Roland, was then called to the stand, He wore a tunic, buttoned to the throat, and looked like a clergyman. His smooth-shayen face is strong and he speaks the language of a uni- versity-bred man. HERE’S TO DEATH,”’ SAID PENNELL. iV “Do you recali on the occasion in December when Pennell invited you / to have a drink with him and Mr, Quinn?” asked District-Attorney Coats- | worth: i “I do.’ @ Please state what conversation passed between you. A. He dis- | cussed a picture that was hanging on the wall of the rooyn, and after hav- ing a few drinks Mr. Pennell said: ‘There is one man I could kill although Bt 1 might swing for it.” After having another drink he said “Here's to | + death,” at the same time he said he was having the greatest time of hig ) | life, although it was at the expense of another. “That is all,” said the District-Attorney, Justice Murphy then announced the Burdiok inquest closed, “Owing to the absence of some of the witnesses from the city the Pennell inquest will be held at a time to be announced later,” said the Jngtice. “The witnesses who have been subpoenaed in the Pennell inquest Qre excused until further notice, My statement in regard to the Burdick inquest will be handed out here to-morrow morning.” After Judge Murphy made the announcement District-Attorney Coats- worth said to The Evening World repregentative; “Tell your paper in New York that the postponing of the Pennell] in- quest is against my wishes, and I will do all in my power to have it held RISEN SHAKEN |KING EDWARD SAILS) FOR PORTUGAL, BY AN EARTHQUAKE Violent Shock Creates Panic! Among Residents, but No} Off for Copenhagen, He ~ Damage Is Done, Leaves on State Visit. LONDON, March %0.—King Edward, with 4 wulfe consisting of hatt a doxen hoon, having pours. previoe seen Lauer Alekan Po ap gemael March %.—An earth- of unprecedented violence was here at 12.45 A. M. to-day, entire ion «Was _ panic: but the damage done SCENE AT NEW AMERICAN LEAGUE BASEBALI, GROUNDS, DISCIPLINE On STURGIS Comptroller Grout, in a Sharp Letter, Says Fire Commissioner Is Guilty if Croker Was. POLITICS SHOULD NOT RULE. Comptroller Grout, in his report to-day to the Mayor on-the alleged violation of of Fire Commissioner Sturgis, says in the concluding paragraph: “It 18, perhaps, needless, howevi have gone so fully into these facts, since the action of the Commissioner of Janu- ary 21, 1903, three weeks after the Cor- poration Counsel's opinion and the un- doubted violation of its terms are suffl- clent to justify, it seems to me, quite as rigorcus an application of the penal- to ties of the law against him as he, as judge, administered to the fire chiet (Croker) whom he recently removed from office. "I have only to add that tt seems to my judgment that no different mea- sure of judgment, in cases like this, should be applied to a member of this edminstration than that which would be applied to a member of another ad- ministration.” It was on March 17 that the Comp- troller called the attention of the Mayor to the violations by the Fire Commis- stoner of the provisions of Section 419 of the Charter. At the same time the Comptroller transmitted an opinion of Corporation Counsel Rives, which warn- ed the Commissioner that a violation of the provisions of the charter referred to constituted an indictable offense. When the Mayor called upon the Com- missioner for an explanation the Com- missioner acnt a reply in which he confessed the violation, but pleaded 1g- norance of the law. “Notwithstanding ay statement,” says the Comptroller in his report, “and notwithstanding the clear terms of the opinion of the Corporation Counsel of Dec, 31, 1902, Fire Commissioner Sturgis on Jan, 21, 1903, three weeks after such opinion, authorized upon the house of Engine Company No. 57, plumbing re- pairs, amount ing to $341; painting, $700, and carpentry, $287, @ total of $1,228 in ss and upon the house of Hook and er Company No, 14, on the same ne plumbing, $214; painting, 9600, car- pentry, #415, @ total of $1,180, “Whatever opinion, therefore, may be permissible as to his action in October and November last, prior to the receipt of the Corporation Cou opt and in spte, as I shall subsequent! show, of numerous warnings from t department, You thus find that thr weeks after such opinion, and thre weeks after the Corporation Coungel had in that opinion warned him that viola- ulon or evasion of this charter provision Ushi bo, the reste Of a criminal indlot~ | ment and in addition make him person: Bily liable for the cost Ineurred, the Pirg the Iaw. which cannot be ‘tolerat Any public official, or else with an is: horance of Ww! Tat oP hpabart OF fe papers to wes name, which ead Mindicate” oft in compélence, committed two ciear viola- o wich, pete, OF the f lous defenses u in letter can in any way a MAT is the fact. that again and seni the Attention ‘of ram isssoi Sturgis to. the IMlegallty of the mloner which ‘ne ‘has been pursuing, not ‘howe Commissioner, either with a defiance ef Bepardnent and of, the Purpore fons of the provisions of section 419, as mice the last year, { have spectfical! es cuentas Laer ts Tee ies tatat oe pa wast read dane Poa fase a THREE DEAD IN TRAIN WRECK iy "| Mallvond Men Cawght tn Orvask of Bele Freight Oars, 629 East One Hundred and Thirty- eighth street, lost his balange to-day on WHERE A BIG STRIKE OF CARPENTERS’ HELPERS IS NOW ON. STRIKE ON NEW BALL GROUNDS. Two Hundred Carpenters’ Helpers Go Out and Work on American League Field Is Delayed. was held Saturday and this morning their spokesman mede a demand for the balance upon President Gordon, of the club. Mr. Gordon claimed thet he could get all the workmen he could use at the $1.50 rate and refused to accede to the de- mands of the helpers. There are 2} carpenters at work fal day on the-stands and more were to h Deen added at once. It looks as though the work on the New York American Baseball grounds voult come to a complete stop to-day and frevcnt the @nishing of the stands and bleachers in time for the opening of the baseball season, ‘This morning 200 cafpenters’ heipers struck and refused to go to work until they were paid $2 @ day for their work last week and guaranteed that much in the future. They claim thet that emoynt was offered them for the work but that on Saturday they were paid only at the rate of $1.60 per day. An indignation meeting of the helpers = = to. go°to ‘work ‘to-morrow. UNGES [GERMANS HIT NINE STORIES, Bricklayer Falls at the Hotel Im- perial Annex and Crashes Through Board Platform. Could Smash Dewey’s Fleet. Thomas Gregory, a brocklayer, of No.| errr, March 90.—Tne Forelen Of- fice here is fully satisfied with the ex Planations Admiral Dewey made to President Roosevelt regarding the in- terview with the Admiral which ap- peared recently in a Newark, N. J. paper, and in which the German Navy the ninth story of the Hotel Imperial cond street and Broad- ed on a scaffolding ten . In his descent plasterers’ plat- feet above the side he crashed through form at the third story on the Broad-|@nd the German Emperor were men stil lives, but he {s be-| tioned. badly injured Count Von Reventiow, in the Tage- y | American navies, He says Germany e | first squadron ie homogeneous and ways ready for ins could,” he adds, ‘smash Dewey's het- erogeneous assemblage, a single modern, armored crulser.”” Count regards the American mani “as generally childish’ and went up from the spectators. Grogs head Ww inted earthward 16 apread out wildly a fearon By me the man was falling with the speed ck passed tho fourth floor his limbs con- Yulned tora ‘brief instant, ana he turned ther somorsa sound of tuber aint plas sound of crash! as the body went through the ee platform, nd a groan went up from the was fleet,” to tte ‘ineuMfictent number of of- cers and men’ and to the of the navy es indicated by the numer- ore an a to the eats rty-two years old and hag | ‘‘the United Gtates will so: family. feet, but she has not o} LOST $90,0G0, ENDS HER LIFE Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson. a widow. forty years old.-of NoJit 33 West One Hundred and Seventeenth streei, committed sui cide in her apartments to-day by shooting herself in the righ temple. Despondenoy over the loss of $90,000 in the stos market is supposed to have been the cause. She had been re: duced: to such an extent recently that she was compeiiel t freely age her furniture and had intended to seek employment body rot suspecting something wrong when she failed t pt to-day, found her dead in bed with a small revolver b her side. Ne LATE RESULTS AT BENNINGS. ciy2, Yellowtail 3, ae » Bengkart 2, Modehator 3. 1, ‘xa } ist Sy, baad! ‘The Sateakiee| at the helpers will make an appeal this afternoon to the carpenters’ union and in all probebility they will stand by the men who have #ohe- out and will refuse BACK AT DEWEY. Count Von Reventlow Thinks: Germany’s First Squadron blatt, to-day compares the German and which had not The poor marksmanship of the Weat Indian ‘low morale ous desertions,"" and euys he believes have a seen, pool-room game last winter and rested | Jack White and ochers we there were prospects of a FAVORITES GET MONEY Mrs. Frank Foster, 1 to 4, and Grazialle, {1 to 10, Take Their Respective Events at Bennings, TERMAGENT (7 TO 1) WINNER THE. WINNERS, FIRST RACE—Five-eighths of a mile.—Ahola (4 to 1) 1, Gloriosa (8 to 5) 2, Midnight Chimec 3. Time —1.04, SECOND RACE—Half a mile— ‘Termagant (7 to 1) 1, Woodshade (8 to 5) 2, May Holladay 3. Time— 0.51. THIRD RACE—Four and a half furlongs.—Graziallo (11 to 10) 1, Cir- culator (6 to 1) 2, Spring 3—Time 0.59. FOURTH RACE—Six and a half furlongs.~-Foster (1 to 4) 1, Musical Slipper (even) 2, lapere 3. Time— 1.25. (Special to The Brening World.) INGTON, D, C., March 90.—Race-goers ington, D, C,, March 9.—Race-goers had to face to-day a most disagreeable storm, It was an easterly rain driven along by a sixty-mile an hour gale. It made the grand stand except in the promenade at the rear. untenable, and the greater part of the male spectators stayed in the betting ring all the after- noon, ‘The women huddled together at the back of the stand and braved the raw winds as best they could. The rain, of course, converted the track into a mud hole, and the regulars to see it because It takes the t this course so long to dry , this sort of weather is gepeead in the early spring. card was spoiled by the storm. All caloulations were upset, The regu- lars had spent many hours of the long Sunday figuring on the chances of the horaes, only to awake to-day and find their work was all to no purpose, for entirely different conditions confronted them. The mud-runners were Hastily picked out, and it was a case of trust to luck, The races were well balanced in thelr original shape, but owners blue- pencilled Uberally, with the result that fields were light, There was @ new drawing for posiiions in the betting ring to-day and some new faces were Fred Walbaum, who forsook the up in Piorida, was one of the new ones. George Wheelock, President of the Metropolitan Turt Association, was an- other. He has been in Paris all w! aed in, and vely game, WIRST RAGE Five furlongs. Betting. mut the running. Midnight Chimes c toma, Ithan and closely followed by (Continued on on bight Page.) me for New York Clty Rain to-night) To followed by clearing) brisk to igh easterly winds, “OHOT MAN WHOBE WIFE HE STOL William Dobson, Surprised in the Home of William J. Peppler, Struggles All the Way’ Downstairs, Kills the Husband and Is in Hiding from the Police. Virginius R. Bidgood: Fatally Wounds His Wie as She Holds Their Three Day's Old. Baby in Her Arms and Turns Revolver on His Mother-in-Law. Two terrible crimes were committed in this town this stem, Murderous hate filled the hearts of two men. f One, in a fit of rage, struck down the wife who three days ago bora him a child, and then, when she struggled to her feet, weak from h illness, dazed by his blow, but still clinging to the child, he shot her times, She cannot live, and it may be that the child will die. The murderer was Virginius R. Bidgood, a cracker baker, of No. ase Eighth avenue, U The other murderer was William E. Dobson, a stock broker, at’ No. 40 Exchange place. He was caught by William J. Peppler in the home, No. 60 East One Hundred and Nineteenth street, with Mrs. and when the outraged husband drove him from the apartment, D hu.ed him and fled, leaving the wife lying unconscious across the body her dead husband. 4 MURDERED BY BROKER HE SURPRISED IN HIS HON Filled with jealous anger et finding 4n-) from the windows that some one other man being entertained by his wife | being murdered. this afternoon, William J. Peppler, of | Howard ran to the building and | No. 60 Bast One Hundred and ‘Nineteenth | {nto the hall. As he did so he street, threw the visitor out into the|over two figures. One was that Of & hall, fought him from the third floor to} Woman and the other a man. Blood was the front door of the aparment-house| Was pouring from a wound in in whtch he Uved, with the wife ecream-|of the man, who was apparentiy ing and weeping at their heels, and was|The woman was unconaclous there shot dead by the man who he Hower rolled at 90 6a en thought had wronged him. sent one o: n F ‘This man was William E, Dobson, a|@™bulanceu from the Harlem t stock broker, of No. 40 Exchange place. | DF. King came at once amt gound | Dobson is described as being thirty) the man was really dead, The1 years of age, He lives at No. 8 Lexing- | Ts {dontified him as Peppler. He bad ton avenue. He has fled, and the police | OUllet hole clear through dim from t right to the left side, Beye sent out a general alarm fore ein, who Peppler was about twenty-six years eau BeBe: She was taken to the 2 undred and ‘Twenty-stxth old and a clerk, He had not been mar-| vie station, where the pals ried Jong. He and his wife oocupled ‘| to revive her after a tmlf hour's rear appartment in e ; the house in East One Hundred and Her Story of Shooting. Nineteenth street. To-day he went to} She was so hysterical for o time that work as usual, but returned home un-|her story could not be obtained. When. expectedly, and this cost him his life, |[#2¢ was aife to tell the story cho ate that ehe was with Dobson when her Patrolman Hovard Called, dand came in unexpectedly. There ‘The first that was known of the trag-|fight and Dobson was thrown Into, edy by the police was when Patrolman aa ler husband followed date cae Howard, of the Bast One Hundred and and she after the two. In the ‘Twenty-sixth Street Station, was sum- ey they clinched again, and moned by the other tenants in the bulld- ing, who, hearing the shots, cried out that Mrs, Peppler rei ing, for she tained, FATALLY WOUNDS WIFE AS SHE HOLDS BABY IN ARMS, arms. A nurse, Mrs, Meyers, whe ix deen care of both the ‘The tact that his wife had her three- a 4 not pre- day-old infant in her arms di ae pane Sane ae ae vent Virginius R. Bidgood from knock- |") "26 SO Meo the coartmeae te ing her down and then shooting her !n | Bidgood, the hegd at their home, No, 2607 Eighth He Demanded Money. ‘avenue, thts afternoon, Ghould the! when Mrs. Meyers had departed Bid» woman die, as seems likely, Bidgood|sood drew a revolver and demanded ja sed of one of the | Money from his wife, he onl he Pane iN eo. $9 ti) genom no money, He then announced hie ime most brutal murders in the criminal | tention of killing her and thi history of this otty. She turned to run toward the room Mrs. Bidgood 1s bis second wife,| Which ilttle Charlotte lay, holding baby close to her breast, twelve years his juntor, He ts forty | PADY, >| drink. $| ingman he b Bidgood followed her and knocked her years old, a cracker baker by trade, By! down, She fell against @ table, cutting” hip ret wife he has two children, Anne, | her face. Staggering to ber tee, aged ten, and Charlotte, aged nine, The | started to run again, and Bidgood f him t hildren, the | four shots at her. Three went RPOAG Wife (Rate iD kAA-§ [rhe fourth struck her in the Dao ast three days ago. |the head and she <ell, still cluwpig hee Some five weeks ago the child Char-| baby ip her arms. lotte was selzed with scarlet fever, The) | Mrs McDermott bee nor ean house wan quarantined and Bidgood was | “IvInIng that her not allowed to go to work, He #8t/ 1, ine haliway. He a. ee be around the house, and finally began to| he revolver at her, It missed and From a fairly respectable work-| ran into the house, standing quant pecame @ drunken nuisance | tie door ef the room in whieh her | Wr lay to his wife and her parents, Peter an Sareh McDermott, who live in the same house, YWwo floors below, Sank Lower Lower. A week ago the quarantine was prac- tically raised. But Bldgood did not go | Placed Bim, Us eriealy ae back to work. He took all the money) | pressed No sorrow for much as there Wi his wife had and was gradually pawning | jet fover tn the house ei | know By all the furniture in the house, phos i ioalth + FH Mre. Bidgood got out of bed to-day ee tok Un and for the first time efter giving birth to Ready to Lead Again, Bidgood sat dvwa in @ Rye es the door and removed the Hdges from the pisiol. He Was to load the weapon again when mag Ries reshed inlo nd r We,